[said in whiny voice]: I wanna be in a choir. I miss singing. Waaaaahhhhhh! But I can't because my goddamn graduate school classes (which are at night) conflict with everything under the sun. So it'll have to wait until I graduate, which, admittedly, is only another year, but still! I have dreams all the time where I'm missing choir practice, or I' ( Read more... )

Yesterday I made my usual stop at the 7-11 on 19th & E to acquire a cold beverage (preferably caffeinated) for my research methods class. I entered the store while talking to Jason on my cell phone. As I opened the case to procure my Diet Dr. Pepper, a middle-aged woman dressed in blue scrubs came up next to me and peered through the open door. Her ( Read more... )

My abhorrence of group projects is validated!I've always found that being an intelligent person in a group of do-dos (most of the world) means that if you want to live up to your own standards and principles (or sometimes, if you want to get anything done at all), you end up doing all the work. If intelligent people got to work in groups of the ( Read more... )

Today I mowed a lawn for the very first time in my whole life. John did the backyard and I did the front and the little ("little") piece at the very very back. Those of you who have visited our new abode will know that the yard is friggin' huge. For those who have not had this singular experience, let me tell you: the lawn is HUGE. Also, our mower ( Read more... )

Psychosomatic Itching: Inside my new house (I'm lobbying for "the lemon") I itch. We have bugs inside (no surprise, considering how much the doors have been open lately, and more seem to fly in all the time. Perhaps it has something to do with the verdant foliage in the Falls Church area. Regardless, whatever insects have weasled their way inside ( Read more... )

I got tagged and I actually followed through! Amazing! Also, I found this meme much too long for regular human attention spans, so I deleted all the "boring" or "so obvious it hurts" answers from my post. Despite my efforts (and really, they were quite substantial), you will see that this meme is still breathtakingly long.

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Oh how I wish I were on vacation with the rest of the Yetiites/Ducklings! Away they are in the mountains, sojourning in a cabin by a river! And I am here, awaiting school and work and training in the upcoming week. Today I have frivolled away all the hours in slumber. I know my body does not require this much repose, and yet I cannot think of much ( Read more... )

I must own this.

An excerpt: She has no longer any claim to purity; her self-respect is lost; she sinks lower and lower; society shuns her, and she is to-day a brothel inmate, the toy and plaything of the libertine and drunkard....Actually it's all quite well-written, if rather deluded ( Read more... )

I got my internship for School Counseling! I will be working as an intern at Washington-Lee High School in Arlington County. It is 4.5 miles from my house, an improvement of 173.07692307692307692307692307692% in my commute. (Yes, that is the actual percentile improvement.) It is one of the best high schools in the country, with a huge counseling ( Read more... )

Last weekend to celebrate the birthday of meekohi we went to Bethany Beach, where I did NOT throw my cell phone in the washing machine! Already, an improvement on last year! There was sunning, there was funning, there was drinking, there was eating of cheesecake, there was intermittent cell phone service, despite the non-waterloggedness of my cell phone ( Read more... )