Time for my annual post

So, it's not even a year since my last post LOL.

Almost done with school. About to start my externship at the VA Hospital in Murfreesboro, TN. Actually, I will be starting April 27. So, I have a shit ton of stuff I have to finish before then. This weekend will be almost entirely filled with working on my presentation for the Voice Center. I have been placed there this semester and I have to do a 30-minute presentation on Paradoxical Vocal Fold Motion on Tuesday.

Speaking of, I gotta get to work. No promises on when I'll blog again.

I move back to Atlanta in August. Whee!

Ahem x2

Ok, so now it's July 6 and I have been away a while. Sorry.

I was reading some other person's blog and said to myself, "Hey. I should post on my OWN blog!"

So let's see...

My reunion was finally last weekend and it was a lot of fun. The power went out in the hotel, however, and we had no a/c and no music, but we had lights, food, and a cash bar. So people stayed and we ended up not owing any money, so it worked out. There are pictures on my Picasa album.

I started a website for my class here. It's pretty cool. It's free.

I'm trying to plan a trip to Atlanta and Boston over my short break in August. Hotels in Boston are very expensive. I'm bummed.

I talked to my friend Gus today who lives in Hawaii. I want to go out there and visit him. Maybe next year...

I can't think of anything else earthshattering to say right now.

Oh, this:

This is a hilarious article on The Onion.

Ahem

I guess I haven't posted since....last November. Oops. Been a little busy.

Especially since I started playing Imperial Galaxy on Facebook. Which is TOTALLY gay considering I have played many games that were much better, but there is a social component to it and I guess that hooks me every time. And there is almost no time obligation to speak of. Comparatively.

Lots has happened. My Black Kitty had to be put to sleep last Friday morning. He got really sick really fast so there was not prolonged illness. I miss him, though. He was the last of the cats I had owned since before I moved to California. He was such a gentle cat.

Also, I failed one of my finals and ended up with a B- in the class after a long, dramatic ordeal which I don't feel like going into because I've been talking about it enough lately. So my GPA is now down to 3.70 which is pretty much shit in my program. But, I can bring it up. Not that grades really matter that much in grad school anyway.

So, I got this new browser called Flock that Mack turned me on to. I highly recommend it.

I'm throwing a shower for Kat and Mack at Ty and Andrea's house on Saturday, May 17. My mom and I are driving down to Atlanta this Friday and we'll be there until May 19. Ten whole days in Atlanta! It's going to be great. I'm so sick of Nashville right now. We're renting a condo in a highrise downtown on Peachtree right near the Apparel Mart. It's way cheaper than a hotel and we can cook food and stuff. No parking, though, so we have to park in a lot down the street. That part is gay. But it is a good deal.

Also, Lida's pregnant. Yay!

My reunion will be June 28.

I got a Trikke T78air. I learned to ride it Sunday from a guy I met on a forum for trikkes, trikketalk.com. He was very nice. It's fun but hard and a good workout. I also went to Pilates today so I'm extra tired and sore. I've gained 10 lbs and am fat so I have to do something to help myself get in shape.

K I'm tired now. I have to do head start speech screenings tomorrow morning and Wednesday morning.

Ugh

Ok, so it's been like a month since my last post. I can't believe how busy I am! It's crazy! I can't WAIT until the semester is over! I'm looking forward to next semester's classes and a new clinic placement, but it's the same amount of hours as this semester, so it will be a lot of work again.

I don't even want to talk about school really. Bleh. Ok, so I am coming home to Atlanta this Friday until Wednesday. I'm very excited. I have no business coming home because I have so much work to do for school and it has to be done early because I have to go home for Kat's wedding the weekend before the last week of classes which is the WORST possible time, but oh well. I'll just have to bust ass when I get home. There's nothing else to be done. I have to go home to see my friends. After Christmas, I'm not sure how many times I will get to come home before March so that will be a while! I might have to pop in for the weekend to get my hair done and stuff but it will be brief visits if at all.

I never get to meetings, I never get to the grocery store, I never do anything. I don't go out, I don't see movies, I don't do anything. All I do is go to school and work on homework. I'm looking forward to a new meeting that is starting up in my neighborhood pretty soon on Saturday mornings. I should be able to make that. Right now I'm not getting to any meetings. I'll hit my favorites when I go home.

K I have more I could talk about regarding the cats and stuff but I am tired. I want to go eat ice cream and go to bed.

Sorry I don't post more often. I seriously just am so busy I can't.

Sheesh

Ok. Today is Tuesday, October 16. I went to a meeting tonite, yay! First one in two weeks. That's not good. I have been having a lot of trouble figuring out how to balance my life. I have been spending a lot of time doing stupid bullshit around the house and not getting my work done. I've also been very busy during the weekdays and too tired to go to meetings at night. Then on weekends I get really lazy. It's not helping me. I am gonna be totally slammed starting next week and it's not gonna get any better before the end of the semester, only worse. And, I have to go out of town the weekend before the last week of school, which is really gonna fuck me. I need to get it together and get some discipline. I suck at that.

Anyway, I'm very excited about coming home this weekend. So far I've got it planned to drive down Friday night, check in to the Highland Inn. Then, Saturday morning my mom and I are going out to Marietta to get our hair done. I will get mine chopped off and then get my color done. Then, I'm gonna try to get back in time to get to L5P for The Seraphix, who are playing before the parade. Then, I'll do the parade. Later, I'll go to the 8pm E Atl meeting, which I am SO excited about! I do wish I could make it to the 545 on Friday but I don't even get out of class until 5pm Atlanta time so that's just not gonna work out unless I learn to teleport. So I'm really excited about getting to my home meetings! Then, I'm having lunch with my sponsor on Sunday, which I am also very excited about. I don't even know when the last time was that I saw her. It's been a while. I should call her more often. If I was someone else, I would say I'm working a shitty program lol. But I'm sober, so I guess that's the point? I dunno. I feel guilty about all the slacking I've been doing in all these different areas of my life. Maybe this is just an adjustment semester for me. I guess. I dunno. Probably I'll get into the swing of things.

So that's about it. I have two midterms Friday, then I leave. Then I have two papers/presentations due the following Friday which I have not started, and I will not have the weekend to do them. I'm pretty fucked in that regard. Dunno how I'm gonna work that out. I guess I'll just have to not sleep much or something, which I'm really bad at.

Ok, so I'm gonna go study and go to sleep. I have 8:30 am class tomorrow. Ta ta!

oops

Ok, sorry. I know. Wow long time since my last post. Get ready for stream of consciousness..

Got the kittens, they are adorable. Had em for a week. I will try to find our cameras, take pictures and then post them before they get too big. Bought a wireless router today at Costco. Will try to set that up soon, too. Going to the Titans-Falcons game tomorrow with my mom and plan to root for the Titans. This town is lame and pretty ghetto and has no good food. I went to the Vandy game last week with my friend Emily from school and it was very fun and we won big time, unlike this week against Auburn. I started another food delivery diet but this one is cheaper than the other one and they send you the food by the week. The portions are tiny and the food is great but I'm very hungry. I want to lose 10 pounds. I have still not smoked and this whole past week I didn't take my evening dose of Chantix and today I didn't take the morning dose either. Gonna see how that goes. My teacher told me the single leading cause of breast cancer is smoking while taking birth control pills. Oops. Will try to let that motivate me in my weak moments. I'm going home October 19-23 most likely. Maybe I will leave on the 22nd, I dunno yet. Depends on how much shit I have to have done for school when I get back. I'm getting my hair cut when I go home. Short. School is ok, very busy, have been learning what I can blow off and what I can't. I have started doing therapy in clinic and it's going great. Bought some toys today at Costco for clinic. Ron Paul was here in Nashville today but I couldn't go to the rally cuz I had to go to some stupid presentation on dysphagia. You don't want to know what dysphagia is. I have no life. I have purchased a Nintendo DS and have been playing Pokemon at the request of my friend Mack. I got the red one that is bundled with Brain Age 2. I need to remember to book my hotel room and hair appointments. I'm up later than normal tonite even though I got up early this morning. I think the new Law & Order SVU is kind of ghey. They are doing some really ghey "technology/computer" shit that is really unrealistic. The one I saw tonite was about the game Second Life, but in the show it was called Another Universe. It made me think of Will. Bleh. I have tickets to the Vandy/UGA game. I've gotten really used to getting up early. I don't enjoy being on the computer as much anymore but that might change once I get my wireless network up and running. I think I need a new network card though. I saw that show Chuck tonite by accident. They play good music in it but it's pretty lame. I think when the end of the semester rolls around I'm gonna be up shit creek with procrastination. Hopefully not. I can't wait until I get to go home for fall break and then Thanksgiving. Meetings here are kinda lame. I should try to go to more. I should call my sponsor. I have been taking vitamins and also Airborne. My house is still a disaster. I wonder when the scrubs I ordered are going to arrive? I found some old pictures in a box the other day...will scan them in soon and post them on people's myspace pages and freak them out. It will be very fun.

K that's it for now. Bye Bye.

I know, I know....

Sorry. It's been a while since I posted last.

I can't believe how much work grad school is. I knew it would be brutal but this is insane. There is no possible way to get all the things read and done that they are asking. The transition has been difficult. I'm sure I will be fine, though. It's just very, very, very time consuming. And, I have horrible discipline.

It hasn't helped that I've been battling migraines this past week. Hopefully when I start a new pack of pills that will go away...

I wish I could post more right now but I really need to get to work.

One thing - I have decided to cut my hair short. Probably a bob. I am tired of dealing with it and I wear it up all the time anyway. It's been a while since I had short hair. I plan to come home over fall break, so I will likely drive home on the evening of Friday, October 19 and stay until like Sunday or Monday. I have Monday and Tuesday off. Depends, of course, on how much is due when I get back. I think I have a major assignment due around then. Maybe before? I can't remember. I do know that I have an assload of things due at the end of the semester...that's for sure. I have to try to make myself get an early start on things. Which I suck at. But I have to try to do it because I have to come home for a wedding on December 8, which is the weekend before the last week of classes. Weekends are really the only time I have to do much homework. When you have to get up at 5:30 or 6:00 in the morning, and you don't get home until 6, 7, or 8:00 at night, it's hard to get things done during the week. A girl's gotta eat and sleep and chill a little bit, ya know? Not to mention, do laundry, pay bills, go to the store, etc.

THIS IS HARD!!!! Good thing I hardly have any friends LOL. Haven't been making many meetings, either, which isn't good. I plan to make one on Tuesday. My life is like the polar opposite of what it was when I lived in Atlanta. Social life is like 5%. Meetings are like 5%. School is 85%. It's weird.

Also, been smoke free still since I quit back in August. That's going well.

Ok, gotta run.