So there is this huge hill at one end of my block that is right by the railroad tracks that run parallel to my home. Friday was the first major snowfall of the season. Granted the snow did not fall in Lincroft, I decided to spare life and limb and not go in to work that day. It was both a good decision and a bad one. Good because I probably would have killed myself driving to work on unplowed snowy roads as I cursed Brookdale for being open. Bad because I spent time at home, and I'm slowly beginning to realize that I as much as I love my parents, I can't stand being in the house for that long with them and not go out to work for some period of time. So back to my story. Once the snowing subsided, I headed out to dig out what was Happy car and shovel with my father. The snow was absolutely glistening. I began to hear the little kids at the end of the block shrieking with delight. It immediately brought me back to when I was younger. I lived for being outside on days like that and the "hill" was the best part. Everyone would get bundled up, snow pants, boots, jacket, hats, and mittens to "waddle" our way to the "hill" with our snow tubes, sleds or whatever else we could think of that would slide real fast. The biggest challenge was trying to climb up the in our snow outfits. It was such a view once we managed to make it to the top. Then we braced ourselves for the what was next. We would hop onto our sleds and in one fluid motion we were off sledding down the hill. What a rush. The hysterical screaming, the holding on for dear life, the realization the pavement of the street was fast approaching, and then the competition to see who managed to slide the furthest. For about 5 minutes, I really wished that I was 8 again, and go sledding down the hill, rather then be that oddball old person with the group of 5 year-olds sticking out like a sore thumb.
I finished up cleaning the cars, which was an amazing workout. You want a full body workout- go shovel some snow. Upper body arm strength, utilize the quadriceps, use your core to keep you stabilized. Awesome. Then I returned inside to do the very fun christmas card writing. Okay...I'll admit it...I didn't finish it all, cause I don't have lots of peoples' addresses....seems everyone has moved multiple times and I just can't keep up. Some people got cards and well...others...sorry...and really people what do you expect me to write...I'm a mathematician for crying out loud. It was a painful 2 hours and I think I only wrote 5 cards. :oP
Oh the Christmas tree went up ....about a week ago. I adore the tree. I'm not great at designing, I just love looking at the sparkling lights and how they bounce and shimmer off of the ornaments. I love how you can see our tree out the front window, it makes the house so inviting and warm. I rejoice in the decorations...let me be specific, I am not talking about the gaudy plastic crud people put on their lawns (that includes those blown up balloon wisemen, christmas pooh, disney characters, no matter how enthralled I am with them.) I am talking about the elegant- wreaths with red bows, candles in the windows, garland on railings, traditional stockings, cards strewn on the walls. Think of the scene when Papa comes home in Little Women. That is what I love. Just the little touches that make life feel special during a time when it is icy, cold, and bitter.
Mom's last treatment :::keep your fingers crossed::: is this week. It got pushed back a week on account of something being low. I can't quite remember what. Hopefully this is it. It's been a scary 6 months, so I hope this is the end of it. I can tell she is getting antsy. Friday while my dad and I were shoveling, she walks out all bundled up and grabs a snow scraper and starts attacking the cars. We both double take and yell, "What are you doing?!?!?! You're supposed to be resting." Needless to say she overruled and helped us with the last little bit of cleaning off the cars. I feel like she is ready to be done with this stuff and now go out and be productive, not locked in the house all day. Her cabin fever is somewhat infectious.
I managed to get everyone out to see the Chronicles of Narnia on Saturday. Before I get into the movie, I have one small rant I need to make. If you are coming with a gaggle of children and you want them to all sit together, do not, I repeat, do not show up to the movie 5 minutes after it has started on the opening weekend and expect to find 15 seats in the same row. Make up your mind and sit the kids down somewhere...have one parent sit with each group of kids. Two, buy a popcorn for each group. This eliminates the need for the children to get up every 20 minutes stomp up the stairs...rattle the row-end seats just to get their hands on more popcorn. Oh, and thirdly, make sure your kids go to the bathroom immediately prior to the start of the movie, no one wants to hear, MOMMY I NEED TO GO TO THE BATHROOM during the most critical part of the movie. Now that I have gotten the annoying 8 year old kids out of the way I think I can speak calmly on Narnia. It was in a word, breathtaking. Absolutely unbelievable. Think Lord of the Rings, but magical....mystical even. This is the first time in a while that I can say that I really found no major faults in the transformation from book to movie. There were some little things that i think didn't quite take place the way they envisioned it, but it was not bothersome at all. Go see it. The effects were outstanding. Mr. and Mrs. Beaver- exactly how I imagined them in the book, and that been married forever, can joke about everything relationship was perfect. Liam Neeson, the voice of Aslan....it took me the entire movie to figure out it was him. It all just fit. I think you will enjoy it.
What else can I say. Ummm some little life things have been unnerving lately. My friend (I'll call him that for the moment), made things very very awkward recently. He wants friendship....but also other things that i don't equate with....friends doing. So I left him with the ultimate statement- "Figure out what you want to be going on here, and figure out soon...cause I'm not going to deal with it." So I guess I'll soon be seeing how things play out, right now I'm just waiting-playing happy friend Resa. But that seems to be my life at the moment- happy friend Resa.
I could probably write on more things that are going on...but I have 3 stacks of labs that I haven't touched at all today...so I should probably get on that.
End Transmission.
Turkeys
Well at least some online lj quiz thinks I should be in grad school. Really that is all the encouragement I need.
Yummm pizza.
When I was driving to work today in the car, I had something I wanted to write about, but I think I lost it somewhere on Route 18. I always get these interesting topics in my head and the second I get in to work...every great thought ducks and runs for cover.
Thanksgiving was actually relaxing. I helped make Tom the Turkey, or so we dubbed him. I managed not to eat any more bird until last night and this evening at work. Oh I went and saw the Pride and Prejudice movie with Keira Knightley. Ehh....it was "tolerable at best...but not handsome enough to tempt me." I will still forever love the BBC version of it. Oh Colin Firth...you really are Mr. Darcy. Now if I could only find a Mr. Darcy of my own.
oh personal reminder...never talk about any romantic possibilities...cause the second i do...things just go down the shitter. I need to go back to being totally enthralled with my own thoughts, ideas, and activities. For some reason my total lack of interest in guys really gets them going. WTF dude...WTF?
Umm yeah...I'm at work, and my brain lacks any coherent thought...I wish I remembered what it was I wanted to write.
:oP on me.
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Yummm pizza.
When I was driving to work today in the car, I had something I wanted to write about, but I think I lost it somewhere on Route 18. I always get these interesting topics in my head and the second I get in to work...every great thought ducks and runs for cover.
Thanksgiving was actually relaxing. I helped make Tom the Turkey, or so we dubbed him. I managed not to eat any more bird until last night and this evening at work. Oh I went and saw the Pride and Prejudice movie with Keira Knightley. Ehh....it was "tolerable at best...but not handsome enough to tempt me." I will still forever love the BBC version of it. Oh Colin Firth...you really are Mr. Darcy. Now if I could only find a Mr. Darcy of my own.
oh personal reminder...never talk about any romantic possibilities...cause the second i do...things just go down the shitter. I need to go back to being totally enthralled with my own thoughts, ideas, and activities. For some reason my total lack of interest in guys really gets them going. WTF dude...WTF?
Umm yeah...I'm at work, and my brain lacks any coherent thought...I wish I remembered what it was I wanted to write.
:oP on me.
You ought to know...You are a git Ron!
So I haven't written in a while.
1. My gre subject test is over. I will never, I repeat, never take another gre related exam ever again. ETS could go...suck a walnut for all I care. But the upside is all of my applications related activities are over and I have had the oppurtunity to now calm down. Get back to doing everything that I've been neglecting recently.
2. Things are looking really good for my mom. The hope is, keep your fingers crossed, that her last treatment will be at the beginning of December and she will be done in time for Christmas. What a cool present that would be.
3. Tonight is chill night, with Beckie. It includes...well it no longer includes handiwork seeing as we masterfully put together her television stand, but it will include brownies and fun movies. Hurray!! Saturday looks to be a day of shopping...I refuse to go out shopping on Black Friday. I can't stand people on Black Friday. Then maybe some hanging out in the evening on Saturday.
4. Oh....my brother came home by surprise on Wednesday. Well it wasn't a surprise for me, seeing as he told me. But the scream that came out of my mother when he came out from hiding in the closet was classic. "Where is your brother, we know he is here. His car is outside." "His laundry is in the waching machine." "Did he take the dog for a walk?---No ma, the dog is sitting right here." "Is he out for a run in the cold and the rain? No he wouldn't do something silly like that." It was great.
5. Harry Potter and work. I think last night was the second most stupidest thing I've ever done that is work-related. Never...ever go to a midnight showing of a movie...on a Thursday night. I suppose you could go if the movie was only an hour and a half. But 2.5 hours is not good. Especially when you need to be up by 6am so you can be at work by 8 am. But the upside of my inability to keep my eyes from completely shutting this morning is the fact that I got to see Goblet of Fire. Don't read below if you don't want to know about the movie...or my thoughts.
1. My gre subject test is over. I will never, I repeat, never take another gre related exam ever again. ETS could go...suck a walnut for all I care. But the upside is all of my applications related activities are over and I have had the oppurtunity to now calm down. Get back to doing everything that I've been neglecting recently.
2. Things are looking really good for my mom. The hope is, keep your fingers crossed, that her last treatment will be at the beginning of December and she will be done in time for Christmas. What a cool present that would be.
3. Tonight is chill night, with Beckie. It includes...well it no longer includes handiwork seeing as we masterfully put together her television stand, but it will include brownies and fun movies. Hurray!! Saturday looks to be a day of shopping...I refuse to go out shopping on Black Friday. I can't stand people on Black Friday. Then maybe some hanging out in the evening on Saturday.
4. Oh....my brother came home by surprise on Wednesday. Well it wasn't a surprise for me, seeing as he told me. But the scream that came out of my mother when he came out from hiding in the closet was classic. "Where is your brother, we know he is here. His car is outside." "His laundry is in the waching machine." "Did he take the dog for a walk?---No ma, the dog is sitting right here." "Is he out for a run in the cold and the rain? No he wouldn't do something silly like that." It was great.
5. Harry Potter and work. I think last night was the second most stupidest thing I've ever done that is work-related. Never...ever go to a midnight showing of a movie...on a Thursday night. I suppose you could go if the movie was only an hour and a half. But 2.5 hours is not good. Especially when you need to be up by 6am so you can be at work by 8 am. But the upside of my inability to keep my eyes from completely shutting this morning is the fact that I got to see Goblet of Fire. Don't read below if you don't want to know about the movie...or my thoughts.
Booo on tagging!
Name 5 of life's simple pleasures that you like most, then pick 5 people to do the same. Try to be original and creative and not to use things that someone else has already used. Tag 5 people on your list.
1. steam billowing as a I pour a piping hot cup of water for tea
2. the smell of fall
3. the way my pup snuggles his face into your legs when he curls up to sleep
4. curling up in my down comforter
5. singing like a rock star in the car to the best music
Ummmm....yeah i'm going to bed. Get a good night's sleep before my test. Signing off.
1. steam billowing as a I pour a piping hot cup of water for tea
2. the smell of fall
3. the way my pup snuggles his face into your legs when he curls up to sleep
4. curling up in my down comforter
5. singing like a rock star in the car to the best music
Ummmm....yeah i'm going to bed. Get a good night's sleep before my test. Signing off.
Cause I like to steal other people's things...
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| Life: |  6.7 |
| Mind: | 6.5 |
| Body: |  6.1 |
| Spirit: | 5.8 |
| Friends/Family: |  3.8 |
| Love: | 4.6 |
| Finance: |  7.7 |
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All of my applications are away. Done. No more worrying about them. Saturday is the big exam. Not really stressed, but ask me again on friday. Then we'll see. All of a sudden things have become nice and light and easy. I don't really care as much about things that bothered me before, although I have to admit there are some things that will always bother me. Studying and getting help during the week this week. Giving an exam to my class. Saturday afternoon I am free and easy to go have some serious fun. tee hee. oh imagine all the fun I can have on Saturday :::wink wink:::.
brain dead
Wow, my head hurts. Have I ever said I how much I hate forms. Well I do. I have spent the past 2.5 hours filling out forms....not for me...but for my recommenders. I made them nice envelopes, with little instructions....and all they have to do is write in how wonderful I am.
So I pretty much have that aspect and the transcript stuff done. Fancy that though, I haven't actually sent in my applications yet. I might get to that tomorrow. Damn work and class getting in the way of things.
Life has been...interesting. New friends have made life exciting, especially at work. My coworkers firmly believe that I have two boyfriends, just from the pure amount of time two fellow colleagues spend at my desk talking to me. Not that I mind, although it does discourage the students somewhat.
I can't believe it's halfway through the semester. Didn't it just start like a week ago?
maybe chicken little this weekend, getting some study help from nathan??....test next weekend, then after that
HARRY POTTER
So I pretty much have that aspect and the transcript stuff done. Fancy that though, I haven't actually sent in my applications yet. I might get to that tomorrow. Damn work and class getting in the way of things.
Life has been...interesting. New friends have made life exciting, especially at work. My coworkers firmly believe that I have two boyfriends, just from the pure amount of time two fellow colleagues spend at my desk talking to me. Not that I mind, although it does discourage the students somewhat.
I can't believe it's halfway through the semester. Didn't it just start like a week ago?
maybe chicken little this weekend, getting some study help from nathan??....test next weekend, then after that
HARRY POTTER
Couldn't help myself
PERFECT FIFTH. The most solid of all of the
intervals -- you serve as a foundation upon
which everyone else builds themselves. You
believe in simple truths, and think most of
that "emanipation of the dissonance"
talk should be taken with a pillar of salt.
Beloved by Medieval and early 20th century
composers, you should avoid walking in the same
cardinal direction as any of your like-minded
friends. We wouldn't want any parallel fifths,
you know...
What musical interval are you?
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intervals -- you serve as a foundation upon
which everyone else builds themselves. You
believe in simple truths, and think most of
that "emanipation of the dissonance"
talk should be taken with a pillar of salt.
Beloved by Medieval and early 20th century
composers, you should avoid walking in the same
cardinal direction as any of your like-minded
friends. We wouldn't want any parallel fifths,
you know...
What musical interval are you?
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Neglect
I DID IT!!!
Mark this day. It is the day I finished writing my personal statement for graduate school. I am very proud of myself, that is that I finished it. Is it a piece of crapola....yes I think so. But who cares about that...it is done.
I am sorry that I have been neglectful of my updating here. The conference was a trip. I learned a couple of little things, but I am superbly impressed with our operation. Anyways, last week I spent writing a huge mofo of a report on it. I guess the writing of the report massaged me into writing my personal statement. Last friday I hung out with some new friends...in a very very cold apartment watching the big lebowski. then saturday, in a feat of female wonderment, beckie and i constructed her impressive tv stand. Then we made cookies and watched crazy halloweenish sort of movies. The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra....I sleep now!!!! muuuuuaaahhahahaha!!!
I am debating whether or not to go up to dickinson two weekends from now...i miss everyone terribly but i can't just give up a perfectly good weekend of studying...especially since i haven't studied...at all!!! Talk about me turning into a procrastinator. W-T-F, duuude....W-T-F???
Anyways work time is almost over...I'm getting out of here...to only get wet as i go to my car.
Mark this day. It is the day I finished writing my personal statement for graduate school. I am very proud of myself, that is that I finished it. Is it a piece of crapola....yes I think so. But who cares about that...it is done.
I am sorry that I have been neglectful of my updating here. The conference was a trip. I learned a couple of little things, but I am superbly impressed with our operation. Anyways, last week I spent writing a huge mofo of a report on it. I guess the writing of the report massaged me into writing my personal statement. Last friday I hung out with some new friends...in a very very cold apartment watching the big lebowski. then saturday, in a feat of female wonderment, beckie and i constructed her impressive tv stand. Then we made cookies and watched crazy halloweenish sort of movies. The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra....I sleep now!!!! muuuuuaaahhahahaha!!!
I am debating whether or not to go up to dickinson two weekends from now...i miss everyone terribly but i can't just give up a perfectly good weekend of studying...especially since i haven't studied...at all!!! Talk about me turning into a procrastinator. W-T-F, duuude....W-T-F???
Anyways work time is almost over...I'm getting out of here...to only get wet as i go to my car.
October?!?!?!
It can't be October?!?!?! I guess it is then. Time keeps slipping by. Ugh.
Next week is Ohio-conference time. I can't wait to go, but then again I feel weird going. I know that athena and i will have a good go of it. Should be interesting to see how all these other math labs are set up, see if we really are a rarity in the way we run the lab.
I can't bring myself to write my personal statement. I have recently had it stuck in my head to screw grad school, i lack all self-confidence in getting in. Every time I think about writing my personal statement my head goes-> wouldn't it just be more logical to take the praxis, spend less money and be in a higher paying job in under a year? It hit me hard, two days ago when the gre moved up the registration date for the subject tests. I nearly broke down over whether or not to sign up again to take a test that i know will rape my confidence for the next 2 or 3 months. In the end I pulled out my credit card and registered for the test. I think I am a masochist. No one in their right mind would take that test more than once. I guess that means I'll have to write this personal statement very soon. Maybe this weekend?? I doubt it. I'm the biggest procrastinator ever.
Anyways that is my life. Me trying to avoid the big stuff. Nothing else really going on. catch you all later.
Next week is Ohio-conference time. I can't wait to go, but then again I feel weird going. I know that athena and i will have a good go of it. Should be interesting to see how all these other math labs are set up, see if we really are a rarity in the way we run the lab.
I can't bring myself to write my personal statement. I have recently had it stuck in my head to screw grad school, i lack all self-confidence in getting in. Every time I think about writing my personal statement my head goes-> wouldn't it just be more logical to take the praxis, spend less money and be in a higher paying job in under a year? It hit me hard, two days ago when the gre moved up the registration date for the subject tests. I nearly broke down over whether or not to sign up again to take a test that i know will rape my confidence for the next 2 or 3 months. In the end I pulled out my credit card and registered for the test. I think I am a masochist. No one in their right mind would take that test more than once. I guess that means I'll have to write this personal statement very soon. Maybe this weekend?? I doubt it. I'm the biggest procrastinator ever.
Anyways that is my life. Me trying to avoid the big stuff. Nothing else really going on. catch you all later.
Since
Suz said her's was so accurate, i decided to do mine. Put 2 in the win column for the ColorQuiz, cause at the moment this is sooo how I feel. Only 2 weeks til conference, class is going well, I got super stressed over piddly this past week or so, i still haven't written my personal statement or emailed my profs. Smafu is coming in like a week and a half, yeey!
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