My motto song for myself and the other women who are facing the fire with me lately ( Read more... )

Ya know how there are good moods and bad moods? I wish that I could bottle this "good mood, kick ass, on top of the world" feeling that I have in my more optemistic moments, for moments like earlier in the week when the world was slowly coming to a stop and seemed destined to stop spinning... I need a method of finding this happy place when it ( Read more... )

WOW... I really dont update like I used to... so much happens and then it's like... how do i put that all in an update?!?!?... well, here is the abridged version:

It's exam week of the last semester of my first year of my MA program.  Can you believe I'm almost half done with my MA?  I can't!  It seems crazy!  I have three exams this week, as well ( Read more... )

I got called out, so I'm updating (besides, I need a break from homework ( Read more... )

119 Hours and 49 Minutes... And we depart...

WE As in, the seven "Triple F-S" ... which stands for fabulous female feminist sociologists incase you've all forgotten lol.

Headed to the BIG O (Omaha silly!)... in a seven passanger van... and then staying in two joint rooms at the Omaha HIlton Wed night through Sunday morning... It's bound to be an ( Read more... )

first my disclaimer... which is that although I am anti-war... or atleast anti-what this war was founded on "politically" and the lies Bush told this country... DESPITE THAT... I AM PRO-TROOPS... I am Pro- my brother, and pro every other soldier there and here and anywhere else. I can be pro individual but anti-hegemonic ideology... which is what ( Read more... )

I just had to update... It was a super wonderful night ( Read more... )

1 Day till i go see CATS with my mommy!  YAY!  (Rachel will be in it too... super yay!)
2 Days till the Sociology Graduate Awards Banquet (no date, but that is ok, I'm usually a grad student without a date too... as 
    in, i dont bring one to classes etc)
1 Day till Ryan (HOPEFULLY) gets to go on leave... which means...
5 days till I get to see Ryan ( Read more... )

Ok, so i might not seem bashful, infact, most people would describe me as outgoing and a fierce leader, but underneath it all, even if i USUALLY do a good job of masking it, I have a pretty nasty dose of social anxiety! Granted it usually comes out in pretty specific situations... but still ( Read more... )

I am not gonna go into any great detail here, mostly because I dont want to jinx anything that might be headed my way, but I just want to say that mom always says that things work out. And she is right, and i know that, but sometimes when things are bad, or parts of things are bad, you get down, and it's hard to remember that they will work out. ( Read more... )