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Friday, May 28, 2004 - 2:23 AM

I freaking HATE the Bonfire and all the jerks that are suing the University and former students who were building the Bonfire with the now deceased. I'm so not going to work tomorrow. Must find sleep...

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Monday, May 24, 2004 - 4:07 PM

Oh dear God I'm so sore. I had no idea how out of shape I've become until I planted flowers and dug up weeds (lotsa weeds) for a couple of hours on Sunday morning. I'm having all sorts of fun problems walking today, especially after I sit for long periods of time. That does it. My fat ass is getting out on a bike or walking the dogs or freaking something. I can't bear the fact that I used to have no problem running and smacking people around for 80 minutes once a week and I now can't stand a couple of hours of yard work.

Other than that, this weekend was a lot of fun. I saw so many people that I've lost contact with. I spent the night at the Stampes' on Friday night, and we hung out with Allison and Rachel. I haven't seen either of them since Jarrett's birthday party almost a year ago. It was really good seeing the two of them, and discovering that they don't live so far away from me! We've promised to hang out a lot more, and we promised to still stick together after the Stampes move. That felt really good, because I've had fears of being lonely after they leave. Saturday morning was Taxter's wedding. Taxter is a sorority sister of mine that I lost contact with once she started teaching elementary school in Plano. She just got bogged down with everything, and then she was taking graduate classes in the summer, so I don't think she saw many people that didn't live too close to her. Not only did I see her, but I reunited with a few sorority sisters I had lost touch with since I started grad school. One moved just down the street from my parents! I really wanted to hang out with them that night, but Shawn had drill this past weekend, so I went back to Denton to take care of the animals.

Sunday (after the yard work) I met up with Christi for lunch. I hadn't seen or talked to her in a few weeks, so that was nice to catch up. (Btw, happy birthday, Christi!) Afterwards I picked up some anime at Sheri's and I caught up with her and Luc. They're trying to move into an apartment, so they've been very incognito since Luc moved here. They won't be going to a-kon now, which disappoints me, but she's given me an impossible mission, which I have decided to accept. It will make the dealer room browsing very interesting. I wonder how many people I can piss off at once. That may be a more fun mission. I think my main mission is to tally how many cosplaying freaks think Lee is a god. He seems to have that influence around the uber-geeks.

So the moral of this weekend is that I've become really, really bad about keeping in touch with people, which sucks because I thought I was good at it. I think it will be far easier when we move to Garland, because then I'll be closer to a lot more friends. Then it won't cost me half a tank to drive to Dallas or Plano and back.

A side note...for all those looking for the Second Annual Talking Shit Party, don't expect it in 2004. With our house on the market, building a house, and friends moving away, I don't think it's going to happen.

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Thursday, May 20, 2004 - 12:10 PM

I've specifically avoided a certain topic in this weblog, and that's because talking about it makes me feel like a complete loser or a complete idiot. Sometimes both. It's becoming more and more apparent to me that I'm not going to go to law school in Texas (and no, I didn't get rejected everywhere, geez) so I've been asking myself and God what I'm supposed to do with my life, because I have no idea. I know I don't want to be a legal assistant forever, so what else is there for me? The whole thing has made me very depressed, and it doesn't help that I'm hitting my late twenties on my next birthday. I always thought that I should have my career figured out by thirty. Husband, family, that was never on any agenda, but a career was and still is.

Thank God I have a friend in a similar situation. Jen sent me an article on burn-out in the work place, and I took a career evaluation type test thingy. (Thanks Jen, you're the best!) Basically, it said I need clear goals, structure, organization, a job with reasoning and logic, a job that will help people in the end, and something with math. I also need a creative outlet. I would not be a good entertainer (well, DUH!), artist, or do well in a job requiring manual labor or physical tasks. I'm also too analytical for anything in the world of music, literature, or philosophy. That last part cracked me up, considering my college major. The something with math part also amused me. I can't get my top ten jobs without paying $30, so I think I'll leave that part up to my imagination. It did suggest that I look into helping families learn how to budget, but I don't think I could do that without smacking people and yelling "STOP SPENDING SO MUCH FREAKING MONEY!" The other jobs listed in my top 11-20 jobs were mostly behind the scenes jobs, like editing, translating (hey, I have thought of that), construction supervision (interesting), and contracts. So yeah, none of this really helped, except emphasize that I'm in the wrong career field now, and I pretty much wasted five minutes of your time. That part felt kind of good.

So, I'm still going to apply for law schools in Baltimore, DC, and Boston. We aren't moving there in the next few months like I had wanted because someone wants to have a definite plan or something. No spontaneity whatsoever. I guess being accepted to a school there or getting a job there will be a plan. But we're still going to go visit Boston this summer, and I'm very very excited about that. If I hadn't already bought my plane tickets from DFW to Minnesota this summer, I would contemplate not coming back from Boston at all.

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Tuesday, May 18, 2004 - 2:38 PM

Nooooooooooooo! My radio station died overnight! Now where am I going to listen to Metallica??? I'm already not liking being stuck to listening to whiny punk music in my office all day. Sigh. This happened to me in Houston too, and I don't understand why we can't have a hard rock station. I've heard rumors that it's because of the FCC, but I have a hard time believing that the FCC would shut down a whole station. A show on a station, sure, but not the whole station. I guess that the ratings just aren't that great for a hard rock station to survive, which is a shame. Sob.

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Sunday, May 16, 2004 - 6:53 PM

Well, that's three hours of my life I'm never going to get back. I went and saw the movie Troy this afternoon. I know that Hollywood always severely alters things for entertainment, I kept telling myself that throughout the HUGE inaccuracies. I forgave a few things. But the last fifteen minutes or so made me want to walk out. I can't look past Achilles being a romantic hero. I can't look past Paris escaping Troy with Helen. I can look past all the inaccuracies of the Lord of the Rings movies, but this was horrible. It didn't even make the movie better or more entertaining. Shawn was bored throughout the whole movie. I'd rather watch the Matrix than that thing again. Pure crap. Did I mention I didn't like it?

But this weekend has been completely unexpected every minute of the way. I found out Friday that two of my best friends from college are packing up and moving to Seattle in two months. At first, I was really heart broken about it. First Jen moves to Minnesota, and now this. But by the next day, I was really, really excited for them...and really jealous. I would love to be able to pack up and move somewhere out of state. I mentioned this to Shawn, and he asked me where I would want to go. I was like, "HELLO! Have you forgotten that I wanted to move to Boston five years ago???" I still want to move to Boston. Either there or DC. He then shocked me by saying that he could get a job with the Pentagon or transfer to the Massachusetts national guard. We're trying to sell the house right now, it doesn' look like I'm going to law school in Texas so why not? So yesterday I asked for applications from schools in Boston, Virginia, Maryland, and DC. We're going to plan a week to tour the area for housing, jobs, and school. We're young, we don't have any children, we're already trying to sell the house, I don't have any school commitments here so why not?? I know that this may fall apart, but I am so excited about the idea of it. I keep thinking that this may be what God has planned for me by not going to law school in Texas. Maybe I didn't go to Boston five years ago because it wasn't time yet for me to go there. If it doesn't work out, then it just isn't meant to be, but if I get the chance, we're gone.

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Friday, May 14, 2004 - 3:03 PM

Drooooooooooooooooool...I seriously have Zelda fever. Good thing I have until 2005 to wait...I need to actually finish a game or two.

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Saturday, May 01, 2004 - 2:46 PM

New cels (lots new cels) and a new quote. No real post today. Had a really, really, really, really bad week and I'm going to go crawl on the couch and wallow.

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