For some reason, my entries keep tying into childhood songs and stories lately. Weird. Anyway, I am finally back home. My apartment building was treated for termites, and as such I've been at my mom's since Sunday evening. The mornings with my mom were of value to me, the home cooked meals were awesome, but I'm so happy to be back home...where ( Read more... )

I spent over half the day today avoiding the huge amount of school work I have to accomplish this weekend. This is so frustrating to me, and it's something I struggle with constantly. Here's how it goes: I work a full time job and have a full load of classes as well. This means that as much as I try to accomplish tasks during the week, the bulk of ( Read more... )

I'm in the process of backing up my music and documents so that I can install an additional hard drive (an internal 160GB I got from my dad a while ago). This should resolve my space issue for a little while, (apparently, I've accumulated 23GB of music over the last year or two, and that's not counting the hundreds of cd's that still haven't made ( Read more... )

SchoolSo, school has started and is in full swing. This weekend I'm tasked with completing ( Read more... )

Classes started this week, and it's going to be both the busiest and most exciting semester yet. I'm taking Managing Economic Development, Planning Law and GIS. Two of the three have really intensive projects throughout the semester and the planning law class is going to be challenging mostly because of the professor's approach to the class. I'm ( Read more... )

My friends Leslie and Logan stayed with me through the New Year, and my favorite part of New Year's Eve was taking a long walk with them as the sun went down on the last day of 2006. Although I was feeling a bit reserved and reflective, I made it out to meet up with friends for drinks and a party at a house on a lake. Although I didn't know more ( Read more... )

Perhaps it is just a side effect of the information overload and bright lights of the season, but there is definitely something distracting me from focusing on a task until completion. For instance, I attempt to separate out my paperwork and find myself going through old letters and keepsakes twenty minutes later. I intend to gather together and ( Read more... )

I’m officially “on vacation”, meaning I only work a full-time job for the next month or so. I haven’t had this amount of time off for about a year, and I plan to take full advantage of it…by doing nothing for a little while save watching old Kurosawa films and drinking beer in the middle of the afternoon ( Read more... )

My work does a food bank drive around this time every year. Trying to stay one step ahead and with my improving organizational skills working for me, I decided to do my shopping on Sunday. I knew Walmart would probably have the best selection and price for my canned good needs. However, the prospect of dealing with a super Walmart on a Sunday ( Read more... )

I wasn't very productive today, and actually spent most of the day napping and watching bad movies. My trips out of the house were restricted to an obligatory trip to the gym (I hadn't worked out since Tuesday, and was feeling guilty) and then to CVS to pick up some Airborne and Propel. I think I've just been overdoing it for the last few weeks, ( Read more... )