it’s GOOSING season!

well

Enough with the whining.

It helps that I got 12 hours of sleep last night.Woke up to the rain, lots and LOTS of rain. It was lovely. Not little bitty drizzly rain, but huge mother-fucking downpour like tears from the gods rain.

If it’s going to rain, I prefer the monsoons. They sound better, they’re better to watch, and if I’m going to have to go out in it and get wet….I might as well get really really wet.

So I slept in until 8pm, so that it wouldn’t be quite so dark, got up, got dressed (I did feel slightly silly taking a shower so that I could go out and get really wet again) and then drove part way to campus and walked the rest. I did use my umbrella, but I also splashed in puddles and drank a little bit of the rain…so I’m currently wet to the knees in my jeans, but my mood is greatly improved.

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I sent my poster in today, it should be printed off by Wednesday of next week, just in time for the conference that I leave for next Thursday. Joy of joys…we’re off to Penn State to meet and greet some of the top names in my field – most of whom I’ve read but will never recognize. My lab mate and I will be there from Thursday night until whenever we haul our carcasses out on Sunday….so I suppose I better find me someone to feed, water and otherwise visit with mine kitties.

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While on my way there, I plan to cross-stitch (I’m nearly finished with my cat that I’ve been working on since last October, I’d guess I’ve another 2 to 3 hours to go on that puppy…then I need to frame it – which I shall pay to do. Considering I’ve put well over 500 hours into this sucker, I feel it deserves a good frame job, which I’m incapable of providing) and then I shall write/review more for my thesis.

I’m looking at End-Of-Quarter graduation, because my advisor, who has to give me my oral examination (*snort* pardon my immaturity, but damn, couldn’t they come up with a less suggestive name?) at least 2 weeks before summer commencement, will be out of town for that time…for over a MONTH surrounding that time as well, so it would appear that unless I had a magic epiphany and had my thesis done (and approved) before mid-July, it just isn’t going to happen.

This sucks in some ways, because it will be through NO fault of my own and also because my boss has no clue what is going on, since I’m his first American graduate. In other ways, boy is it nice. It eliminates a lot of my stress, being as I now have that extra month that I thought I lost. I will not, however, receive my diploma until December of this year.

Ah well

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I’m convinced that someone up there in the cosmos has got something against me.

Cramps and all the fun of womanhood topped with insane amounts of time spent just trying to determine WHEN precisely my thesis is due and then spending the rest of my day working on said thesis and only getting out about 500 words…..

I am cranky. I am crampy. and I really really really want a big huge BOAT full of Taco Bell and french fries and chocolate Godiva ice cream and a back massage and a clean apartment (it’s currently lookin’ like it blew up) and for someone else to scoop cat poop, just once…..

*whine, whine, whine*

I’ve just discovered that I apparently have one month less time to do my thesis than I thought.

This requires coke.
and some ice cream.

And possibly some Taco Bell.

Soon to be followed by another period of 12 to 14 hour days in the office.

*sigh*

sadly, it is not a very exciting piercing

definitely not a clit piercing, though this place did those…as well as a whole slew of other ones that they had “special” names for that I didn’t inquire to closely into

Just added a second hole to each ear, a titanium barbell.

Got them pierced at “Piercology”
I was impresed with the professionalism of the staff….as well as by the autoclaves in each room, and the sterilization procedures taken…

Then they stuck the needles through my ears…
I have to say, it didn’t hurt as bad as I thought, indeed, it didn’t really hurt much more than, say, popping a big, juicy zit.

But just the thought of someone stabbing a needle through your ear…and especially since they do it in front of BIG BIG mirrors so you have to see it *shiver*
I wussed out and closed my eyes

I keep trying to think of something to write.

I’m not having much luck.

I think all my words are stuck somewhere in my brain in between my bad dreams and my thesis…which sometimes are one and the same…

The only positive of late, aside from a new piercing and my surrender to the wiles of Coke, is that I am back working at least part time in the lab. Me and the geese feathers are definitely getting it on…there’s about 4,000 of them to get it on with…

from one student to another  in the back of my classroom:

“I wish you just had pegs on your bike so you could RIDE ME!”

I very nearly peed my pants laughing at that one….