happy new year's eve everyone. so...i'm ready for 2006. the end of 2005 has been very bittersweet. had a great weekend with some of my closest friends, but also spent time with my grandmother for probably the last time ever. that was hard. tomorrow though, i start a new adventure. dennis and i will be driving to texas and then preparing to move to abq. i'm ready for this new chapter in a lot of ways, though the realization of saying good-bye to texas friends has not yet hit me. (look out guys...i'm pms-y).
quick run-down of 2005
january- moved into 205 with some crazy ass roommates, turned 29, met sara! :)
february- found out my mom was cancer-free,
march- wild and crazy times in new orleans for a conference
april- got new roommates and old roomie moved out
may- finished dissertation proposal, had to start taking heart medicine, fun dave attell weekend with mike
june- advised my ass off, got to meet my new nephew luke, ana (a.k.a.-june bug) was born, defended my dissertation proposal
july- traveled around like a fiend (especially to new mexico), found out i'm going to get published
august- busy month of advising, started teaching, began last semester of clasess, hurricane katrina (*:(*)
september- dad recovered from a brain aneurysm and surgery, hurricane rita, hung out with mike for his b'day.
october- went to the abq balloon fiesta for the second time, parents came to visit in TX
november- took and passed prelims...that's enough for november
december- new niece was born, finished up my last semester of classes, started packing, hung out at home, found out grandma is sick (*sad*), gained 10 pounds probably (*grin*), and got ready for the next year of fun!
okay..so i'm sure i missed some things. don't hate me if i did. don't!! congrats to everyone who had cool stuff happen in 2005. here's to lots of good things in 2006. love you guys!
12.31.2005
12.28.2005
ho hum
Lethargy: 1. Abnormal drowsiness, stupor. 2. A state of indifference.
From the Greek lethargia, drowsiness.
so apparently being in my hometown brings on a bad case of lethargy. i managed to do a few things today, which is more than i've done on most days. but in general, i just have no desire or energy or whatever to do much more than sleep in, watch tv, eat, and hang out with my parents and occassionally some iowa friends. i have emails to respond to, news to celebrate (congrats sara!), bags to pack, advising tips to write, CDs to make, books to read (for fun for a change). and yet...i have not worked up the ergs to do any of that. maybe it's being in iowa. it's cold, gray, kinda dreary...makes you want to just curl up by the heater and relax. it might also be that i'm recooperating after this semester. who can tell? all i know is that in about a week i'll be on my way to albuquerque and once i get back to texas on monday i will have a fuck ton to do.
sidenote: grandma is still in the hospital, doing a bit better, but will be moving to a nursing home after she leaves the hospital. :(
From the Greek lethargia, drowsiness.
so apparently being in my hometown brings on a bad case of lethargy. i managed to do a few things today, which is more than i've done on most days. but in general, i just have no desire or energy or whatever to do much more than sleep in, watch tv, eat, and hang out with my parents and occassionally some iowa friends. i have emails to respond to, news to celebrate (congrats sara!), bags to pack, advising tips to write, CDs to make, books to read (for fun for a change). and yet...i have not worked up the ergs to do any of that. maybe it's being in iowa. it's cold, gray, kinda dreary...makes you want to just curl up by the heater and relax. it might also be that i'm recooperating after this semester. who can tell? all i know is that in about a week i'll be on my way to albuquerque and once i get back to texas on monday i will have a fuck ton to do.
sidenote: grandma is still in the hospital, doing a bit better, but will be moving to a nursing home after she leaves the hospital. :(
12.25.2005
happy holidays
hi friends,
i haven't updated in a while. my immediate family always does christmas on some day other than christmas, so we did all our gifts and food and everything on monday night. it's weird to be over with christmas before it even starts. it was fun to spend time with everyone though. i got to meet my new niece and play with my nephew a bunch! luke is talking a lot which is a bunch of fun.
i've been sleeping a lot this week and getting little things done for the move. and i got my hair done. gotta love free cuts and colors from my aunt. i'm now much closer to my natural color, which is very dark.
the sad news is that my grandmother went to the hospital yesterday. she has pneumonia, which is not a good thing for an 83 year old woman with 1 and 1/3 lungs. she had TB when she was a young woman which resulted in diminished lung capacity long ago. she's hanging in there through high blood pressure, a fast pulse (about 90 resting), and very labored breathing. i'm off to see her now. say a prayer for her continued health.
hope this post finds all of you happy, health, and enjoying this special time.
i haven't updated in a while. my immediate family always does christmas on some day other than christmas, so we did all our gifts and food and everything on monday night. it's weird to be over with christmas before it even starts. it was fun to spend time with everyone though. i got to meet my new niece and play with my nephew a bunch! luke is talking a lot which is a bunch of fun.
i've been sleeping a lot this week and getting little things done for the move. and i got my hair done. gotta love free cuts and colors from my aunt. i'm now much closer to my natural color, which is very dark.
the sad news is that my grandmother went to the hospital yesterday. she has pneumonia, which is not a good thing for an 83 year old woman with 1 and 1/3 lungs. she had TB when she was a young woman which resulted in diminished lung capacity long ago. she's hanging in there through high blood pressure, a fast pulse (about 90 resting), and very labored breathing. i'm off to see her now. say a prayer for her continued health.
hope this post finds all of you happy, health, and enjoying this special time.
12.14.2005
i am batman
today we had our departmental holiday lunch. i stopped in, ate a few bites, and then attempted to run out to finish my last class paper. i realized though, in my attempted haste, that i'm going to be moving soon and that i should take some time to say a "auf wiedersehen" to people. (quick aside: i'm sticking with "auf wiedersehen" instead of good-bye...there's something so final about good-bye and who knows when i might be wandering back this way. so, i will be true to my german heritage and say 'until we see each other again.' much less permanent and scary.) i wandered around the rotunda and interrupted people's turkey eating. one of my friends announced to other friends that i, kate parks, am a superhero. he told them about my feats of strength of taking two classes, teaching two classes, taking prelims, and advising. he was duly impressed and further proclaimed that: "Kate does more before 6 a.m. than most people do all day." of course, its more like "Kate does more after 10 p.m. than most people do all day." i'm not sure that's actually true, but it was still nice to hear. and if you're a graduate student who had not yet experienced the fun of faculty hazing...i mean prelims...i don't recommend the superwoman approach. be nicer to yourself. because the superhero methodology means you have to make sacrifices, like not getting to spend enough time with your friends, having a crazy schedule that rarely allows for spontaneous fun, not getting enough sleep, not eating healthy food all the time, increased levels of stress that lead to heart problems. you get the idea. maybe if i was more gadgety like batman (i took a "which superhero would you be quiz" and it said i was batman) i could have made less sacrifces. who can tell.
regardless, i will be relieved to finally turn in my last paper tomorrow and to start a new adventure that should pull me in fewer directions. at the same time though, its starting to hit me that i'm going to be gone soon and that "auf wiedersehen" is just around the corner.
regardless, i will be relieved to finally turn in my last paper tomorrow and to start a new adventure that should pull me in fewer directions. at the same time though, its starting to hit me that i'm going to be gone soon and that "auf wiedersehen" is just around the corner.
12.12.2005
so much for productivity
so, i was planning on getting a lot accomplished this weekend, but i wasn't as productive as i had anticipated. i did get some boxes packed and some clothes packed. i have a lot more to pack though and i dread getting the attic down stuff later this week. maybe i can twist the arms of friends to help me get that done. stupid being a pack rat. :)
i also didn't get much done on my paper. i'm hoping to get some of it done tomorrow during the day. would it distract my students too much if i worked on fine tuning data on my laptop? i can type quietly. :) here's hoping they get done early so i can get a few more things done.
chances are this is going to be a busy week. hope i get a lot of friend time in since it's the last full week in texas. weird.
more later. must sleep.
i also didn't get much done on my paper. i'm hoping to get some of it done tomorrow during the day. would it distract my students too much if i worked on fine tuning data on my laptop? i can type quietly. :) here's hoping they get done early so i can get a few more things done.
chances are this is going to be a busy week. hope i get a lot of friend time in since it's the last full week in texas. weird.
more later. must sleep.
12.09.2005
imal ove mach ine
i love that mad gab commercial, hence the title of this post. "i'm an olive machine?" classic. for some reason that one is sort of related to this rambly blog post.
so i was composing my next blog post in my head while shopping in HEB for mulled wine ingredients. i was thinking about the notion of soul mates and how it used to be something i believed in...but the more i think about it, the more i'm convinced that it's a hollywood version of what love is about. and weirdly, sara posted about the same thing on her blog, but i swear i didn't read hers until just now. sara and i have this weird sister thing. we're frequently finding ourselves wearing the same colored shirt or something without any prior planning. it's downright eery sometimes. it was nice to read her blog today and realize that we're on the same page because we're either a. both PMSing or b. both unconvinced about this restricted version of relationships, love, and fate. anyone else agree with this?
there are a few reasons i'm unconvinced of this soul mate thing. one is that i've met a few men in my limited time on this earth that i wonder if i could have shared my life with and these men are pretty different from each other...not a just different versions of the same guy. i think different people bring out different aspects of ourselves and there is not one formula for happiness and completeness where this is concerned. sure there are some people that are better fits than others, but to narrow it down to just one person makes finding that person seem almost impossible. can you say needle in the g-d haystack?
the other reason the soul mate thing seems unreasonable is because it seems like a cop out. instead of coming to terms with the fact that people are not perfect and will have idiosincracies and picadillos and, let's face it, make mistakes sometimes...the idea of a soul mate sets this expectation like there's someone out there that will never let you down...never disappoint...never hurt you...never make you cry...never piss you off. i'm not sure that's realistic. some of my closest friends have pissed me off sometimes. not one of us are perfect. and yet i don't stop loving them and caring about them. they continue to be important in my life. they mean the world to me. why should it be different for our significant others?
i'm not sure what sparked this post exactly. maybe its all the christmas movies on or something. i just think that there are many versions of our soul mate out in the big world. in fact, sometimes it feels like this love thing is about being in the right place at the right time or something. because what if your soul mate lives in guam and you live in swaziland? you're just destined to never be together? not sure i want to by that.
what i do want to do is go soak in the bathtub. since texas was covered in ice yesterday i flew off our front steps and now my shoulders and arms are sore. not sure if they are related but i think bath time will help..as well as bed time.
so i was composing my next blog post in my head while shopping in HEB for mulled wine ingredients. i was thinking about the notion of soul mates and how it used to be something i believed in...but the more i think about it, the more i'm convinced that it's a hollywood version of what love is about. and weirdly, sara posted about the same thing on her blog, but i swear i didn't read hers until just now. sara and i have this weird sister thing. we're frequently finding ourselves wearing the same colored shirt or something without any prior planning. it's downright eery sometimes. it was nice to read her blog today and realize that we're on the same page because we're either a. both PMSing or b. both unconvinced about this restricted version of relationships, love, and fate. anyone else agree with this?
there are a few reasons i'm unconvinced of this soul mate thing. one is that i've met a few men in my limited time on this earth that i wonder if i could have shared my life with and these men are pretty different from each other...not a just different versions of the same guy. i think different people bring out different aspects of ourselves and there is not one formula for happiness and completeness where this is concerned. sure there are some people that are better fits than others, but to narrow it down to just one person makes finding that person seem almost impossible. can you say needle in the g-d haystack?
the other reason the soul mate thing seems unreasonable is because it seems like a cop out. instead of coming to terms with the fact that people are not perfect and will have idiosincracies and picadillos and, let's face it, make mistakes sometimes...the idea of a soul mate sets this expectation like there's someone out there that will never let you down...never disappoint...never hurt you...never make you cry...never piss you off. i'm not sure that's realistic. some of my closest friends have pissed me off sometimes. not one of us are perfect. and yet i don't stop loving them and caring about them. they continue to be important in my life. they mean the world to me. why should it be different for our significant others?
i'm not sure what sparked this post exactly. maybe its all the christmas movies on or something. i just think that there are many versions of our soul mate out in the big world. in fact, sometimes it feels like this love thing is about being in the right place at the right time or something. because what if your soul mate lives in guam and you live in swaziland? you're just destined to never be together? not sure i want to by that.
what i do want to do is go soak in the bathtub. since texas was covered in ice yesterday i flew off our front steps and now my shoulders and arms are sore. not sure if they are related but i think bath time will help..as well as bed time.
12.08.2005
impression management at its worst...yet again
so, i was reading my friend sara's blog (which is linked on this blog so you should read it because it's rad) and she posted an article about my former employer. i'm writing this in the hopes that i won't somehow get retroactively in trouble from them, but i'm pretty sure that won't happen. and i've been talking about writing an exposé for a while now so i might as well get started.
the gist of the article that sara posted was that a student at said university was suspended for posting some negative things on his blog about his classmates and professors. for some reason, the university decided this was a violation of some sort of code of ethics and that his post was unprofessional. i share sara's political concerns about this...especially because we're supposed to have that whole freedom of speech thing that's..i dunno..protected by some crazy document that we hold very dear. however, having worked at said institution for a year...i'm concerned on a different level.
i was a resident hall director in what was considered a party hall. literally from day one i was dealing with disciplinary problems. almost every weekend there were issues. by the end of the semester...almost half of the people in the hall had a file in my office for breaking some kind of policy (both serious and not so serious.) i dealt with vandalism, intoxication, drugs, racial harassment, a fire....the list goes on and on. i even heard a case for another building that involved a student being in trouble for his fifth..count 'em FIVE...drug violation. were any of these students suspended for their conduct? the answer is no. so why is it that some fiesty blog posts are worse than students endangering their lives and disrespecting other students and their community every damn weekend?
the only logical answer that i could come up is that this particular university was able to keep negatively publicity away from the constant misconduct of their students. that's the nice thing about being located in an economically-deprived part of town...you don't have to worry about pissing off the neighbors too much. BUT...if someone posts something negative about you on the interweb there's a good chance that the impression management will fail. so that student has to be punished. maybe i'm missing part of the story...but it really doesn't make any sense. we saw students in fights, who had severe drinking problems, who destroyed property, who broke state law...and yet these student's actions were not considered a poor reflection on the university?
the end of the article makes an important point about how this action by the university will have a big impact on student bloggers in the future. i have no doubt that it will. it just makes me sad that a university would make this stand and ultimately censor their students. but who gives two shits if they are bribing homeless people to buy them beer. no need to make a stand about that.
the gist of the article that sara posted was that a student at said university was suspended for posting some negative things on his blog about his classmates and professors. for some reason, the university decided this was a violation of some sort of code of ethics and that his post was unprofessional. i share sara's political concerns about this...especially because we're supposed to have that whole freedom of speech thing that's..i dunno..protected by some crazy document that we hold very dear. however, having worked at said institution for a year...i'm concerned on a different level.
i was a resident hall director in what was considered a party hall. literally from day one i was dealing with disciplinary problems. almost every weekend there were issues. by the end of the semester...almost half of the people in the hall had a file in my office for breaking some kind of policy (both serious and not so serious.) i dealt with vandalism, intoxication, drugs, racial harassment, a fire....the list goes on and on. i even heard a case for another building that involved a student being in trouble for his fifth..count 'em FIVE...drug violation. were any of these students suspended for their conduct? the answer is no. so why is it that some fiesty blog posts are worse than students endangering their lives and disrespecting other students and their community every damn weekend?
the only logical answer that i could come up is that this particular university was able to keep negatively publicity away from the constant misconduct of their students. that's the nice thing about being located in an economically-deprived part of town...you don't have to worry about pissing off the neighbors too much. BUT...if someone posts something negative about you on the interweb there's a good chance that the impression management will fail. so that student has to be punished. maybe i'm missing part of the story...but it really doesn't make any sense. we saw students in fights, who had severe drinking problems, who destroyed property, who broke state law...and yet these student's actions were not considered a poor reflection on the university?
the end of the article makes an important point about how this action by the university will have a big impact on student bloggers in the future. i have no doubt that it will. it just makes me sad that a university would make this stand and ultimately censor their students. but who gives two shits if they are bribing homeless people to buy them beer. no need to make a stand about that.
12.06.2005
thank you captain obvious..i mean pei wei fortune
it's almost 1 a.m. when i ate at pei wei the other day i cunningly took an extra fortune cookie so i would have one to enjoy after eating the left overs. so the fortune said: "the night life is for you." um...doy!
12.05.2005
i'll take the mountain view please
so...i would say it's official. i am moving to new mexico in early january. i'm going to be teaching and researching and taking in the enchantment....oh..and i'll be freezing my texas-converted ass off for a while.
the weird thing is that this is coming up very fast. next week is finals. then i go to iowa for a while. then i come back with dennis and head west. fearing that i won't have enough time to play with all my texans before i leave. stupid paper let to do.
the weird thing is that this is coming up very fast. next week is finals. then i go to iowa for a while. then i come back with dennis and head west. fearing that i won't have enough time to play with all my texans before i leave. stupid paper let to do.
12.01.2005
mmm...kaluha cigars
so...i totally love sara and tim. those two crazy kids are freakin' awesome and i don't know what i'd do without them.
in other news, this week went really fast. i found out on wednesday that not only did i pass my prelim, but i passed it with distinction. that doesn't officially mean much...but unofficially means that i did a really good job and my committee was really really happy. if anyone wants to read the actually answers, i'd be happy to put you to sleep with them. the typos are impressive though.
it's amazing that the semester will soon be over. i have to shit a research paper, wrap up my classes at blinn...oh, and move 800 miles away. though the job situation is not 150% guaranteed..it's looking good. good enough that i need to just say "yes, i'm going." it's actually really exciting to be heading off to a new place. that is not to say that i won't miss my friends here dearly. i certainly will and i think i haven't made moving real in my head yet because doing that means facing tough "auf wiedersehen"s. but there's something to be said about getting to teach, getting to try on a new city, and just getting to do some new stuff. i'm relatively young, so this is a great time to try new things like this, right?
anyway, i had two cigars and two beers and i'm sufficiently buzzy (not drunk mind you...just buzzy). i should shower and go to bed. actually, i should pack first since i'm going to ABQ to find an apartment.
have good happies kids.
in other news, this week went really fast. i found out on wednesday that not only did i pass my prelim, but i passed it with distinction. that doesn't officially mean much...but unofficially means that i did a really good job and my committee was really really happy. if anyone wants to read the actually answers, i'd be happy to put you to sleep with them. the typos are impressive though.
it's amazing that the semester will soon be over. i have to shit a research paper, wrap up my classes at blinn...oh, and move 800 miles away. though the job situation is not 150% guaranteed..it's looking good. good enough that i need to just say "yes, i'm going." it's actually really exciting to be heading off to a new place. that is not to say that i won't miss my friends here dearly. i certainly will and i think i haven't made moving real in my head yet because doing that means facing tough "auf wiedersehen"s. but there's something to be said about getting to teach, getting to try on a new city, and just getting to do some new stuff. i'm relatively young, so this is a great time to try new things like this, right?
anyway, i had two cigars and two beers and i'm sufficiently buzzy (not drunk mind you...just buzzy). i should shower and go to bed. actually, i should pack first since i'm going to ABQ to find an apartment.
have good happies kids.
11.27.2005
tight pants
hi kids,
so...it took a few drinks for me to feel that the test was actually over. thanks to everyone who came to play on tuesday night. i have wonderful friends...so amazing. :)
i had a great weekend. definitely needed a break and really didn't get ANYTHING done for classes. so..this week will be a bit busy. i finish one class this week and have to write a short paper (which does not seem like a big deal after the prelim ordeal) and my other class meets a few times and i have to write a research paper for that one. tricky, but doable.
i'm also heading to ABQ this weekend to find an apartment. still not feeling like anything is official, but hopefully more clarity will come this week.
as far as thanksgiving, ate a lot of great food (thanks 2nd family!), had a lot of fun with friends (thanks people!!), watched some great football (thanks ags!), and got to relax and laugh and just take it easy (thanks mike!) it was all much needed.
so now friends, we enter this countdown to the end of the semester and possibly of my time in texas. totally wacky stuff.
love you friends and fam! love love love love love!
(and hugs to sara especially)
so...it took a few drinks for me to feel that the test was actually over. thanks to everyone who came to play on tuesday night. i have wonderful friends...so amazing. :)
i had a great weekend. definitely needed a break and really didn't get ANYTHING done for classes. so..this week will be a bit busy. i finish one class this week and have to write a short paper (which does not seem like a big deal after the prelim ordeal) and my other class meets a few times and i have to write a research paper for that one. tricky, but doable.
i'm also heading to ABQ this weekend to find an apartment. still not feeling like anything is official, but hopefully more clarity will come this week.
as far as thanksgiving, ate a lot of great food (thanks 2nd family!), had a lot of fun with friends (thanks people!!), watched some great football (thanks ags!), and got to relax and laugh and just take it easy (thanks mike!) it was all much needed.
so now friends, we enter this countdown to the end of the semester and possibly of my time in texas. totally wacky stuff.
love you friends and fam! love love love love love!
(and hugs to sara especially)
11.22.2005
11.21.2005
knot in my back
um...oral exam is tomorrow. no, not an oral exam at the dentist..though i would prefer it at this point and i HATE the dentist.
talked to my good friend karen who took hers today and she said it was quite mellow. so, hopefully it will be okay and all my nervous energy will be for nothing.
luckily nervous energy helped me get more done in a half hour than i accomplished all day saturday.
better go put my sheets in the dryer, make nachos, read stuff, drink more wine, and hopefully get some sleep.
talked to my good friend karen who took hers today and she said it was quite mellow. so, hopefully it will be okay and all my nervous energy will be for nothing.
luckily nervous energy helped me get more done in a half hour than i accomplished all day saturday.
better go put my sheets in the dryer, make nachos, read stuff, drink more wine, and hopefully get some sleep.
make my money
what's the deal with adsense? does anyone know? i contemplate how cool it would be to get paid to write my silly blog...so is this the way to do it. or will it just annoy and alienate my readers? thoughts?
it occurs to me..
it occurs to me that there was talk of having a big birthday bash for my crazy 30th birthday party and that i have no idea where i'm going to be living at that point. the way it looks, i might be in ABQ. so texans....can you come to ABQ to play? it'll be fun....swear. :)
it also occurs to me that there is no way in hell i did enough studying this week. in fact, i know i haven't. after writing for 6 days straight, i found myself unmotivated and exhausted last week. this weekend, i did a little bit, but i'm not sure if it was enough. i ended up cleaning and eating with friends and taking it easy and sleeping. so, i have a feeling that i'll be stressed out the next two days until i get this crazy oral exam done. not sure how i should have studied...but pretty sure i didn't do enough. what the damn shit fuck!?
it also occurs to me that there is no way in hell i did enough studying this week. in fact, i know i haven't. after writing for 6 days straight, i found myself unmotivated and exhausted last week. this weekend, i did a little bit, but i'm not sure if it was enough. i ended up cleaning and eating with friends and taking it easy and sleeping. so, i have a feeling that i'll be stressed out the next two days until i get this crazy oral exam done. not sure how i should have studied...but pretty sure i didn't do enough. what the damn shit fuck!?
11.19.2005
"i feel the seasons changing....and my life is never gonna be the same..."
gotta love hurricane jane lyrics. if you don't know..they were this great band from ok city, though i'm not sure they exist anymore. i've been rocking out to their cd in my car all week and those lyrics seemed especially appropriate.
why? because things are changing. in a few months, i will likely be moving to albuquerque. i was offered the opportunity to teach 4 courses at UNM and i've been itching to get out of texas for a while. it's really exciting, though in my head its still not official. :) but dennis is coming here to help me move and i'm probably going to look for apartments soon. hopefully by then it will have hit me that, yes, in fact, things are changing. i've never been really good at change but this is one that i'm looking forward to. however, days like today reminded me that i'm going to miss college station a lot too. not such much college station itself...but the little life i have carved out for myself here and my awesome, incredible, kick ass friends.
i went to a soc. department picnic today and i was talking with a bunch of my colleagues. it was good to be there because they reminded me of how far i have come in the past 5 years, and how much i've accomplished. and they were all so encouraging about the next part of the exam. it is still odd to think of myself as one of those ABD people. i know i'm not officially ABD, but even that i'm close is weird. i remember when i first started graduate school and looking up to those students who finished or were close to finishing. and now, i'm one of those people...and its just weird. i know i've changed in 5 years, but i still feel like a novice in some ways. here's hoping i won't feel like one on tuesday.
anyway, there's a lot of big stuff coming up and this semester that i never thought i'd make it through is quickly coming to an end. thanks to all of you guys for your constant support and friendship and love and funnies and hugs and stuff. i never would have made it this far without ya.
okay..gotta go start studying. still a saturday afternoon slacker after all these years. ;) i guess something things never change.
why? because things are changing. in a few months, i will likely be moving to albuquerque. i was offered the opportunity to teach 4 courses at UNM and i've been itching to get out of texas for a while. it's really exciting, though in my head its still not official. :) but dennis is coming here to help me move and i'm probably going to look for apartments soon. hopefully by then it will have hit me that, yes, in fact, things are changing. i've never been really good at change but this is one that i'm looking forward to. however, days like today reminded me that i'm going to miss college station a lot too. not such much college station itself...but the little life i have carved out for myself here and my awesome, incredible, kick ass friends.
i went to a soc. department picnic today and i was talking with a bunch of my colleagues. it was good to be there because they reminded me of how far i have come in the past 5 years, and how much i've accomplished. and they were all so encouraging about the next part of the exam. it is still odd to think of myself as one of those ABD people. i know i'm not officially ABD, but even that i'm close is weird. i remember when i first started graduate school and looking up to those students who finished or were close to finishing. and now, i'm one of those people...and its just weird. i know i've changed in 5 years, but i still feel like a novice in some ways. here's hoping i won't feel like one on tuesday.
anyway, there's a lot of big stuff coming up and this semester that i never thought i'd make it through is quickly coming to an end. thanks to all of you guys for your constant support and friendship and love and funnies and hugs and stuff. i never would have made it this far without ya.
okay..gotta go start studying. still a saturday afternoon slacker after all these years. ;) i guess something things never change.
quick question
so..brad pitt is attractive and stuff...but he's not really that great of an actor. i'm watching seven on tnt and i love this movie but there are some times when pitt just isn't that great. anyone agree..disagree? he's not as bad as keanu reeves ("whoa...excellent!") but still.
11.15.2005
this is a test
mike can figure out what people used as search terms to stumble across his blog. and people search for such hilarity like "wild humpers" and stuff to find his.
so this is my experiment...ready?
ninja turkey fuck!
any new readers?
how about:
ass monkey clown
OR
rabid cheeto fetish
OR
foot to face! (which is on a wristband i own...don't ask)
now i fear who will start reading this. *grin*
so this is my experiment...ready?
ninja turkey fuck!
any new readers?
how about:
ass monkey clown
OR
rabid cheeto fetish
OR
foot to face! (which is on a wristband i own...don't ask)
now i fear who will start reading this. *grin*
11.14.2005
some news?
i might have some news. i was offered four courses at university of new mexico in the spring. though i would not get benefits, it would be a really good opportunity i think. i've been hoping to move and i would get to teach some rad classes i think. SO...i may have accepted it, but i'm still waiting for a little bit of information. i'll keep ya posted. :)
insomniac
how come i can't sleep? it's like 2:15 in the morning. shit fuck! :( stupid brains thinking and stuff. you'd think they'd need a breather after last week.
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