| tonight i parted geoff's hair down the middle and he looked like dwight from the office...ahahahaha
why do i never have anything to say? oh well. | comments: 1 comment or Leave a comment   |
| so, i forgot about a clinical education meeting on friday. oops. well, that will happen when you are told about it in october and get no reminders i suppose. still my fault, of course, but still.
oops, time for lunch. i'll journal later. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| i've been really stressed the last two weeks about all of these tests and everything. now they're all over and i can't seem to relax and have instead just transferred my worrying to something else, namely the environment. i wish i did more, and even more so, i wish everyone did at least as much as i did. it's frustrating to see other people be so wasteful when i'm trying to much just to make a little difference. i don't know why i'm being so angsty tonight.
in other news, i'm overall pretty content. i wish i had more spending money, but i can't complain. classes will be done in about a month and then i'll have a nice long winter break, which is awesome because last year i had to work through christmas and new year's.
geoff bought me stumptown coffee for my birthday so i've been a little over-caffeinated lately.
willow has become more tolerant of snuggling.
i have sweet, tough winter boots.
i love my asl class, trying to take more in the spring, we'll see.
i want to write some music but i don't think i have enough music theory under my belt.
i'm going to try crocheting.
i missed the showing of "america the beautiful" last night, phooey. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| i'm really kind of lonely lately. it's strange to go from a job where i'm constantly with people (three year olds, but anyway) to just sitting by myself studying all the time. not used to this anymore and i'm not sure that i like it very much. and geoff often doesn't come home from work until late and sometimes works on saturdays. at least the cats enjoy the extra attention that this gets them. =)
i've actually been working on willow to get her more snuggly...she has an official behavior plan! when i pick up and hold her/snuggle with her, she gets one warning (a quick "shh") if she starts struggling. if she continues struggling, i put her back on the floor and ignore her for 20-30 seconds. if she behaves and "tolerates" the attention, i'll put her back on the floor and reward her with petting her the way she likes to be petted (being hit roughly on the butt, having her tail pulled so that her back feet go in the air, ruffling up her rump fur...seriously, she likes this...it's the only thing that makes her purr). so far i've had pretty good success and her tolerance of snuggling like a normal cat has gone up - i've at least tripled the time she'll be held without pushing away. i'm trying to think if there is anything else i can do to increase it further, i dunno. wow, this actually makes me seem kind of mean when i write it down. maybe it's selfish of me to try to change her, but i do like a snuggly or two every day, and surely she can put up with that. =)
alright, back to work. | | comments: 2 comments or Leave a comment |
| | i...have nothing interesting to say these days. meh. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| well, things are going well.
besides my bruised behind, skinned knee, and sore wrist from my spill on the ice this morning. i'm going to have to get used to the weather conditions out here!
oh yeah, i'm in minneapolis now.
our first apartment isn't going to work out. but we already have another one worked out to move into in may! yay!
i'm anticipating a job offer tomorrow, a good job. i don't want to jinx it though, so details then. so yay!
and i got into all three schools i applied to. still, U of M is my first choice. but WOOT northwestern let me in! and UW. so yay. but U of M is still my first choice.
ok, simpsons is on now so more later. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| we made red lentil soup with lime tonight with our new vegetarian cookbook. delicious. but not as good as our pumpkin black bean soup. i'm really excited for the summer so i can make watermelon soup and watermelon-tomato-cucumber salad.
is anyone else really stressed out about the state of the economy? because i am. i'm going to be a poor student next year, and we've already noticed food prices going up. yipes! i'm really bad at keeping up at current events (besides science news) but have taken to glancing at issues of the economist geoff leaves around the apartment now for signs of good news.
geoff and i get obsessed with songs we think are a little ridiculous. we've tired of singing "everybody have fun tonight" and dancing the "love is a battlefield" song (i had never seen the music video of that before...eeee!). now, it's this:
"She’s in the kitchen at the crack of dawn
Bacon’s on, coffee’s strong
Kids running wild, taking off their clothes
If she’s a nervous wreck, well it never shows
Takes one to football and one to dance
Hits the Y for aerobics class
Drops by the bank, stops at the store
Has on a smile when I walk through the door
The last to go to bed, she’ll be the first one up
And I thought I was tough"
AWESOME i have a soft spot for sexist country songs...YES. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| i am now a proud owner of jess hutchinson's unusual toys for you to knit and enjoy. for whatever reason she stopped printing the pamphlet and it has been impossible to get, but nothing can stop the internetz!
major mourning and angst at the moment over leaving my beautiful tacoma apartment. we have a wonderful location in minneapolis, but it is tiny, so i am sad. i could have stayed in our current apartment for years and been content, but alas, i do not want to stay in tacoma. the several month search for a new apartment in minneapolis will commence in may, but i promised geoff not sooner than that.
today is my last day of work! which is exciting but then i will be unemployed! i've been getting my resume out there with no luck so far. geoff has a follow-up interview this week. yay for him but boo for me.
anyway, i will arrive in minneapolis on st. patty's dayish (also our half anniversary). in the meantime, i can be seen visiting my mom back in oregon or around tacoma, trying to suck every last minute of enjoyment from our beloved apartment and having one last cup of stumptown coffee before moving to the midwest. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| well, quite a bit has happened in the past few weeks, but the short story is that i'm moving to minneapolis! geoff and i think we've found an apartment that will work. it's not my ideal apartment, but given the circumstances, i'll just take something and then be picky when the lease is up. i love old buildings with lots of built in shelves and nooks and crannies for the cats. but, for now, it appears we'll be in a more open room with a more modern finish. oh well. i'm already looking forward to finding an apartment like the one we have now (in tacoma) in september, but at the very least the room has a good location and should do for a while.
i'm nervous about going back to school! but ready. also, for various reasons i don't really want to dwell on right now, i'm soooo ready to find a new job too. i guess i'm having a bit of trouble landing jobs that work out. guess that's why i'm going to grad school then mmmm? =)
anyway, geoff and i are going to try to hit up some of our favorite things in the area...puget sound pizza and persepolis at the grand cinema on friday, a trip to seattle on saturday, and a trip to mt. rainier on sunday.
so yeah, lots of details but basically right now lots of excitement and stress, and wishing we could move our current apartment to minneapolis with us. have i ever mentioned how much we love our apartment here? ;) | | comments: 1 comment or Leave a comment |
| friday night geoff and i went to southern kitchen. ooooh, so good. it really puts the delta to shame. besides having the best macaroni and cheese i have ever tasted (and i do love my macaroni and cheese), they had the absolute most amazing black eyed peas, collard greens, and candied yams this side of the mississippi. also, the strawberry lemonade will change your life. seriously! i love (good) southern food.
last night we went out to a new place, the tempest lounge. we've been avoiding it because of the super sketchy location (hilltop). pretty nice, though, and they knew how to make a strong mudslide, so no complaints here. topped off the night with a nice chocolately scuttlebutt porter at the parkway.
while i'm ranting about culinary things, i'm excited to say that a few blocks from our house is a new coffee shop, satellite coffee, that serves exclusively stumptown coffee. swoon! a little pricey and there is almost nowhere to sit down, but i can get a mocha with stumptown coffee whenever i want!!!
which is almost never, because i am po'. seriously, i'm like on americorps wages now because my new job is on-call, so i've only been getting about 22-25 hours a week. incredibly lame, but i have been enjoying being lazy. continuing frustration with this as we continue to wait to hear about where i'm going to end up going to school. said job is pretty good, but i very much dislike being a sub and never knowing which classroom i'll be working in. a little stressful that way. also, i am disliking working with toddlers in groups of ten or more. ahhhhh! infants and preschoolers leave me less frazzled. oh well, if i can manage fourteen screaming, biting, hitting toddlers, i should be go to go working one-on-one with one when i get to be a speech language pathologist. anyway, am ready to move and be done with these unpredictable hours and classroom assignments.
my interests are also surprisingly shifting away from music. i still very much enjoy playing once in a while, but last thursday during rehearsal we were playing the most lovely piece by milhaud, and i realized that i will never be able to make the commitment to study music theory as much as i need to in order to compose the kind of music i want to. while it's true i do spend most of my time listening to popular schtuff, the only kind of music that really makes me want to sit down at the piano and compose is alice coltrane's harp playing or some exciting chords by poulenc. when will i ever have the time for that sort of writing? so, i'm leaning a bit more towards physical arts and crafty type things, which i've never had an inclination for, but i can produce at least something somewhat satisfying with little training and such. basically, then, it's either spend years studying music theory to even just begin writing the type of music i want to, or sit down and read a craft book or knitting pattern and make something kind of cool. yeah, i'll go with that. i'm also toying with the idea of taking some drawing classes or some such thing. we'll see. i need to practice more on my instruments, though, i'm frustrated that i'm not as good as i used to be, but this takes work.
also, when am i going to have time to get back into studying language again? ahhhh...i'm too lazy as of now. ok. breakfastlunch now. | | comments: Leave a comment |
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