It's official

Ok.

Am total bum for not posting this sooner......but....

I'M ENGAGED!

Exactly one week ago this evening I got engaged to Dave and I feel I must shout it from the top of the internet mountaintops!

I'm not sure what being engaged is supposed to feel like---and I'm not sure if we're rushing things--when have I EVER been known to do things the "normal" way?

I'm a wee bit nervous (only that I'll cock this up--{thank you Sarah for that expression....}) but mostly very very happy to have found my soulmate and that he can actually imagine spending his life with me too.

Anyhooooooo

I wanted to share this with you guys and let you in on my happiness :)

Nick Drake Sings & Robert Frost Reads

I discovered a fantastic website, Salon.com which has TONS of audio files including:
(new) Nick Drake
Sylvia Plath's the Bell Jar
Now I can get up on my culture...so exciting!
Ya'll should check out some of the nifty things they have--parts of books, poems, songs and speeches read by great people. So exciting. Did I mention that this is so exciting?
Anyhoo---this beats some of the stupid mindlessness that comes on Youtube. I have been wanting to get some more culture--here it is--just in time for the summer :)

Classes Are Over! *woo*

I survived the final projects...I endured the slide comparisons...I stayed awake for the critiques.
And NOW...



I'm ready for a nap.
So yeah, I was expecting to feel all giddy and exhuberant-but there is a sort of let-down after all of the buzz and hum of activity from the semester.
I think I can thrive for awhile on adrenaline, then second wind-then my resources get tapped and I find myself getting slap happy and irritable. THEN the grumbles set in...
I could grumble about the rain coming down because my feet get wet (what's the point of having pretty galoshes if I'm never going to wear them?)and then grumble about the sun coming out because then my eyes hurt (uhm---why didn't I pack my stupid freaking sunglasses?!) and don't even get me STARTED on foggy days.
So yeah--the drama that ensues when I have combo lack of sleep/too many things to do/no patience.
I feel way to relaxed right now. Must create problems. Is there something wrong with me? I think it's a family thing. As far back as I can recall we have thrived (we meaning the whole family unit--not always including me) on one crisis after another. Getting used to living a life of mundanity and "normalcy" with some everyday drama thrown in is different.
I would expect drama to occur with anyone--unless a person was living alone in a room with a vow of silence--of course this in itself is dramatic...so ironically defies my no-drama definition.
Anyway...I am trying to resolve the need for something going on all the time and filling that with the sound of silence--or just time with people I enjoy.
What a concept.
Is this what being healthy looks like?

Still Alive

Brief post to let you know I didn't die...

I have been bogged with final projects---and TAH DAH!

I finally moved in with David, (aka Dave, aka the sexiest man alive--see picture)

Living in DC is wonderful, busy, hectic, strange--but it means being closer to Dave and closer to school(hello---15 minutes on the metro---wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee)

Gone are the 3-hour commutes everywhere...

Gone are the days of driving through potholes being cutoff by insane truck drivers with a NASCAR fetish...

Whatever will I blog about now?

How about taxi drivers with a homicidal streak and politicians with a proclivity for "gentlemans" clubs.....ah DC--how I love thee.

Well my duckies--off to write 2 papers, study for an exam and memorize slides....yeah....THAT's going to happen....

enjoy the state of the apartment....(Dave keeps saying he doesn't mind all my crap....what a guy)