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Wednesday, November 4th, 2009
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10:48 am - Minor annoyances that feel major today.
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( Petty complaints and TMI that I need to get off my chest )
In other news:
-I keep having really involved, strange dreams
-I'll be visiting NYC people the weekend after next
-I hopefully will be applying for a job at the Saint Mike's library soon (keep your fingers crossed)
-I got a really good grade on my most recent assignment which is making my 88% or above average look like possibility (I have to earn a B+ in all the core classes)
-I'm doing NaNoWriMo again which should be crazy since I'm doing grad school but writing 2 1/2 pages per day of fiction is actually really easy and quick for me, and I'm doing a highly fictionalized account of some stories that happened in my Mom's family
-I'm going to see Paranormal Activity with Liz tonight which I'm very excited about since I really like horror movies for some bizarre reason
-the Halloween party was really fun
-and I keep thinking about how delicious Thanksgiving will be.
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| Friday, October 9th, 2009
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11:18 am - The Break-In
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So, this story is just to weird not to share. And yes, I worry about things easily so of course I'm still freaked out about this, but it shall pass in time.
I took yesterday off to relax a bit because I've been so busy, to enjoy the fall weather, and to get some homework done. Sean had to work only a half day so we were going to meet up in the afternoon and head to a pumpkin patch (which we still did and it was lovely). He goes to work. I get a couple things done for school and I decide to take a shower around 10:30 in the morning. I'm in the shower, and I start hearing all this weird shit next door, like muffled banging and yelling and sirens outside. And being the hypochondriac I am, I was thinking, what the hell is going on? Then I tell myself, probably nothing. So I finish my shower and get out. As soon as I turn off the water, there is someone insistently pounding at my door. Then I'm like, oh shit, something is going on. So I answer the door in my towel. It's the cops, and they're like "someone tried to break into an apartment, did you hear anything?" And I was like "no", still not connecting what I heard with what was actually going on. So they leave, and I get ready because I'm going to run some errands and I decided to stop into Sean's work to visit and tell him what happened. Then I leave my apartment, and it's then I realize that the break in wasn't an attempted break in, that it was in fact at the apartment next door to me, and the door was completely kicked in. Then I start to freak out, because I realized that I heard it all, and was next door when it was happening. Then I realized that I had actually forgotten to lock my door. I actually forgot to lock the door when I was home alone in the shower. I felt so stupid because of that, and because I had been next door the entire time. And then I realized that there was a 50-50 chance of him picking my neighbor's apartment. There was no reason it couldn't have been mine. I know I shouldn't play the what if game, but what if he had come into my apartment instead?
So then I went to visit Sean and in regular Sally-freakout-fashion, told him what happened, and Sean's like, "
"what the hell I want to know what happened" and we go back and talk to the cops. There are cops all over the building and outside taking pictures and stuff. Then we get the whole story. The guy had a knife and sliced through a second floor window screen. People out in the alley saw the guy being sketchy outside, then noticed the window and called the cops. The guy had already broken into the apartment and started grabbing my neighbor's stuff. The cops followed him in there, the guy dropped the bag and jumped out a window...from the 4th floor. He broke both his legs and got caught obviously. He apparently was 21, totally messed up on drugs, and got arrested last year for armed robbery as well as being the primary suspect in a couple other robbery attempts.
Weird story, no? I'm just freaked that I was next door the entire time and heard it all, without realizing it. And freaked that it could have been my place, while I was there. I'm from small-town Vermont, and while I now live in the "Big Bad City" of Burlington, I still don't think this kind of stuff happens. So I have learned.
Needless to say I did not get any homework done. Whoops.
Also, my neighbor has this terrible drum machine that he plays with. And I thought that he'd gotten rid of it because he didn't play it for a few months, but within the last week he pulled it out again and has been playing for hours. I have to admit I was pretty disappointed when I realized the robber didn't get away with the drum machine; this was my one solid chance to be rid of the vile thing.
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| Wednesday, October 7th, 2009
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10:59 am - In which I update about the various arenas of my life, again
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| Monday, August 17th, 2009
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3:38 pm - real update sometime in the near future
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( random survey )
You know what? In this digital age with the internet and distance programs at schools...I miss having a paper journal. LJ is just not the same, and I need to get a paper one back into my life.
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| Thursday, July 23rd, 2009
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2:14 pm - I never update anymore.
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Mostly because nothing much is different.
Sean and I are doing fabulously. Wish we could move because our apartment is rather small and I've been there so long now, but it's cheap and well located and we're all settled so it's not going to happen.
Starting school in the fall at San Jose State and I'm super excited to be working towards my master's, but I'm nervous about getting back into the "Oh wait I have homework" mindset.
My high school friends and I have traipsing around the state camping and going to concerts and such and its been loads of fun.
I still dislike my job and the reasons why it has stressed me out this week are too long to get into (basically I got shut in the scary basement in the dark again and I was basically told by other superiors to go behind my boss's back), but I've been able to work on a couple archiving projects this summer which I've actually enjoyed.
I have an itch to travel after hearing about my friends' adventures in Turkey. Have decided to start saving up for an extensive European excursion (the one I've been dreaming of for a long time) after grad school. Also want to start learning French due to the amount of it I hear from the Quebecois visitors here in Burlington--there's barely a day when I don't hear a little French.
My mom still stresses me out whenever I see her, and we're starting to make a quilt together but she never wants to work on it when I'm visiting, she would rather watch TV or sleep and she never leaves the house and is really unhealthy and I can't seem to help her or get through to her and it makes me sad.
I'm obsessed with clothes and want to go shopping all the time, which means the fact that the annual sidewalk sale is coming up next week right after I get paid is bad news.
Going to Nashville in a few weeks for Poe's wedding which will be fun! I'm making a scrapbook/guestbook for her and am having so much fun with it. I forgot how much I love scrapbooking. So much to do before I go however.
The summer weather has been really shitty up here in the Northeast. Cool and rainy. Incessantly. Lame.
As always, I'm back in a nostalgic cycle of really missing everything/everyone from Saratoga and college.
I need to dance more often because it makes me happy. Or work out, because even though no one thinks I look different, I feel flabbier and it would be awesome to feel in shape.
I'm reading the best book right now called Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon. It makes me want to read more and write more.
I don't have enough time in the day for everything I want to do.
That is all.
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| Tuesday, June 16th, 2009
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12:53 pm - Yay!
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Dave concert was amazing. Went to both nights at SPAC, and the first night was meh, but the second night was incredible. They are so good. It's too bad that they draw drunken obnoxious frat boys. Seriously...we were tailgating the second night in the parking lot and there were boys doing keg stands on the roof of a utility van. I was kind of appalled. I hate that Dave draws this kind of crowd, becuase they're amazing musicians but being on the lawn at SPAC in the midst of all that drunken nastiness is so unpleasant, when you run the risk of being pushed into, puked on, and being surrounded by everyone yelling out the lyrics that are pot references becuase they think they're cool. Sigh. Despite all that, the show was awesome and camping was fun (except for my sleeping bag getting wet in the unexpected rainstorm that happened while we were at the concert when I stupidly left my tent window partially open).
Camping again in a couple weeks, and Esther will be there!! I can't wait, I haven't seen her in over a year, and I'm so excited that she's living on the mainland again. Ceora's visiting this weekend and next weekend is bridal shower prep for my cousin and family time.
I registered for classes at San Jose, so probably going there. Still haven't heard officially about financial aid, but based on the fact that every other school has awarded me Stafford loans there shouldn't be any reason San Jose won't. That means I have an extra couple of weeks in July that I wasn't expecting because I won't be doing the residency. Even though I'm disappointed that I'm not doing a program with residencies, I have to say that I'm excited to have more time this summer to not run around like a crazy person, and it means that I may be able to go to the Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson & John Melancamp concert at the Expo. Which would be pretty awesome.
I have no idea what's going on with my job, no one knows the details. I say whatever. I really don't want the extra responsibility but I'd love the extra money so whatever happens happens. I leave work at my workplace and I won't think about it on my own time, I won't let the changes get to me and I'll concentrate on getting my master's so I can have a job I want.
Life is good. The summer has arrived, I have fun plans and things seem to be working out in a relatively nice, non-dramatic way. And my herb garden is flourishing! And I'm knitting an afghan!
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| Thursday, June 11th, 2009
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1:41 pm - Stuff
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Things in life are good, but things feel very up in the air. Which, being the nearly OCD-planner that I am, makes me uncomfortable. Still working out details of grad school and funding. But, as I did not get the amazingly awesome scholarship from Syracuse, I'm thinking that I'm going to be taking the much cheaper and more applicable route to my new career by doing the distance program at San Jose State. Which means I will only double my loan debt rather than triple, I'll be eligible for the archivists exam at the end of it all, and even though I'm bummed about not doing residencies, I can plan me a sweet Silicon Valley vacation in a couple years when I finish up the program. But still, I am unregistered for the fall and waiting to hear about financial options at this school, so nothing is settled yet. Grr.
My boss and I don't come out of meetings with the same understanding I guess so she thought I was taking over for her the end of August. I was planning on January, becuase I want to get through my first semester of grad school and finish up the big archiving project before becoming something bigger than I feel ready for. We're meeting about it on Monday, and it will be nice and awkward becuase the president is giving her hassle and wants her to take over other stuff, therefore I have to take over for my boss or else I will screw up the timeline/hierarchy, and/or lose my job. I really don't want the promotion, which I know is ridiculous because who doesn't want a promotion? But I hate my job and I don't want to do it anymore much less be responsible for lots of things I don't want to be. I am hugely flattered that they like me enough and are confident that I can handle it, but I certainly don't feel confident enough to handle it. I don't know what I'm going to do, but it looks like I may end up doing it in the fall, becuase I can't see any other way. Unless this possible library job works out, which I really really am hoping for.
This is big fun weekend with friends and camping and wine and two Dave Matthews concerts and this is my last day of work for the week and I can hardly sit still for all the excitement!
I also just bought new outrageously expensive all vegan high salon quality hair gel that I hope transforms my frighteningly scary frizzy mess of hair into nice curls. Becuase I just want to have nice hair for once.
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| Monday, June 8th, 2009
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11:00 am - I heart surveys
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The Rules
1. You can ONLY answer 'Yes' or 'No'.
2. You are NOT ALLOWED to explain ANYTHING unless someone messages or comments you and asks—and, believe me, the temptation to explain some of these will be overwhelming. Nothing is exactly as it seems.
Kissed any one of your LiveJournal friends? — yes
Been arrested? — no
Kissed someone you didn't like? — yes
Slept in until 5 PM? — yes
Fallen asleep at work/school? — yes
Held a snake? — no
Ran a red light? — yes
Been suspended from school? — no
Experienced love at first sight? — no
Totaled your car in an accident? — yes
Been fired from a job? — yes
Fired somebody? — no
Sung karaoke? — yes
Pointed a gun at someone? — yes
Did something you told yourself you wouldn't? — yes
Laughed until something you were drinking came out your nose? — no
Caught a snowflake on your tongue? — yes
Kissed in the rain? — yes
Had a close brush with death (your own)? — yes
Saw someone die? — no
Played Spin-the-Bottle? — yes
Smoked a cigar? — no
Sat on a rooftop? — yes
Smuggled something into another country? — no
Been pushed into a pool with all your clothes? — no
Broken a bone? — yes
Skipped school? — yes
Eaten a bug? — no
Sleepwalked? — no
Walked on a moonlit beach? — yes
Ridden a motorcycle? — no
Dumped someone? — yes
Forgotten your anniversary? — no
Lied to avoid a ticket? — no
Ridden in a helicopter? — no
Shaved your head? — no
Blacked out from drinking? — yes
Played a prank on someone? — yes
Hit a home run? — no
Felt like killing someone? — no
Cross-dressed? — yes
Been falling-down drunk? — yes
Made your girlfriend/boyfriend cry? — no
Eaten snake? — no
Marched/Protested? — yes
Had Mexican jumping beans for pets? — no
Puked on an amusement ride? — no
Seriously & intentionally boycotted something? — yes
Been in a band? — no
Knitted? — yes
Been on TV? — yes
Shot a gun? — no
Skinny-dipped? — no
Given someone stitches? — no
Eaten a whole habanero pepper? — no
Ridden a surfboard? — no
Drunk straight from a liquor bottle? —yes
Had surgery? —yes
Streaked? — no
Been taken by ambulance to a hospital? — no
Tripped on mushrooms? — no
Passed out when NOT drinking? —yes
Peed on a bush? — no
Donated Blood? — yes
Grabbed an electric fence? — yes
Eaten alligator meat? -- no
Eaten cheesecake? — yes
Eaten your kids' Halloween candy? — no
Killed an animal when not hunting? — no
Peed your pants in public? — no
Snuck into a movie without paying? - no
Written graffiti? — yes
Still love someone you shouldn't? — yes
Think about the future? — yes
Been in handcuffs? — no
Believe in love? — yes
Sleep on a certain side of the bed? — yes
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| Monday, May 18th, 2009
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11:41 am - Summer is going to be so busy.
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Just so I have a place to keep track of my craziness:
May 29-31: Crown Point for Jen's recital
June 12-14: Saratoga for Dave and camping
June 19-21: Ceora coming to stay
June 27-29: Montpelier & Rochester for family time/cousin wedding stuff
July 3-5: Burton Island for camping
July 10-12: probably Montpelier, for Mom/Liz birthday
July 16th-26: Syracuse for residency
Aug 6-10: Nashville for Poe's wedding
Aug 14-16: Rutland for cousin wedding stuff
August sometime: Brant Lake for reunion w/ Hannah & Ryan
September sometime: classes start
September sometime: Skiddie Reunion?
September 25-27: Rutland/Killington for cousin's wedding
And there might be more I'm forgetting. Somehow, I still want time for beach, picnics, bbq's, and berry picking. And summer frolicking.
current mood: busy
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| Thursday, May 14th, 2009
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11:04 am - For Your Enjoyment: Sex Enhancement Euphemisms
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So I'm going through my spam filter on gmail, and I am so amused at the different ways they describe sex enhancement:
~Energy for your dude piston
~Vulcanizer for your hot-stick
~Potion for heroic banging (my personal favorite)
~Your rod will be faultless weapon (this just sounds scary and morally wrong)
~Wang won't be unready
These just crack me up. There will probably be more later, as the Spam filter always catches tons of them.
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| Wednesday, May 6th, 2009
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11:31 am - I made a decision.
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I think really, I've known it all along. But sometimes you just need a kick in the pants before you realize it.
I got an email yesterday from Syracuse reminding me that I had until June 1 to make a decision, I'd thought I had longer. I was thinking to myself at that moment, crap I don't have a lot of time, I don't want to lose my place. Then it hit me that I'd already made my decision, long ago, and that's where I'm going. I'm really excited about this. It's a really good program, it works for me in so many ways, and they've been so good about the communication and I already feel like I'm a part of the place. They're the only school that's offered me a chance at a scholarship (I don't know if I've gotten it, though), and, they did this: money is pretty tight right now and I have to budget really carefully for all the things I'm doing this summer. And they just informed me that as a distance student, I don't have to send in the $400 deposit. I swear, it's like a sign. All things seem to point to this, it was the first school I got accepted to and I was so excited about it (not as excited about the others), and it's rated 3rd in the country and I don't have to move, and really, I'm just super excited about this.
The life plan is as follows: Do school part time while living in beloved Vermont. I still have to work full time to live (I am not happy at my job at all, but I'm staying here because it's stable while still looking for other things, I may have a lead on a part-time job at the St. Michael's College library), but while I'm working and doing the school thing for a couple of years, I will not be paying my student loans. I'm already living without that money, so I'll just put it in the bank which means at the end of two years I should have my master's, and a few grand in the bank which will be perfect for moving...to Boston hopefully. Or Portland Maine.
I'm an adult and I have a life plan and it's kinda coming together. Go me.
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| Monday, May 4th, 2009
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11:27 am - fun spring weekends and other things
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This weekend was pretty fabulous. It was sunny and nice the whole time. Friday night Sean and I got dinner and went to the movies, which is something we haven't done in a while. Saturday morning was Green Up Day. Sean and I and one of Sean's college friends did the clean up. Like the last time we did it, we cleaned up around the bike path, and like the last time it was sketchy. We stumbled upon homeless tent shelters like last time, and there was a lot of trash and sketchy stuff around. The weird things we found included: high heels, light fixtures, condoms, razors, countless beer cans, paint cans, strange metal tubes, and all kinds of other stuff. Our group got 28 bags of trash in 2 hours, and I think the project as a whole got 380 bags in 2 hours. After the clean up we went to the Sustainability Fair, where I learned more about composting and have decided I want to try to do it (though it's not super easy in an apartment building with no yard). Then Ella and Liz came up and me, them, and Sean went out to Oakledge for a picnic. We talked for a while, had lots of food and sangria and it was lovely. Then we tried skipping rocks (Ella and Sean are great at it, I suck but am determined to learn), then checked out the treehouse (a place that would fabulous for a wedding), then found the foundations of old cabins lying around the park (it used to be a resort/retreat place back in the first half of the 20th century). Then we found the world's tallest filing cabinet! We'd known that it was in that area, had looked but couldn't find it, and then we stumbled across it. It's really strange. 38 drawers tall, in the middle of a grassy area near an industrial building. I don't know what it's history is, but it is the world's largest filing cabinet. Ha. After that we went to Sweetwaters for mint juleps and to watch the Kentucky Derby. None of the horses we picked won, of course. Liz and Ella went home, then Sean and I met up with another of his college friends and we got some food and we watched the Celtics game until I was about to pass out and then I went home and went to bed. Sunday was gorgeous, I slept in then went for a 6 mile walk while going to various craft stores to get my mom's Mother's Day present. Came home, read, cooked dinner, and Sean and I hung out before going to bed. It was a pretty lovely weekend.
Not much else is going on. Coming back to work was unpleasant. My workplace has all the same stuff going on as usual (we're going to talk about the cultural audit and workplace environment and stuff this week, blech). The college is going crazy about Swine Flu--we have santizer all over the place, we're wiping down everything, we have an emergency committee set up, I get a few emails a day about it, and I was given a pamphlet about what to do in the event of a flu pandemic, including a grocery shopping list for food that will keep a family of 4 alive for 2 weeks. Come on guys...I understand being prepared, but this is ridiculous, and really borderline panic. We're also going to shut down during the summer, cancelling classes I guess, if it comes to Vermont or to the city or whatever. Which would be really bad for us financially. The thing is, I'm a hypochondriac. I've given myself a panic attack thinking that I'm having a heart attack. I am not the person who should be receiving emails and pamplets about flu pandemic.
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| Friday, May 1st, 2009
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11:31 am - What I did on my vacation
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It began Tuesday the 21. I left work happily and spent hours at Free Cone Day with Betsy.
I went to Rutland, Saratoga, NYC & Boston, Maine and Montpelier, for a total of 8 days.
I walked for miles and miles.
I drank every night and didn't go to bed before midnight (am I tired now? Yes).
I saw 17 of my friends, also one of my cousins. I wish I could see them all the time. I spent the whole time being sad to leave people and excited to see the people in the next place.
I went to Brooklyn for the first time. Also Soho, and the Village.
A strange hippie musician boy wrote me a limerick when I bought his CD.
I learned things about my family I didn't know.
I realized how in love with Boston I am and how much I want to move there some day.
I won Trivial Pursuit for the first time.
I watched two horror movies and now am afraid of mirrors.
I stuck my feet in the ocean in April.
I got followed by a goat.
I had fondue for the first time (seriously, I don't know how I've waited 25 years, that shit is goooood).
I put myself on youtube for the first time ever.
I saw hardcore porn for the first time (I'm already somewhat seasoned in Softcore lol) and ate penis-shaped cookies at a party.
I had 250th anniversary Guinness beer.
I kept finding my name everywhere I went (Sal's Italian Restaurant, Fat Sal's Pizza, my friend lives on Blanchard Road, another friend lives near Sal & Marie's Park).
Three of my buses pulled over on the highway for whatever reason.
I almost got a kitten.
It was so much fun.
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| Tuesday, April 21st, 2009
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8:35 pm - Always with the money issues
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I got declined for a credit card...when I've never had one before? I guess that's the whole argument about building credit, but it seems to me it's the same experience argument with jobs--how do you build experience/credit when no one takes a chance on you? At least this was only the staples card. I'm still going to try my bank, I'll probably have better luck with them. It just means that I can't buy a new computer for a long while, and I have to hope that Ferris makes it that long. What worries me is that their reason for declining me, I think, is that I've "made too many inquiries" into other credit cards. That is completely untrue, this is the first credit card I've ever applied for. This may be me being paranoid (not unlikely), but it makes me worry if someone else is making credit card inquiries in my name. Or what if my credit was somehow damaged so badly without my knowledge that I won't be able to get loans for grad school?
Trying hard not to freak out about this, I'm just focusing on the fact that I have been completely free of my workplace as of 5:15 this afternoon, for 8 full days! I'm going on my northeast trip tomorrow morning, and I'm so excited. And I went to Free Cone Day with Betsy and it was lots of fun. I love Ben & Jerry's.
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| Monday, April 20th, 2009
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Hung out for a couple nights with my parents this weekend, and that was really nice, because I don't hang out with them that much. As always when I go home, I had my ever-present frustration with my mom's physical/mental state, and I have that same out-of-sorts feeling when I come back to my apartment after being at home. My parents are the same, not good, not bad. But I am excited because I ordered some to-be-embroidered quilt squares (the pattern is lilacs, which my mom loves) for Mom for Mother's Day, and I'm hoping that this is the year we start making a quilt together, like we've been talking about. However, my mom doesn't always have much motivation, etc, and after finishing squares for Erica's wedding quilt she kept talking about how happy she was that she was done with them, so maybe this quilt idea wasn't the best thing. I just don't know what to try with my mom anymore.
Saw the extended family Saturday afternoon for belated Easter dinner, and it was really nice. My cousins and I played cards and goofed around per usual, saw Aunt Charlotte's scrapbook of her anniversary trip to Gettysburg, and talked about things with Erica. Erica got lots of pictures (I forgot my camera, which is very unlike me); I hope she puts them on facebook.
So unbelievably excited for my trip! I leave for Rutland ass-early on Wednesday morning where I stay with Erica, head to Saratoga Thursday to stay with Emily, NYC on Friday and Saturday to see Abby, Julia, Zak, Enrique, Isaac, Patty, Evan, Jeff (and his girlfriend), and Poe! Friday night we're all hanging out together, Poe's bridal shower is Saturday and hopefully a trip to the Lion Brand Yarn Studio before my bus on Sunday. Sunday I head to Boston, hang out with Laura and Ceora, then hanging out with Becca on Monday. Tuesday I head up to Maine to see Jen L., then Wednesday I head back into Montpelier for Margarita night with Liz, Betsy, and maybe a couple other Montpelierites, then back to work on Thursday (boo). I am so excited for this, to see so many people and to take a mini-road trip on my own. It's going to be crazy but fun.
I'm starting volunteering at the Lake Champlain Committee on Tuesday morning, and I'm excited. I'll be archiving their photos, which will be fun and really good for a resume...also, I hope that while I'm there I'll get to hear about environmental projects they're doing that maybe I could help with too.
Still no official choosing of grad school yet, but I am staying in Vermont to do a distance program, and I probably will do Syracuse unless one of the other schools offers me an amazing financial aid package. I am very excited.
I still hate my job. But my boss is going to see if there's money to give me a raise, which would be amazing. I'm not holding my breath, and in fact, I'm kinda worried about my job, since it looks like enrollment might be down, which means our planned budget will be incorrect and being the one of the two people in the school in an assistant position...it makes me feel expendible.
It's spring and I love it. I've been wearing flip flops pretty often and that's fabulous.
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| Tuesday, April 7th, 2009
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5:27 pm - Decisions
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1. I talked for a while with Sean last night. I've talked a lot with myself, and asked lots of other people. I've known for a while what I wanted to do but couldn't actually make it official for whatever reason. I'm staying in Vermont to do my masters. I'm really happy about this, for all the previously mentioned reasons, and it makes the most practical sense. Even though I'm happy about this though, I can't help but feel disappointed that I'm giving up the other opportunities (namely Hawaii), but I just don't think this is the time for a move yet, for a lot of reasons, and it's not ruling out that option later, a year or two from now. If I suddenly get an amazing financial aid package in the next week or so I'll reassess. The decision for the distance schools can be made this summer, by when I'll probably have financial aid information from them. I'm seeing myself at Syracuse though.
2. I've told my job, in a way, not that I'm going to be leaving soon (I'm not sure exactly when that will happen), but I've notified my boss. On my employee-self evaluation there was a space to talk about where I see myself in 3-5 years, and I informed her that I see myself with a masters in library science and working with archives. We haven't had the awkward conversation about this fact yet (that will happen in the next month when we have my evaluation meeting), but at least she knows that I'm not going to become the registrar and stay here for 10+ years.
3. I need a computer soon, and have researched lots of credit cards. Staples actually has a decent credit card offer (Best Buy turned out to be scary in the fine print, Staples is better), and I don't have to pay interest for the first 6 months, by when I can definitely finish paying everything. I'll probably get a new computer once I've backed up everything on my old one. When I'm actually enrolled in school, I'm going to apply for a general student credit card.
4. This is not my personal decision, but one I highly, highly support: Vermont legalized gay marriage today! We're the 4th state to do it and the first one to do it through the legislature, not the courts. This is even after Douglas vetoed the bill...but the override vote was very very close. So, Vermont is still pretty split on the issue, but it passed anyway! I'm ecstatic and proud, yet again, to be a Vermonter. www.burlingtonfreepress.com/article/20090407/NEWS03/90407016
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| Monday, April 6th, 2009
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12:01 pm - Advice?
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I've been avoiding getting a credit card for years. I was going to apply for one when I got into grad school again to get the student rate and to have a card for emergencies (I have $0 in emergency money perpetually). However, I need to get a new computer pronto. I need to get a new PC for school (I want a mac but what can you do?), and my computer is 7 years old and not doing well at all. I've found a couple computers at Best Buy that are not terribly expensive and that look pretty good. I can't afford a computer anytime in the near future as I have lots of other expenses that I need to pay for, the most important a deposit for grad school. I was thinking about getting a Best Buy credit card, that way I'm not tempted to use it anywhere else, get the computer right away and just pay it off.
Now...is this a bad idea? I'm credit card stupid. I know store-specific credit cards probably have a higher interest rate. Any advice from you people with credit cards?
current mood: anxious
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| Tuesday, March 31st, 2009
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1:49 pm - Hawaii?
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I got into the University of Hawaii. There's about a 1% chance that I'll actually be able to make it work, in terms of expenses, the expense of moving, finding affordable housing in the one place in the US with the least amount of housing, and the fact that I have to come back to the Northeast at least once or twice this fall. But how freaking awesome would it be to live in Honolulu for a year?
Keep your fingers crossed for financial aid letters. I've heard nothing as of yet, my deadlines for choosing a school are coming up really soon, and I can't make a decision without financial aid. I wish this was like undergrad, when I had only two schools I really wanted to go to and one rejected me so I didn't have to make the hard decision. I'm having a really, really hard time making a decision, especially without financial aid letters. But as of now, I'm leaning towards Syracuse, one of the distance programs with a residency, rated 3rd of all programs in the US (sorry, have to brag about that last bit, it makes me feel special).
Or, of course, Hawaii, if it could work at all.
I dreamed that I was talking to the librarians that I worked with at Kellogg-Hubbard when I was in high school/college. I miss them, and the dream made me feel like this whole career plan is actually going to work, or something.
current mood:  surprised
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| Wednesday, March 25th, 2009
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4:20 pm - My life.
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| Friday, March 6th, 2009
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12:03 pm - I'm all applied.
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The applications are all done. They could have been done a while ago, but with all the different deadlines and the fact I couldn't afford all the fees at once means that I had to drag it out. This process has been going on for a couple months, but they are all in. I feel so good.
I applied for another job. I feel stupid for leaving this one (despite low pay and extreme dissatisfaction) but Betsy sent me a newspaper ad for this job in Burlington as an assistant in the medical library of an insurance company that I'm more than qualified for. It's part-time, it ties in with my career plans and it means I could go to school full time in the fall. And it means I could leave this job. If I get it of course.
It's warmer outside, and that's lovely. But I want sugar on snow. What can you do?
I have no plans, and it's a Friday night. I feel really lame. But all I feel like doing is knitting anyway. Where did all of my energy go? I feel like I sleep lots and rarely go out anymore. I blame winter and my finances.
current mood: accomplished
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calm