bassoon_chica's JournalSunday, November 22, 200911:23PM - AMAsI just thought I'd get on here to express my great displeasure that Taylor Swift won the freaking Artist of the Year award at the AMAs. I would have rather seen a posthumous award go to Michael Jackson (and I think posthumous awards are awkward and overrated as all get out, especially with what's-his-name Jackson accepting the award) over Taylor Swift. She's cute and perky and perfect and all, and that's exactly why it pissed me off to see her win. Her reaction was about as 'oh, golly gee, look at that, wouldya?' and unsurprised as I've ever seen. Her acceptance/thank you speech? Why don't you just read the ingredient list off a box of Cheerios. Seriously. Monday, October 19, 20098:04PMI ran my first half marathon on Sunday. I am still sore today. I look forward to repeating this entire (training, racing, pain) experience in early May :-) Friday, September 25, 20098:09PMToday my car celebrated 60,000 miles, ~5,000 of those with me. I've had the car since the beginning of May....oh my. Sunday, September 6, 20092:57PM - The catsup's out of the bag....This morning, I decided to get my grocery shopping out of the way early, so I to the store after church. I wanted to get out the door for my run before the day started to get too warm and sunny, so I was in a little bit of a hurry to get everything put away in the fridge. At some point, I opened the fridge door and out fell the ketchup. Mind you, it was in the door, not just sitting on a shelf in the fridge. When the **plastic** bottle fell onto my kitchen floor, the corner of the bottle disappeared. I didn't clean it up with the ketchup and I didn't see it anywhere. I'm not sure what happened to it, or how a plastic bottle manages to shatter. I am pissed that I have chicken patties and now, no ketchup to put on them. Seriously...shattered plastic ketchup bottle. I think I have bad luck with food :-\ Friday, August 28, 20098:39PM - Grad school, eh?So I've managed to successfully make it through my first week of grad school classes at Purdue. My apartment, while lovely from the outside and in a rather convenient location, has some issues with the rain (which it's been doing quite a bit of lately). Luckily, I'm in class or at the lab most of the time, so I don't notice the rainwater oozing in through the leaky kitchen window. Unfortunately, all that work in the lab doesn't earn me a paycheck until the middle or end of September. This is not helping the beleaguered state of my checking account. Comcast wants me to give them money; I have no problem with this because they give me internet (aka, all my friends) and cable. They also want me to pay them for a modem I am not renting. I spent 15 minutes with a very pleasant gentleman on the phone trying to get this corrected. I am not optimistic. Wednesday, July 8, 200910:09PMWork, such as it is,is frustrating. This is week 6, and my mentor has been gone for almost 4 weeks. I'm tired of staring at orange squares, yellow lines, pink blobs, and tiny bits of a tiny compressor. If nothing else, I've learned that I do not want to do hard core compressor CFD work for the rest of my working adult life. I'd much rather run, take naps, and make/eat brownies. I did two of those three things this evening, and I am rather happy now :-) Tuesday, June 30, 20096:45PMI haven't updated for a while, and while I don't have anything, really, to blog about, I thought I'd just update. It may be due to the fact that I'm trying to wear off a margarita buzz so I can go running/lift at the Strongsville rec center... Sunday, June 14, 200910:19PM - My first AAA experience...So on my way back to Strongsville from Cuyahoga Falls this evening, I hear a 'thumpa-thumpa-thumpa' noise that gets faster as I go faster. My first thought is 'crap' and then 'maybe it's just a rock!' so I pull into an apartment complex and check my tires. Everything looks ok, but the 'thumpa-thumpa' noise continues. I start freaking out a wee little bit and call home while proceeding to pull into the parking lot of a strip mall. Checking my tires this time, I find a rather large screw in one of my tires. Lovely. Monday, May 25, 20092:56PMSo...I graduated from ONU yesterday :-D Tuesday, May 12, 20094:04PM - The end is near!I gave my Honors Program capstone presentation today. I started my interviews for the project approximately two weeks ago. I wrote my entire report and put together a 10 minute presentation in one night. The only time I ran though my presentation was as I was giving it for the first time. Current mood:  happyWednesday, April 29, 200911:40PMI got a car! I got a car! I got a car! Current mood: ecstaticThursday, March 26, 20096:41PM - Grad School, Part 5This will probably be my final grad school update (thank goodness!). Current mood:  pensiveTuesday, March 10, 200912:07AM - Grad School, Part 4Today I got my happy email from Stanford :-) They can't/won't offer me funding or reimburse me to fly out to CA for a visit, but I'm in. Success! Current mood:  bouncySaturday, March 7, 20097:50PM - Grad School, Part 3So after three days and 9 hours of driving, I made it to Purdue and back. I'll have to admit that I was pretty damn impressed with Purdue, especially their lab facilities and their food. Before visiting, I was pretty sure I had my mind made up, but now that I've been bombarded by Boilermakers, I am super confused. I think I'll just let everything sit for a few days, then start sending out more emails and see what happens. le sigh... Monday, February 16, 20096:24PM - Grad school, Part 2I'M IN AT NOTRE DAME! Current mood: ecstaticTuesday, February 10, 20096:41PM - Grad school, Part 1Purdue has accepted me into their ME Master's program :-O Current mood: excitedTuesday, January 20, 20091:13AM - Presents!The first six (6) people to respond to this post will get something made by me. It will be about or tailored to those six who respond first. Friday, January 16, 200911:38PM - Last first track meetTonight was the season opener for ONU indoor track & field. I'm one of the crazies who runs distance, and I volunteered for the 3K. Friday, January 2, 20099:41PM - Second day of 2009I'm back in Ada on January 2. This is my favorite way to ring in the New Year. My celebration at home was rather uneventful, except mum mixed things up with pizza rolls instead of egg rolls this year. No Scrabble, just a nifty new game I'm slowly becoming obsessed with: Blink. Wednesday, December 17, 20085:46AM - I may have done something I might regret....by Fridayi am blond now. pictures on facebook to come later. Navigate: (Previous 20 entries) |
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