two of my very dear friends lost their home to a house fire recently, as well as all of their belongings and, worst of all, their dog and kitten. i can't even imagine how difficult things must be right now, but i am so, so thankful that the two of them are okay. it seems so unfair sometimes, the way that horrible things happen to the nicest of people. i can't even begin to understand it...

i'm still in limbo about what the fall is going to bring...it turns out that two of my letters of recommendation never got submitted to the grad school, so they haven't even processed my application yet. nice. i sent out a few politely pushy emails, so hopefully, that will get the ball rolling. and in any event, i'll be on campus this thursday to meet with morty.

what else...? hopefully i'll be going to see abbie play in her old people band on wednesday evening (i've got a mental picture of a bunch of geriatrics, including a little old man with great big ears playing the tuba, and wee little abbie smack dab in the middle), and other than that, the week ahead of me is relatively uneventful. unless i'm forgetting about something, which is entirely possible...

goodnight, you moonlight ladies...

went to see james taylor with lisa the other night...what a great concert! between him and seeing pearl jam twice this year, i am being super-concert spoiled.
it's been a nice week so far. went tubing down the farmington river with erika and danielle on sunday, then the three of us, mike, and rich bbq'd at my parent's house...tuesday after mike's bowling we went and saw todd's band play at an open mike night at mario's cafe in derby (they were very good!), and mike and i spent yesterday at the beach. i now have a lovely perma-bikini baked onto my skin. very amusing. anyway, i've got to go get ready for my yoga/pilates class, but i figured i ought to update since i've been so bad about it lately. maybe next week i'll even update my other page (hah. maybe). enjoy the weekend, all! :)

i am such a slacker lately. i haven't posted anything here in weeks, and my homepage hasn't been updated since the end of may. i don't even have a really good excuse...just doing other things. anyway, as far as what's new and honestly, rather sucky:

*i finished calculus. unfortunately, i did not pass calculus, so despite the fact that i already participated in the spring graduation ceremony, i will be going back to school in the fall to take calculus yet again. on a somewhate brighter note, this may mean that i will also be able to take the dendrology class that i never got a chance to take. but i'm really having a hard time seeing a bright side to the fact that after 10 semesters and the completion of 2 bachelor's degrees worth of requirements, i failed my very. last. required. class.

*as of yesterday morning, oscar has shuffled off this mortal coil. for those of you who do not know, oscar was the eastern painted turtle who i had gotten as an itty bitty hatchling a little over three years ago (he was exactly the size of a quarter, i swear to god!). he had been having some eating issues, not really wanting to eat anything that i offered him, but he seemed to have resolved them and had been eating like a champ for the last 2 weeks. saturday night, he was alive and puttering around in his aquarium. sunday morning, he was not. i don't know what happened. :( very very sad.

these very cute switch plates are from metro retro. they've got tons more, and although i have not yet ordered any, i am coveting them as we speak...

i've had my lovely, beautiful, fantastic jeep for just shy of a month, and i already have a headlight out. wha?? i don't even do that much driving at night. i mean, even if i drove around all night long every night theat i've had the car, you'd think that i *still* wouldn't have a head light out. so bah. i don't know what's up with that. but i'll probably be fixing that today, as well as studying for my calculus final (it's almost over! it's almost over!). wish me luck...

dirrrrty bunnies



these are actual fabrics that you can buy at nestmagazine.com. i don't know why you would want to, since they cost $87.00 per yard, but just think of the possibilities as far as conversation pieces are concerned...living room curtains, a bed spread (well, i suppose that might be appropriate), a lovely blouse. "why that's a lovely fornicating bunny blouse you have there!" "why thank you! i made it myself!" it's almost worth the obscene cost. almost.

i am trying to lose weight. nothing drastic, just a few pounds...but still. it makes it awfully hard when companies are making yummy ice cream goodness like new york strawberry cheesecake. and it helps even less that said ice cream is currently sitting in my freezer, calling my name. it's taunting me. it *wants* me to have a big butt.

all is well here. i know i've been a major slacker in the updating department, but i'm going to blame it on calculus for now. i've only got 6 more classes left (hooray!!), and i can't wait. work has been good lately, but tough, since one of the doctors left and several people got laid off. i'm thinking about taking the tech test and becoming certified if i don't get in to grad school for the fall...we shall see. i any event, i have to go study for the calc exam i have on thursday. i hope everyone's enjoying the lovely day that CT is having...

cats that hate you.

my personal favorite: "Anubis hates you because he is a god, and you are not. He is displeased with the mere mortals that surround him, he will shit on their beds."

or perhaps it's this:"As I sit here, imprisoned by my monkey-faced turd of a human, I silently relish the thought of every night, I creep up, sit on his face, and fart ever so smugly into his gaping mouth."

my jeep is the most beeyooteeful vehicle in the world. except for the big blob of bird poo on the hood. stupid bird. garrr...

i'm getting my jeep tomorrow! i'm getting my jeep tomorrow! they agreed to accept half of the original agreed downpayment, and didn't stiff us on the deposit. hooray!

okay, off to do more calculus homework before i have to go to work :P

very strange...i made a pile of changes to my template, and although the template code shows up as edited, none of the changes are appearing on the page. in other words, this page is currently creating itself off of coding that no longer exists. sometimes blogger is infuriating. gah. i fully expect there to be more issues in the days ahead, since they are currently in the process of moving all of their blogs over to the new editing format. which is cool and all, but still...its a little sad when you know the system is going to bomb out on you before anything really even happens.

monetary stress of the week: my jeep has been delivered to the dealer, which is all well and good except for the fact that we told them 4 weeks ago that we wouldn't have the money for the down payment until june 12th. we were told "oh, that's fine, it takes 6 to 8 weeks for the car to be manufactured and shipped anyway." well, it didn't take 6 to 8 weeks, it took four. and now they're saying that we only have 5 days after being notified of delivery to pick up the car, or we forfeit our $500 deposit (note: june 12th is more than 5 days away). so...not really sure what's going on at the moment. send me happy thoughts.

nice thing of the week: even though i didn't have time today to get a temporary parking permit for my parents' car (which i drove to school today) and there was already a parking cop sitting in the lot when i parked the car, i somehow managed to *not* get a parking ticket. hallelujah.

please excuse any technical difficulites...i am mid-revamp.

long time, no post, i know. to catch up: last saturday was graduation. two days later, i started my calculus class (even though i participated in the ceremony, i'm not *technically* done until i finish calc). calc meets MTWTh 9-11 am for six weeks. that makes one wek down, and only 5 more to go (oh, you bet i'm counting). i had my first exam this morning, and i think i did pretty well.

**I GOT A C IN PHYSICS**

that deserved its own line, i think. this is the first time i have ever been positively thrilled with a C. i was really, really frightened that i might not pass that class.

and in household news: last friday, mike and i noticed that our cabinets were falling off the wall in the kitchen. i guess that's what happens when they aren't screwed into studs. sheesh. so anyway, when i got back from calc class monday morning, they had come , emptied the wrong cabinet and taken it off the wall. no note, no phone message, just dishes and glasses all over the counter and a missing cabinet. mind you, the set that was visibly loosened from the wall was still intact. then today (thursday), two of the building employees show up with my cabinets to reattach them. where did they take them for four days? i don't know. what did they do with them? i don't know. they weren't broken. so anyway, they're downstairs now re-attaching that set of cabinets to the wall, and they said that today, they're going to take the set that's falling off the wall and come back tomorrow to reattach it. i don't understand why they keep taking the cabinets (which are not broken, merely badly attached to the wall), but whatever. as long as they stay on the wall this time, i really don't care. now, i must go make sure that none of the cats are getting underfoot in the kitchen...they're nosey little buggers...

happy dance! happy dance! i am *done* with school work for this semester!! i had planned on spending the next two days finishing my GPS project, but i showed my prof what i had so far today, and he said that it was good, and anything else that needed to be done we could discuss when i meet with him on wednesday to turn the project in. so I AM DONE! now, if only i could shake this nasty cold i've had for the past week...it seems to have graduated to a full-blown sinus infection. gah. at least i finished my project today, so now i'll have time tomorrow to go the the walk-in and score some antibiotics. i don't want to be a big ol' snot head for graduation :P

oh, and check this out. especially the IM "screen shots." very amusing.

***PHYSICS IS OVER***

thank the lord.

i am officially *ahem* a Team Leader.

i went into work today to find a little pin with the words "Team Leader", as well as a $25 gift certificate to the Willimantic Pub and Brewery in my mailbox. apparently, at monday's staff meeting (i wasn't there b/c i had a class) i was chosen as the evening technician team leader for the month based on how hard i've been working lately, most specifically this past saturday, which was busy as all heck. so that was pretty neat :)

other than that, worked on my GPS project today, and now i'm going to go study for my physics final. what fun. i have that exam saturday afternoon, then lab animal on sunday morning. my GPS project is due wednesday, i take me GRE's on thursday, i graduate on saturday, and i start my calculus class on monday. busy week, eh?

i got a 70 on my physics exam!!!!! do you know what this means, people? it means that i passed! i passed a physics exam! whoo hoo!!

oh dear... the things some people will do just to get a trophy.

*evil, evil grin*



muahahahahaha! my cats are in sooooo much trouble >:D

!!!!!!!!!!

today makes two whole years that mike and i have been together. since we both have to work tonight, we decided to celebrate yesterday. so...mike got home around 5:00 last night and presented me with a card that he had made that included a set of directions to an unknown destination. the next page of the card: a bunch of pearl jam stickers (stickers! whee!), and...tickets to the pearl jam concert at the pepsi center in albany, which was at 7:30 last night!! talk about keeping a secret until the last minute! we got there in time to catch the opening act, too, which was sparta. i cannot even tell you how amazing the concert was...it was incredible. i can't wait to see them again in july...the show had so much energy, they played a fantastic set....!!!!! yay! i have the best boyfriend ever :D

also neat: this was the same show that my friends chris and jody had tickets to, and i'd been pestering them all week, telling them they had to tell me all about the concert and what songs they played, etc...and we actually ended up running into them outside after the concert. we didn't get home until nearly 2 am, but i managed to make it to my 8 am physics class only 5 minutes late, and i'm on my second wind now...we'll see how the rest of the day goes.

i just thought that you might all like to prepare yourself for the important upcoming holiday this friday. i expect all of you to be in full compliance. no excuses now, you hear? really, it's your civic duty.