Posted by Rebecca
Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:24:00 GMT
My office is in the center of a large suite that has several faculty offices, a copy room, and a conference room off of it.
Every time a faculty member has a meeting in the conference room, they always leave the door wide open and are always really loud. It bothers me, but I get over it because in the grand scheme of things it’s not that big of a deal.
The funny thing is that inevitably, halfway through the meeting someone comes in my office for help, or I get a phone call, which requires me to be slightly louder than a mouse.
Every time this happens, the faculty member suddenly realizes that I exist, and that I have an office just through the door of the conference room. Then, they get up and close the door like it’s the biggest annoyance on the planet.
My job amuses me. A lot.
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Posted by Rebecca
Sun, 16 Mar 2008 19:40:00 GMT
The twenty-six days that have lapsed since I last posted have been interesting and would have likely made for some very intriguing posts.
Too bad I didn’t feel like writing.
See, I have this uncanny knack for taking simple things and creating pressure out of them. Like writing.
Writing is simple. I love it. When I put my mind to it, I write pretty well. And I have good ideas.
But my writing is never good enough for me. And I’ve come to terms with the fact that it’s never going to be. Because I’m slightly insane and have perfectionist tendencies. C’est la vie.
So instead of avoiding writing, I’m just going to proceed with vomiting words all over the internet like I used to.
Hmmm. Apparently I digress easily also.
Here’s a long rambling summary of the last 26 days of my life.
States of mind: Depressed, confused, pissed, frustrated, jealous, excited, content, exuberant, stifled, frightened, happy, peaceful, hateful.
Becky and I are moving into an adorable duplex not far from our current apartment. As a result, I’m damn near broke and loving how God keeps supplying all my needs. He rocks, as always. Like that time yesterday when He brought to mind my spare change jar that I keep in my room. The coin count revealed over a hundred bucks in change that I’m going to use to pay my emergency room bill from Christmas. Yay for not getting a nasty black mark on my credit record!
I’m trucking like the doo dah man once told me you got to play your hand. Sometimes the cards ain’t worth a dime if you don’t lay em’ down.
I love how Grateful Dead lyrics often fit my state of mind. Perhaps I should be scared instead.
Dom and I are doing well. Things are quickly going slow and I’m ever so excitingly frightened.
I’m enjoying not having a class. My head would be bald and scabby from me yanking out my hair by the roots if I was still in the class. And having to pack. And having to move. And answer hard questions about relationships. And study the book of Daniel. Talk about happy headache.
I’m wrapping up my spring break vacation which saw me driving to Big D and back to visit my sis, packing up most of my room, and hanging out with Caroline’s bridal party on Friday to figure out where we’re going to put the tables when we set up for her reception in May. I ate a lot of fried food on Fryday but apparently that’s ok because H. Werle told me I looked skinny today which pretty much made my week.
I’m still upset about my face. Not sure why it’s freaking out but plan to see a dermatologist for it after the move. When I have time and money again.
I voted in the primary. w00t!
I’m going camping over Easter and will be doing lots of geocaching because no matter how hard I try I can’t seem to rid myself of my nerdy tendencies.
I’m studying astronomy from a hebraic perspective. It’s been fun and enlightening. We’ll see how it turns out.
I affixed my TxTag to my car. Finally. After having it for two months.
My toenails got a fresh coat of paint yesterday, and the warm sunny weather confirmed to me that I somehow need to get a little tan. Because man, talk about pasty.
I met Heather Armstrong. She signed my poopie list. Thanks for helping with that, Caroline.
It’s been a great 26 days. I learned a lot, but apparently I never learned when to stop. ;)
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Posted by Rebecca
Tue, 19 Feb 2008 16:47:00 GMT
How I’ve Been Feeling Lately: Exhausted
Why?: Work
Current weight after working on it: 126.4 lbs.
Weight when I started: 132 lbs.
How happy does this make me?: Very.
What happened recently?: I turned 27.
Did I pig out on my birthday?: yes!
Did I gain any weight?: A little.
Do I care?: Not really because it’ll be gone by the end of the week.
Am I looking forward to anything?: Spring break, I have the week off.
What are my biggest worries right now?: My finances and the quality of the skin on my face.
What are my biggest joys right now?: studying the book of Daniel, spending more time with Dominic and spending more time with my friends.
What am I craving right now?: Austin’s Pizza, pepperoni.
Am I going to eat it?: Only if I want to fast for the next three days afterwards to counteract the crazy amount of calories present in pizza.
Are you bored with this blog entry yet?: probably
Am I bored with it?: yes
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Posted by Rebecca
Fri, 18 Jan 2008 21:17:00 GMT
Have you ever had a water droplet fall from a tree into your eye?
If you’re looking up at the tree, I can understand how this would happen, but if you’re facing forward because, I dunno, you’re walking somewhere…how does that drop of water manage to find your eye and get into it?
Isn’t that ridiculously annoying?
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Posted by Rebecca
Mon, 14 Jan 2008 21:32:00 GMT
My professor, I want her for my very own. I want to wrap her in a hanky, put her in my backpack, take her home, unwrap her and sit her on my bookshelf so I can look at her hair whenever I feel like it.
Her hair is glorious!
How can I describe it? Organized chaos.
organized chaos = a styled mess ≠ a messy style
Seriously. She’s got to be about fifty, and she looks like she spent forever trying to style her hair and it just didn’t work. It’s gorgeous.
Not only does she have great hair, but she has a fantastic personality to boot. She’s cut & dry, blunt, and yet not at all intimidating or bitchy.
Very different from the last professor. Who was vague. His clarification, when asked for it, was equally vague. And he was TERRIBLY afraid of offending anyone. Sheesh.
So I’m really looking forward to this woman who is going to teach me everything I need to know to write literary fiction.
I’m going to be busy.
That means my already sporadic blogging and my regular personal journaling will likely suffer, but that’s ok. I’ll still be writing, and even better than that, I’ll be creating.
And I’ll have an awesome to look at, incredible to listen to, and fun to be around smart lady there to help me through it. Who, by the way, has given us permission to use her first name.
Awesome!
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Posted by Rebecca
Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:58:00 GMT
…with peep toe shoes.
I’ve never understood these shoes. To me, they are the El Camino of shoes. Are they pumps? Are they sandals? What are they?
I always felt like these shoes didn’t understand themselves. They never had any sense of identity…maybe they even had some kind of split personality.
When they came back into style about two years ago, I was annoyed that the indecisive shoes had reappeared.
I’ve been browsing the web for possible shoes to wear in Caroline’s wedding, (I’ll be wearing some kind of sandal at her request) and I keep seeing these peep toe shoes everywhere. The more I see them, the more I like them. I may even start to love them here in a minute.
I guess that means I’ll be getting some soon.
But you’ll never get me to love an El Camino.
Never.
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Posted by Rebecca
Sun, 06 Jan 2008 22:22:00 GMT
We went dress shopping today, and I really thought that I wasn’t going to find anything else that I liked because one of the dresses at David’s Bridal looked good on me and I’m not much of a shopper so I was thinking of going with that one.
Then today, we went to Belle Saison. I pulled four dresses off the racks, and they were the only ones I was interested in.
Now, when shopping for dresses, you often come across dresses you like or even dresses you love, and you may even buy these. But every now and then, you put on a dress and the dress serenades you with heartfelt love songs on the violin, under your window on starlit nights.
This happened to me today. I was in the dressing room and I put the dress on, and of course it was too big so Marci clipped it on the back so it would fit. I blinked once when I saw myself in the mirror and was so overcome with excitement that I started yelling “I’m in love! I’m in love!”
I bolted out the door to show Caroline and when she saw it on me she broke out into a huge smile. It seemed like every one knew it was the perfect dress for me. I think at one point I even heard Caroline say “Rebecca owns that dress!”
Sheesh, and I’m not even the one who’s getting married!
Anyway, I ordered it and it was under my budget for the dress which was fantastic. I’m super excited!
The dress will be solid navy, and will be this style.
It’s the moments like this that make me incredibly thankful that God made me a girl.
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Posted by Rebecca
Thu, 03 Jan 2008 01:19:00 GMT
Check it out.
I’m bored.
Bored.
Me. Bored.
Not busy, not stressed, not frustrated and ready to pull the plug on school while simultaneously pulling my hair out.
Just bored.
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Posted by Rebecca
Tue, 18 Dec 2007 19:09:00 GMT
My lunch plans today consisted of a walk to the bank to deposit a check into my account and then a nice quiet lunch at the empty Texas Union with no one but Jane Austen to keep me company.
Of course, when I went to get ready to leave my office, I couldn’t locate my debit card. I had used it on breakfast this morning because I was running late and didn’t have time to make something before dashing out the door. So I thought I might have accidentally left the card on the passenger seat in the car. I was concerned about not having money for lunch. I get really grumpy and icky feeling when I’m hungry for too long.
As I was walking to my car to check for it, Marci called to say that she’d love to walk with me to the bank, just to get out into the lovely weather. When I couldn’t locate my card in the car I told her my whole story and she said, “Don’t worry about it, I can loan you some cash.”
Yay. I was going to get to eat lunch after all. :)
As I was walking back to the ATM to meet her, not only did I find the card in my purse, where it is supposed to be, but I was struck by how dumb I had just been.
There I was, worried about not being able to get money for lunch, and where was my first stop going to be? The bank? To deposit a check?
It’s called less cash, Goober.
Can I go on vacation now?
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Posted by Rebecca
Tue, 11 Dec 2007 15:47:00 GMT
I looked on weather.com just now to see what the temperature did here over the last few days. Here’s what I learned:
December 9, 11:00 AM: 76 degrees F
December 9, 11:00 PM: 37 degrees F
December 10, 11:00 AM: 40 degree F
December 10, 11:00 PM: 49 degrees F
December 11, 11:00 AM: Forecasted 82 degrees F
December 11, 11:00 PM: Forecasted 67 degrees F
If you think this is crazy, check out this text I copied from the Special Weather Statement for Austin, TX:
WARMER CONDITIONS WILL COME TODAY IN WAKE OF YESTERDAYS COLD WEATHER THAT FOLLOWED UNSEASONABLY WARM DAYS OVER THE WEEKEND.
COLDER TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED WEDNESDAY…IN WAKE OF A COLD FRONT… FORECAST TO MOVE ACROSS THE AREA WEDNESDAY MORNING. THE WARMEST PART OF THE DAY WILL LIKELY BE IN THE MORNING…AS TEMPERATURES ARE FORECAST TO FALL DURING THE DAY. A CHANCE OF RAIN AND SHOWERS WILL ONLY ADD TO THE COOLER CONDITIONS WEDNESDAY.
At least there’s one thing on this planet more fickle than my emotions.
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