BWAHAHHHHHHAAAAHHHHAHHHA!!

I think this new career path has warped my mind...

Stitch N' Bitch Y'all!

I'm so psyched! I started a Stitch N' Bitch at school and tonight was our first night. There were seven of us (myself included) and it was SO much fun. It was just fun to get together with a bunch of women that have so much in common e.g: knitting and the same grad program. I have to go write a paper that's due tomorrow morning and I'll come back and add more about the group later.

It's that time again...

So, it seems as though this is a cyclical pattern I go through every semester. I start the semester balls to the wall, gun-ho about everything and anything, stay ahead of the game on my readings and assignments and now... now I just want to curl up in a ball and sleep for a month or two. More accurately I'm scanning Monster.com for jobs ads and wanting a "real" life instead of what I'm doing; anything but what I'm doing. Why is this? I'm just making it harder on myself in the long run. I say I have adult onset ADD and the semester is just too long to keep my interest, I'm bored with it. Another part says when it gets hard I just feel like quitting and taking the easy way out. And then there's the part of me that's like "whoa! sister! you've come way to far and been through way too much to not finish now". Duh. This is how I'll know if my parents read my blog. The minute they read the first few sentences they'll freak out and call me, "You're not going to quit school are you?" No. I'm not going to quit school. I'm actually way to close to being finished to be that stupid. And this is costing WAY too much money to be thrown away like that. Damn private New England women's college. Now I need to get back to writing that fricken paper that's due tomorrow...

Today was a bad, bad day.

Really. And it shouldn't have been. It was all my fault.

I decided that I was going to go to Ikea. I'd never been there, we need to put some curtains up and they have the best prices for curtains. So I Google Mapped the directions, got in the car and went. It was a little overwhelming to say the least. After I figured out how the store worked though it was a little better. Lets just say I will definitely be going back. There is much much more to explore. I managed to get the sheer curtains I need, new shower curtain and bath mat, wine rack as well as some other little things that I don't know how I ever lived without.

Anyway, on my way out I noticed that I was about to leave the vicinity without stopping at the Christmas Tree Shoppe. Shame on me. Well, turns out I should've kept on driving. I ended up locking my keys in my car. Shit. This is now the only car we own. It's not like I can call Scott and he can just drive over and let me in. Plus he was working this weekend. Luckily he only had another hour to go of work and his co-worker Coetea was sweet enough (we filled her tank as a thank you) to drive him out there with the spare key.

The kicker to all of this is that I shoved a few bags of things I bought at the Christmas Tree Shoppe under the car instead of lugging them all over with me as I waited to be rescued. By the time I got back to the car with Scott the bags were gone. Someone crawled under my fricken car and stole them. WTF?!?! All I can think of is that someone must've seen me do it because otherwise how the hell would they have known it was under there? It's just really shitty. The most unbelievable thing is that we went back in to just re-buy the curtains I had gotten when Scott decided to ask at the desk if anyone had turned anything in. They said no one had but if I had my receipt I could go re-get what I had and they would let me have it without repaying!!! Can you believe it?!! It was totally my stupidity and they didn't seem to care. It ended up that I had gotten the last 2 of the curtains the first time so they credited back my card for that and let me walk away with all the things a second time. I couldn't believe it. I'll definitely go back there because they didn't have to be so nice.

I felt so shitty though, I mean, it was Jessica being a total dumb ass that got me into that mess in the first place. Scott felt so bad for me that he bought me take-out Chinese for dinner :) I was like, well shit, if I had known that's what it would take to get Chinese then.... No, just kidding.

Ab-so-smurfly Nothing

That's what I did today. Nuttin'. It felt really good too. I even stayed in my pj's all day long. Long live flannel. I think I putzed on the internet all day long. And slept. Scott had to work and I was home alone. I suppose I could've got more done than I did but, oh well. So be it.

It's finally Friday

I'm so effing tired. I think most of the time I'm more mentally exhausted than physically. Oh well. Only 1.5 more years to go and then I can join the real world. I'm considering getting a "real" part-time job and maybe cutting down to 2 classes a semester but the consequence of having a real routine (which I need) would be that I'm in school longer (which I don't need). So I think I'm just going to suck it up and keep on doing what I'm doing. Although I've discovered that I do need to get some sort of library experience while I'm here at grad school because that seems to be what keeps a lot of new grads from getting a job after they graduate ( or a decent job anyway). I miss my job at the library that I had as an undergrad. I love libraries, hence the whole wanting to be a librarian thing...

Libraries 2.0

I'm investigating social software/web 2.0 and it's applications in academic libraries for a paper. Well, really the paper is on social bookmarking and tagging in academic libraries but it has totally mushroomed into this obsession with me and all these things that are out there that I never knew about. I'm still trying to figure out what rock I was living under... (If I'm feeling particularly feisty one night I may just do a little review of each of these, but don't hold your breath)


Already have a membership/subscribe or otherwise frequent:
* wists
* pandora
* flickr
* librarything
* myspace
* my blog

Just subscribed/joined in the past three days:
* del.icio.us
* ning
* shelfari
* 43things
* stumbleupon
* facebook

Still need to investigate/join:
* youtube(not like i've never been there but i still haven't bothered to make myself an account to save things in yet)
* linkedin
* pageflakes
* lastfm
* musicovery
* clusty cloud
* refworks
* digg
* meebo