How is it that time goes by so quickly?? I am just back from Seattle, where it was cold, as in freezing, as in snow. But it was still great place. I miss the coffee shops and the greenery, but I've got to say there's nothing like coming home to California. Hearts.
Still no word about grad school, but I have had good chats with people at just about every school I've applied to at this point. I don't want to jinx my hopes by getting them too far up before official letters come, but no news means no rejections yet, and I'm happy at least about that. Normally I'd be basking in blissful ignorance, but I'm dying to make plans for summer at least.
Otherwise, lots of reading has been done. Lots of tooling about the greenhouse and lab -- for pay! Not as much botanical gardening, but I'm hoping to get back on that bandwagon.
I am trying to re-learn math what with this future math professor I'm dating and all. I tried pitching him the idea of helping me brush up on the math I'm reading about in this ecology textbook, but don't remember from 10+ years ago (or never learned at all), and he seems to think it will even be fun for him. Maybe I'll finally get to have that dating-your-instructor experience...
Seriously, where do all the hours go?!?! I want to have more art and relaxation time. And somehow also more productivity time. If peeps want to get to get some arts and crafts on this month, I am down. Sadly I have hardly been musical at all in ages, but I still have the best intentions.
Monday, February 28, 2011
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
February is for FREEDOM
I don't think I can muster the enthusiasm to start any more grad school applications.... which means I'm done!
I am slowly starting to realize how mono-minded my little world had become in the past few months, but February is the month to change all that!
February is the blissful month of ignorance in which I put off worrying about where or whether I got into grad schools because I can't know yet. February is when I can pick up my old art projects again. In February, I shall read books! I have plunged whole-heartedly into self-assigned homework so that I might not feel a fool when I'm back in school. I am plugging through the Primer on Ecological Statistics and a thick textbook on Ecology with a gorgeous cover. I'm learning about Microeconomics and I'm signed up for a botanical field trip to the Sonoran Desert. Seemingly unbeknownst to my sister, I am attending her political science lecture in which we are treated to a best-of series of previous guest lecturers. A holiday is in order, possibly to Hawaii, with Matt in the imminent future. I am going to see friends. I am going to do yoga! There is talk of Europe in the summer -- perhaps a jaunt in Portugal? Spain? France? Ireland? The Scottish Highlands? My slim pocketbook is the limit!
The past few months have felt a dim haze compared to the promise of this spring. Curiously, becoming all but caught up in the ebb and flow of the grad student co-op has left me still feeling the odd outsider even now that I've my own official key and am paying for the bit of their food that I eat. The clean, thoughtless distinctions obvious primarily to those on the receiving end remind me of being a contractor at Google. Still, I feel I serve a purpose, and, in my true fashion, I have managed to be up 7.5 workshift hours in just the third week of the semester.
In any case, February. Things are on the up and up.
I am slowly starting to realize how mono-minded my little world had become in the past few months, but February is the month to change all that!
February is the blissful month of ignorance in which I put off worrying about where or whether I got into grad schools because I can't know yet. February is when I can pick up my old art projects again. In February, I shall read books! I have plunged whole-heartedly into self-assigned homework so that I might not feel a fool when I'm back in school. I am plugging through the Primer on Ecological Statistics and a thick textbook on Ecology with a gorgeous cover. I'm learning about Microeconomics and I'm signed up for a botanical field trip to the Sonoran Desert. Seemingly unbeknownst to my sister, I am attending her political science lecture in which we are treated to a best-of series of previous guest lecturers. A holiday is in order, possibly to Hawaii, with Matt in the imminent future. I am going to see friends. I am going to do yoga! There is talk of Europe in the summer -- perhaps a jaunt in Portugal? Spain? France? Ireland? The Scottish Highlands? My slim pocketbook is the limit!
The past few months have felt a dim haze compared to the promise of this spring. Curiously, becoming all but caught up in the ebb and flow of the grad student co-op has left me still feeling the odd outsider even now that I've my own official key and am paying for the bit of their food that I eat. The clean, thoughtless distinctions obvious primarily to those on the receiving end remind me of being a contractor at Google. Still, I feel I serve a purpose, and, in my true fashion, I have managed to be up 7.5 workshift hours in just the third week of the semester.
In any case, February. Things are on the up and up.
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