just realized exactly how long it's been since i updated this thing.  guess that shows how absolutely ridiculous the last month has been.  for a quick update, ended up deciding i'm going to have to stay through may 2008 instead of graduating next may like i was going to.  there was just no way to carry an 18 credit schedule and work full time and ( Read more... )

back at JMU and the first week of classes are finished.  should be a good semester class wise, though i still haven't gone to two of them due to swim team conflicts.  however, will definitely be a very hectic semester, at least until high school swim season is over and very likely even after.  decided to add a senior honors project to my workload, ( Read more... )

the end of my break is coming too soon. i'll be back in harrisonburg and back to work on monday. but, christmas was great. it was good to see dirk again, even though he wasn't here long enough if you ask me. i got my passport for christmas :-D and pots and pans for my apartment and a new pea coat. so, it was good. now, i'm mainly hanging ( Read more... )

well, my tonsils have now gone bye-bye. i had the surgery thursday morning and it went pretty well. eveidentally they looked like they had been chronically infected for quite a while, so hopefully all by gland/lymph node/sore throat/ear problems will disappear now. at this point, i'm just ready to be able to eat real food again, instead of ( Read more... )

haven't updated in a while, because the last few weeks have been REALLY hectic.  week after thanksgiving i had two research papers due, and i managed to finish them both and even be pretty satisfied with both of them.  went to boston this past weekend for a swim meet.  it was definitely an interesting weekend.  in about 2 1/2 days i drove over 24 ( Read more... )

i'm back in harrisonburg.  thanksgiving break went okay, worked most of it at the store.  now i have 2 and a half weeks of basically hell so i can finish out the semester before getting my tonsils out on december 15 ( Read more... )

today def turned out better than i originally thought it might.  ended up accidentally hitting the off button on my alarm clock instead of my snooze button, so almost didn't get up for my 9 o'clock class this morning, and i had a test in it.  thankfully, the high school yearbook called to schedule the swim team's picture, so they woke me up at 8:30 ( Read more... )

well, today was the first day of swim practice for harrisonburg high school and therefore my first day coaching high school practice.  it went really well so i'm exctied for the year :-D  didn't have quite as many swimmers as we had hoped, but the football team made playoffs so some will come once those finish up.  i'm excited about this - it'll be ( Read more... )

registered for classes today.  turned out better than i thought it might.  granted, i was at the beginning of registration, so none of my classes were closed, but it was still interesting.  poli sci doesn't offer many classes in the spring, english hasn't offered many classes for a while now, and sociology offered all their classes at the same time ( Read more... )

had a great weekend.  finished up exams thursday night and then ordered pizza with the apartment mates and went to the mall to go ring shopping for the fun of it.  then headed home friday morning.  friday night, went over to kay's and the whole crew plus a few people made stone soup.  it's from the story of the guy who comes into some town and ( Read more... )