Just applied for a job that seems exactly like what I wanted when I initially finished my masters program two years ago.  (finally! a company seeking someone with my skill set ( Read more... )

Did I ever mention how much I love my martial arts training?  If not, let me just say it outright...*clears throat*....I really love and appreciate my martial arts training ( Read more... )

Making phone calls, setting up events, sending out applications for new jobs, making plans with friends - life is busy and full!  It's a gorgeous day!

It seems that everytime I make a large transition in my life, I do a complete re-organization of my room.  At the end of every year in college I would try to see how many more books I could squeeze onto my shelves without making it look like my rooms was getting increasingly cluttered.  After grad school, I did more of a purge of the excess books ( Read more... )

Over the past couple weeks I've been rereading the Farseer Trilogy By Robin Hobb because it is a prequal to the Tawny Man Trilogy.  I'm sort of skimming the Liveship Traders Trilogy too.  This is such a massive world-builiding undertaking, these books.  Before hand I felt that Farseer and Liveship Traders were vaguely connected but mostly stood on ( Read more... )

Ok, I need to be fair ( Read more... )

Random contemplation time!!
Top 5 female characters from my childhood (in no particular order):

1) She-ra.  She's got a sword, she's got super-human strength, she's got a horse that can turn into a unicorn, she fights bad guys and always wins, there's always a 'life lesson' at the end of every episode....what more could a 4/5 year old girl ask for ( Read more... )

I officially moved out of the dept and the university - handed in the keys to the lab, and my student ID card.  Ready for new adventures!

New adventures include:
Cape Cod, Fire Island, Czech Republic, maybe Portland, maybe some hiking trips! 

So I've been having trouble falling asleep this past week - usually because I'm worried about the future and I don't know what direction my life will take.  I often get past my worries when I think about the things I really want to do and how I'm determined to make them happen.  For some reason, this did not seem to help me last night as I was ( Read more... )

It's the last week of classes, reading period is about to begin - that means it's time to party!  Looking foward to dressing up and dancing this weekend!  Gonna see my friend for lunch on Sat, may have ladies-in-dresses-go-out-for-dinner-drinks-and-dancing on Fri or Sat night, and gonna hang with a friend Sun to see her puppy!

A friend from ( Read more... )