grades are finally in. now that classes have started. to really get this, you have to understand that i haven't gotten an A in a class in my major since i was 18. i got A's in english classes and history and easy stuff, but i did 6 times that much work for each science and math class and got B's and a healthy crop of C's ( Read more... )

and here they are!

dear redlightpress,

thank you for the new icon. it is v. muy bien.i like the way my hair looks.

<3

pemberleya

now that hae missednew year's resolution time by nearly a week, have come up with one. my new year's resolution is to become a morning person. a real morning person. like my roommate. like, getting up at 6 and being productive morning person.

this afternoon, got dropped off on main artery in tucson with mom and brother while dad went to meeting. were iso something cool. many shopping complexes around here, or so it seems, except this afternoon we started walking and couldn't find any. lots of offices, jiffy lubes, etc. walked about three miles. found interesting middle-eastern shop with ( Read more... )

i got a b- in writing. it's the only grade i have so far. there is little academic criticism left that gets under my skin. i don't care that i got 66.5 out of 101 on my final paper and i don't care that i don't know what letter that would correlate to ( Read more... )

yesterday we went on a short hike in saguaro national park i really enjoy the sonoran desert. i don't think i would in the summer, because it would be 110 degrees and there's no shade at all and no clouds. un. re. lent. ing. oh. em. eff. gee ( Read more... )

from every window in the back of the house i can look out over the city 1,000 feet below. the house is each stucco, big and on a hillside peppered liberally with cacti of varying kinds. the city is flat, sparkly at night and i see the squares where the roads divide it. hooray for land grant states. it was 80 degrees today. sunny. bright. a few ( Read more... )

have found ride from airport on jan. 7. thank you, pippryn!!

happy christmas to all, and to all a good night!

as the talking heads kvetch about "happy holidays" taking away from the sanctity of christmas shopping at the gap, when strangers wish me a merry christmas, i wonder if they mean it, or if they're doing it in protest. which undermines the entire point of the controversy, doesn't it ( Read more... )

today i've been kind of productive. resume= good. i found lots of jobs i'm unqualified for and lots of jobs i've missed deadlines for, but that pick like 2 ppl from 500 applications, so really, i was not going to get them anyway. i shamelessly emailed my brother's friend's mom, whose cousin is reportedly a patent attorney in dc. this "networking" ( ( Read more... )