i am making hanukkah candles for mike's mom as her hanukkah gift tonight. hopefully i won't goof them up; i have to make 44 of them. i have to go out today and get a hanukkah gift for mike, as well. (i'm not saying what, on the off chance that he happens to look at this before he gets his present). the stores will be horrible today, but...oh well. c'est la vie.

well...i suppose i ought to go get dressed so i can get my shopping in before work.

...i hate the mall...

SNOW! i love almost nothing like i love the first snow of the year. especially when it dumps a fluffy, cheerful, just-wet-enough-to-pelt-a-snowball-at-mike-this-morning (who? me? never) 8 inches on me. wheee!

as a side note...and the logical benefit of this would be what? remember, i said *logical*.

sheesh. the world frightens me. BUT: i made *beeyootiful* mini quishes today. absolutely lovely. i also made artichoke heart and spinach dip, and kielbasa chunks wrapped in croissant dough. i'm going to be the Appetizer Goddess tomorrow (i'm also bringing brie and crusty bread, and the requisite tortillas and salsa).

i also was extremely productive in the christmas-present making department (oh, wouldn't you all like to know...well, too bad. buahahahahahah!). and i made myself some beeswax peppermint lip balm.

how hard is it to screen baggage? ummm...pretty darn hard, actually. go see how *you* do.

:D

my modeling project has been driving me crazy. insane. up the friggin' wall. i'm trying to build a mathematical model and flow diagram of the phosphorus concentration over time of a pond subjected to runoff from a series of out-of-date septic systems.

anywhoo...my professor just checked out my model and graphs, and gave me a high five! i have reasonable numbers as results!

**i am a happy camper**

ack! all of a sudden, there's only about a week and a half left of classes! where did this semester go? i have so much work to do, and a pitifully small amount of time in which to do it...on a better note, that means christmas is getting closer and closer. in fact...christmas is exactly ONE MONTH away! yee-haw! patagonia's getting closer, too, which means i need to get my arse in gear and get my vaccinations and what-not. i'm so excited about going, but i'm going to miss mike so much... : /

at any rate... happy thanksgiving everybody :)

so why is it that when i'm x-raying animals at work, i am required to wear:

a) a badge that registers the amount of radiation that i'm exposed to over the course of a month
b) a lead smock (that covers said badge)
c) a lead neck cuff to protect my thyroid gland, and
d) lead gloves

but...there is nothing covering my face and head. ??? god forbid any of that radiation hit my pinky finger...but my brain? eh, apparently that's ok. eyes? hell, you've got two, right?

i got the warmest, cutest winter hat today. my ears are absolutely in love with it. i also got lots of stuff to make christmas goodies with (i love christmas. i love it so, so much). whee!

and, on a slightly more productive note, i found lots of sources for my paper on the effects of polychlorinated biphenyls (pcb's) on breast cancer.

this is very, very bizarre...

things i love:
~that chester, upon returning home from the hospital, became The World's Sweetest and Most Loveable Cat
~that i went to the casino last night with one quarter (yes, only one...i'm stingy) and came home with 50 quarters (i'm an easy to please gambler w/ a very short attention span...i may never win a thousand dollars, but i'll never lose a thousand, either).

things i don't love:
~that i feel like absolute crap today and didn't get to go to the museum of natural history b/c of it
~that i am completely unmotivated to do schoolwork
~that every time i do laundry, it seems like i immediately have to do laundry again

chester comes home today! hooray. i miss his little furry kitten body all scrunched up under my chin while i sleep.

today is also the day that Harry Potter comes out in theaters, so if you see lisa, tell her not to wet her pants :) i hope i can stay awake through the movie tonight...we're not going until 10:30 pm. and i've been so tired lately...

why i hate david letterman:
1) having that many commercials in the span of an hour is OBSCENE.
2) he's just annoying.
3) he sticks his musical guests on at the way end of the show and doesn't even talk to them. (maybe all late night talk shows are like this, but i don't watch them all that often). at any rate, i love that pearl jam was on last night, and will be on again tonight, but he could at least *talk* to them.


off to class....

humph. i just went to pearljamnetwork.com, and it's been shut down. as of today. what a bummer...

new pearl jam info link: the sky i scrape

everyone who has not yet bought the new pearl jam album needs go out and do that asap. yay pearl jam! this album rocks.

today is The Day for poor little chester...he's being neutered and declawed (ouch!). i had almost changed my mind about doing it, but then i came home the other day and was greeted to cat blood smeared all over the wall. not even half as pleasant as it sounds. so, say goodbye to your cute little tootsies (well, a third of them at least...). i'm working tonight, so i'll probably be there before he even wakes up from anethesia...but i'm still worried about him. i'm such a mush sometimes.

Riot Act comes out tomorrow!!!

...have i mentioned how much i love pearl jam? i am beyond excited about this. almost as excited as lisa is that Harry Potter comes out on friday :)

morty got our tickets for patagonia yesterday. i'm so excited...

*finally* managed to finish registering for next semster's classes today...i'm taking:

* GIS
* Natural Resouces Seminar
* Animal Science Seminar
* Physics 121Q (ick...)
* Lab Animal Science (i get to spay and neuter rats!)
* Soil & Water Management and Engineering

that's 16 credits and *four* lab classes. yikes. that might change, but we'll see.

adios :)

been a while...

mike and i ventured out to the krispy kreme in newington yesterday. holy mass consumption of donuts, batman. there was a 40 minute wait that actually started outside the building, not to mention a traffic cop whose sole purpose it was to direct traffic in the parking lot. it was insane. but very, very tasty, i must say.

went running today for the first time in waaaay too long. i walked a lot :) (hey, that's still exercise!).

i've been playing with the layout of this for a few weeks. it's a lot easier to update than my general website, so i think i'm going to go ahead and make this sort of an adendum to the main site. for daily stuff. pictures, links, etc etc won't be here, just mindless chatter :)