Switching To Secondary Systems

1. StaceFace, I will make time for talking. When tomorrow are you around? If not tomorrow, let's try for Sunday. I know most people (you) are cool and may have plans on Friday in the late afternoon/evening, but I will call you when I leave my Tower and if I getcha I gotcha. Whatever.

2. So our anniversary? Yeah, that day yesterday? Awesome. We did a bunch of "us" things. Like eating at vegan restaurants, eating vegan breakfast (have I told you guys about how JD always makes me breakfast? Well, usually makes me breakfast? It is the fucking best thing in my whole world. Yesterday he made tofu scramble. Sweet god that stuff is good). It felt like Christmas morning. We went to the beach, went to a bookstore and read magazines. So fucking awesome.

3. He got me an iPod. Oh yes, a video iPod. I put all my photos and my entire music library on it last night and I still have about half the gigs left. Dang. It is fucking awesome. I peed my pants right away. then, THEN, I see that he had it engraved: 2,557 days and counting. AWWWWWWWWWWWWW

4. So I got him a PSP.

5. Yeah. Must go. Work to do and this is the most gorgeous day I've ever seen.

We've Both Been Very Brave, We Walk Around With Both Legs

Tomorrow is me and Jadles' 7 year (give or take, snicker) anniversary. How horrible a person have i already become upon internalizing the Laziness Decree? So horrible that I just now, the night before the day of this momentous Last-Anniversary-As-Unmarried-Couple event, googled, "anniversary gift" for ideas.

Yeah, lame. I KNOW.

I am tired as fuck. I ache. I want to take a nap so damn bad. But I haven't solved the analytic problem I have been working on for, NO SHITTING YOU INVOLVED HERE: nine hours. On one little tiny fucker of a problem. It is preventing me from writing the remainder of the section of the paper that it concerns, which puts me behind schedule, which irritates me. Were you curious to know how I would cope with direct criticism of my laziness? Well, I made the most neurotic, detailed, organized spreadsheet you have ever seen. I listed each and every project and time commitment, and I estimated time-to-completion (in hours!) of each item. Then, I made this week's to-do list, but I made it in hourly increments. So I am telling myself when to do which project and for how long and there is very little leeway for me to do otherwise. In this fashion, I am very productive as a grad student. We will be interested to see how long this holds. I've been at it for about four days now and, while it could be because of my extremely irritating day today, I want to stab myself in the face and I'm not even near done with today's items.

I sent my advisor a bunch of things today that are not due until Thursday. This was very pointedly done. She emailed me back that I had obviously been busy. WELL, THAT WOULD BE THE GODDAMN POINT, WOULDN'T IT

Sorry. So sorry.

In other news? My wedding band came today. I would post a photo of the little blue box with white ribbon that it arrived in if I thought anyone else cared. Yes, I took a photo. JD ordered his too and it should be here sometime this week, I think. Why boys like titanium over platinum I will never understand. Teehee.

Planning was in full swing this weekend. We planned two different rooms (the library and the old rectory) in Edinburgh, 2 nights in Inverness, and Aberdeen.I've talked to a photographer, JD's talked to the registrar people (such a mountain of fucking paperwork!), things are moving along.

I just discovered podcasting the other night. Don't laugh. I just hadn't gotten around to it. Love it. LOVE LOVE LOVE ricky gervais. We have the office season 2 and the special extra episodes on netflix loan right now, have had them for about a monht, but I can't part with either. I watch them all the time. Fuck, I wish I had gotten into that show a long time ago.

Ok, I have to go think hard about what a bad fiancee I am to not have any killer ideas for a present. He mentioned some kind of music cable, but that is just too too lame. Can't do it.

Ninnyway

Now you see why I don't update? I am so boring. I am delving into this Full On Dork Thing, as prescribed, and already nerd jokes seep into my everyday thought. Boo. Ok back to reading this thing by this guy whose name rhymes vaguely with "science" about whom JD made the following joke: "You should call the article "He blinded me with zience(sic)" when you present it in class next week." I laughed for about an hour straight, until I walked into a fart cloud some frat boys courteously left over by the leg extension machine and threw up in my mouth.

You'll Make Me Wish For The Day Right Before I Was Born

1. Ladies, ladies. Do you ever have days where one of your nipples is just really sensitive? And your bra bothers the poor thing all day long? I am having one of those days. What's that? Oh, the left one. Yeah.

2. I had a sit-down with my advisermom yesterday. She told me nicely that it's time to grow up and stop being lazy if I want to make anything of myself in the next few years. She sandwiched that between two compliments, so I barely registered the Verbal Bitchslap, but she's right. There is no point to doing this halfway, and I have been doing the bare minimum so far and it has to change. It was like the State of the Student address. I didn't like the part where she told me how she used to work 7am-11pm, 7 days a week, though. So not my style. But, the gauntlet has been thrown down, and it's time to get my fucking act together. Personally, I was not sure it was possible to be any busier than I am, but obviously since I have time to blog, breathe, shit, and occasionally hang out with my friends, that is Not Busy Enough. She's right though, and she was very nice about it, making it seem more like my idea than hers, and I've been thinking I need to get my ass in gear and smarten up anyway. So, there's that....

3. Comp cds are finally in the mail to those of you who requested them. They are KICKASS.

4. Well, I have to go. We are spending our days off (but now since I don't get those anymore, I suppose I'm dipping into negative time off) cleaning this pig sty because the g.parents are coming over again tomorrow. And unsurprisingly, our house is a total mess. I won't point fingers, but if you were here you would see that I am pointing at Jessica.

5. Oh Kyle I'll pay it forward. I am not buying you a camera, but I will send some good vibrations your way. I still don't totally get how it works, because I don't want to end up stabbed. So I'll babystep it for a while.

6. I have an existential crisis to return to. Laters.