First: Happy Birthday ewanspotter!!!!

Second (unrelated to the first): DAMMIT.  I just spent a week working on a 10 page paper about women in aviation during the First World War for a scholarship...only to find that the same paper was written & won the last scholarship.  FRAK.

Maybe I could just select one female pilot?  I reiterate: DAMMIT.

Oh, NBC...I appreciate that you're updating us on Andy's honeymoon progress.  But find an updated picture of Epcot, please!  They torn down the wand a couple years ago now!! /is a giant dork

Also: I'm working way harder than I really should on a scholarship essay about female pilots during World War I (amazingly, there were some).  I have six pages ( Read more... )

I dropped my mind-numbingly boring GIS class today, and enrolled as a History major at American Public University online.

...next to call my obscenely rich uncle & beg to borrow $1500 for my first semester's tuition (he just had ANOTHER facelift, this is my education!!)...

...and wait to see what credits transfer...

I do already like that the ( Read more... )

So...after this semester I have 2 major-specific courses and a couple of math classes left to get my Computer Science Associate's.

And I'm BORED.  So bored with it.  I will probably finish just out of pride, but I've now decided to go back and get my Bachelor's in History.

A&M Kingsville has a pretty nice looking History program, but Kingsville is a ( Read more... )

Well, I'm back from camping and it wasn't nearly as awful as I'd expected.  Goliad SP is lovely.  It's mostly historical, with the Presidio La Bahia, Mission Espiritu Santo, grave of Colonel Fannin & his troops (400 men who were slaughtered by General Santa Anna outside Presidio La Bahia), and the Angel of Goliad statue (a Mexican woman who helped ( Read more... )

It's been over a year since our dear friend Sir Jim called to place an ad, so I was very excited to get one from him today.

Maybe we should elect a Dairy herd to the President's office so we can milk them instead of them milking us. "Land of Milk and Honey?" Sir Jim 
 The History of Sir Jim

In unrelated news, I had a dream that I was riding a ( Read more... )

Okay, I've just got to say that a Die Hard movie marathon is totally the way to ring in the New Year.  That was fucking awesome :)  Oh how I love you, John McClane *dreamy sigh*  On a semi-related note, I had a dream the other night that Bruce Willis was teaching ballroom dancing.  Very odd.

So sad: bought my new car stereo with the iPod hookup ( Read more... )

Fucking joy, yo.  I got my passport today, which means England is officially a-go for next summer.  Which also means that I am GOING to Disneyland Paris next year even if I have to heavily drug my beloved grandmother and drag her on the Chunnel with me.  Joy.

I think Fake!Fam and I are going to Dickens on the Strand for Christmas (well, Dec. 1 & 2 ( Read more... )

Went to see Elizabeth: The Golden Age on Friday...
It did make me want to throw up my hands at points, but that's to be expected, I think (especially when they have what looked like 2 English ships up against the Spanish Armada, and no mention whatsoever of Robert Dudley).

Cate Blanchett is absurdly beautiful.

All in all, though, I think I liked ( Read more... )

OH MY GOD I NEEDED THAT.

Wednesday I took off of work at noon and drove to Kerrville.  I arrived about 4:00-ish, set up my tent and went for a brief hike around the area.  I rented a kayak for an hour and explored the Guadalupe (which was AWESOME, and great weather!) before starting my fire.  I cooked some hot dogs & marshmallows, and went sleepies ( Read more... )