I'm finally back in Austin after a terrific winter break. Rick and I went on a 15-day road trip up to Montana, where I experienced the coldest weather of my life (-20 degrees F, or -28 for you Celcius people). Brrrr! More details will have to wait till later since I am really sleepy and have to get up early for class tomorrow, but here's the gist ( Read more... )

My car is back safe and sound! To celebrate, Matt and I went out to dinner and then went to the mall to find a gift for one of his friends, which was lots of fun. I'm a happy girl now. :)

Well, the car has been towed off to the garage, and I'm still waiting to hear an estimate of how long the repairs will take and how much they're gonna set me back. At least I don't have to worry about the car getting broken into/hauled away anymore-- I was really nervous about it sitting in that parking lot for 2 days. Austin is just crawling with ( Read more... )

Poll A nosy hygiene quiz

Since ladyvox and kaar requested to know what I had written about in my Evil Dutch Paper, I'll sort of summarize it here. I was just going to make it into a reply to one of their comments, but it got too long, hehe. ;-)

( Feel free to disagree, as I'm still thinking about this... )

Oh, and I am definitely moving out of the US and staying away. Now that they've "got Saddam", our monkey of a president is sure to get his sorry ass reelected. If I have to put up with 4 more years of that moron in office, my blood pressure will go through the roof. Though unfortunately there are very few places on Earth I can go without seeing his ( Read more... )

Ok, so I just found out that my car died about a block or two away from the repair place. I really, really hope I don't have to pay obscene amounts of money to get the hunk o' junk towed when I can practically see the shop from there. Do towing places charge by the mile or is it flat rate? Oh well, nothing I can do today, anyway-- it's Sunday, and ( Read more... )

Day from hell. Working retail sucks during x-mas season. Car died at 12:30pm on way home from work, is currently sitting in parking lot off 290. Walked to IHOP, called Matt, and am finally home 2 hours later. No idea how to get car home/to repair shop tomorrow. Fuck.

Oh well. Time for bed.

Ok, now that I am not frantically rushing to finish papers and projects for school, I can update a bit. :) I finally completed the Paper That Wouldn't Die for my Dutch class yesterday, about 10 minutes before I had to leave for work. I never knew it could take so long to write 6 damn pages! I was originally going to write on the subject of Dutch ( Read more... )

Finished the damn Dutch paper at last. Hooray! Now it's off to work...