Textbooks and Dresses

I'm knockered. (Meaning: worn completely out!)

School starts tomorrow, and it will be my first night class since I was trying to graduate from high school a year early. (No dinosaur jokes, please ...) The rest of my classes will be on Tuesdays.

Work has been a little crazy this week, but I suppose that can be said of most jobs when all of the paperwork is due. End of the month = never a dull moment.

I've also been convinced to be on the United Way committee this year, which has a kick-off luncheon tomorrow. I'm still very unclear as to what I will actually be doing (such is my life), yet I suppose anything for charity is worth doing.

(Did I say "anything"?! Whoooo ... I'm slipping. Never use words like "anything" ... or "never," for that matter. Whatever.)

Nikki and Joe's wedding is this weekend, and I am a bridesmaid, so it is going to be busy, busy, busy. Rehearsal and dinner Friday evening, wedding on Saturday, reception with open bar to follow. Good times!

I'm also quite thrilled because the dresses are chocolate brown and very much wearable outside of the wedding setting. This pleases me, as so many bridesmaids dresses I have seen in my lifetime are completely grotesque and humiliating.

... And don't even get me started on theme weddings! I mean, seriously! What the ... ?

Well, it's 9:30, and I feel like a grandma today, so I might as well embrace it and go to bed now.

Hope all is well! 'Night.

Buckley

How in the world did I forget the BRILLIANCE that is Jeff Buckley?!?!

I put the 'Grace' CD on last night, and can't stop listening to it. The music mirrors my mood.

Gosh, he was SO GOOD! Such a shame.

House of Blues

It's going to take time, my friend
You have to keep graceful dancing ...
- Justin Furstenfeld, 'Graceful Dancing' -

House of Blues was AMAZING!

All work and no play ...

My work week is OVER, and I will be heading to Dallas in the morning for a 3-day mini-break with Kala. We are going to a concert on Saturday night, and hanging out the rest of the time. Yesssssssssssss!

No end to the madness.

Yet again, things are completely monkey-balls in my life! I thought everything would slow down a little after finals last week, but they certainly haven't so far.

I plan to write a pretty sizable post in the next few days. (If only I could do this from work. Ha!)

Speaking of, did I mention my new job? I am an executive assistant at the A-J (the newspaper here in town). I've been in training and am still unsure exactly what my specific job will be, but I think it's one of those things that they are trying to redefine now that the last lady left. I'm not too sure on the details, but hints and whispers lead me to believe that she had been there a LONG time, and was very poorly received by her co-workers.

Hence, me! :)

I can't complain. It is 30 hours a week (all, if not more, than I can swing with grad school), and I get full pay and benefits. Whoo-hoo!!!

Um ... what else, what else? OH! I got a 4.0 in my collective summer classes, which pleases me tremendously. The pact I made with myself before starting school again is safe so far.

Yikes, look at the time!!

So, yeah ... there's more ... but I have to go to work now. Like I said ... a new post in the next few days. Until then ...

Busy bees make tasty honey.

Grad school in the summer is kicking my butt!! But, you know, it's in that really productive, feeling good about myself, happy to be motivated and doing something positive kind of way. I can't complain.

I made a pact with myself to put forth whatever effort must be exerted to receive a 4.0 for my Master's. So far, so good!

I haven't turned on the television, except to decompress and try to fall asleep on occasion, in the past 3 weeks. I can't even tell you what is happening in the world at large. Last I heard, CNN was talking about Michael Jackson non-stop (overkill, if you ask me ... no pun intended).

So, that's my life right now. I'm taking a break this evening to hang out with Kala for a bit, then it will be back to the books.

As soon as I can pull my head from all that is the Texas Tech Education Department (taking only Education courses this summer), I will have a much more exciting update to share. In the meantime, working on that 4.0, baby! ;)

1st day of school.

I start grad school today!! I'm all aflutter.

Updates, pictures of the new house, discussion, and much more to come. Right now, I need to make myself some breakfast, get a little coffee, and start walking to campus (yes, I can actually *walk* ... deeee-lightful!). :)

Yea!!!!