This morning I refused to wake up when Derek asked me to (he wasn't able to sleep through the night because of some new medication), and while I slept and he got up and began to get ready for the day, I had the most terrible dream I've had in a long while.  It was so bad that I awakened crying out for Derek, loud enough for him to hear me through ( Read more... )

Well folks, in the interest of saving space in my car, which by this point I am extremely worried about, I've decided to give away a bunch of shirts I've had since I was in junior high and high school, including, but not limited to, shirts from working at the Windsor Branch of the Ft. Smith Public Library, NHS Street Jam, prom, the class shirt for ( Read more... )

 Yesterday I was going to make a huge whining, bitchy post about finding a place to live in Boston because one of the three girls I hooked up with backed out at the last minute (literally just before she was supposed to submit papers and hand over a check). However, I couldn't get on livejournal at school, and, ultimately, we decided to stay with ( Read more... )

I am still trying to find an apartment.  One of my program peers took an apartment out from under me after misleading me about his intentions ( Read more... )

 Since I made the decision to go to Harvard, finding housing has been one headache after another.  It's hard enough coordinating with 4 people, but finding housing that's the right distance apart from the school, that has a certain number of bathrooms, that has large enough rooms for the prices, and then making sure people have enough money, ( Read more... )

We ate at James at the Mill (having an expensive dinner worthy of Top Chef) and Derek gave me a diamond ring.  It was a very small diamond, but a real, certified one.  He has given me a ring before (it had tanzanite) and I lost it, after which I told him to never buy me a ring again, even if we were to get married (I said I'd rather have a necklace ( Read more... )

I've been offered admission to Harvard's Teacher Education Program. Harvard is really too expensive though.  They are supposed to send out financial aid/scholarship notifications at the end of March, so I'll decide after I see that whether to seriously consider their offer.  Their program is surprisingly similar to UMichigan in terms of emphases, ( Read more... )

As of 10:20 a.m. tomorrow, I will have lived a quarter of my life (I'm expecting to live to at least 96).  ;)

I got a confirmation today that I was nominated for a University Merit Fellowship at UNC- Chapel Hill and that I won't have to confirm my acceptance (or decline) of their offer until mid-April.  I couldn't believe my eyes when I read their paperwork at first and saw that they require notification within 3 weeks of the date of the letter (which was ( Read more... )

I went home over the weekend to get my journals and came back with a box full of t-shirts and a couple purses to donate to the Salvation Army if they didn't have mouse holes eaten in them from being in my parents' shed.  Today I went through the shirts and almost got too nostalgic to give them away, even though all of them were fine.  There were 30 ( Read more... )