Coming up Roses

Today is a good day and here’s why:

I think I’ve got an apartment squared away in an unbelievably convenient location (still working on the roommate situation)
I got reimbursed for one camp, submitted the receipts for another, and found out I get a big chunk of my flight to Milwaukee reimbursed!
My brother got a job at [...]

She’s got a point

This cracked me up! I love Ruthie!

What’s made you laugh today?

Looking back and wincing only slightly

I just spent a rather interesting hour re-living my high school years through notes, lists, doodles, and newspaper clippings. See, throughout my first couple years of high school, I kept this notebook where all my secret stuff went. Things that were super private and that I would have been mortified over if they [...]

And to all a Happy Thanksgiving!

‘Twas the night of Thanksgiving and all through the house, not a person was moving, having eaten so much food they had been lulled into a food coma . . .
Right, I was going to make up some really catch rhyme but I’m just not feeling it. What I am feeling is full. [...]

Days of wine and Who

There are some odd things about Knox County that I forget sometimes. Tonight, I forgot that you can only buy wine in a liquor store.
I want to take some wine to Thanksgiving dinner and there’s this one wine that I’ve had trouble finding before. But I know you can find it at World [...]

Oh, for a fireplace . . .

It’s always nice to get out of town for a while, even if just for a few hours.  Today, Jason and I drove over to Gatlinburg to volunteer at the TRPA conference just for the afternoon.  We managed to each get in 3 sessions though, some of them more interesting than others   I [...]

I’ve been there!

Cool! Amazing Race went to Amsterdam tonight, finally a place I can say “Hey, I’ve been there!” I recognized the interior of the airport, the train station, the bike parking deck, and the canals. Well, the canals all look the same, but I can pretend it was this one:

But as always, they [...]

Filler

I know I haven’t posted in a while, so until I do, here’s a quote to ponder:
“If you are losing your leisure, look out, you may be losing your soul.” – Anonymous

Well, now that that’s over . . .

As if I didn’t already have enough TV shows to keep up with, Amazing Race 12 has started tonight and it looks like it’s going to be an interesting ride. They’ve got some seriously, um, diverse pairs this season! And then there’s the usual fighting bf/gf, the blonde models, the parent/child, and the [...]

Ready to get this over with

Ingredients for a 7-hour Comprehensive Exam:
1 iPod
1 bottle of advil
Coke, coffee, water (caffeine plus healthier stuff)
Food
Nerves
Post-exam celebration!
Comps in 17 hours!  At this point, I’m just ready to get it over with.  I’ve gotten all my notes together, reviewed everything I can think to review, and am just crossing my fingers that I’ve looked at the [...]