why? what do other people do? :)
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
BOO!
Life is a pendulum...
Financial sucks!! Sucks, sucks, sucky suck sucks!
Or rather being a grad student that gets paid nothing and has to wait for financial aid to even gas up your car and then the people of financial aid say they get 10-14 business days to take action on every little fucking thing SUCKS. i have just been given another 10-14 days to wait for my financial aid. this is the third frickin' time! one of the times due to such trivial things as changing my contact info since i moved...yeah. this sucks.
Financial sucks!! Sucks, sucks, sucky suck sucks!
Or rather being a grad student that gets paid nothing and has to wait for financial aid to even gas up your car and then the people of financial aid say they get 10-14 business days to take action on every little fucking thing SUCKS. i have just been given another 10-14 days to wait for my financial aid. this is the third frickin' time! one of the times due to such trivial things as changing my contact info since i moved...yeah. this sucks.
Saturday, September 22, 2007
Bragging!
Everyone have their garbage cans near them in case they have a sudden urge to vomit? Okay! Here goes!
This post is about how in love I am with my boyfriend! That's right! I am gooey, gross in love with my Ben. We celebrated our 6 month anniversary, and I know how lame that seems to some, but if we want to celebrate it, we're gonna! It all started with Ben winning tickets to an Ani concert (angry hippie woman music for those who don't know) on a morning radio show he was listening to while driving back from Mankato last week. He had never heard any of her music but knew that I loved her, so he called in anyway. (Impressive, thoughtful thing #1) He then proceded to plan the most impressive date ever. We got all dolled up and looking damn fine, and drove home to Minneapolis where he had made reservations for dinner the Chambers Hotel (impressive, thoughtful thing #2). We got there early and scoped out all the crazy post-modern art. We then got seated and waiting for me at the table is this beautiful flower arrangement, compose of birds of paradise and other exotic flowers in a really interesting combination. He had them delivered so they would be waiting for me! (impressive, thoughtful thing #3-8). We had the greatest server who comes up to the table and says to me, "wow, someone loves you" and we told her it was our anniversary (yeah, i know, it's only 6 months) and she is so good to us. We have the best meal ever, Ben gets a tour of the kitchen by the manager when he mentions he's a cook, the server treats us to an appetizer and dessert because we are having such a great time there. The dessert comes out (passionfruit souffle with bitter-sweet chocolate sorbet) and there are candles melted to the plate and 'Happy Anniversary' written in chocolate and caramel along the rim of the plate. In short, the best dining experience of my life with potentially the best food of my life, and y'all know I've done some eating in my day. Ben, of course, picks up the bill for this extravagent gormet meal without blinking. (impressive, thoughtful thing #9) We then go to the concert and we keep running into old friends of Ben's who just look at him shocked and ask him, 'What are you doing at an Ani concert?' to which I get introduced and get to bragged, and all of his friends are so impressed with him and giggly with me, it was so fun. The concert was great. Ani is married and has a baby now and she's happy. It was really great to witness. I've seen her a few times in the past and it was really great to see how much the audience had grown up. Ben and I were not the only happy couple in the audience. So we leave and the way out I ask Ben if we can go see Root City in Eagan, since 'I haven't seen my friends in a month' and he agrees (impressive, thoughtful thing #10) so off we go. It was great to see the boys again. Ben and I danced and acted like the total geeks we are and had so much fun. Finally we drove home to Mankato and concluded the 6 month anniversary celebration.
See? Don't have the best boyfriend? Could he be any more thoughtful and impressive? Could he put me ahead of himself and make me feel loved beyond compare any more than this? Some of you know, we had a really rough couple of weeks when I first moved, but worked on it, and now things are better than ever. Who knows what the future holds for us? No one really, but I'll bet it'll be great.
This post is about how in love I am with my boyfriend! That's right! I am gooey, gross in love with my Ben. We celebrated our 6 month anniversary, and I know how lame that seems to some, but if we want to celebrate it, we're gonna! It all started with Ben winning tickets to an Ani concert (angry hippie woman music for those who don't know) on a morning radio show he was listening to while driving back from Mankato last week. He had never heard any of her music but knew that I loved her, so he called in anyway. (Impressive, thoughtful thing #1) He then proceded to plan the most impressive date ever. We got all dolled up and looking damn fine, and drove home to Minneapolis where he had made reservations for dinner the Chambers Hotel (impressive, thoughtful thing #2). We got there early and scoped out all the crazy post-modern art. We then got seated and waiting for me at the table is this beautiful flower arrangement, compose of birds of paradise and other exotic flowers in a really interesting combination. He had them delivered so they would be waiting for me! (impressive, thoughtful thing #3-8). We had the greatest server who comes up to the table and says to me, "wow, someone loves you" and we told her it was our anniversary (yeah, i know, it's only 6 months) and she is so good to us. We have the best meal ever, Ben gets a tour of the kitchen by the manager when he mentions he's a cook, the server treats us to an appetizer and dessert because we are having such a great time there. The dessert comes out (passionfruit souffle with bitter-sweet chocolate sorbet) and there are candles melted to the plate and 'Happy Anniversary' written in chocolate and caramel along the rim of the plate. In short, the best dining experience of my life with potentially the best food of my life, and y'all know I've done some eating in my day. Ben, of course, picks up the bill for this extravagent gormet meal without blinking. (impressive, thoughtful thing #9) We then go to the concert and we keep running into old friends of Ben's who just look at him shocked and ask him, 'What are you doing at an Ani concert?' to which I get introduced and get to bragged, and all of his friends are so impressed with him and giggly with me, it was so fun. The concert was great. Ani is married and has a baby now and she's happy. It was really great to witness. I've seen her a few times in the past and it was really great to see how much the audience had grown up. Ben and I were not the only happy couple in the audience. So we leave and the way out I ask Ben if we can go see Root City in Eagan, since 'I haven't seen my friends in a month' and he agrees (impressive, thoughtful thing #10) so off we go. It was great to see the boys again. Ben and I danced and acted like the total geeks we are and had so much fun. Finally we drove home to Mankato and concluded the 6 month anniversary celebration.
See? Don't have the best boyfriend? Could he be any more thoughtful and impressive? Could he put me ahead of himself and make me feel loved beyond compare any more than this? Some of you know, we had a really rough couple of weeks when I first moved, but worked on it, and now things are better than ever. Who knows what the future holds for us? No one really, but I'll bet it'll be great.
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
i miss india today.
it's weird. i am a little homesick for india. this morning i was thinking about cynthia, my domestic friend at the embassy, and then i was in research and we were discussing word choices for academic writing, which reminded me of ashok, telling me about his religious choices being more proper representation of his soul. semantics and rhetoric, really...which i totally understood and related with. after that i went to speech and we did breathing exercises, trying to resonate in different cavaties of our body, which absolutely flashed me back to trying to achieve the full body vibration of 'om', the perfect sound created by brahman with vineet. i miss india today.
namaste...
namaste...
Saturday, September 8, 2007
week two complete...
in case people are still checking this thing out, i thought i'd provide an update! and since i'm back in a world completely comprised of lists and checking things off of them, that's the format i'll use:
1. so far i am finding the workload managable. everyone here warns you emphatically that there is always too much on your plate on one time, and luckily, i haven't felt that yet. granted, the huge HUGE class projects haven't been due yet, i'm doing just fine. i have my first huge project due for theater research on friday and another the following friday and then it's pretty much like that from then on, but still, i feel good!
2. reference librarians are the best, most helpful kind of human being on this earth...if you're a grad student. otherwise i would have say true humanitarians and modern day saints win.
3. i am definitely seeking the right profession. how do i know this? why have i been confirmed on this? because 2 weeks into Cats rehearsal, despite how much i truly love and respect the director/choreographer (and i really, really do!), i want to take over so bad, it's killing me! i am helpless to the whims of the director! I like having the whims! if he makes a picture on stage that i don't think is balanced or appropriate or particularly effective, i still have to do it! if he wants to let us out of rehearsal early or start late, despite the fact that there are hours of cleaning in front of us, i still have to leave with the rest of the cast! (even though we should SERIOUSLY utilizing every second we have with such a huge production in such a short time, but that's just me.) i am not calling the shots, i am just an actor on stage, and it's not my show! grrrr! wow, am i having a hankering to do some choregraphing lately... i hope, i hope, i hope, i get to do some at some point this year.
4. things are going better with the whole long-distance relationship issues. talks have been had, consessions are starting to be made, i have hope again.
5. i still miss the fam. real bad. and lex. maybe even worse. yeah, i really miss lex.
6. apparently the show i picked for the studio season, 'dog sees god', is the most controversial, offensive show to hit MSU. its all i've been hearing about. (and with good cause as it is filthy little piece of theater that i happen to love but probably won't let my parents come to) turns out the head of department okayed it and advertized it before reading it and now he's concerned. i guess we're all learning a lesson with this one, huh? that said, i've begun production meetings and i think it might be good. we'll see. i haven't done this whole crazy non-musical thing before!
that's about it for the time being, but i will keep updating! much love to you all! come see CATS if you're available! nothing offensive about that! LOVE LOVE LOVE!!!
1. so far i am finding the workload managable. everyone here warns you emphatically that there is always too much on your plate on one time, and luckily, i haven't felt that yet. granted, the huge HUGE class projects haven't been due yet, i'm doing just fine. i have my first huge project due for theater research on friday and another the following friday and then it's pretty much like that from then on, but still, i feel good!
2. reference librarians are the best, most helpful kind of human being on this earth...if you're a grad student. otherwise i would have say true humanitarians and modern day saints win.
3. i am definitely seeking the right profession. how do i know this? why have i been confirmed on this? because 2 weeks into Cats rehearsal, despite how much i truly love and respect the director/choreographer (and i really, really do!), i want to take over so bad, it's killing me! i am helpless to the whims of the director! I like having the whims! if he makes a picture on stage that i don't think is balanced or appropriate or particularly effective, i still have to do it! if he wants to let us out of rehearsal early or start late, despite the fact that there are hours of cleaning in front of us, i still have to leave with the rest of the cast! (even though we should SERIOUSLY utilizing every second we have with such a huge production in such a short time, but that's just me.) i am not calling the shots, i am just an actor on stage, and it's not my show! grrrr! wow, am i having a hankering to do some choregraphing lately... i hope, i hope, i hope, i get to do some at some point this year.
4. things are going better with the whole long-distance relationship issues. talks have been had, consessions are starting to be made, i have hope again.
5. i still miss the fam. real bad. and lex. maybe even worse. yeah, i really miss lex.
6. apparently the show i picked for the studio season, 'dog sees god', is the most controversial, offensive show to hit MSU. its all i've been hearing about. (and with good cause as it is filthy little piece of theater that i happen to love but probably won't let my parents come to) turns out the head of department okayed it and advertized it before reading it and now he's concerned. i guess we're all learning a lesson with this one, huh? that said, i've begun production meetings and i think it might be good. we'll see. i haven't done this whole crazy non-musical thing before!
that's about it for the time being, but i will keep updating! much love to you all! come see CATS if you're available! nothing offensive about that! LOVE LOVE LOVE!!!
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