Throw me somethin' mister / I wanna dance with your sister We went to Mardi Gras Galveston this past Saturday... it was fun, and crazy, and everything I suppose Mardi Gras is supposed to be (except, you know, it wasn't in New Orleans). And now I want to go dancing, so that may be the plan for this weekend (we'll see).
I spent most of Sunday recovering from Saturday (and the weird feeling-tired-and-blah sickness thing I've been fighting for like, two weeks now). It was raining, so I couldn't finish the yard work (which was more than ok with me)... but I did get some house work done (go me!).
I bought a new calendar this week... the squares on my old (free) one were so tiny I was having trouble recording all the things I wanted to keep track of. I ordered this specific calendar because everyone said the squares were big enough for anything. So yeah, it came in the mail this week, and I opened it up to put it on the fridge on Sunday. Oh. My. Goodness. This is like, the calendar of huge squares +10. It is so freakin' big, I couldn't hang it on the freezer door (it's too skinny), so I had to move everything from the fridge side to the freezer side and put this one on the fridge side. I was able to write meals for the week (instead of trying not to lose my little meal plan lists), and still have room for everything I need. And more. nd I don't have to write tiny (or smaller than usual, anyway).
I wake up and tear drops they fall down like rain... Blah. Been having kinda a blah week, really. I think I'm coming down with something (when am I not?), I've been waaaay stressed out at school (having your ass handed to you on a platter by the departmental progress committee will do that), the realization that New Orleans is never going to fully recover has finally hit me, and it's just been kinda blah.
But this past weekend was awesome. I enjoyed New Orleans Mardis Gras to it's fullest (and by that, I mean the drunken part but not the orgy part. Contrary to popular opinion, I do have a few limits). I caught beads (lots of beads), ate decent New Orleans food (port of call was really busy, so no hamburgers for us), watched parades, walked down Bourbon Street, and drank a drink that was literally more than half as tall as I am. In case you wanted to know, I cannot in fact hold my liquor like He-Man, everything is funnier when you're drunk, my drunken vocabulary mostly consists of the words "totally" and "awesome", and fire is the most totally awesome thing ever to be in a parade. Oh yeah, and I'm never (ever) allowed to drink that much Hurricane again.
But yeah. Back to the humdrum (but not boring, no never boring) life of a grad student. I've finished tonight's homework, and now I'm trying to decide whether to read Eugene Field while taking a bath, or to play Elebits (the greatest Wii game evar).
Oh yeah... all my pictures are broken. I'm working on that, it's annoying, I hsould have it fixed sometime this week (moaybe tomorrow).
Broken Roads So I was going to post somehting mushy yesterday, in honor of it being valentine's day, but I forgot :/ Then when I rembered today, I realized that 1) it's not valentine's day any more, and 2) the song lyrics I was going to post that remond me of Chad... I already posted them. A while back. When the song came out, I think. So yeah, I'm not going to repost them here, but I think "Bless the Broken Road" by Rascall Flatts would have been appropriate yesterday.
Other than random forgetting of stuff (which is totally normal, for me, I suppose), I'm kind of just hanging in here. I think I might have pissed off my advisor, and I'm really really tired for nogood reason, and I fixing to have to sue my car insurance company because my health insurance company is going to stop paying for my back problems, since they were caused by my accident, and my car insurance company thinks they shouldn't have to pay all of it (or something). it all lovely.
But. It is all ok. Because, rain or shine (weather.com says shine!), I'll be in New Orleans for Mardis Gras weekend (which is to say, Saturday), and I get to see all (some) of my Mississippi people, and be totally crazy (within some amount of reason, I suppose). Yay for Mardis Gras! Yay for New Orleans! Yay for Port of Call hamburgers, and other good NOLA food! Yay for parades, and beads, and old friends! Yay for Harry Conick, Jr. (just because)!
Happy Fat Tuesday... So I totally missed out on Mardis Gras this year. Chad and I were going to catch the start of hte parades in Galveston weekend before last, but the weather was gross. And we were thinking about this past weekend... but I was at Rice all weekend.
Where I had a great time. And found out lots of important things. I now have a major professor, and it looks like I have (interesting) research for the fall. I will most likely be working on the design of non-traditional computing devices, specifically medical equipment. The campus is beautiful, and I really liked everyone in the department. Fall can't get here fast enough, seriously.
And we bought a lawn mower yesterday. One more step into the real world of grown-ups, I guess.
ok.... Changed link to Williams blog... you no longer need a password. Yay!!
Today has gone pretty well, considering I slept through most of it... Guess I'm storing up for Statewide this weekend. I'm spending the weekend in Oxford, actually... or right outside there.... Camp Lake Stevens. With Wesley people from all over the state... it's gonna be awesome!!
And then next weekend, I'm chillin here in Starkville.... and then the weekend after, it's down to the Coast for Mardi Gras!! Yay!!
Anyway.... must find food. Be back maybe... dunno, though. Today is belly dancing day *grin* And then i have choir... hompefully I'll have time to write more.
This is my brain..... in part, at least.
