| side note: I really like spongy ear plugs...you can feel the noise dissipating as they expand. Kind of cool.
anywho, I have started my Ph.D., continued working full time, joined a volleyball and ultimate frisbee team, and still train in kickboxing.
Needless to say ...Lisa has a full plate. But it is a wonderful thing, I absolutely love all of it. I've always kind of enjoyed chaos...it makes me feel normal. Even if it's relatively structured chaos.
It feels really good to have finally found exactly what I want to do with my life. It's taken a long uphill battle to get here...not to say it's easy now by any means... but it feels nice to be near a finish line and stepping into careerville. Careerville is where people with careers live...basically.
Ottawa has been kind...I just wish it didn't get so cold in this city. I also wish I could import some good quality old friends to these parts. Not old as in elderly friends...but more so, friends I've known a while. I actually have filled my quota of the former.
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| I've got a lot of things on my desk.... most of them need "doing". One of them needs drinking (I am kindly obliging delicious 'delight' tea)... Another one needs reading...some need sorting,... which I guess could all fall under the broad 'doing category" ...as in to say, things i would put on my 'to do' list. 1. read. 2. sort. 3. do. 4. finish. and so on. Weather is turning nice. I like spring...it makes me feel happy inside because I know summer is around the corner. I have joined kickboxing. It is a wonderful sport that allows me to vent all feelings...good and bad..into focus mits and shields. I've learned all kinds of cool punches and kicks....and hope to some day look super hardcore like the other people at my dojo.... particulalry the lean muscley lookin ladies anywho... thats about all I am going to a lecture today by Dr. Stephen Stahl... It will be great... |
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| je suis très hereuse !! good news all around... |
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| I have no yogurt to put my berries in I'd just eat my berries but they were frozen...now they are mushy... and liquidy...and should really be added to something like yogurt.. I am going to BC in march. I have a new couch strawberry body butter from body shop smells delicious the bus strike is over and my dog is losing her baby teeth. |
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| Since my last post I have indeed added a new puppy to my household. Her name is Lola and she's great. I have also finished a half marathon in 1:42... which was the run of my life by far. Since completing this race, winter has fallen heavily on Ottawa and my running career is buried deep beneath the snow. And now I have completed applications for doctoral programs...3 to be exact...attempting to get in somewhere nearby...with 5% acceptance rates...I am cautiously optimistic. Christmas is around the corner-I won't make it home again. It's always interesting to spend Christmas with another family. At this point I would almost rather spend it alone...or plan my own... being an outsider in someone elses home is uncomfortable, to say the least. Christmas is an intimate family time...and most families lack the ability to truly let someone in- to truly let them feel part of the group. I want to mess up my families kitchen, kick up my feet, feel like I am a part of the space I am occupying, and have the freedom to wear mostly pyjamas. and I really really want a stocking. |
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