Well Hello there Mr.Coffee...what cho doin?
So about 2 weeks ago my coffee pot broke. It just decided that it was time to retire and go to coffee pot heaven. I've been trying new methods in making my coffee every morning. However, all of them have been too time intensive and some of them are down right messy. My last method has been working quite well actually, but some members of society are dismayed by it. I've been using an old sock as a filter. Its true. I get up in the morning put water on the stove to boil and then fill the sock with coffee grinds and dunk it in and out of the hot water.
This afternoon a faculty member in the office was discussing how she can tell if coffee is more than an hour old. After she left I started confiding in my co-workers on my coffee distress and the new uses I have found for old socks. A good laugh later, Emily C., my boss, mentioned that there was an old coffee pot that has been laying around in the work closet that they would donate to my cause! Yeahhhh! Sponsership continues on in life! Ask and you shall receive!! Now I just have to carry this coffee maker across campus (wierd looks will be funny) and take old school Mr. Coffee, my new boyfiend, back to his new home. :)
Monday, April 28, 2008
Beautiful Rachel came to visit me this past weekend! We had a very fun-filled good ol' time (that line sounds like I need to put my teeth back in). Warning - Men in North Carolina, Beware of Rachel. She is growing prettier by the day! Salsa, swing, and booty dancing went down, along with shopping and touring Greensboro. I can't decide if life is truly more random when she is around or if I just notice more random things when we are together.
Right now I am definitely procrastinating. It was so nice to take a weekend off, which I haven't done in a long time, but now it is hard to motivate myself to push through the last week.
Last night at the Well we were talking about God's Will. At one point I was totally dazed off in my own world and thinking about how I'm craving a relationship with someone. Sometimes you just need a hairy armpitt to crawl into. Calling all bachelors...hairy armpitt needed! Well it doesn't have to be hairy, just available and belonging to the male gender! Please see my administrative assistant for further details on how to download the application.
Much love,
Em
Right now I am definitely procrastinating. It was so nice to take a weekend off, which I haven't done in a long time, but now it is hard to motivate myself to push through the last week.
Last night at the Well we were talking about God's Will. At one point I was totally dazed off in my own world and thinking about how I'm craving a relationship with someone. Sometimes you just need a hairy armpitt to crawl into. Calling all bachelors...hairy armpitt needed! Well it doesn't have to be hairy, just available and belonging to the male gender! Please see my administrative assistant for further details on how to download the application.
Much love,
Em
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
...and the Choir sings Alleluia
Wow! I am so blessed right now! Amazing wonderful things have been happening in my life. It's totally insane.
1. Free stay at the Proximity Hotel...BUT they also sent me $50 to spend at their Printworks restaurant.
2. I picked up my bridesmaid dress for Stephanie's wedding and it looks great. I need to get it taken in a lot, but the color and the style is so flattering.
3. I made and A in Anna's class (Sustainable Evolution), which totally caught me off guard. Not only is she giving me an A, but she said that she enjoyed reading it ..."rave reviews for Emily Becker's paper", "its astonishing" and "well-written." I about peed my pants. She is so intensely hard that grad students often can't pass her. Happy dances around my desk definitely ensued after I read her e-mail. The first paragraph of my paper is
Like a lover, nature is continually trying to woo our hearts with its beauty. Yet, since the
industrial revolution we have progressively gotten more violent in the bludgeoning of its
tenderness in a shameless manner. Like a marriage in need of rehabilitation for healthy
survival, our goal needs to revolve around maintaining the sweetness still left in the
relationship while heartily pursuing to restore inceptive fascination. This goal for
restoration has become known as the sustainability movement.
4. My apartment is clean. I haven't done laundry since spring break, so its been like 7 weeks. Gross...I know. It feels so good not to step over piles of clothes to get to my bed and my desk.
5. Rachel's coming this weekend!!! Yayaya! It will be so much fun! I'm trying to get a group of my friends to come out dancing with us on Friday night. Swing dancing is Saturday and will be lots of fun.
6. Speaking of dancing...I'm going salso dancing tonight!!! Yaya! I wasn't able to go last week because I had way to much work to do...my body was sad it didn't get to strut around a dance floor. It will perk up tonight.
7. My parents are seriously considering getting me a laptop for my birthday!!!! It would be so awesome! The other night I just randomly called them and started begging them for one and telling them it would be such a blessing to me. I usually feel bad asking them for money, just because I know they are tight with funds. That isn't to say I don't call when I need help, but I try to limit it. Soo yay laptop! This means I can work at home in the fall for studio and not have to be stuck at school everynight until like 10 or 12. Also, I can work on my special design programs at work when things are slow, which is quite often.
8. For those of you who don't know I have been offered the same assistantship for next year, and with tuition waiver funds being cut in the school this is really great!
Yes, things are going great! I'm exhausted, but still moving along as the light at the end of the tunnel, called "the end of the semester," is coming up quickly. Last night I was talking to Ellen and she was like what are you doing this summer and where will you be..."I have no clue." Ellen- "when is the end of the semester?" Me - " May 5th" Ellen- " That's in 12 days...you don't know where you'll be in 12 days." Me- "Nope." I highly doubt that I will be getting an internship from Little, but I should know by the end of this week for sure. Whatever! My summers never turn out as planned...EVER! Through it though God has relaxed me on some of my stringent career goals. I usually end up seeing why he works things out the way he does before the end of the summer. I will have plenty of time in my life to wear business suits, go to a regular job and work 8 to 5 shifts, so if I end up working at Starbucks for the summer I'll just make the best of it. The question is here or DC? I have friends and a life here now and DC would be so boring! I'm not sure if the money I'd save on rent would really be worth having a dreadful summer. Oh the thing about the summer...wait no there was one bad one. I worked in New Orleans at Semolina's resturant, had no friends and drowned myself in watching Sex in the City all summer. I don't want that to happen again.
Part of me really feels like I should stay here, but the other side knows that I will have to take out about another $1,000 loan at least just for the difference. Tomorrow, I'll find out how much of a scholarship I will be getting for next year...but I have a sneaky suspicion that it will be like $250...probably less than $500. It would really be a miracle if I got more, but I doubt it.
"...whatever will be will be. The future's not our's to see..." I'll figure it out soon enough. For now I'm just happy to live in the moment!
Wow! I am so blessed right now! Amazing wonderful things have been happening in my life. It's totally insane.
1. Free stay at the Proximity Hotel...BUT they also sent me $50 to spend at their Printworks restaurant.
2. I picked up my bridesmaid dress for Stephanie's wedding and it looks great. I need to get it taken in a lot, but the color and the style is so flattering.
3. I made and A in Anna's class (Sustainable Evolution), which totally caught me off guard. Not only is she giving me an A, but she said that she enjoyed reading it ..."rave reviews for Emily Becker's paper", "its astonishing" and "well-written." I about peed my pants. She is so intensely hard that grad students often can't pass her. Happy dances around my desk definitely ensued after I read her e-mail. The first paragraph of my paper is
Like a lover, nature is continually trying to woo our hearts with its beauty. Yet, since the
industrial revolution we have progressively gotten more violent in the bludgeoning of its
tenderness in a shameless manner. Like a marriage in need of rehabilitation for healthy
survival, our goal needs to revolve around maintaining the sweetness still left in the
relationship while heartily pursuing to restore inceptive fascination. This goal for
restoration has become known as the sustainability movement.
4. My apartment is clean. I haven't done laundry since spring break, so its been like 7 weeks. Gross...I know. It feels so good not to step over piles of clothes to get to my bed and my desk.
5. Rachel's coming this weekend!!! Yayaya! It will be so much fun! I'm trying to get a group of my friends to come out dancing with us on Friday night. Swing dancing is Saturday and will be lots of fun.
6. Speaking of dancing...I'm going salso dancing tonight!!! Yaya! I wasn't able to go last week because I had way to much work to do...my body was sad it didn't get to strut around a dance floor. It will perk up tonight.
7. My parents are seriously considering getting me a laptop for my birthday!!!! It would be so awesome! The other night I just randomly called them and started begging them for one and telling them it would be such a blessing to me. I usually feel bad asking them for money, just because I know they are tight with funds. That isn't to say I don't call when I need help, but I try to limit it. Soo yay laptop! This means I can work at home in the fall for studio and not have to be stuck at school everynight until like 10 or 12. Also, I can work on my special design programs at work when things are slow, which is quite often.
8. For those of you who don't know I have been offered the same assistantship for next year, and with tuition waiver funds being cut in the school this is really great!
Yes, things are going great! I'm exhausted, but still moving along as the light at the end of the tunnel, called "the end of the semester," is coming up quickly. Last night I was talking to Ellen and she was like what are you doing this summer and where will you be..."I have no clue." Ellen- "when is the end of the semester?" Me - " May 5th" Ellen- " That's in 12 days...you don't know where you'll be in 12 days." Me- "Nope." I highly doubt that I will be getting an internship from Little, but I should know by the end of this week for sure. Whatever! My summers never turn out as planned...EVER! Through it though God has relaxed me on some of my stringent career goals. I usually end up seeing why he works things out the way he does before the end of the summer. I will have plenty of time in my life to wear business suits, go to a regular job and work 8 to 5 shifts, so if I end up working at Starbucks for the summer I'll just make the best of it. The question is here or DC? I have friends and a life here now and DC would be so boring! I'm not sure if the money I'd save on rent would really be worth having a dreadful summer. Oh the thing about the summer...wait no there was one bad one. I worked in New Orleans at Semolina's resturant, had no friends and drowned myself in watching Sex in the City all summer. I don't want that to happen again.
Part of me really feels like I should stay here, but the other side knows that I will have to take out about another $1,000 loan at least just for the difference. Tomorrow, I'll find out how much of a scholarship I will be getting for next year...but I have a sneaky suspicion that it will be like $250...probably less than $500. It would really be a miracle if I got more, but I doubt it.
"...whatever will be will be. The future's not our's to see..." I'll figure it out soon enough. For now I'm just happy to live in the moment!
Saturday, April 05, 2008
Welcome to Trailer Trash Research Saturday
So I woke up at 6:30 this morning so I could continue with writing this elborate 15 page paper that is due on Monday night about the evolution of sustainability. Around 12:30 I decide to go to Harris Teeter to get a few groceries. After attaining the needed items I pack up and head down the street to this gas station that has a Little Cesar's inside for some pizza. Before going to the pizza counter I pursue purchasing an item in which you must be over 18 to purchase...ok cigarettes...yes I know I need to quit. Ne ways, well my wallet was stolen last week and so I have no form of ID except for my school ID, which has no date of birth. Now usually this wouldn't be a problem because I haven't been carded for cigarettes in a long time, but now they ask me for it. I'm like nevermind my wallet was stolen there is a new drivers license being sent to me in the mail. Proceeding to purchase a pizza the young girl, I'd say she was about 18 or 19, who was behind me in line came over and asked me what kind I wanted. I wait in the car like a young child getting ready to bail after pursing a secret mission and after about 3 minutes she comes out and said that the cashier wouldn't sell them to her because she knew they were for me. She said "we can drive down the road to the next place and try" in which I responded with a grateful "thank you but it is really not that big of a deal." I did go to the next gas station though by myself. Well this must be prefaced with the attire I am wearing - a dress with no panties, no makeup and my hair drenched from the shower I took before leaving my apartment. The Indian man in the next gas station over asked me all of these strange questions like if I had a boyfriend. My response was a no and upon his questioning of why I said "probably because I go out in public looking like this." Then the man placed the back of his hand on my left breast and asked me if I would be his girlfriend!?!???!!! What? I was just like I'm too busy for a boyfriend. Have a great day (insert running feet here). I must say that no man has ever asked me to be his girlfriend by placing the back of their hand on my breast before...maybe the palm of a hand, but the back of a hand?
Well after all of that I must now get back to discussing the holistic philosphoies of scholars.
So I woke up at 6:30 this morning so I could continue with writing this elborate 15 page paper that is due on Monday night about the evolution of sustainability. Around 12:30 I decide to go to Harris Teeter to get a few groceries. After attaining the needed items I pack up and head down the street to this gas station that has a Little Cesar's inside for some pizza. Before going to the pizza counter I pursue purchasing an item in which you must be over 18 to purchase...ok cigarettes...yes I know I need to quit. Ne ways, well my wallet was stolen last week and so I have no form of ID except for my school ID, which has no date of birth. Now usually this wouldn't be a problem because I haven't been carded for cigarettes in a long time, but now they ask me for it. I'm like nevermind my wallet was stolen there is a new drivers license being sent to me in the mail. Proceeding to purchase a pizza the young girl, I'd say she was about 18 or 19, who was behind me in line came over and asked me what kind I wanted. I wait in the car like a young child getting ready to bail after pursing a secret mission and after about 3 minutes she comes out and said that the cashier wouldn't sell them to her because she knew they were for me. She said "we can drive down the road to the next place and try" in which I responded with a grateful "thank you but it is really not that big of a deal." I did go to the next gas station though by myself. Well this must be prefaced with the attire I am wearing - a dress with no panties, no makeup and my hair drenched from the shower I took before leaving my apartment. The Indian man in the next gas station over asked me all of these strange questions like if I had a boyfriend. My response was a no and upon his questioning of why I said "probably because I go out in public looking like this." Then the man placed the back of his hand on my left breast and asked me if I would be his girlfriend!?!???!!! What? I was just like I'm too busy for a boyfriend. Have a great day (insert running feet here). I must say that no man has ever asked me to be his girlfriend by placing the back of their hand on my breast before...maybe the palm of a hand, but the back of a hand?
Well after all of that I must now get back to discussing the holistic philosphoies of scholars.
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