that is what is happening today, just in case you lived under a rock. Not that I have anything to say about it. Go Team.
First off, Friday I was a spaz and left my phone off all day. I don't know why. I'm just silly like that. So I missed the call about everyone going out bowling that night, until 11 pm when I finally turned my phone on. boo on me.
Yesterday, Beck and I went out shopping. I was on the ultimate search for jeans and for a birthday present for my dad. First we went to Menlo to check out Old Navy, cause Woodbridge Center doesn't have one. Ugh, no go on the jeans. It didn't even help that I measured myself so that I knew what sizes to try on. Boo on Old Navy. But beck found a cute sweater and hoodie. Then it was off to Woodbridge Center. Parking is a freakin' nightmare. Stupid parking lots. We hit up Hot topic, Icing (which I think used to be Claire's), and Brookstone's. I found the most hilarious gift for my daddy-o's birthday at Brookstone's. tee-hee. We stopped by H&M and found some nice shirts and sweaters. Then we went to the Gap. I tried to look at jeans again. Beck and I find in the very back of the store, the new jean line they are testing. Hot shit, someone has finally figured it out. Someone out there realized, hell, women have nice rear ends, and hips and thighs. Maybe we should create jeans that don't make it look like they have had to vacuum the butt and thighs into a pair of jeans. They call it Curvey, go figure. And for the first time in I can't remember when I had found a pair of jeans that I didn't have wiggle, squirm, suck, and other insane things to get into the jeans. My only problem is the jeans are about 4 inches too long...oh yeah...and they are size 8. What?!?!?!?! Me tiny person...Something is messed up with the sizing system cause there is no way in hell i'm an 8. I could handle 4 or 6 but 8?!?!!? boo, but they fit so that is all that matters right?
Happy- cause Suzer is going to come over March 12-13. cause Geisey and Sam left me the bestest phone message ever last night. cause I'll probably head out to see the guys in april.
differing reports
Well, Phil said 6 more weeks of winter. But the groundhog in NY and in the South (i think it was georgia) said spring was on the way. Which one do I believe?
I just wanted to say thanks to jenn-jenn, hester, and cryssy for leaving me notes. I've been in a big funk lately. Those little notes just made me feel better. Thanks to suzer, for listening to me whine and complain for goodness knows part of the afternoon yesterday. I don't feel nearly as confined as I did before I let some of it out.
I really miss all of you and for some reason, and specifically the part of the day where we all packed our grab and go lunches, chilled out in our living room watching trading spaces or a movie.
:o)
I just wanted to say thanks to jenn-jenn, hester, and cryssy for leaving me notes. I've been in a big funk lately. Those little notes just made me feel better. Thanks to suzer, for listening to me whine and complain for goodness knows part of the afternoon yesterday. I don't feel nearly as confined as I did before I let some of it out.
I really miss all of you and for some reason, and specifically the part of the day where we all packed our grab and go lunches, chilled out in our living room watching trading spaces or a movie.
:o)
effin' February
lyrics so sweet:
THE WALK by Zac Hanson
Well deep in the woods
Where nothing is seen
A tightrope is strung to his heel
And high on the walk
He's down on one knee
He waits for the slow of the breeze
Oh, wow, look at him now, on his feet
High up in the sky
And every moment stands endlessly
It feels as though time isn't moving
And every second, one breath not to breathe
I watch as he moves to the beat
While I'm on the floor
I watch from my seat
And watch as he sways with the trees
And slowly he moves, but elegantly
I'm more on the edge of my seat
On the tightrope
Everything's bare
All that there is is from here to there
On the tightrope
The goal is quite clear
Don't lose yourself in your fear
Everyone waits on the walk
Some are long and some small
But all of them tall
Everyone must make a choice
Will I go for it all
And possibly fall
The tightrope is thin
I could possibly win on the walk
Well high on the walk
The tightrope it bends
And nobody knows where it ends
To win or to lose
You're all on your own
Everyone must be alone
On the tightrope
Everything's bare
All that there is is from here to there
On the tightrope
The goal is quite clear
Don't lose yourself in your fear
THE WALK by Zac Hanson
Well deep in the woods
Where nothing is seen
A tightrope is strung to his heel
And high on the walk
He's down on one knee
He waits for the slow of the breeze
Oh, wow, look at him now, on his feet
High up in the sky
And every moment stands endlessly
It feels as though time isn't moving
And every second, one breath not to breathe
I watch as he moves to the beat
While I'm on the floor
I watch from my seat
And watch as he sways with the trees
And slowly he moves, but elegantly
I'm more on the edge of my seat
On the tightrope
Everything's bare
All that there is is from here to there
On the tightrope
The goal is quite clear
Don't lose yourself in your fear
Everyone waits on the walk
Some are long and some small
But all of them tall
Everyone must make a choice
Will I go for it all
And possibly fall
The tightrope is thin
I could possibly win on the walk
Well high on the walk
The tightrope it bends
And nobody knows where it ends
To win or to lose
You're all on your own
Everyone must be alone
On the tightrope
Everything's bare
All that there is is from here to there
On the tightrope
The goal is quite clear
Don't lose yourself in your fear
just a little advice
Don't tell rotund, over-50 police detectives about funny gut feelings, they'll just look at you like you have 3 heads.
Also found out that this, really was a random hit. The guy walked down the block, knocking on doors, waiting until his "type" opened the door. Really unnerving.
It's been one mildy sad January. Go figure, guess the rest of the year might be like this too.
Also found out that this, really was a random hit. The guy walked down the block, knocking on doors, waiting until his "type" opened the door. Really unnerving.
It's been one mildy sad January. Go figure, guess the rest of the year might be like this too.
paranoid
I don't know how many of you remember junior year and my weird pit of the stomach premonitions, or not...but yesterday in the morning a little before 9:30 am my father asked me to walk the dog. So I head outside and I immediately feel something is just totally messed up (the weird, things aren't right, need to leave the premises sort of feeling). I tell Kona to hurry up, which he was so kind to do, and I ran back inside. I start to feel better once inside so a pack my things up and head off to work.
Returning home, my father asks me if I saw anything suspicious around the neighborhood that past 24 hours. I reply no. You all know me, I don't tell people about my weird sense until after events have unfolded. He said the police had come around and asked him that same questions. They said there was a break in several houses down the block. Odd. But wait.
This morning we picked up the paper only to find headline article...a woman was raped on my block yesterday morning at approximately 10 am in the morning. I know!!! Shiznit!!! This is the second rape in 10 days...within I would say a 5 mile radius. So yeah, I'm a little unnerved. But I'm trying to be practical...the guy most likely will not strike this block again. They try to make the hits random....but they usually end up spacing attacks out evenly. (If you missed last sunday...semi-decent show called Numb3rs, dealt with this exact same thing).
Keeping my head up, and my new (my mom got it for me) can of pepper spray close at hand.
Returning home, my father asks me if I saw anything suspicious around the neighborhood that past 24 hours. I reply no. You all know me, I don't tell people about my weird sense until after events have unfolded. He said the police had come around and asked him that same questions. They said there was a break in several houses down the block. Odd. But wait.
This morning we picked up the paper only to find headline article...a woman was raped on my block yesterday morning at approximately 10 am in the morning. I know!!! Shiznit!!! This is the second rape in 10 days...within I would say a 5 mile radius. So yeah, I'm a little unnerved. But I'm trying to be practical...the guy most likely will not strike this block again. They try to make the hits random....but they usually end up spacing attacks out evenly. (If you missed last sunday...semi-decent show called Numb3rs, dealt with this exact same thing).
Keeping my head up, and my new (my mom got it for me) can of pepper spray close at hand.
Liar-Liar, Pants on Fire
So, I am a liar. I lied in my last post, I didn’t follow up. I lied a couple of posts back about how January was going sooo well. I’ve been lying to myself for a long time. But holy cow, I don’t think I have written anything of substance for a long time, maybe that is due to something else that is going on.
A couple of weekends ago, I made my first trip down to Blacksburg to drop my brother off at school. It was quite an adventure. Virginia Tech is gorgeous. Large, but absolutely beautiful. To meet it felt like Dickinson on a grander scale. The campus was divided much like in Carlisle. One half contained all of the dormitories and the student center. While the other half contained amazing academic buildings. I suppose what made me think of Dickinson was the simple fact that the buildings’ outer façade was made of limestone. I didn’t get an in-depth tour but I really only had 6 hours there. I’ll be the first to admit it. I miss my lil’ bro. Just so much more laughing when he is around. He won’t be back home until May when the semester is over (maybe not if my mother has anything to do about it). We joked about how when I do the whole grad school, he would be all about joining me in an apartment down there. ‘Twould be fun. Besides, apartments down there are uber cheap.
I believe that I’ve collected my list of graduate schools that I think might work for me. I still need to work it down some, even though I have a pretty good idea for sure of a couple of them.
Princeton (Program of Applied and Computational Math)- that’s a heck of a reach
Duke- You all know my affinity for Duke basketball, who happen to be one of 3 unbeaten teams at the moment- ranked number 2 in the nation.
VT- dirt cheap program not to mention, it has a great ranking in US News
Lehigh- where I wanted to go as an undergrad, somewhat close to home, know the area pretty well
Clemson- it popped up in one of my many searches
Cornell- good school, it’ll stay on the list until I make a real decision about whether or not I want to deal with more cold for the next 4-6 years.
UNC- miss liz bouzarth goes there, which gives me reason at least to consider it
NC State- family friends go to school there…
UMBC- I debated applying here as an undergrad
Rutgers- it is 5 minutes from my house, what have I got to lose right?
If anyone could let me know how small I should cut this list that would be greatly appreciated. Also, any help on explaining to me the whole personal statement business, I would be forever indebted.
The semester has picked up again. Nice cause it gives me something do to for 8 hours a day now. All in all I feel like a zombie. I wake up in the morning, breakfast, go to work, come back from work, eat, do pilates, watch tv, go to bed. It doesn’t change, outside of the tv show I watch. Empty. No meaning. Just feel there is really nothing special about life right now. Just not a thing to make living enjoyable, or my own. I can’t think of anything that I can call my own. Pathetic I know. I need to find something. Do not expect big things from this corner all year. If there is, you can be just as surprised as I will be.
Other than that, snow has made me miss Carlisle, and Dickinson, and the only snow day we had. Something about the snow just felt so much more pure there…as opposed to the disgusting stuff we have here. But I was quite happy to see (something which I haven’t seen or experienced since I was about 10) the hordes of small children going to the end of my block for sledding. I was beginning to think fun things like that had gone out of style. We need to save it. Make sure no one ever forgets to go sledding.
And with that, I leave you for probably another long extended period of time.
A couple of weekends ago, I made my first trip down to Blacksburg to drop my brother off at school. It was quite an adventure. Virginia Tech is gorgeous. Large, but absolutely beautiful. To meet it felt like Dickinson on a grander scale. The campus was divided much like in Carlisle. One half contained all of the dormitories and the student center. While the other half contained amazing academic buildings. I suppose what made me think of Dickinson was the simple fact that the buildings’ outer façade was made of limestone. I didn’t get an in-depth tour but I really only had 6 hours there. I’ll be the first to admit it. I miss my lil’ bro. Just so much more laughing when he is around. He won’t be back home until May when the semester is over (maybe not if my mother has anything to do about it). We joked about how when I do the whole grad school, he would be all about joining me in an apartment down there. ‘Twould be fun. Besides, apartments down there are uber cheap.
I believe that I’ve collected my list of graduate schools that I think might work for me. I still need to work it down some, even though I have a pretty good idea for sure of a couple of them.
Princeton (Program of Applied and Computational Math)- that’s a heck of a reach
Duke- You all know my affinity for Duke basketball, who happen to be one of 3 unbeaten teams at the moment- ranked number 2 in the nation.
VT- dirt cheap program not to mention, it has a great ranking in US News
Lehigh- where I wanted to go as an undergrad, somewhat close to home, know the area pretty well
Clemson- it popped up in one of my many searches
Cornell- good school, it’ll stay on the list until I make a real decision about whether or not I want to deal with more cold for the next 4-6 years.
UNC- miss liz bouzarth goes there, which gives me reason at least to consider it
NC State- family friends go to school there…
UMBC- I debated applying here as an undergrad
Rutgers- it is 5 minutes from my house, what have I got to lose right?
If anyone could let me know how small I should cut this list that would be greatly appreciated. Also, any help on explaining to me the whole personal statement business, I would be forever indebted.
The semester has picked up again. Nice cause it gives me something do to for 8 hours a day now. All in all I feel like a zombie. I wake up in the morning, breakfast, go to work, come back from work, eat, do pilates, watch tv, go to bed. It doesn’t change, outside of the tv show I watch. Empty. No meaning. Just feel there is really nothing special about life right now. Just not a thing to make living enjoyable, or my own. I can’t think of anything that I can call my own. Pathetic I know. I need to find something. Do not expect big things from this corner all year. If there is, you can be just as surprised as I will be.
Other than that, snow has made me miss Carlisle, and Dickinson, and the only snow day we had. Something about the snow just felt so much more pure there…as opposed to the disgusting stuff we have here. But I was quite happy to see (something which I haven’t seen or experienced since I was about 10) the hordes of small children going to the end of my block for sledding. I was beginning to think fun things like that had gone out of style. We need to save it. Make sure no one ever forgets to go sledding.
And with that, I leave you for probably another long extended period of time.
:o|
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Hmmm, this seems somewhat far from the truth. Maybe I'll write more later.
And So It Is...
Well, it is almost mid-way through January, and I am actually feeling pretty good about the month. At the beginning, I was not really all sunshine and butterflies. But I am starting to feel better.
Sunday, I picked up a filing cabinet. I was super excited. You all know I am an oddball (sheesh this is coming from the gal who thought a can opener was the greatest christmas present one year). Finally, I feel like my life, or what little of it I have control over, is organized, ordered, and safe from being in total disarray. All of my important job papers (I had a stack that filled the entire drawer of my desk) are all labelled. It is now really easy to say, hey I need this, and *pop* all i have to do is pull it out. No more shuffling all over kingdom come to find things.
I decided that my working has caused me to become absurdly sedentary. I bought myself a mat and an intro Pilates dvd. It was so surprising the first time through to see just how inflexible I am. I can't say that I have miraculously dropped 5 pounds over the past couple of sessions, but I am happy to report I have a little better outlook (yey, andorphins), and I feel more physically able to do activities, like packing the boxes upon boxes of labs, handouts, homework, and test review sheets. Can not wait until it is warmer outside so that I can do the workouts out in the backyard.
I saw the Incredibles with Beck on Saturday, at last. It was adorable. I haven't seen a Disney flick in the theaters since...I can't remember when. Go see it if you haven't see it yet. While we were at the mall, I stopped in Abercrombie and Fitch (i had a gift card). I believe it is one of the most scary places on the face of the planet. Someone explain to me why people buy 80 dollar jeans with holes the size of Pennsylvania in them, when if you were smart you could buy jeans at target for 60 bucks less and take a scissor to them to obtain the same effect. Maybe I am just not wired the right way. Must be something wrong with me.
I pity the man that marries me, cause I'm a total nutcase.
Sunday, I picked up a filing cabinet. I was super excited. You all know I am an oddball (sheesh this is coming from the gal who thought a can opener was the greatest christmas present one year). Finally, I feel like my life, or what little of it I have control over, is organized, ordered, and safe from being in total disarray. All of my important job papers (I had a stack that filled the entire drawer of my desk) are all labelled. It is now really easy to say, hey I need this, and *pop* all i have to do is pull it out. No more shuffling all over kingdom come to find things.
I decided that my working has caused me to become absurdly sedentary. I bought myself a mat and an intro Pilates dvd. It was so surprising the first time through to see just how inflexible I am. I can't say that I have miraculously dropped 5 pounds over the past couple of sessions, but I am happy to report I have a little better outlook (yey, andorphins), and I feel more physically able to do activities, like packing the boxes upon boxes of labs, handouts, homework, and test review sheets. Can not wait until it is warmer outside so that I can do the workouts out in the backyard.
I saw the Incredibles with Beck on Saturday, at last. It was adorable. I haven't seen a Disney flick in the theaters since...I can't remember when. Go see it if you haven't see it yet. While we were at the mall, I stopped in Abercrombie and Fitch (i had a gift card). I believe it is one of the most scary places on the face of the planet. Someone explain to me why people buy 80 dollar jeans with holes the size of Pennsylvania in them, when if you were smart you could buy jeans at target for 60 bucks less and take a scissor to them to obtain the same effect. Maybe I am just not wired the right way. Must be something wrong with me.
I pity the man that marries me, cause I'm a total nutcase.
:oP
short story:
I was watching Princess Diaries 2 the other day with my mom. It is very cute, you all should watch it. While being forced to watch the previews (Disney dvds have managed to disable hitting the menu button to pass the previews...*or I could just be stupid and not know how*), I saw that this summer Disney is releasing the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Yeeey, that should be a great one. This year's movies should be good- Batman (with hottie Christian Bale), Hitchhiker's, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, and Harry Potter.
*Just so you all know, I'm still not used to it being 2005, cause I kept writing next summer's movies, or next summer. Bah*
Here's to hoping I don't have some crazy eye disease, but after having the shingles, i'm game for it.
I was watching Princess Diaries 2 the other day with my mom. It is very cute, you all should watch it. While being forced to watch the previews (Disney dvds have managed to disable hitting the menu button to pass the previews...*or I could just be stupid and not know how*), I saw that this summer Disney is releasing the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Yeeey, that should be a great one. This year's movies should be good- Batman (with hottie Christian Bale), Hitchhiker's, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, and Harry Potter.
*Just so you all know, I'm still not used to it being 2005, cause I kept writing next summer's movies, or next summer. Bah*
Here's to hoping I don't have some crazy eye disease, but after having the shingles, i'm game for it.
New Year....
New Layout. Just a little different. I was getting a little bored with the other one. I have an eye doctor appointment tomorrow. I have this funny little black spot that floats around my vision. Probably not a good thing. Have about 3 hours left of work, then only one more day. Thank goodness for short staff schedules and Fridays off.
oh and it's a poo-py day outside. just thought you would like to know.
oh and it's a poo-py day outside. just thought you would like to know.
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