Ft. James, MA

Don't worry, I've not died. The killings of the papers in combination of the heady rush of summer break sent me into blogging hiatus for a while. Promises of great entries to come :)

I was extremely excited about Tori's new album--American Dolle Posse. I've been listening to it for a couple of days now, and all I can say is that she is as provacative as always! I love it! My favorites are the political pieces, such as "Yo George" and "Dark Side of the Sun." An extensive article on MTV.COM describes Tori's new album and the idea behind it extremely well.

One part of the lyrics from Dark Side of the Sun echos my sentiments extremely well:

Brush back my tears and he said "girl,
We have to soldier on
Yes girl, even when we don't feel strong"
So how many young men have to lay down
Their life and their love of their woman
For some sick promise of a heaven

Yes, that's how many weeks that are left of this semester! Yikes! I better start getting REALLY productive. Also, I have a 15 pager due in two weeks, and I have not written a single word yet. UGH.

I had a good weekend, but I'm super tired right now. Just finished a memo and my STATA response paper. I should have gotten it done sooner, but as always, wasn't able to. Still have another response paper to go, due tomorrow at noon. Ugh, I'll make it through. Another super tiring week waiting for me!!!

Can you believe it? The last day of March!!

Things have been going pretty well. Still not as productive as I would have liked, but things are gradually picking up. Hurry up, Jeanette! As for other (good) news...there's a change on my Wednesday shift! I don't have to work under a particular dumb A-- supervisor anymore, instead, I get to stay at my little coffee shop from now on :D Also, my Scott is coming for Easter weekend! Things are pretty nice now, all I have to do finish this semester with flying colors (yes, the hardest part of all....).

Yes, this is so true. Today, I bought my summer plane tickets! It's a bit early, I suppose, however getting one thing out of the way is good (besides, it's fun!). Anyway, I saw on the news today that the new skywalk at Grand Canyon has opened, and they had Buzz Aldrich walk it today (first, or second man to walk where no man has walked before). A little research revealed that...

The glass bridge is suspended 4,000 feet (1 219 meters) above the canyon, a height that eclipses the world's largest skyscrapers.^[1] The bridge's walls and floor are built of glass 4 inches (10.2 cm) thick. The horseshoe shaped bridge protrudes 65 (20 meters) feet from the edge of the canyon. The Skywalk is able to hold 70 tons of weight, allowing for 800 people weighing 175 lbs. (80 kg) each to stand on the bridge. The allowed capacity, though, will be limited to only 120 persons. All visitors will be provided with shoe covers to protect them from slipping and to prevent scratching of the glass floor. (Wikipedia)

Even though the skywalk is a rather controversial issue, but it should be something interesting (that I might possibly end up seeing this summer). Yay! Summer is coming (in about two months)! If only I can get everything done in time...

I think I'm having a slight touch of a potentially bad case of flu. Although I should be sleeping right now (so i can get well soon), but I don't seem to be able to. Don't know what's up with me, ugh. Today sucked! I woke up early this morning to find myself in wintery wonderland. However, the snow wasn't really accumulating, so it's work for me. We were swamped today since half of the staff was out (for weather reasons, I suppose), and the lines become crazy long. It sure didn't help that I felt very exhausted and sick at the same time. Blah.

Finally, I did make it to the end of my day, closing everything with attending a job talk (during which I felt so tired, I almost dozed off several times). I dragged myself home, made dinner, and had hoped to finish the interest group assignment write-up for tomorrow's class (I should not have left this one for the last). As bummy and sick as I am today, I fell asleep around seven thirty and didn't wake up until past ten thirty. Now, my sleeping time is screwed, and I still have not finished the assignment.

I just want to kill myself for falling sick at this time and my lack of disipline.

I've been meaning to write for a while, but have not been able to. The last few weeks had been hard, I felt lost, sad, and without direction. There were just too many options and too many things that needed to be taken into account. Also, the fact that school and work was stressful and taxed a lot of physical energy from me, did not helped with my situation.

Like always, life does go on. Now I feel much stronger both physically and emotionally. Life will be hard, and the next couple of years could potentially be rough. However, I think I'm ready for it. Yes, I am ready.  

I have work early tomorrow and it's late, so I'll keep it short. Life has been a frenzy of late with too much to do (which I kept putting off...horrible!) and too much to think about. However, due to reasons which I will not go into right now, I'll be working my ass off this week (and weekend, cashing in on my extra day off on President's Day). I need to be strong and take up things like I should. Afterall, I should not forget my foremost reason for leaving home. 

Finally, my week has ended with Thursday. The classes were fine, each very interesting in its own way, and my new job(s) is going well. However, I think my body still needs some adjustment to this new schedule of mine. Maybe it's because it's the first week back or something, my eyes were burning by 8:00pm, but I had to resist the urge of going to sleep right away. Hopefully, I'll be very much improved next week...

Reading load for this semester is pretty much the same since I've already noticed that political parties is going to be a killer. The readings are long, and there's a reading reponse memo every single week. In the beginning of the semester, it should be okay, but once things start to get hectic, it's gonna be a pain. Oh, but I guess it's no use complaining...just have to deal with it!