Journey into the Real World

2002-05-06T17:26:00.000-04:00

Okay, I've more or less started posting things at my other blog more often than this one... go see it!

The Other Yesterday: The Blog

2002-05-06T05:17:00.000-04:00

'morning, all! Thanks for your input. For now I think I'll stay with Blogger and use The Other Yesterday: The Blog as the title. A few of you suggested I just move this blog there... I don't want to do that because people I know in real life will know about my site, although I will have a page asking them not to read the blog... but just in case, I'd rather start fresh and keep in mind in my writing that it will be easier for people I know in real life to find.

I'm also going to keep this blog as a sort of alternate--in case I do something stupid with my site and need to ask for help :-) or in case I feel I really need to blog about something going on in my life that I don't want to appear on my main site. Make sense?

2002-05-05T23:42:00.000-04:00

Okay, time for bed. More on the new site tomorrow. And thesising tomorrow! Lots of it! I also get to see two friends I haven't seen in a while. That will be fun.

Anyway... good night!

2002-05-05T22:59:00.000-04:00

I need a name for the new blog! What do you think of..

From the Inside
Just Kat
Another Today

Hmm... or any other ideas? I think I'm leaning toward Another Today as it would sort of go along with the title of The Other Yesterday. But is it confusing? Hmm. I don't know. I just can't think of anything good.

......Ideas?

Or even just The Other Yesterday: The Blog? Hmm. Yeah, that might be easiest... that way the blog and the site could be referred to the same way? Does that make sense?

2002-05-05T22:42:00.000-04:00

Anyone have suggestions on how to do my new blog? I know there are other ways to do it besides blogger...

2002-05-05T21:42:00.000-04:00

My new site: The Other Yesterday. Nothing really there quite yet, but it will be dribbling in bit by bit.

2002-05-05T10:29:00.000-04:00

'morning, all! I'm still in NH... I'll be back at school this evening. Sam sent me lots of thesis revisions... YUCK! Not nice. Having a good weekend--there will be lots to tell, I'm sure. I made the most fantabulous pizza last night--topped with sauce, mozzarella, ricotta, artichoke hearts, broccoli, hamburger, and pepperoni! It was... WOW. And we just had yummy yummy cinnamon buns for breakfast. J is in the shower now and I'm trying to read some e-mail so it doesn't pile up too badly.

OH and I found a job to apply for! There's a full time position open at a bookstore nearby. I'm going to stop in today (it says apply in person). Wish me luck!!!

2002-05-04T09:57:00.000-04:00

'morning! Looks like my new site will be set up soon... I'll give details as I have them! I don't think this blog will completely go away, although the new site will be on the KnitBlog ring and all. We'll see.

2002-05-03T16:27:00.000-04:00

WHAT is with this craving for spicy spicy food recently??

Orange juice and ginger ale mix interestingly. But are not spicy. Not at all.

2002-05-03T16:20:00.000-04:00

Go say happy birthday to Paige and Hannah!

2002-05-03T16:07:00.000-04:00

For those wondering what an aortal link is... (I didn't know either until a day or two ago): Aortal. This is something I'm planning on doing once I get my new site set up.

The stitching thing was great. Once I round up some links of pictures of what I bought ;-) I'll post about it.

Ohh!!! You know what J did??? He grew a beard and didn't tell me!!! Now, the problem isn't the beard itself--it looks great. The problem is that just a few months ago my dad did the SAME THING and it traumatized me for days. And I made J promise to never do that without telling me. And he PROMISED.

Now, it's not like he broke the promise purposefully. He just completely forgot about it, and then decided to grow a beard and was all "Ooh, I'll surprise her."

Sigh.

2002-05-03T09:34:00.000-04:00

Today I'm going to the Nashua Celebration of Needlework! I'm really excited--never been before. Can't afford any classes this year, but I'm going to the market and going to meet some people from 2muchXS. I'm really looking forward to it.

So I suppose at some point I should stop playing and take and shower and get dressed so I'm ready to go, huh?

2002-05-03T08:47:00.000-04:00

Good morning! I'm the aortal link at Smattering! Woohoo!

2002-05-02T17:43:00.000-04:00

Weird craving of the day: Spaghettios with meatballs or hot dogs.

2002-05-02T14:42:00.000-04:00

OMG I think I'm done! Done! Done! I can't be done! How can I be done? It's not good enough. But it will never be good enough. So at some point it just needs to be done. Done!

And I'm really excited about something else too... but I can't tell you that. Heehee. 'cause it's someone else's news. Heeheehee.

2002-05-02T10:48:00.000-04:00

I need a book that has "apocalypse" in its index.

2002-05-02T10:40:00.000-04:00

Wow... in one of the books I'm using, the entry in the index for evil says "see good." Somewhere in the recesses of my brain, that's very deep. Brain not alive enough at the moment to process it, though.

2002-05-02T10:18:00.000-04:00

WHY is my grammar check insisting on adjective/noun number agreement?? English does not HAVE adjective/noun number agreement. No, grammar check, I should not write "these primitives peoples."

2002-05-02T10:01:00.000-04:00

Hmmmm it is 10 and I am finally taking a break for breakfast--I got up at 6. Weird.

Empty cereal boxes do not nest well. Why am I saving empty cereal boxes, you ask? Because they have coupons that I have not had the time or energy to cut off yet.

2002-05-02T09:12:00.000-04:00

Okay, I'm actually not going to class, but just for the record, I'm not going because of thesis, not because of knitting. The shirt just won't be done today.

2002-05-02T08:58:00.000-04:00

You know you knit too much when...

You seriously consider skipping class because the shirt you wanted to wear that day isn't done yet, so you clearly can't go out... right?

2002-05-02T06:50:00.000-04:00

'morning. Work work work.

2002-05-01T19:38:00.000-04:00

Thinking about domain names... what do you all think about theotheryesterday.com?

2002-05-01T09:40:00.000-04:00

A nifty book I'm using for thesis: Modern Cosmology & Philosophy.

2002-05-01T09:10:00.000-04:00

I just had the most marvelous idea! I am asking for a domain name as a graduation present! Wouldn't that be cool? So... what should it be? I have plenty of ideas for a writing name or a knitting name or a stitching name, but I need something that will encompass everything. And any suggestions on what registrar to use, etc.? I know a bunch of you have done this... help!

2002-05-01T08:17:00.000-04:00

Wow, it's May already! Weird! Happy May, everyone!

2002-05-01T07:54:00.000-04:00

'morning. I stayed up way way too late last night, but I was talking to J and we started talking about important stuff so it was good. But now I'm tired... SOOO much work to do today...

I'm considering taking Becky up on her webhosting deal/offer. Hmm. I think I will.

2002-04-30T19:42:00.000-04:00

I'm soooooo tired. Maybe I'll go to bed at ten tonight and get up early to write. Easier said than done, no?

2002-04-30T18:31:00.000-04:00

Mmm, coffee. Decaf tonight though. I learned my lesson last night!

Thesis thesis thesis. I just want it all to be over.

2002-04-30T18:22:00.000-04:00

A nifty article: The Post-Feminist Crochet Revolution. Thanks Aisling!

2002-04-30T17:42:00.000-04:00

Two days from now my thesis will be done (except for dedication, acknowledgements, etc.) and I will be on my way to NH!

Two weeks from now I will only have one final to go and then will be DONE with school!

Two months from now I will be in Italy!

2002-04-30T07:34:00.000-04:00

The Completely Pointless Personality Quiz

2002-04-30T07:29:00.000-04:00

'morning. I said yesterday that I'd post my new stitching "rules" for myself, so here goes...

See, what happened is that I had this wonderful stitching weekend and realized that I really want to stitch more. When I'm busy, I tend to knit and not stitch because it's easier, I can multitask, etc. And the longer I put my stitching away for, the "harder" it seems to get it out.

So I'm going to make myself do at least one stitch a day. I'll keep a small piece out and accessible, and just pick it up and do a stitch or two if I don't have time for more. This will keep me in the practice of it and ensure that I make some progress no matter what.

Secondly, I have way too many WIPs, and I tend to never finish anything... I have 20-something WIPs, and only finished three things last year and none so far this year. So I decided that every month, I will make myself finish something before starting anything new. This will still let me switch around a lot, since I could work on WIPs all month and not start or finish anything if I don't want to. And if I finished something May 1, I could start something new every day for the rest of the month (not that I would, but...). But this will make sure that my WIPs don't get completely out of hand.

Does that all sound reasonable?

2002-04-30T00:09:00.000-04:00

Okay, coffee after dinner is officially bad.

2002-04-29T20:44:00.000-04:00

I tried to make a new Yahoo ID for Tess and they wanted a credit card number! Weird!

2002-04-29T18:04:00.000-04:00

Wow, as of sometime this afternoon, I've had 500 visits here since I put the SiteMeter on! Cool! Thanks all!

2002-04-29T17:58:00.000-04:00

Why is it that whenever I mention that I've been really really wanting fried pickles all day, people immediately jump to the conclusion that I'm pregnant??

(I'm NOT.)

2002-04-29T15:32:00.000-04:00

Participation Positives

1. Almost done with thesis!
2. Almost done with school!
3. I had an incredibly wonderful weekend.
4. I'm excited about stitching again.
5. I have great online friends.
6. J and Tess love me.
7. I'm going to graduate!

2002-04-29T12:45:00.000-04:00

New Week's Resolutions

I've started making resolutions on Monday for a few reasons. First of all, it's less overwhelming than New Year's resolutions--doing something for a week doesn't seem so bad. Secondly, I like the idea that we can start over anytime, without having to wait for a specific "holiday." So... won't you make some of your own?

This week:
1. Finish thesis!!
2. Catch up in other classes.
3. Finish tank top.
4. Lose the pound I put on over the weekend.
5. Not spend too much money at the stitching thing on Friday!
6. I have some new general stitching resolutions/guidelines for myself, but I'll post about them later.
7. Catch up on e-mail.

Seven seems like a good number. What are your New Week's Resolutions??

2002-04-29T09:04:00.000-04:00

Make Yourself with Legos. Thanks LJC.

2002-04-29T08:56:00.000-04:00

Ooh, I forgot to mention... it's so nice being missed! Aishy said she missed me this weekend, and J actually is saying he misses me! So I'm going to go to NH Thursday instead of Friday, because he wants me there! Yay yay!

2002-04-29T07:52:00.000-04:00

Good morning! Sorry I didn't post much last night... I was tired... but...

Good Lord. Heaven. That place was heaven.

I spent the weekend at Wyndham Needleworks. It was amazing. The house was beautiful--300 years old and wonderfully restored/renovated. It was FULL of gorgeous antique samplers. They also have a store full of sampler charts, fabrics, and fibers... amazing!! They also have tons of old books, cosy sofas, cats, tea, and bright lights to stitch by! The people who run it are wonderful... AND they have a very attractive 23-year-old son who is in MASSAGE school! (Yes, I got one. Wow.) So I got to flirt a bit, and stuff. Fun fun.

I had a great time with the friends I met, as well. We just stitched and talked all weekend! It was great!

I mentioned the amazing store... I was good and only bought one thing: the chart for the 1803 Judith Townsend Sampler. My friend Colleen got me the fabric as a graduation present, and my friends Anita and Mariann got me the kit for the Blue Bell Sampler Accent as a graduation gift. I started that one, and it's so much fun! I'm learning all sorts of great stitches.

The whole weekend got me much more into stitching and especially samplers... I can't wait to go back! I decided I want to write a collection of short stories based on historic samplers... wouldn't that be cool?? And they said I can go back and do research there!

Oh, it was all so wonderful!

2002-04-28T21:47:00.000-04:00

J's friend and his wife are having a baby! Yay!!!!!!!!!!

2002-04-28T19:35:00.000-04:00

I'm back! Lots to tell about the weekend....

2002-04-26T11:37:00.000-04:00

It's snowing!! That's so not okay.

2002-04-26T10:34:00.000-04:00

News, Part II:

Beth has a beautiful hat she's trying to give away. ;-) Ivete has finished her paper and will pass... she will she will she will! LJC has a huge but cute bunny. New link: Spinning Jennie.

Time to work on the thesis.

2002-04-26T09:01:00.000-04:00

BlueAngel has a nice quote up. Melissa's purling is coming along nicely. Ooh! A not-generally-my-style but rather appealing cardigan is Bonne Marie's latest FO. Here's a free online virus scan. Congrats to Kristi on finishing a very cute sweater!

Rest of the news later...

2002-04-26T08:08:00.000-04:00

The Friday Five

1. What are your hobbies?
Let's see... reading, knitting, writing, web stuff, cross stitch, cooking, baking, crocheting... I guess those are the big ones. I want to get more into genealogy too.

2. Do you collect anything? If so, what?
Books! Both general books and cookbooks. Knitting and cross stitch stash. Dept. 56 Dickens Village. I guess that's about it. I don't really have space to collect things right now!

3. Is there a hobby you're interested in, but just don't have the time/money to do?
Ohhhh lots. I'd love to learn to spin and weave. Spinning will be soon, hopefully. Also I'd like to get more into web stuff... have a real page, not just the blog. Hopefully I'll get to do that after graduation. And... hmm. I'm sure there are others. Oh yes! I want to sew clothes and garden. Sewing I will learn after graduation, I hope. The garden will mostly have to wait--I don't have anywhere to put one! But I'd love to make most of my clothes and grow lots of my food. Hmm. I'm sure there are others I'm forgetting.

4. Have you ever turned a hobby into a moneymaking opportunity?
Yup, I've sold knitting and friendship bracelets at various points. Craft fairs are fun!

5. Besides web-related stuff (burbs, rings, etc.), what clubs do you belong to?
Ummmmmm. Do I? Hmm. I'm in charge of my college lit mag but that's about over now. (It will be brought to the printer today! Yay!) I want to join a knitting guild and maybe a book club after I move. But really, most of my clubs are online.

2002-04-26T07:58:00.000-04:00

Good morning. I stayed up too late last night again, but I finished reading Feast of Murder. It was very good.

I'm going to be gone most of the weekend... I'm meeting some people at Wyndham Needleworks. It should be lots of fun. I'm sure I'll post a few more times before I leave, but I wanted to mention it before I forgot.

2002-04-25T22:50:00.000-04:00

I decided to start reading some Italian sites... any suggestions? So far I've found La Stampa. I especially like their Sherlockiani Italiani page.

2002-04-25T22:23:00.000-04:00

The lit mag is done! Done done done! One less thing to worry about!

2002-04-25T14:37:00.000-04:00

Today is Take Our Daughters to Work Day. I have very mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, it's a cool idea, I see why it was originally "daughters," and I always loved going to work with a parent on that day. (Missing school! Yeah!) On the other hand, it seems terribly sexist. Why don't sons get to go to work with their parents for a day?? Reverse sexism doesn't really seem to be the way to battle sexism in the first place. I know that women have been historically discrimated against, but in my experience in public school and then college, it has always been the boys who are given the disadvantage.

Other opinions?

2002-04-25T13:30:00.000-04:00

Yay, comments are back!

Theresa, whom everyone should go read, by the way, posted the following quote below, and I like it so much I wanted to post it here so everyone reads it. I think it will become my new sig quote, too.

"When change is happening quickly in your life, the you that you are now is likely to become overwhelmed by the you that you are becoming. In such times of great acceleration, try living in the thinnest slice of now that you can imagine."

Thanks Theresa! You don't happen to know the attribution, do you?

2002-04-25T13:16:00.000-04:00

(N.B.: Comments seem to be down at the moment. Come back soon and comment!)

Well, Sam is sick, so one of my classes/quizzes today is canceled! That makes everything much easier. I will have more time to work on the thesis!

The Thesis

Now, about the thesis... I am a Literary Studies major, and my thesis is about Madeleine L'Engle. I am writing about her theology and how it is illustrated in her young adult novels, focusing on the adolescent as a template for spiritual development and ultimately on her focus on the need for individuality. Madeleine L'Engle is very famous--you probably know her for A Wrinkle in Time--but not much scholarly work has been done on her. I'm hoping to remedy this a bit. :-) (The best book about her now is Carole Chase's Suncatcher: A Study of Madeleine L'Engle and Her Writing, but even this is more religious/personal than scholarly.)

So... the thesis is due to the Dean, signed by my committee, on May 8. Two weeks from yesterday. I have a complete draft, but I still have lots of work to do. I will do it, though. I will I will! I'm going to give another draft to my committee tomorrow, and they will give me more comments next week, and then... I guess that will be it. It's all very exciting and scary at the same time! I will then need to figure out who I am when I am not a college student!

2002-04-25T08:33:00.000-04:00

Go look at Beth's Ultrasound! A new knitting blog: Jackie-Blue. Judy has a good link for Overcoming Consumerism. And LJC has a penguin! Thanks MulberryMoon for the link to What's Better. Haven't done much there but it looks like endless procrastination potential. Project Annie has a nice ode to hardware stores. Julie has discovered a yummy-looking Tomato Tart.

Okay, that's enough news summary for now... I need to get ready for school/work!

2002-04-25T07:54:00.000-04:00

I was in middle school when Alanis Morissette first got big, and I didn't really like her then. But I like her new song that's on the radio all the time, "Hands Clean," and I've heard a few interviews with her recently that I've really liked. So I've decided that I want her new CD, Under Rug Swept. Of course, I never buy CDs, so... we'll see.

2002-04-25T07:43:00.000-04:00

'morning... I have two quizzes today. Yuck yuck yuck. And a meeting that STARTS at 9 pm. That's just wrong. I have SOOO much to do by tomorrow!!!

Thanks all for asking about my thesis. I'll post about it later today. Now I'm going to study Italian verbs.

2002-04-24T23:02:00.000-04:00

Good night!

2002-04-24T22:20:00.000-04:00

Look at them talking about us here! Thanks Theresa for the link.

Coconut rice pudding is yummy. Although a bunch of people I just mentioned it to seem to think it sounds disgusting. What do you think? Poll! Answer below!

2002-04-24T19:38:00.000-04:00

I really need to stop being so TIRED when I get home! It makes it really really difficult to get any work done. And long conversations with my mother do not help either. Why does everything have to be so DIFFICULT??????????

2002-04-24T16:44:00.000-04:00

I'm starting to feel like I can do this! I can I can I can!

2002-04-24T13:18:00.000-04:00

Take the ICQuiz!

2002-04-24T09:57:00.000-04:00

Wendy has a nifty sheep phone, and Urban Gypz spun some very nice yarn. Go check it out! I want to make a Poem Tag but I do not know what poem to use.

I think that TV Turnoff Week is a great idea but the two shows per week I watch are the only time I let myself relax so I really really need it right now. Maybe next year!

2002-04-24T09:18:00.000-04:00

Ohhh it just hit me that my thesis is due two weeks from today! Ack ack ack ack ack!!!!!! Please comment and tell me that it will all be okay and I'll finish and graduate!

2002-04-24T08:45:00.000-04:00

Librarian Avengers

2002-04-24T08:43:00.000-04:00

It is supposed to be 58 today! Yay!

2002-04-24T08:39:00.000-04:00

Good morning! I'm feeling a little better about everything this morning. Just a little, but... yeah. And I think today will be a fairly calm day. Hopefully I'll actually get some of my work done. And maybe some cleaning. That would be good. I am babysitting this afternoon, which means I will have time to knit! Yay!

And Enterprise is new tonight!

2002-04-23T23:23:00.000-04:00

Ohhh I'm so scared about graduation and finding a job and living with J and all that. As much as I want to be done with school and leave, I really really don't at the same time. It's safe here. The real world is scary. I need to figure out who I am when I'm not part of this unique weird little college. I'm trying to remember who I used to be, and I don't know if I can, and I don't know if it matters. What do I do?

2002-04-23T21:15:00.000-04:00

I'm eating a burrito... where's Aisling?

2002-04-23T18:49:00.000-04:00

Got this from Blue Angel...

The Top 8 Reasons Cats Aren't Used as Guide Animals for the Blind

The fire department has better things to do than constantly rescuing the two of you from treetops, all tangled up in the leash and surrounded by barking dogs.

Too high a risk of becoming disoriented while Snowball chases her own tail.

First bird they spot and you're a wet stain on the 3rd Avenue bus lane.

Involuntary 2-mile sprints after every dog encounter.

They weave in and out of your ankles a few times and next thing you know you're being treated for a broken jaw.

Sunny spot in the middle of the road? Nap time!

Too many injuries caused by slipping on hairballs.

..and the Number 1 Reason Cats Aren't Used as Guide Animals for the blind...

That daily jump to the top of the refrigerator is a killer.

2002-04-23T18:39:00.000-04:00

Heeheehee. I've always liked Belle.

I'm eating a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup and it's all Aishy's fault!

2002-04-23T18:18:00.000-04:00

Wow, what a long day. I'm really tired. There has been one crisis after another after another, and somehow I have to fix them all. And now that I am home I do not feel like I have enough energy to do any work. Bad bad bad.

I got three books on ILL today, though! It's exciting. They are: Murder Superior, Deadly Beloved, and A Stillness in Bethlehem. See a theme?? Heehee. These book are really good. You should try them!

2002-04-23T08:38:00.000-04:00

Yay, got the yarn untangled! But as I said, now I must get ready for class and work. No knitting for me this morning. Why can't I just stay home and knit??

(Look for a ramble later on the weirdness of April 23.)

2002-04-23T08:30:00.000-04:00

It's supposed to get up to 50 today. That's good. I want it to be warm again. And I think we should insert another weekend day today so I can get caught up on everything. That would be marvelous.

Ergggh a new bottle of shampoo somehow opened and spilled on stuff, including the rug. Darn.

Yarn very tangled. Almost untangled now though! Of course, by the time it's untangled I'll have to go take a shower and get ready for class.

2002-04-23T07:42:00.000-04:00

Good morning! Sitemeter was very confused but I set my time zone and I think it's better now.

So apparently the coffee pot stayed on for about seven hours or so yesterday, and it didn't burn itself up or set the house on fire or anything! Not something we'll want to repeat, but good to know. When I had made coffee, I thought another housemate would be down soon and want some, so I made enough and left it on for her. But I guess she didn't do her normal routine that morning. So in the future unless there is someone else actually there I will make coffee just for me and turn it off!

I really like this new coffee/knitting/e-mail/blogs morning routine I've started. Really starts the day off nicely.

2002-04-22T22:47:00.000-04:00

Ohhhh I finally finished the typing. Three hours. Three hours I could have spent writing my thesis or doing work that's actually for classes. But no. I spent it typing bad poetry by pretentious undergrads so the darn lit magazine can come out sometime this year, because everyone wants it and expects it but no one else DOES anything. Rrrrrgh.

Wow. Venting is good. I feel better now. But still exhausted, and still haven't done any of my actual work. Sigh.

2002-04-22T19:33:00.000-04:00

Oh, and while panickedly tearing apart my room, I found a bunch of other stuff, including my coupon for a free drink at Starbucks, my tape measure, and a bunch of books I had gotten for free and forgotten about, including (you listening, Aishy?) a Danielle Steel one... Special Delivery. Aishy or anyone else read it? Is it good?

2002-04-22T19:28:00.000-04:00

Well. I did not find that file. No idea what happened to it. But I found enough of the disks that I made it from originally to make it not too too much typing now. So it should be okay. I think. Maybe.

2002-04-22T19:08:00.000-04:00

Oh no oh no oh no! I can't find the file that had almost all the literary magazine in it! I'm the editor and I need to e-mail all the pieces to someone. That's going to be a lot of typing tonight if I don't find it....

2002-04-22T17:41:00.000-04:00

There are no sexy rhymes for bench.

2002-04-22T13:29:00.000-04:00

A friend passed this on:

"I'm just a normal everyday kind of goddess."
-Sandie Shaw, singer

Thought lots of you would like it. :-)

2002-04-22T12:53:00.000-04:00

I'm starting to get really frustrated with a situation at work. (Preface: My boss calls me, generally late at night, about every little thing because I've worked here for a while and she just took over this year.) If she wants to go mess up on her own, fine. If she wants to ask me about every tiny detail and actually DO what I say, that's fine too. It is not fine when she asks me everything and then DOESN'T do it and it's left looking like it's my fault. Rrrrrrgh. At least I'm out of here in a month.

And now a joke J sent me to balance that a little:
A highway patrolman pulled alongside a speeding car on the freeway. Glancing at the car, he was astounded to see that the blonde behind the wheel was knitting! Realizing that she was oblivious to his flashing lights and siren, the trooper cranked down his window, turned on his bullhorn and yelled, "PULLOVER!"
"NO," the blonde yelled back, "IT'S A SCARF!

Heehee. It's supposed to be a blonde joke but I like it as a knitting joke.

2002-04-22T08:15:00.000-04:00

EEK! When I just heard the Marketplace guy do his schpiel, I realized that I dreamed about stocks all night. So weird.

So I've been thinking... I need to make some changes. And yes, I know, I'm having all sorts of changes already: graduation, moving, enforced grownupness. But I need to make changes inside to correspond to all of these other changes, sort of.

So I think I'm going to start making some sort of weekly resolutions... hmm, I need a catchy alliterative name. Something to go with Weekly or Monday. Can't think of anything. Suggestions? Weekly __________? Monday Morning _______? Ooh, how about New Week's Resolutions? Sort of like New Year's Resolutions? I'll use that for now.

Any way, this week's New Week's Resolutions:
1. Get back my motivation/discipline to work.
2. Stop just deciding that things are bad with J because he's not giving me the exact support I need when he most likely doesn't even know what I need.
3. Make my happiness less tied to J/his moods/offhand statements in general.
4. Be more open/friendly around campus.
5. Stick with diet!
6. Try to stay more centered/okay with myself.
7. Keep caught up on various Internet commitments.
8. Don't let Aishy convince me to have a baby! LOL

Okay, seven is probably more than enough. (#8 is a joke, obviously.) We'll see how it goes...

So! Anyone else want to join me on this and make some New Week's Resolutions of your own?? Come on! You know you want to!

2002-04-22T07:33:00.000-04:00

Good morning! I have lots to do but I'm sort of feeling at the moment like it's all doable. We'll see. Time to make coffee and read e-mail/blogs, I think.

2002-04-21T23:45:00.000-04:00

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2002-04-21T23:44:00.000-04:00

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2002-04-21T23:40:00.000-04:00

2002-04-21T19:52:00.000-04:00

Mmmmm milk. I like milk. And cold leftover curly fries are really surprisingly good.

I actually got some work done!

Okay, going to that meeting now for real.

2002-04-21T19:07:00.000-04:00

Rrgh. I am stupid. I didn't take a nap because I thought the Senior Meeting was at 7. But apparently it is at 8. Stupid stupid stupid.

I am feeling better though.

And I have milk! Yay milk. I shall have some milk.

2002-04-21T18:04:00.000-04:00

I feel so horrible. My head hurts and my stomach hurts and it 's so bad I'm crying. It needs to stop. And I asked J to call me so I could talk to him without having to read because that makes my head hurt but no, he's downloading something. And yeah, that's perfectly fine and I understand, but I want someone to CARE that I'm sitting here crying because everything hurts so much.

2002-04-21T16:51:00.000-04:00

Ughhhhh. Headache should go away.

2002-04-21T16:45:00.000-04:00

Aishy, I keep seeing that you're reading here but you're not on AIM. LOL. Frustrating.

I had a nice time at my brother's game, and lots of fun with my parents for once. Party plans coming right along...

And now I'm talking to some random old friends... weird. He called me darling. Why?

2002-04-21T09:34:00.000-04:00

Good morning! Coffee and knitting and e-mail/blog reading... who could ask for anything more?

So I've realized something the past few days... when I look in the mirror, I no longer see just fat! I really don't look that bad, even to myself, anymore! Part of it is probably because of the bit of weight I've lost (6.5 pounds as of today! Woo hoo!) but I think that it's really more just KNOWING that I've lost weight, not seeing a difference. Does that make sense? The change is more in my attitude, not my body. After years of my family telling me I'm fat and ugly, I finally honestly don't believe them!

Now, this doesn't mean that I'll stop trying to lose weight... I still think that I would be healthier if I weighed a little less. But I'm finally convinced that when people look at me, they don't just see fat. And that's really exciting.

2002-04-20T23:17:00.000-04:00

I want a cheesesteak. Or cheesecake, come to think of it. Or just cheese. Yeah. Something. Interesting food. Been eating the same things for weeks to save money/have less food to move. It's boring.

2002-04-20T18:54:00.000-04:00

Well, that was weird.

First the phone rang, which is always odd, because no one ever calls me. It was my aunt--apparently she had called J first because she thought I was there, and talked to him for a while. She was calling because she mentioned my graduation and party and stuff to another aunt and uncle, and they didn't know if they were invited, so the first aunt felt all bad.

So I called my parents to check that the other aunt and uncle HAD been invited... I thought they had, but I wanted to make sure. And they had, and their invitation should get to them today. So that was all okay.

But then my mom tells me that my brother (11 yrs old) has a soccer game tomorrow in a town not far from here, so I get to go and see my family and stuff! This is exciting. I love my brother and haven't gotten to see him play enough recently. And it will be great to see my parents for a little while and have fun and not have to try to stay in the same house with them for days. Hmmmm and maybe I can convince them we should go out for dinner or something after the game. (It's at 12:30.) And they are bringing me two books I forgot at their house!

But yeah. It was all totally unexpected and really weird.

2002-04-20T17:13:00.000-04:00

Yay, I got another chunk of thesis work done, and the other load of laundry done. Only 6 more things to do!

How do you like the weather thingy at the top?

2002-04-20T15:57:00.000-04:00

I have one load of laundry done and put away, and worked on one thesis chapter. So two more things crossed off the list... 8 to go! It's yucky out, though, so I'm not going to go for a walk... I'll do some stretching in here instead.

My nails are long. I should find my clippers and cut them.

2002-04-20T14:18:00.000-04:00

So I haven't really gotten much more done, but I took a shower so I would be able to cross something off my list and therefore allowed to post about the earthquake! I didn't know about it until Aishy told me, but then I realized that I woke up right around when it was, so maybe I felt it. J said he woke up then too. (We're in different states at the moment.) So weird. We're not used to earthquakes in the Northeast. We can handle hurricanes and blizzards, but... earthquakes??

The scale said 127! Wow! So exciting!

10 more things to do...

2002-04-20T13:14:00.000-04:00

Yay, I finished the book! Only 11 things to go...

Housemates made blueberry pancakes and gave me one. I don't think I really liked it. I like eating fresh blueberries, but I don't think I like them in things.

2002-04-20T11:52:00.000-04:00

Okay, I have glasses on now and a mug of coffee, so I'm feeling more alive. Yay coffee. I don't even like it for the caffeine--if all coffee was decaf, that would be fine with me--but I love love love the taste and drinking something warm. (Also like tea, chai, cider, cocoa, warm milk, etc.) So I try to stay unaddicted to caffeine but it's hard when so many things I like to drink have it in them. I don't know. Weird.

But anyway, yeah. If I get three things done every two hours, I will be done by eight and have the whole evening free to read and knit and play online!

For the rest of the day, I will only let myself post after I finish something on my list.