This weekend I graduate, or at least I'll be finished with classes. I have all but finished graduate school. One more test, one more paper, then I'm done. And to cap it all off I just got on the pathway to my dream job ( Read more... )

So most of you know that I tend to gravitate towards esoteric hobbies. Chainmail, roleplaying, foam fighting, SCA ect. Well I've been bit by the bug of a new/old hobby, that being contact juggling. I haven't touched my juggling spheres in over a year, but this week I've been practicing pretty every spare moment and its a lot of fun. But I'm in ( Read more... )

Well, I've survived my first day back, in theory my last first day of school ever (but somehow I'm not sure thats true). The classes I'm taking this term promise to be challenging, at least in the amount of work I'm being required to do, but they are a step down as far as the level of argument and reasoning I'm going to be doing. Though at this ( Read more... )

Ok, so its the last week of class. Just finished with one 12 page paper, here is what I have left ( Read more... )

Critical and Rhetorical Research Methods, with Kate Tuesday evenings ( Read more... )

I rarely post personal stuff here, not so much that I don't think people will care, but more that I'm a pretty private person and just don't feel like sharing. This is something of an exception to that ( Read more... )

So back at Knox I was surrounded by very intelligent people. Better grades, better debaters, faster on their mental feet, just made me feel really kinda dumb by comparison. I barely made it out of undergrad, ok a 2.8 GPA might be comfortable for some but its pretty low by other standards. Now I'm back in school, this time for graduate work. ( Read more... )

Well I'm a student again. Survived my first day of classes and working on my second. For those I've been out of touch with, I am now a graduate student of the Communications program here at UNI. If all works out well I'll be done here in about two years with a masters degree in communication focusing on Mediation and conflict resolution ( Read more... )

So I've gotten the impetus to head up to Chicago this weekend. Its a three day weekend and I feel a need to get out of Iowa for a bit. The issue, I need crash space. I'm probably going to be getting up there lateish on Thursday evening. Then really its just hanging around as long as there is stuff to do and people to do it with. So anyone able ( Read more... )

Well I can tell this whole going back to school thing is starting to sink in. My subconcious has started to grapple with it by giving me nightmares about it. The first one I had last night didn't really have any images that I can remember, just a sense of vage unease followed by enough of a sense of panic, I think over something like finding ( Read more... )