Monday, March 28, 2005
Wednesday, March 23, 2005
It is already Wednesday! Good heavens! It was a 14 hour trip to Missoula (projected at 12, but there was bad weather around Butte, MT and a long wait for lunch in Sheridan, WY) and a very tiring day in Missoula. I also am still freaked out to no end by driving, not my driving, but when I'm not driving and have to rely on someone else (and let's face the facts, it was my Mom... I'm less trusting of her driving now... and it drives me nuts she says it was just the black ice. I mean, come on! Nobody else that day flipped a car on that exact corner you went around too fast.) I was so tense and scared and I don't know what to do to fix that. Just more driving on highways in the mountains with my mother, I guess. That stupid accident, and then my stupid accident just made me crazy I guess.
Missoula is SOOO far away. It was really cloudy when we drove out on Sunday, and the land up there is hilly so it often felt like we were driving off the end of the earth. I don't know what I'm going to do. It is so far away from everyone I love, but the school is a good one, and my advisor is so nice and he was so complimentary. I wish the decision would just be an easy one. I know it will not be easy, it will be so hard. Of course you will hear about my decision when I make one. And the deadline to make it is fast approaching. Mid April I will know where I'll be next year.
The drive home was similarly exhausting. It took 13 hours... so I'm thinking Mapquest lies. Well, maybe it doesn't lie, but it doesn't factor in all the gas stops you need to take as well as the breaks from driving, or the tickets you get from friendly Montana policemen. Yes, I got a ticket, the first ticket I've ever gotten. Add that to the list of crazy things Heather done. At least it wasn't within my first year of owning my own car. Can you really blame me? Montana is a very large state, and after a day of thinking what my life would be like in Missoula (for a soul like mine it is incredibly exhausting) I wanted to get home ASAP. The rest of the way I went back to my normal routine of not speeding. I mean, serously I am so careful about that sort of thing. I never speed. Ha! Go figure. And it was with my mom in the car. Lol.
Hmm. It looks like a lot is going on right now in my head, doesn't it? Lets just say I'll be glad to hang with Laura and see Ryan and friends. Let's just say I'll be glad to be home in KS on Sunday. Let's just say I'll be incredibly glad when my last 10 hour drive to Kansas is over, because there won't be any more after spring break unless I visit friends... and then, I may just fly!
Missoula is SOOO far away. It was really cloudy when we drove out on Sunday, and the land up there is hilly so it often felt like we were driving off the end of the earth. I don't know what I'm going to do. It is so far away from everyone I love, but the school is a good one, and my advisor is so nice and he was so complimentary. I wish the decision would just be an easy one. I know it will not be easy, it will be so hard. Of course you will hear about my decision when I make one. And the deadline to make it is fast approaching. Mid April I will know where I'll be next year.
The drive home was similarly exhausting. It took 13 hours... so I'm thinking Mapquest lies. Well, maybe it doesn't lie, but it doesn't factor in all the gas stops you need to take as well as the breaks from driving, or the tickets you get from friendly Montana policemen. Yes, I got a ticket, the first ticket I've ever gotten. Add that to the list of crazy things Heather done. At least it wasn't within my first year of owning my own car. Can you really blame me? Montana is a very large state, and after a day of thinking what my life would be like in Missoula (for a soul like mine it is incredibly exhausting) I wanted to get home ASAP. The rest of the way I went back to my normal routine of not speeding. I mean, serously I am so careful about that sort of thing. I never speed. Ha! Go figure. And it was with my mom in the car. Lol.
Hmm. It looks like a lot is going on right now in my head, doesn't it? Lets just say I'll be glad to hang with Laura and see Ryan and friends. Let's just say I'll be glad to be home in KS on Sunday. Let's just say I'll be incredibly glad when my last 10 hour drive to Kansas is over, because there won't be any more after spring break unless I visit friends... and then, I may just fly!
Sunday, March 20, 2005
Yay home! Yay trip to Montana that starts in aproximately 0 minutes. Well, I'm waiting on my mom. She decided to take a shower, I think because she thought I was going to take one, but really I was only washing my hair.
The drive home to CO was uneventful, thank God. It went quickly and it was soooo nice to be able to belt it out to Wizard with nobody in the next room:)
Hopefully skiing is still in the plans for this weekend.
Gotta go!
The drive home to CO was uneventful, thank God. It went quickly and it was soooo nice to be able to belt it out to Wizard with nobody in the next room:)
Hopefully skiing is still in the plans for this weekend.
Gotta go!
Sunday, March 13, 2005
The letter finally came from Montana. I've been accepted to my program and the school!!! This is the excited feeling I've been waiting for... maybe that means Montana is where I want to be. For the past few months I've not been sure where I want to go, thinking my top three were all fairly close together. Maybe that's not the case, because I'm so excited to hear that I got accepted.
I talked with Mom last night and I'm going to try and see if there is a way to get up to Missoula for a visit. Sadly though, the trip is a 12 hour drive, no trains go between Denver and Missoula... even Montana, the flight tickets to get up there are worse even than the price I get from KC to Denver (which I thought were bad!) ie: $500-600+ dollars. I don't know how I'll be able to get up there. I wish Unkle Tom lived in Denver still, we could probably convince him to fly us up there in Big Bird. So, it's time to ask the school for money or help getting up to visit the school. Oh please let them help!
Otherwise the idea for a few day ski trip to Summit County fell through because the hostel that I wanted to stay at is full. So hopefully a day or two individual trips. Mom wants to come with me to ski, so that may work out to my advantage and still give me a day I can go alone or with a friend or two. Course if I head up to Montana... that will take three days minimum from my vacation time. But it would be so cool to see the town and area!
Hmmm, you know this is going to be a big consideration, if it is that expensive to fly home or for friends to visit me. If I head there I should have some good money saved up for Thanksgiving and Christmas visits, because it will cost around $1,200 dollars to come home. Yikes! Maybe I should get my pilot's liscence. It would probably cost about that much to get certified. Course, I have no plane. Dang! I could end up being so isolated up there. I mean, my family is not rich, and Dad just went through another budget cut at work... his good boss was laid-off and Dad's being transferred to a new department with less pay. Uhg, I realize more and more that much of what drives me is money, and I hate that!
I talked with Mom last night and I'm going to try and see if there is a way to get up to Missoula for a visit. Sadly though, the trip is a 12 hour drive, no trains go between Denver and Missoula... even Montana, the flight tickets to get up there are worse even than the price I get from KC to Denver (which I thought were bad!) ie: $500-600+ dollars. I don't know how I'll be able to get up there. I wish Unkle Tom lived in Denver still, we could probably convince him to fly us up there in Big Bird. So, it's time to ask the school for money or help getting up to visit the school. Oh please let them help!
Otherwise the idea for a few day ski trip to Summit County fell through because the hostel that I wanted to stay at is full. So hopefully a day or two individual trips. Mom wants to come with me to ski, so that may work out to my advantage and still give me a day I can go alone or with a friend or two. Course if I head up to Montana... that will take three days minimum from my vacation time. But it would be so cool to see the town and area!
Hmmm, you know this is going to be a big consideration, if it is that expensive to fly home or for friends to visit me. If I head there I should have some good money saved up for Thanksgiving and Christmas visits, because it will cost around $1,200 dollars to come home. Yikes! Maybe I should get my pilot's liscence. It would probably cost about that much to get certified. Course, I have no plane. Dang! I could end up being so isolated up there. I mean, my family is not rich, and Dad just went through another budget cut at work... his good boss was laid-off and Dad's being transferred to a new department with less pay. Uhg, I realize more and more that much of what drives me is money, and I hate that!
Saturday, March 12, 2005
http://www.padawansguide.com/flowered_images.shtml
This is a link to reference pictures of the dress I'm making for Star Wars Celebration Three. I've finally started working on it, but should get lots accomplished within the next two weeks!
This is a link to reference pictures of the dress I'm making for Star Wars Celebration Three. I've finally started working on it, but should get lots accomplished within the next two weeks!
Friday, March 11, 2005
I'm so excited! I had time last night to just relax and not study and so I started on my costume! I mean, I started, really truly started and I have now almost completed the cape! All I have to do is edge it, and that means getting Kellee to loan me her sewing machine and buying some varieagated (sp?) thread. WOOHOO!
In case anyone is wondering, the dress I am on my way to re-producing is the following:
Ok, well I'm having a hard time getting a picture posted, so you'll just have to wait!
In case anyone is wondering, the dress I am on my way to re-producing is the following:
Ok, well I'm having a hard time getting a picture posted, so you'll just have to wait!
Sunday, March 06, 2005
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Anne
By Hagood Hardy
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Sigh... I just got back from dropping Naomi off at the Best Western her group was staying at. It was so wonderful having her! I haven't seen her since last Christmas Break, but it was just like a day hadn't passed. So this weekend was great, just getting to spend time together. We both graduate (she's finishing in three years... yikes!) this year. I told her she should call my parents and come out with them to see me graduate... and really that invite is to everyone I know:) My padres will have an extra seat in the car since I'm not with them. It's a new car too! lol May 22nd keeps getting closer and closer.
My weekend really feels like it starts on Thursday after 4pm, because though I teach Friday I have no classes. So the weekend was a great one for more than Naomi visiting. Thursday night Steph and I cooked dinner for the three of us (Ben included... neither of us is bi-polar). It was exactly what I needed: to be away from the hall and spend quality time with good friends. More of this will be occuring.
I try not to think too much about the whole graduating and leaving all of my friends here and moving somewhere completely new where I know nobody. I like the idea of moving somewhere new, but that previous statement I don't like. I have such amazing friends here.
Time for a tad more sleep before I actually truly start my day.
OH! One last thing. Naomi and I watched Anne of Green Gables last night... sooooo wonderful! I Hadn't seen it in a while, and Naomi was the best person to see it with when I did!
Anne
By Hagood Hardy
see related
Sigh... I just got back from dropping Naomi off at the Best Western her group was staying at. It was so wonderful having her! I haven't seen her since last Christmas Break, but it was just like a day hadn't passed. So this weekend was great, just getting to spend time together. We both graduate (she's finishing in three years... yikes!) this year. I told her she should call my parents and come out with them to see me graduate... and really that invite is to everyone I know:) My padres will have an extra seat in the car since I'm not with them. It's a new car too! lol May 22nd keeps getting closer and closer.
My weekend really feels like it starts on Thursday after 4pm, because though I teach Friday I have no classes. So the weekend was a great one for more than Naomi visiting. Thursday night Steph and I cooked dinner for the three of us (Ben included... neither of us is bi-polar). It was exactly what I needed: to be away from the hall and spend quality time with good friends. More of this will be occuring.
I try not to think too much about the whole graduating and leaving all of my friends here and moving somewhere completely new where I know nobody. I like the idea of moving somewhere new, but that previous statement I don't like. I have such amazing friends here.
Time for a tad more sleep before I actually truly start my day.
OH! One last thing. Naomi and I watched Anne of Green Gables last night... sooooo wonderful! I Hadn't seen it in a while, and Naomi was the best person to see it with when I did!
Tuesday, March 01, 2005
A good night all around tonight. More goodness to come, I can tell.
So, on the schedule for the rest of the week: a lab practical in aquatic ecology lab tomorrow, shouldn't be too bad. I just need to read through my results and read up on lentic and lotic ecosystems. Thursday is the start of the end of the week and that night I'll be making dinner with Stephanie for her and Ben and I, which will be great. Then Friday Naomi comes to visit for the SWE weekend event on campus.
So, I'm off to study before bed. Lets hope theory class tomorrow is more interactive than Monday when my group just sat there and didn't want to discuss how different critics view genre theory!
So, on the schedule for the rest of the week: a lab practical in aquatic ecology lab tomorrow, shouldn't be too bad. I just need to read through my results and read up on lentic and lotic ecosystems. Thursday is the start of the end of the week and that night I'll be making dinner with Stephanie for her and Ben and I, which will be great. Then Friday Naomi comes to visit for the SWE weekend event on campus.
So, I'm off to study before bed. Lets hope theory class tomorrow is more interactive than Monday when my group just sat there and didn't want to discuss how different critics view genre theory!
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