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Okay, so as long as things go as planned, I have ten more days in my apartment before I head back to Tennessee for the holidays. Which means it's time to begin the annual "let's not buy any groceries unless absolutely necessary and instead try to subsist entirely on things already in the apartment" period of the year ( Read more... )

I ended up talking myself into going to V's house last night before it was all said and done, although I didn't go until later in the evening than she'd originally asked me to come. (A few hours with people I can handle better than a lot of hours with people.) It went well, for the most part ( Read more... )

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I made it back to Maryland around midnight last night (which means I don't have to see my family again for a full year! \o/), after approximately five billion hours of driving. It started lightly snowing somewhere between Knoxville and Bristol (either right before I left I-40 or right after I started on I-81), and it didn't actually stop until I ( Read more... )

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I've never really given up anything for Lent before, what with the whole being raised in the church of Christ thing. The coC doesn't celebrate Lent (or acknowledge its existence, to be honest; then again, coC also tend to pretend that Christmas isn't a religious holiday at all since it's not specifically mentioned in the Bible...), so it's never ( Read more... )

I haven't really made any New Year's Resolutions the past few years, but in a way I think that I've accomplished more in the past year than I have in... well, ever. I'm finally out of Tennessee and living on my own. I'm paying my own rent, my own car insurance, my own health insurance (well, I have been for the last two years, if you can call the ( Read more... )

Happy 2010 from Tennessee!

... and now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to bed. Since, you know, I have to get up for work in about five hours.

Just a quick update on real life (other than, you know, the job from hell ( Read more... )