this made me happy. so my dad called me the other night to bug me about doing my taxes, and i've made considerable progress and i wanted to let him know so i texted him about it. i have never texted with my dad before. exchange as follows ( Read more... )

OH NO TAXES! out of the three jobs i held in 2009, i can only find the w2 for one of them (thank you, giant sprawling bureaucracy that is the university of texas, for storing all of my records forever for me). now i have to bug HR people on april 13th, which i sure they loooove ( Read more... )

i keep going back to this LBJ school idea. i want a masters in public policy. i want to focus on public management, on economic and social (educational) policy. i want to get my teaching certification. i want to teach high school econ (that's what everybody wants to teach). i want to get my phD in public policy so i can take this class: ( Read more... )

so, yesterday was a day for people proposing travel plans to me! i called my sister because her birthday present, which was late anyway, was returned to me in the mail because i left off a digit of her address. it's tickets to go see chelsea handler in may, and i checked with her bf to make sure they were free that weekend but i wanted to tell ( Read more... )

what i am doing today ( Read more... )

i found a copy of the labyrinth soundtrack at waterloo last night for $5 and it's AMAZING and i have "shimmy down" w/the fire gang, possibly the best song, stuck in my head. i also scored used copies of antichrist superstar, the fame, and the natural born killers soundtrack. i love finally picking up copies of cds that i've enjoyed burned copies ( Read more... )

So i guess most of you (who actually reads this, anyway? becky and lesley?) already know this story, but my uncle died a week ago today. he slipped on ice in his driveway while getting the paper and suffered a hematoma. it was so unexpected; this was my uncle Doug, the one who survived a massive highway pile-up in 2006 and spent a year in ( Read more... )

i love apartment maintenance crews! my shower is recaulked, the bugs are gone, and the drains all work now. all i need is a space heater and it will be basically 100% inhabitable, and i will no longer go back to georgetown all the time, and i will actually sleep in the same place where my stuff is, and it will be awesome ( Read more... )

Longest Week Ever is successfully underway! i started at the new job yesterday, and i'm kind of in love love love with it. it's just really interesting work. i, of course, am getting the grunt jobs that are the least interesting, but at least i know that i'm supporting cool projects. and the staff are all so nice. i have the tiniest, saddest ( Read more... )

i got fairly wasted last night with my crew at compass and ended up riding a mechanical bull (and throwing up, but not until i was safely at jon's place ( Read more... )