Luke Danver asked me point-blank what I wanted to do with my Ph.D. once I earned it. I told him all about it. Open mouth, insert foot. (Or since this is a computer, perhaps I should just chunk my keyboard out the window instead.) I really shouldn't have said so much about my plans because I know how it makes Claudia feel ( Read more... )

Just when I thought I couldn't be any more confused about my relationship with James... enter Charlie Thomas. I went to a barbeque at the house that he shares with Sam this weekend. So much has changed since high school. I was still picturing everyone looking the way they did in high school, but several of my classmates were unrecognizable! ( Read more... )

Claudia and I were both online at the same time, posting on the forum back and forth while chatting on AIM. She cracked me up with her "fonetec spelling method." For years, I've tried to correct Claudia's spelling and grammar. I've pretty much given up now. It's what makes her Claudia. I don't think I should try to change that. In so many ways, in ( Read more... )

Tonight, the caf held its annual Thanksgiving buffet. They do it after Thanksgiving rather than before, and we call it Thanksgiving in December. I really had a lovely evening. For once, I remembered the Thanksgiving buffet in time to arrange for all of my friends to come to dinner with me. It was really neat to have several people I know all ( Read more... )

Yamakawa23: How was your meeting yesterday ( Read more... )

Emily, a girl who's working on the group project with me, just IMed me to say she was going to die. I asked her why, and she said it was because I was going to kill her. I immediately thought that she was going to say she couldn't meet up with us on Monday. It wasn't that, though. She was only IMing me to say that her she'd had a crazy holiday and ( Read more... )

Why are the Thanksgiving holidays over so quickly? It seems that I barely got out of the house. I had hoped to see more people. I did get to see the whole BSC twice, on Wednesday and on Friday. I was busy the whole time, of course. Thanksgiving preparations kept me busy. Then we were quick to get out the Christmas decorations and trim up the tree, ( Read more... )

Two of the people I hung out with tonight, Tish and Dave, are married and now expecting their first baby. Tish is a little over four months along, and just beginning to show a bit. They were already juniors at Stoneybrook U. back when I was the sixteen-year-old that tagged along with their group. I guess it should make sense to me that they're ( Read more... )

I'm home. The comfortable feeling of my house makes me want to curl up in my own bed and take a nap. I've got a slight headache right now so that wouldn't be such a bad idea. I think I will ( Read more... )

Roommate has a peculiar obsession with old country music, particularly that of Dolly Parton. Is singing "A Christmas To Remember." Don't know why she'd sing it at this hour. Don't know why she'd sing it at any hour ( Read more... )