L O G O R R H E I C – Leen On This

Wow, I haven’t updated in forever!  Not that there are many of you who read this, but I imagine you are probably discouraged about coming to the blog due to lack of posts.  August was nuts with a vacation to see Jess in San Diego, followed by a wedding, and the commencement of graduate school.

Yes, I have started grad school–slowly obtaining my master’s in social work.  Already I am behind in readings, which is ok because my profs really don’t quiz us on the readings and I’m not the only one in my class uber behind.  But just like undergrad, I am nowhere close to finishing all of my papers due later on this week.  In an ideal world I would have liked to have all of them finished by the close of the weekend.  Unfortunately, I only completed one.    Right now I have various books and papers sprawled on my dinning room table with nothing to show except for an empty word document and the TV showing the Redskins game.  It’s like I’m at VT again, except I’m not and I am suffering from a major bout of writer’s block.  Help me!!!

So the new roommate announced last night that he and his wife decided that their marriage is not going to work and so thus divorce.  When he first answered our ad on Craigslist and came over, I didn’t think that her moving back home with their daughter meant they were separated–why was Dan able to pick that up and not me?  Regardless, new roommate is sadder than when he first moved in.  It looked as though he was going to cry when he told Tait and I.  So now things can go one of two ways:  1.  He’ll continue to mope around the house and seclude himself in his quarters, or 2.  He’s going to be uber party boy!  We shall see what direction he heads into.

It has got me thinking about my own relationship with Dan and divorce in general.  It is pretty freaking scary to me and makes me want to say that I’m content with my domestic partnership.  Divorce is just incredibly horrible, especially when children are involved.  New roommate has a 6 year old daughter I think, which means he married really young.  Crazy!  I just don’t like the risk of divorce, which is an awful thing to say I think.

Good Lord I’m a really bad blogger.  To combat this I shall make an all-encompassing post to update you on pertinent things that have occurred since my last update.  That should cure your boredom cause I know you all don’t have a natural interest in the happenings here (well at least not a whole bunch).

First, I like to say that I have finally finished reading the Harry Potter series.  After weeks of agonizing over the purpose of reading sometimes awful writing, I am proud to say that I have accomplished it.  I’m really not trying to hate on J.K. Rowling, but she wasn’t the best of writers.  I will say that the last book was far better than the other books.  Things constantly happened and it was hard to stop reading, whereas her other books followed a very strict formula which resulted with a lot of filler.

Next, Justin and Michelle are engaged!  Justin and I have been friends since our freshman year at VT, so it is very very nice to see the metamorphosis he has done.  He finally has a girl that is perfect for him and I am very very happy for the both of them!  Yay! 

Yesterday I went golfing for the first time in weeks!  I got new irons for my birthday and only used them once at the range when I first got them.  So there was quite a bit of apprehension when I hit the links because my new irons are totally different from my old irons.  But I would like to say that I had the best game ever!  It was a par 3 course, but I managed to score a 38–11 over par!  I had so many par’s it was amazing!  I’d like to think that the new clubs made all the difference in the world.  We shall see when I take them on their next spin, which will hopefully be soon.

In other news, school is less than a month away!  Last night at dinner, the girls and I were joking about going school shopping and stuff.  In reality, I am quite excited about getting new clothes and supplies–it was the best part about starting school.  I also got my internship settled, finally!  I’m going to be working for a program that works with homeless young adults (18-22 year olds).  That will be an exciting and new experience for me.  I think the program people really liked me based on my resume, but I wonder how much supervision I will be given.

Tomorrow I will be flying to England for a 10 day excursion.  Dan’s friend is getting married next weekend, and I have finally found a dress and fascinator ($190 and $6.75 respectively).  We are also going to be doing lunch on the Thames and play a round of golf during my short vacation.  Hopefully I’ll be able to keep busy whilst I’m over there.  Rest assured I will blog about the differences between the US and the UK as I did earlier in the year.

Finally, I am done teaching all my Tot classes!  It is a major relief as both me and the Tots were becoming slightly restless towards the end.  Saturdays were also becoming a slight burden as it took all my might to get up to start teaching at 9am.

So I think that is all the news I have to share.  I told you it wasn’t very interesting.  But I’m sure as the school year picks up I’m going to start blogging more often.  I feel like they go hand in hand.

Sorry folks for not updating in forever!  I have actually been really busy… reading… yup, reading.

I finished Jesus Land, which was very interesting and good.  I am amazed that this happened to a real person.  I am also impressed at how she approached the subject–I didn’t sense the need to sympathize for her because she presented it so matter-of-factly.  Very good read if you are into memoirs like I am.

Really, it took me a slow week to finish that book.  The acutally bulk of my reading has been done on the Harry Potter series.  Yes, I have broken down and given in to those who rave about HP.  The new movie comes out in July, and Dan and I plan to watch it in London (ideally on primere night!).  My goal is to at least finish reading all the books up to that point because I doubt I’ll be able to finish all seven by July.  Right now I’m a bit past half way on the 4th book.

So far I find them rather boring, and I attribute that to having already seen the first two movies, the formulaicness of the books, and just the slow starts to them.  I’ll admit that the 4th book didn’t quite have the slow start to it as it’s predecessors.  I will say that I did really enjoy one particular chapter in this current book because it reminded me of like Homecoming in high school.  Ahh, to be 14 again.  So yeah, reading.

Oh and I’m moving this weekend.  So inbetween reading I have been packing and scavaging Craigslist to find a dining room table with chairs.