so the irritating thing about job searching that there is no instant gratification. and it's a whole shit ton of guess work. well, applying for real jobs anyway. you call someone, drop off your resume, fill out their application online, wait and hope for an interview. get the interview. think it goes ok. think it goes awful. think it rules. and ( Read more... )

This show, 17 and counting, is about the family with 17 kids and another baby on the way.  and they are uber conservative.  oh my goodness it makes me want to vomit how they talk about purity and will and prayer and faith.  I mean, there's nothing wrong with those things. But i can't handle the uber conservativeness.  Not kissing til you're married ( Read more... )

I am uber busy right now, but also very interested in the upcoming election.   I want Obama.  I think the republicans are playing dirty and I basically scoff at everything they have to say.  I just read a post my my friend Suzi where she discusses that the McCain campaign has started borrowing key words and phrases that have been successful, like ( Read more... )

Thanksgiving break was such a nice reprive.  I really needed it.  My littler sister came to a Jimmy Eat World concert the Friday before break and then we went to the UI Northwestern football game the next day.  It was nice to be in Morton since my family was there; I haven't seen them much this semester/I haven't been home much at all.  I shopped a ( Read more... )

i haven't been on livejournal in a very long time, and i am only to procrastinate.  oh ho HO!  but i just realized that i can register for my spring classes.  i really want to take wine tasting....that would be cool.

This week I'm home in Morton working at Limestone Community High School's marching band camp.  They don't have enough funding to go away for camp so they do it at school from 8am-6:30pm.  It's about 20 minutes away on the interstate from Morton.  I'm getting $500 for the whole week, which is about how much I'd make if i busted my ass at Krannert ( Read more... )

woohoo summer ( Read more... )

ahem.  i am merely posting to brag.  i don't know any other forum in which to do so without seeming like an attention whore.  but anyway ( Read more... )

ugh.  me, car, two pillars in the krannert parking garage, guess who won.  the pillars.  there is about a foot long scratch, and it crosses the door and around the door it's totally dense about 4 inches tall.  ugh.  shit.  so, i guess that's coming out of my pocket.  anyone have any clues on how much that's going to cost me?  it's dented in in the ( Read more... )

hi, my name is katie, and i love indulging in the oscars ( Read more... )