Oh hi, LJ.  The past couple of weeks have been crazy.  I'm off to Prague in a few hours, don't know when I'll check in again.  Soon I'll post a link to some blog-ness that's for all to see.

Allons-y!

Announcement time:  I did not get into grad-school.  And I'm pretty okay with it.  Mostly just happy to know for sure on all fronts finally.  In hindsight I probably should have been more proactive with visiting schools, e-mailing advisers, etc.  But I think that just shows my heart wasn't in it 100%.  Am now looking into getting a TEFL ( Read more... )

Ahm, back!
( Stuff from the week. )

I had a fun, relaxing, relatively productive weekend. Ran into my old landscaping boss. The guy is the most badass person you'd ever meet. He's just a regular looking guy, has kids, stepkids, grandkids, and countless adopted kind of kids like me. But he's done the coolest stuff. Special Ops Ex-Navy SEAL can tell you what happened but not where ( Read more... )

The hill-country is so freaking dry.

Oh sorry, context.  I went to my Sister and Brother-in-Law's this weekend down in San Antonio (or close enough).  We were going to do something awesome and fun but c'mon, Schlitterbahn is kind of a commitment of the day and the rivers are pretty low to tube down and I35 wound up being a bitch.  So we went to a ( Read more... )

I'm usually really bad about taking pictures on trips but I made an effort this time.

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Home!  And thus begins the picture uploading process.

I feel kind of decieved by Ferris Bueler's Day Off.  There's no way you could go to a Cubs game, get up the Sears Tower, and do the Art Instiute in one day of Chicago.  Let alone steal a Farrari and get your friends out of school and fool your parents.  Anyway, liked Chicago a lot.  More details later.  Went to the wedding, held more babies than I ( Read more... )

Yay, internets!  This Holiday Inn is finiky.

Did lots of Chicago yesterday and we're going back in today for round 2.  Now with the fun aunt and uncle joining us.  Yesterday we rode the train in and I sat by a very classy older woman who used to play in orchestras for a living and hates Germans (I didn't drop my last name).  We walked around ( Read more... )

Trufax:  It takes longer to drive to my mom's hometown on the border than drive to Missouri.