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Apr 24, 2007 15:09

it's my day off and i've been inspired by a friend to post a legitimate life-update. so here goes:

as some of you already know, i started working at half price books at the beginning of march. so far i am loving it just about as much as a person could love a single, repeated activity--which, it turns out, is a lot. my section is us history, which includes: contemporary political biographies, us politics and goverment (bickering bipartisan jerks), general us history, us history textbooks, colonial & pre-civil war, civil war, 1865 to world war II, 1945 to present, texana history and politics, general texana, texana travel, texana poetry and prose, native american studies, ancient american studies (aztec, mayan, incan), regional studies (northeast/midwest, south/southwest, and west/old west), texana yearbooks, us immigrant and ethnic studies, african american studies, us presidential biographies, the kennedys, and the clintons. yes, the kennedys and the clintons get their own sub-sections. there are a whole lot of books about those people, and a whole lot of people wanting to buy them. go figure. ANYWAY, i love it, it's the best job i've ever had, i love everyone i work with, and each day is better than the last. how's that.

i can't remember if i already wrote about my decision to pursue my phd and become a professor, so i'll just throw that out there. i don't know where i'm going to attend graduate school as of yet, but u of h is of course a front-runner.

i have decided to start re-teaching myself spanish. i feel like i'm in a good place in my life to absorb something so useful. a few kids at my work speak at least some spanish and i'm hoping i'll get some good use out of it. so ok.

also we are starting a book club at my work. i submitted a list of 12 recommendations for books to read in the club this year. we made a masterlist and will be breaking it down into a finalized list this week. in the meantime our first book is to kill a mockingbird, which is a book we could all use to re-read. ALSO corinna got me to join a website called goodreads.com, and i'm pretty excited about that. my username is meg.

things with mike are real good. we are looking for a new apartment, which is exciting and not yet frustrating. his beard has reached epic proportions. i want the two of us to take a vacation together sometime this summer, so i'm open to ideas for cheap, quick trips two busy, working folks can enjoy (and bring a small dog along). pocket is also wonderful. she went through a brief period of peeing on everything about a month ago but now seems to have gotten over it.

i got my hair cut (and colored) again after a somewhat disastrous attempt at dyeing my own hair red. i am now the closest to my natural color i've been in maybe a year. it feels nice and i think it looks nice, too. now i'm going to leave it alone for a while.

also i've made or become closer with a handful of really nice friends that i really like and am excited about spending more time with. yep.

either that's everything new in my life or i've tired of staring at this screen. i've run out of steam. overall things are going really, really well and i've got a smile on my face everyday.

so there you go.
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