consider my amazement that years later, this thing is indeed still on.

I wish there were more time.

After my last final exam Friday and spending the weekend in Chicago for a friend's 40th birthday, I intended to dive hardcore into house stuff this week with the extra time I'd have not needing to be in class. This was to include serious kitchen reorg and "Tupperware Toss (tm)" as well as top-to-bottom bathroom clean, wall prime, and paint ( Read more... )

Curry pastes are the centerpieces of Thai (curry) cooking. They can be challenging to make properly and well - my last attempt at making (green) curry paste from scratch worked, sort of, except it's pretty tough getting into the consistency of a paste. Despite pounding on it with the food processor and the blender both, I just couldn't get it as ( Read more... )

After getting rid of internet at home, I've had to be creative about accessing my primary email account (POP3), especially since my boss recently removed a firewall rule that previously allowed me to check this account from work. After I started having problems getting Yahoo to work correctly with that account after I'd been using it for the last ( Read more... )

I feel like I need to change the look of my journal - haven't done anything with it whatsoever in well over a year. Still, as little as I'm posting and as little time as I have for that sort of thing, I suspect it'll be sitting like this for a while longer ( Read more... )

Life's whirlwind, but this semester is moving along quicker than I can remember any semester doing throughout my entire (second) college career. Midterms are next week already and thinking about that just makes me blink stupidly and wonder where the time went ( Read more... )

back and forth i go, bobbing up and down the waves of life, one day feeling great the next drowning in despair. sometimes i wonder if i should be on medication ( Read more... )

That's the best word to describe the phenomenon I'm experiencing now, having made the transition from relative summertime lollygagging to my schedule now. Including an hour or so break between classes, long enough to eat, I've got 12-13 hour days three or four days a week (four every other Thursday when I have to drive to Royal Oak), then a slower ( Read more... )

the worst part of being a college student in your 30's is having to live like one financially. Words really can't describe how sick I am of this frugal "I can't do a fucking thing" garbage. My only solace at this point is that these days are finite because of schooling.

*sigh*