( Wherein I hit my wall, crash and burn on the other side )

I am moving, again. For the summer, I'll be living in Sunnyvale while I do my internship in Santa Clara. This is a good thing; 130 mile roundtrips daily from Antioch along the 680 corridor just were not going to go well. But this means I am moving next weekend, the weekend before finals. Then I do it all again in August as I look for a place close ( Read more... )

When I tell you I love you, I am moved by something to try to share how I feel, to open up my end of our connection to you. I don't use the words like punctuation or as a prompt for reciprocation. I try to remain clear and not merely reciprocate on reflex myself.

If I tell you I love you, I mean it, and you deserve it.

GE washer & dryer, need minor repairs. Free! Dryer needs a power cord. Washer fills but does not agitate. Both should be easy fixes. They were given to me but I don't have anywhere to put them. Would make a great dying set! Please contact me to make arrangements for pickup in Hayward. If I don't get any responses by Monday, they'll get listed on

If so, I could really use your expertise and help. I'm applying like mad for scholarships. There just aren't that many that I qualify for. Lots of scholarships for women and non-traditional students (read: old), but most have funky rider requirements involving a specific activity or region of the country, yada yada. I found one I qualify for ( Read more... )

( It's officially official )

*taps the mic* Is this thing on? *cough* I'd like to make an extremely important, to me, announcement.

I got into UC Berkeley! I'm going to grad school!

I'd like to formally and publicly thank Troy McKee for all his support and belief in me. This would not have happened without his insistence that I could and would succeed.

That's it.

One of the psychology professors, Dr. Cerutti, collapsed on campus and died Monday ( Read more... )

I am not sure I am going to survive waiting til mid-March to find out if I've been accepted to UCB.

Several people have been musing on their LJ blogs about the merits of culling their friends lists down to those who actually post regularly themselves. I understand their reasons, but want to protest that I am special and should get an exemption. Cheeky? Uh huh.

Actually, I've effectively asked for an exemption from my entire social life while I am ( Read more... )