Good News!!

I PASSED I PASSED I PASSED I PASSED I PASSED I PASSED

monday monday monday monday

So Kris and I have resovled that we may start jogging (operative word in my case is may). I used to imagine myself as a jogger and apparently I still do so. I imagine me in some running pants with my silver runners and my nano, running by the canal and then stopping at starbucks to drink a big fatty latte. LIVE THE DREAM ALEX, LIVE THE DREAM!!

Today I had a wonderful day. I did laundry and made banana bread, all before 10am, then I looked at various job postings and got a bit discouraged. Anyway, my point is, I didn't work on my paper!! It was so lovely. I actually got to spend the weekend - the whole weekend - with my Kris. It was glorious!

We went to see 300. Visually, it was awesome! If there had been no dialogue, it would have been perfect. But it was made so sweet by the unexpeced 2 for 1 student discount we got! I love discounts.

Ummm, I guess that's all for today. Oh, except that today we had a lightening and thunder storm. It was vewy weerd...

PUUUUSH...

I sent draft # 1 in its entirety to my supervisor about 20 minutes ago.

ты можешь переводить с русского языка на английский?

Okay my Chickens - tomorrow's the second go around. Wish me luck!!

FYI

I get to marry this gorgeous smarty pants in 88 days!!!

I'm excited - we bought our airline tickets today, so...it's official?

I think I can I think I can...

Oh my! I haven't updated my blog in almost a month. I honestly didn't realize that much time had past. My head has been buried in all my books. I estimate that I have two library shelves stacked up in our apartment ... thereabout. I'm a book hoarder, I know. But I never know when I might need a particular book and it's just safer to keep them for five months at a time.

BTW - Thanks everyone for your comments on my last post. I don't think I'm really any closer to my own definition, but it's something I continue to contemplate.

I am about 8 to 10 hours of work away from finishing the first draft of my research essay. I can't believe how anticlimactic it all feels. Nearly two years of thinking and writing about one topic and I really feel like I have a dwindling kind of relationship with this paper. I loved the subject in the beginning and now, I feel like it has sucked so much of my energy that I'd be fine with just dumping it. Overall, I think when this is over I will have a much better idea of my capabilities. There were so many points that I just wanted to give up and drop out, when I was so depressed and caught up in a personal identity crisis, that finishing this - actually finishing this degree - will likely be one of the greatest accomplishments of my life. A personal accomplishment more than anything because ultimately I will have defeated that part of me that was constantly saying "you can't do this." So there - f!@# you negative Alex, hello Master A-Fo!

Finally, I am so proud of my mom and dad for redoing their living room. No more pink carpet! Only gorgeous hardwood from now on.