Boo be doop--Dee daaaaah.
Yeah I dunno about the title....
I figure I lurk enough in reading everyone's journals that I could stand to take a few minutes out of my day to freakin WRITE something.
Life is pretty good right now, school is just trucking along as usual (and by that I mean I barely scrape by with enough time to do anything) , the family seems to be pulling together over Conor's impending enlistment, and WoW is still installed on my computer... >.>
Mom got me all choked up the other day. We were talkin on the phone, and I was tellin her that I wanted to be with Gary this Thanksgiving. She didn't have a problem with that, but she demanded that I be home for Christmas (which I was planning on anyways). She said it's the last holiday that we are going to able to control whether or not Conor will be home (provided, of course, that he makes it through boot camp). That's so scary, imagining life without Conor. I mean yeah he can be annoying (so can I), but he's just been this constant presence, and it will be so weird to be home without him there.... I don't even really know what to say or think some days, it's just tough to think of what he must be going through, and what will happen if he doesn't make it. I'm not really terribly religious anymore, but I do believe someone's up there giggling over my life (it's too funny not to), so I figure I'll ask them to help him out a little, he deserves a break.
Gary and I are doing well (2 years just a couple weeks ago!) and we are planning some pretty big things on the horizon. :) I mean I'm graduating soon (one year left bitches!!!) so I'm pretty sure we'll be moving in together, barring a huge life-shattering incident, and as a sort of practice for that, I'll be living with him in Charleston this summer! Hopefully we'll do some house-hunting too since the market is GREAT for buying right now :)
I feel so weird writing about how good my life is right now.... Lol.... I guess it kinda sucks that I don't have a job for the summer (who does?), but I plan to spend it usefully anywho. I'm gonna take some grad school prep courses and hopefully shed some of this extra flab left over from my meds.
It's so exciting to know that my last year as an undergrad is finally upon me... I can't wait to really dig into what being a ChemE is all about. Supposedly we actually FINALLY get to blow shit up next year. And the professors actually TALK to us and CARE about us. Surprise surprise. Though I can't blame them for not getting to know us sooner considering the fact that most people that enter ChemE don't stick with it.
I'm also going to be 21 this summer... That is so crazy to me, having the legal right to purchase and consume alcohol. I guess it makes sense if you know me--I'm not much of a drinker, save for the very RARE occasion where I might have one drink just for shiggles. I have no idea what I'm going to do for my 21st birthday, besides the fact that I have said all my life that it is the one and only time I will get totally plastered (I still am undecided as to whether or not that will actually occur).
Speaking of getting older, I have been thinking back on my life a lot lately. Thinking about all of you, and all the friends that I have that aren't on LJ. It's so amazing to see how far I have come from the shy, insecure girl that entered RPI in the fall of 2006, and even how far I've come since my first day at band camp at LB. I doubt I have kept up with any of you enough for you to truly notice the person that I am now. Some things have changed about me that I wished had stayed the same, but I can safely say that by the vast majority I am enjoying my "new" life. I feel so much more confident about myself and my life and where it is headed. I mean, anything could happen, and anything WILL happen, but I feel so much more prepared to happen back. It's crazy to think about all the bad things that have happened, and how often I saw them coming and still brought them upon myself. But I don't regret anything I've ever decided or done, save maybe one thing--which isn't really a regret, just a "well I coulda done that one a little better...". :) Pretty decent track record imo.
I've been writing this final report today, and it's supposed to end up in a format that could get published. I mean, it won't because I suck at using SIMULINK so my models are kinda funky and don't make much sense, but it is kinda cool to see that I started this project a month ago, and now I'm at the "publishing" stage. It makes me feel like an engineer!
I guess the only thing I'm still "waiting on" is that I can't wait for some company to see me someday and say "She's the one we've been wanting to hire."
This is Allison, over and out! (aka it's definitely bedtime...)
I figure I lurk enough in reading everyone's journals that I could stand to take a few minutes out of my day to freakin WRITE something.
Life is pretty good right now, school is just trucking along as usual (and by that I mean I barely scrape by with enough time to do anything) , the family seems to be pulling together over Conor's impending enlistment, and WoW is still installed on my computer... >.>
Mom got me all choked up the other day. We were talkin on the phone, and I was tellin her that I wanted to be with Gary this Thanksgiving. She didn't have a problem with that, but she demanded that I be home for Christmas (which I was planning on anyways). She said it's the last holiday that we are going to able to control whether or not Conor will be home (provided, of course, that he makes it through boot camp). That's so scary, imagining life without Conor. I mean yeah he can be annoying (so can I), but he's just been this constant presence, and it will be so weird to be home without him there.... I don't even really know what to say or think some days, it's just tough to think of what he must be going through, and what will happen if he doesn't make it. I'm not really terribly religious anymore, but I do believe someone's up there giggling over my life (it's too funny not to), so I figure I'll ask them to help him out a little, he deserves a break.
Gary and I are doing well (2 years just a couple weeks ago!) and we are planning some pretty big things on the horizon. :) I mean I'm graduating soon (one year left bitches!!!) so I'm pretty sure we'll be moving in together, barring a huge life-shattering incident, and as a sort of practice for that, I'll be living with him in Charleston this summer! Hopefully we'll do some house-hunting too since the market is GREAT for buying right now :)
I feel so weird writing about how good my life is right now.... Lol.... I guess it kinda sucks that I don't have a job for the summer (who does?), but I plan to spend it usefully anywho. I'm gonna take some grad school prep courses and hopefully shed some of this extra flab left over from my meds.
It's so exciting to know that my last year as an undergrad is finally upon me... I can't wait to really dig into what being a ChemE is all about. Supposedly we actually FINALLY get to blow shit up next year. And the professors actually TALK to us and CARE about us. Surprise surprise. Though I can't blame them for not getting to know us sooner considering the fact that most people that enter ChemE don't stick with it.
I'm also going to be 21 this summer... That is so crazy to me, having the legal right to purchase and consume alcohol. I guess it makes sense if you know me--I'm not much of a drinker, save for the very RARE occasion where I might have one drink just for shiggles. I have no idea what I'm going to do for my 21st birthday, besides the fact that I have said all my life that it is the one and only time I will get totally plastered (I still am undecided as to whether or not that will actually occur).
Speaking of getting older, I have been thinking back on my life a lot lately. Thinking about all of you, and all the friends that I have that aren't on LJ. It's so amazing to see how far I have come from the shy, insecure girl that entered RPI in the fall of 2006, and even how far I've come since my first day at band camp at LB. I doubt I have kept up with any of you enough for you to truly notice the person that I am now. Some things have changed about me that I wished had stayed the same, but I can safely say that by the vast majority I am enjoying my "new" life. I feel so much more confident about myself and my life and where it is headed. I mean, anything could happen, and anything WILL happen, but I feel so much more prepared to happen back. It's crazy to think about all the bad things that have happened, and how often I saw them coming and still brought them upon myself. But I don't regret anything I've ever decided or done, save maybe one thing--which isn't really a regret, just a "well I coulda done that one a little better...". :) Pretty decent track record imo.
I've been writing this final report today, and it's supposed to end up in a format that could get published. I mean, it won't because I suck at using SIMULINK so my models are kinda funky and don't make much sense, but it is kinda cool to see that I started this project a month ago, and now I'm at the "publishing" stage. It makes me feel like an engineer!
I guess the only thing I'm still "waiting on" is that I can't wait for some company to see me someday and say "She's the one we've been wanting to hire."
This is Allison, over and out! (aka it's definitely bedtime...)