Title:	Where are my fuzzy socks?
Date:	2007-10-29 @ 07:45
Security:	public
Mood:	thankful

Saw my breath in the air this morning. After two years in Florida its a nice thing to see. Michael and I both like being cold, but for different reasons. He likes the "absolutely unable to over heat" aspect, while for me its more about the contrast. I'll let myself take a chill just for the deliciously warm blanket latter. And while there's no frost here, I've lost most of my acclimation (Dad jokes that my blood's gone thin) so break out the hot chocolate and fuzzy socks and let's all pretend it's a proper fall.

Erika, a friend from Nova, got engaged yesterday! Several congrats and good wishes to her and Scott!

Elwood's getting restless; I think he needs to be back in class. Know the feeling. I've been sworn in as a Guardian Ad Litum now, a court child advocate. It'll be a month or so before I let myself take a case though, Unfortunately, there're not in short supply. The self imposed delay is caused by my "almost" having two jobs (full time and part time), "almost" meaning I'd expected to hear back by Friday. Someone was quite impressed with me and needed to "call corporate" on Wednesday. Assistant Manager. I'll give it another day, and follow up. 

In the meantime, I've surprised myself with my recreational reading, off- and on-line. I've killed around seven books in the last two and a half months. I'm debating whether or not to count Harry Potter as two. Jay's visit to Jackson got us thinking. Sometime in the next three years we're inventing a week and we'll see if we can crash at the farm outside of Oxford.

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Edit: Start Job A this Friday. Should hear back on Job B tomorrow. And while the phone was breaking up during most of the lunch call today, I think someone else is envisioning Job C at this very moment. Do what you can with what you have. Life is good.

 I have some really good leftover yeast rolls that have gone stale. They were really yummy; is there anything else I can do with them apart from making a gravy absorber, or are they now wild bird food?

Things are great. Except for not ending yet, the job hunt is going well. I feel as though I'm getting more of my priorities in order. 
Elwood graduated puppy class (bug Michael to post some pictures if you'd like), and I'm in training for the Guardian Ad Litem (child court advocates) program. 

Oh, and its 90 degrees. In October... The leaves started to change a few weeks ago... and now it's 90.

Title:	New Email
Date:	2007-08-07 @ 10:32
Security:	public
Mood:	bouncy

The University wants to close my email account (or get me to pay $50 to keep it open.....)

So I have a new email address. Those of you who know my husband's email, mine follows the exact same format:  (first initial)(middle initial)(our last name without the last 2 letters)@gmail.com

That's a Bit cryptic, sorry, but i'm sure you'll understand. Please either email or IM me with your addresses as well, since my address book seems to be messed up at the moment.

Title:	and NOW I'm done!!
Date:	2007-07-16 @ 16:05
Security:	public
Mood:	accomplished

Dear Sleepy Mummbler,

On behalf of Dr. ********  Interim - Chair of the Department of Conflict Analysis and Resolution (DCAR), I am pleased to advise that you have passed the Comprehensive Exam Taken June 2007.

In light of this accomplishment, you may now complete the Online Application of Degree through the Office of the Registrar at ......

laa, la-laa la laa...

I can't think of much that Michael hasn't posted about first. Lots of stuff.....lots and lots of stuff.
Took the exam, Might have to come back in January and retake one question or two. Maybe not. 
Michael's going to Campbell... we're moving to Cary. All excited, dreading packing. Still trying to clean up my resume.
Got to walk in commencement, but had to buy cap and gown.... mmrr.

Mom was here for the weekend. Went pretty well all things considered. Had some really good food.
We have a new puppy! Elwood has a cold now though, poor guy. About to head over to Naples for a day or so, Emily's cooking dinner tonight.
We'll let everyone know new addresses and such when we get them.

Title:	Someone May have dropped the ball
Date:	2007-05-30 @ 17:51
Security:	public
Mood:	satisfied

Edit: It's all fixed. Seems we werent added because we didnt tell one of the ladies we wanted to walk...? And we didnt get the RSVP to be able to tell her we wanted to walk...therefore weren't put on the list...? I'm not sure. But it should be fixed now, and there should be mass-emails going out. Those emails get us on the list at the bookstore for cap and gown stuff.

.....it's not confirmed yet, but I (and my whole class) may not be able to walk in two weeks.

Walking isn't supposed to be related to the exit-exam. Its a ritual formality. For shy of the last two years we've always thought we were going to walk in June.  Well, if I have the stories straight, the department was talking about changing the rule so that you had to pass the exit exam in order to walk, but that they Had not done so yet. At Residential Institute this spring the Department Chair said that we could walk regardless if we passed the exam, because we'd sat for it, and there was no way to grade them in that sort amount of time.

There's an information packet that gets mailed out about commencement. in the packet is a form you need to fill out. our name's weren’t put on the mailing list because we hadn't passed the exam yet. 

So from our whole School (which includes three separate departments) only 20 people are scheduled to walk.
My group's not among them. At least a quarter of us are international students, they've already secured tickets for their families to come in. One example ran to $4k per ticket.

Calls have been made, whose responsibility it is has been bounced back and forth, and we've been told that we'll receive an answer by the end of the day (some people keep strange hours, end of the day may be 10 or 11pm)

So we wait….