I feel like this summer has gone into hyper drive. At first it stretched out before me in countless puppy-less days of boredom and toil and now it feels like a race to finish and accomplish everything before the fall semester begins. I suppose it is always this way. But it is very distressing and unsettling none-the-less. Summer, I have some issues ( Read more... )

Last night I hosted a BBQ for my first year (now second year OMG) cohort at my apartment complex's pool/grill area. It went really well, which I was not expecting. There were a few snafus, of course, but all in all it was a fun night and I'm glad I did it. My burgers were a hit ( Read more... )

Being at home makes me miss being at home even more than I did when I hadn't been home in over 2 months. Now I just realize how many little things I miss. I realize that were I to stay home for more than a month or perhaps more than a week I would get sick of it and feel frustrated, bored and trapped. But these small visits are so deceptive and ( Read more... )

I just read a paper that I wrote for Monday and I realized that I left out an entire section. What happened was I wrote like three drafts of this paper, all of them very different. The final draft was my attempt to take the best most coherent and cohesive parts and put them together. I think I did it fairly successfully, except a really important ( Read more... )

Kara and I went used book store shopping today and then to dinner and then to a movie and it totally wore me out. But in a good way. There is nothing I like better than buying books that I will never read! Just kidding. That's the best kind of impulse buy: you see a book from across cramped bookshelves full of books and know that you have to have ( Read more... )

I had a ridiculously fun and expensive time with my sister in Massachusetts... then got home and slept for 24 hours. I think I might have a bit of a bug or something because it's not normal to sleep that long. Also I've got aches and some other TMI symptoms going on. Ah well! Just God's way of even-ing the score after too much happy :P. And too ( Read more... )

Uh... so things have been moving along rather fast lately. I'm tutoring, teaching, tutoring some more... and still haven't gotten paid. Oh, snap! I have to tutor tomorrow, then have to start teaching again bright and early (8.30) on Wednesday. YAYZ!!! Seriously, this month is going to be ROUGH. I better come out a LOT richer. For realz ( Read more... )

I woke up at 3 PM today... and by 5 PM I could have taken a nap. Wow. A major reason being that people were HAMMERING on my wall between 7 AM and 9 AM. Yeah. HAMMERING. WTF. Apparently we are getting new gutters or something. Well yay. I feel like such a sloth. I think I am growing moss, I'm so serious. I need to get out of the house. And maybe do ( Read more... )

I had to pay my hosting bill today. Ouch! That hurts. I wish the renewal date wasn't this time of the year when I'm usually broke. It's not exactly my fault that all of the jobs I have lined up (potentially up to 4) start in a couple of weeks or so. I had to borrow the money from my mom, and I wish I didn't have to because she's not in the best of ( Read more... )

I cut my East German lit paper REALLY short on time, and I don't think it was very good. But oh well. It's over ( Read more... )