Made it to the post office today just in time to send off the baby/child package to my friend Laura. Now I need to start another blanket for Adam's baby--who actually preceded Laura's baby, so I didn't really time that too well, but hey, the baby will still need to be kept warm for many months yet. And I have enough watermelon Simply Soft Quick ( Read more... )

I just dropped $400 registering for two conferences for the summer. It's not actually as bad as it sounds, as one of those registrations ($235) covers five days' worth of accomodations and food. Plus my friend Teddy from the department is going, too, so I was able to put her down as my preferred roommate (that's the rate for a student double ( Read more... )

Arrived in Kirksville yesterday. The bus/train ride was full of annoying loud people and the train was delayed by about 45 minutes, but that's not really so bad for Amtrak, especially in the winter. While waiting to get off the train at La Plata, a vaguely familiar red-haired girl came up to me in the luggage compartment and asked if I remembered ( Read more... )

So tonight we did a lunge drill at fencing. My legs already hurt this morning when I woke up, from doing weights yesterday; naturally, tonight I wanted nothing more than to do lunges until I diedMy dream: fulfilled ( Read more... )

So my fencing equipment came via UPS today. Dad shipped it from Mailboxes Etc. because he had no idea what to do with a foil; they actually packed it quite well, in a long box with this strange sort of almost-batting wrapped around it in spots--it seems like a very soft styrofoam sheet with a thin cloth "skin" on both sides. Anyway, they wrapped ( Read more... )

If the KK is closed AGAIN, I am going to fucking riot.

I am wearing my ROCK STAR COAT.

To karaoke!

(Man, I can't believe I showered, ate, and dressed in 30 minutes. Or how cute this shirt I haven't worn in ages looks. Or that I actually managed to win one of my bouts at fencing tonight. Perhaps today is magic.)

straussmonster, you have a doppelganger in the ethnomusicology graduate program at UW-Madison. She fences. She doesn't really look like you--more like moiety_, in fact--but she TALKS like you ( Read more... )