this weekend was a hometown sweethearts (the songs they cover) and joni mitchell filled listening weekend ( Read more... )

thanksgiving break thus far has been the perfect combination of productive and enjoyable ( Read more... )

i forgot to mention--for pumpkin photos, see the comments in the last entry ( Read more... )

this is the haiku ryan sent me today:
I miss my Dorise
My love for her grows daily
Soon she will be home

i am very lucky.  home last weekend was good, and i'm pretty sure i'm getting a raise at one job as well as will be the first graduate assistant out functioning as an actual advisor at the other.  though i'm insanely busy, there's not much to ( Read more... )

i've cheated the grave for yet another year.  time to go put in a 12 1/2 hour day.

shehechyana v'kiyamanu v'higianu lazman hazeh

The first five people to respond to this post will get some form of art, by me, about them. I make no guarantees about quaility or type, but will assure that I will give it a good effort.

Of course, if you sign up, you have to put this in your own journal as well.

it's been nearly a month since i last updated.  i've been a busybusy girl ( Read more... )

abby's car (used to be my car) was stolen yesterday.  i have no idea who would want to steal a '94 brokedown minivan, but someone did and it sucks.  also, my grandparents were in a car accident yesterday.  they're ok, and so's the other guy, they're trying to determine fault still, but my grandparents car is totalled ( Read more... )

i should also mention that another huge stressor comes from my job and my assistantship--i am actually not allowed to work for the university for more than 20 hours/week, but between my assistantship and my job i will be working 30.  i am crossing my fingers that they are classified differently and so that i will therefore be able to do both, but i ( Read more... )

in general, i love it here.

as is typical dorise-style, i'm going to talk about the things bugging me first.

1--i was assigned 300 pages of reading for one week for JUST ONE CLASS.  in addition to our "weekly reading response paper" we're talking about a 7-9 hour commitment here and that is for just ONE class.  i mean, i understand graduate school is ( Read more... )