Hey all-
So yeah that whole stomach food thing, hasn't really gone away. I feel like I have no appetite. What's worse is that I'm in the cooking kick...I want to make all this food, but I have no desire to eat any of it. Anyways....I've saved a bunch Mister Rogers quotes so here they are.
"Music has given me a way of expressing my feelings and my thoughts, and it has also given me a way of understanding more about life."
"Solitude is different from loneliness, and it doesn't have to be a lonely kind of thing."
"Love doesn't mean a state of perfect caring. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is right here and now-and to go on caring through joyful times and through times that may bring us pain."
"It is tempting to cling to the familiar. Just like in music, if we keep...playing in the key of C, we wouldn't have to take and risks of not making it to the key of E-flat. But we'd never know what it sounded like unless we tried. And once we've had the practice and the pleasure of making a transition from one key to the next, the subsequent times might not be quite so difficult."
"There is much more to independence than learning to master new skills. One of the most important parts of independence is learning to form new relationships with other people."
"A computer can help you learn to spell hug, but it can never help you know the risk or the joy of actually giving or receiving one."
Alright, I'm off.
So Cold I've Been wearing my jacket at work.
First, Thanks Suz, Cryssy, Dana, Laurie, and Sam. It really is quite exciting...and then not so exciting like yesterday. I got the uber thin denial letter from Rutgers.
No I am not crushed at all. It's actually quite good, cause if I had gotten accepted here...there would be a couple of serious reasons for me to contemplate staying around here. But I don't even get the chance to consider them. (Wrong I know...I am still waiting for Princeton but I seriously doubt they would send me an acceptance letter.)
Week 2 of the semester is almost done here. I am amazed at how quickly things are moving, not to mention the fact that it is just about the end of January.
I probably have stuff to grade...and I should go do that....or maybe I'll play a game of sudoku.
No I am not crushed at all. It's actually quite good, cause if I had gotten accepted here...there would be a couple of serious reasons for me to contemplate staying around here. But I don't even get the chance to consider them. (Wrong I know...I am still waiting for Princeton but I seriously doubt they would send me an acceptance letter.)
Week 2 of the semester is almost done here. I am amazed at how quickly things are moving, not to mention the fact that it is just about the end of January.
I probably have stuff to grade...and I should go do that....or maybe I'll play a game of sudoku.
BOOYAH Grandma!
Okay...so I am breaking my promise to suz- no Mr. Roger's quotes tonight, too bad being at work. But I have much better news:
I got accepted to Old Dominion University's Applied and Computational Mathematics PHD program. Full tuition paid for, as well as, a 12-month stipend. How freakin' awesome is that?!?!?!?
It's funny cause tonight I was thinking about signing myself up for the Praxis exam. Now I'm not quite sure if I will do it. Kinda a waste of money if I have a school waiting in the wings.
Do I want to go there...I'm not sure yet, I have to wait until February/March until I hear back from all of the institutions, but at least I know I have a home.
I really have no desire to write my exam right now. I'm too excited.
I got accepted to Old Dominion University's Applied and Computational Mathematics PHD program. Full tuition paid for, as well as, a 12-month stipend. How freakin' awesome is that?!?!?!?
It's funny cause tonight I was thinking about signing myself up for the Praxis exam. Now I'm not quite sure if I will do it. Kinda a waste of money if I have a school waiting in the wings.
Do I want to go there...I'm not sure yet, I have to wait until February/March until I hear back from all of the institutions, but at least I know I have a home.
I really have no desire to write my exam right now. I'm too excited.
So bad.
Sorry, I'm horrible about acting on my new year's resolution. So here is my check in. Work is hectic. We finally got settled into our new space...get this, the day before classes started. Talk about harrowingly close call.
I haven't been feeling well for the past week, no sleep, not really hungry, although it's starting to come back now. I had my 4 hour class. I nearly lost my voice afterwards. I need to remember to drink more water during the class to keep my throat in working order.
I started my big knitting project- blanket. I'm going to try to do it in about 4 segments and see how it turns out. I hope that I bought enough yarn for it. I guess we'll see about that, although we knows if we'll see about that 1 year down the road. Might not make that color yarn anymore. Booo.
Oh, last night Beck and I hit up the movies....saw the Underworld sequel. It was a good diversion- I couldn't bring myself to watch 3 hours of Kong or Munich, much to serious. But watch out...I think the parents with their seven year old son learned a good lesson- random sex/ soft-core porn scene in this movie. So read make sure you ware watching those parental ratings. There was a huge gasp by the mother behind us. Sometimes I think people need to be screened before and throughout the child-rearing process. It's inappropriate to bring a 7 year old to an R-rated film showing at 10:30 at night. I mean really, come-on. Am I to old fashioned or what???
Ugh, I had more Mr. Roger's quotes, but they are sitting upstairs and I have no desire to run up and get them at the moment. So yeah. I think i'm going to start attacking my lecture notes, want to try to stay ahead (maybe get them all completed by spring break) then I can relax durin the last part of the semester.
Catch ya'll later.
I haven't been feeling well for the past week, no sleep, not really hungry, although it's starting to come back now. I had my 4 hour class. I nearly lost my voice afterwards. I need to remember to drink more water during the class to keep my throat in working order.
I started my big knitting project- blanket. I'm going to try to do it in about 4 segments and see how it turns out. I hope that I bought enough yarn for it. I guess we'll see about that, although we knows if we'll see about that 1 year down the road. Might not make that color yarn anymore. Booo.
Oh, last night Beck and I hit up the movies....saw the Underworld sequel. It was a good diversion- I couldn't bring myself to watch 3 hours of Kong or Munich, much to serious. But watch out...I think the parents with their seven year old son learned a good lesson- random sex/ soft-core porn scene in this movie. So read make sure you ware watching those parental ratings. There was a huge gasp by the mother behind us. Sometimes I think people need to be screened before and throughout the child-rearing process. It's inappropriate to bring a 7 year old to an R-rated film showing at 10:30 at night. I mean really, come-on. Am I to old fashioned or what???
Ugh, I had more Mr. Roger's quotes, but they are sitting upstairs and I have no desire to run up and get them at the moment. So yeah. I think i'm going to start attacking my lecture notes, want to try to stay ahead (maybe get them all completed by spring break) then I can relax durin the last part of the semester.
Catch ya'll later.
Thanks
First- big thank you to Giesey and to Steve (even though i don't think he knows this exists), and well to all my girls who know the "drama"...I plan on dropkicking the guy to the curb...punching him in the face isn't quite my style....although the Father's Day card idea is quite fascinating. I'll have to keep that one in my back-pocket. A little reason, and not being heavily medicated really does help the thought process when it comes to things like that.
I got a calendar that has little thoughts from Mister Rogers....cause Mr. Roger's freakin' rocks the house and I thought I would share a couple with you all:
"Transitions are almost always signs of growth, but they can bring feelings of loss. To get somewhere new, we may have to leave somewhere else behind."
"I wish that many times I had heard that 'just who you are at this moment, with the way that you're feeling, is fine. You don't have to be anything more than who you are right now.' I'd like to think it's also something that's happened to me through the years, that I'm more able to accept myself as I happen to be, rather than as somebody thought I should be."
"It's really east to fall into the trap of believing that what we do is more important than what we are. Of course, it's the opposite that's true: What we are ultimately determines what we do!"
"I believe that appreciation is a holy thing-that when we look for what's best in a person we happen to be with at the moment, we're doing what God does all the time. So in loving and appreciating our naighbor, we're participating in soemthing sacred."
Ugh work tomorrow :oP
I got a calendar that has little thoughts from Mister Rogers....cause Mr. Roger's freakin' rocks the house and I thought I would share a couple with you all:
"Transitions are almost always signs of growth, but they can bring feelings of loss. To get somewhere new, we may have to leave somewhere else behind."
"I wish that many times I had heard that 'just who you are at this moment, with the way that you're feeling, is fine. You don't have to be anything more than who you are right now.' I'd like to think it's also something that's happened to me through the years, that I'm more able to accept myself as I happen to be, rather than as somebody thought I should be."
"It's really east to fall into the trap of believing that what we do is more important than what we are. Of course, it's the opposite that's true: What we are ultimately determines what we do!"
"I believe that appreciation is a holy thing-that when we look for what's best in a person we happen to be with at the moment, we're doing what God does all the time. So in loving and appreciating our naighbor, we're participating in soemthing sacred."
Ugh work tomorrow :oP
happy new year
Okay.
5 weird things about me:
1. I hate it when people sit on my bed unless I've given them express permission. I'll rip you to shreds if you come anywhere near my pillow.
2. M &M's. I must have an equal number of each color in my hand before i stuff those yummy candies in my mouth. If i pick up 3 red, 2 blue, and 2 green, I'll first eat one red....then have a red/blue/green shot at once....then eat red/blue/green in one shot to finish them off.
3. I can't have massive amounts of soda or i bring myself in to the wonderful land of migraines.
4. I have to do one sudoku puzzle during the day.
5. I'm 23 and i have the body of an 80 year old.
Break has been unbelievably busy. I can't even begin to write about it, well cause there was not much terribly exciting. Talk later...Bowl games on.
5 weird things about me:
1. I hate it when people sit on my bed unless I've given them express permission. I'll rip you to shreds if you come anywhere near my pillow.
2. M &M's. I must have an equal number of each color in my hand before i stuff those yummy candies in my mouth. If i pick up 3 red, 2 blue, and 2 green, I'll first eat one red....then have a red/blue/green shot at once....then eat red/blue/green in one shot to finish them off.
3. I can't have massive amounts of soda or i bring myself in to the wonderful land of migraines.
4. I have to do one sudoku puzzle during the day.
5. I'm 23 and i have the body of an 80 year old.
Break has been unbelievably busy. I can't even begin to write about it, well cause there was not much terribly exciting. Talk later...Bowl games on.
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