My Uncle Dwight died last night. He was in his late 80s. He lived through the great depression, parachuted into Germany during WWII, raised 5 kids on his own, went to UCLA in the 1940s when there were only 5 building there, got is law degree from harvard, told me great stories about most of these things (he never would say much about WWII, i never ( Read more... )

Truc and I are moving to Athens, Ohio in, oh, about a week and a half. We learned we were moving to Ohio on July 23rd. so we are in the end stages of moving 2400 miles away on a month's notice. it's exciting and scary and i'm only about half packed......  oh, and we don't officially have a lease let but whatevs. some guy's word in ohio that we can ( Read more... )

so apparently no matter how hard i try not to be - i'm must be totally stresses about my defense because the bizarre dreams have started. there were at least 4 last night but by the time i got my computer just now i could only remember two ( Read more... )

Apparently it's been quite a while since i've posted here! oops. I think it's cause i'm pretty sure all of my LJ friends are on FB too and I rarely have much to say past the sentence update on FB. So I'll try to fill in the blanks a little ( Read more... )

i got up this morning and let the dogs out and was walking back into my room when zeus ran up behind me and scratched the back of my leg. wtf. seriously. wtf. it was probably because he wants to get fed (fyi - i don't starve my cats, they get fed twice a day and zeus is huge and fat and hungry all the time). now i have a claw mark on my calf and ( Read more... )

still no committee member. profs don't return email yo. I'm literally stalking one of my old film profs. literally. hung out all day yesterday lurking in the coffee shops hoping to run into him because he has no posted office hours and didn't email me back when i emailed him last week. on my last trip to one of the coffee shops i spotted him across ( Read more... )

wow. so i just realized i haven't posted here in over a month, I think it's because the only times i think about live-journaling is when i want to bitch and moan about something and then i think, gosh all i ever do on live journal is bitch and moan. plus most of you are on facebook too and most of my bitching and moaning can be concisely containing ( Read more... )

I had a really good christmas. i went with truc to see his family for a the week before. His sister has a month-old baby. sooooooooo cute. i actually really really like hanging out with his brothers and his sister. like i think if i didn't know truc and met trang i would totally be friends with her. And we screwed with his younger brother all week ( Read more... )

i think my subconscious is trying to work something out. so far the week i've had lengthy dreams involving ( Read more... )

i'm not quite sure what possesses me to think having thanksgiving at my house is a good idea every year. it was fun. my friend saru was here all week and helped us cook everything (she also made a fabulous pumpkin pie and fudge, mmmmmm). we had nine people, 4 dogs, 2 cats. it was a bit hectic. as usual i quit caring about anything by about 4pm but ( Read more... )