What could have been a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day turned out to be pretty fantastic after all ( Read more... )

ummm, let's see ... i don't really update this much anymore. life is pretty much routine and i'd rather save everyone the repetitive posts, i suppose ( Read more... )

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i just don't have much time lately. work has been pretty busy. we are in the middle of a massive transition to a vendor/change in our processes and software/etc. last week was a big step in that, and it led to lots of delays and general headaches. and after sitting at a computer all day, i don't really want to sit in front of one at home to update ( Read more... )

dude, the daily show is taping at OSU all week in a lead up to the elections. how did i not know about this until yesterday? it would have been so much fun to go to a taping. unfortunately, they had 7000 ticket requests for 1000 seats total, and 70% of those we required to go to OSU students. another reason to hate ohio state.

I was exhausted last night and fell asleep on the couch when the Bears were still losing 20-3. And then I woke up grumpy this morning because I didn't get enough sleep and it took me 45 min to make the 20 min drive to work since no one can drive in the rain here. But man, did I cheer up with I went to espn.com to see that my bears came back!! yeah ( Read more... )

Ryan and I took a mini-vacation this weekend (had Friday and Monday off) and went camping in the Monongahela National Forest in West Virginia. The drive down was gorgeous, as it was the peak week for the leaves down there and it is hilly and mountainous, which meant fun driving for Ryan ( Read more... )

i finally got to have a full weekend of football, football, football. we had an all day "indoor tailgate" party at our place saturday. i spent a good six hours making a giant batch of chili and various other tailgate type snacks (pasta salad, guacamole, cheddar ale dip, caramel apple dip, pumpkin muffins, and more) and ryan bought several cases of ( Read more... )

well, i took the gre this weekend. i didn't do quite as well as i'd hoped, but still better than my cutoff of what i said i'd need to get below to bother taking it again. and the writing part, which i was worried about knowing enough about the topics, went really well. so that's that. now on to finishing the rest of my app ( Read more... )

i feel as though i have been ridiculously busy lately, especially at work, which explains the lack of posting. usually by the time i get home i am ready to pass out from all the allergy and sinus meds i am STILL taking because my body HATES the atmosphere in ohio apparently ( Read more... )