This past weekend was wonderful -- exactly what my hopes for a weekend might be. I don't recall having very many "weekend" weekends last semester, and I may not have too many more as I get deeper into this semester. It remains to be seen.
When Brian got home Friday, he informed me that people from his lab were going out for sushi and did I want to go too? Um, yes. It turned out that his advisor was hosting a guest colloquium speaker, so he was taking out that guy, as well as...duh duh duh...subsidizing everyone else's meals as well! Super news for grad students. So we went out to someplace we probably would never and will never go back on our own (due to prices). It was fun. The sushi came out on a huge hilarious boat, and it was fun to try various sushis and sakes. His advisor was on sabbatical last semester, and so this was one of the first social outings his lab had, meaning it was my first time to meet some of his friends, which was great. I got the chance to meet more of his friends later that night because we went to see Avatar in 3-D with some. It was quite the entertaining movie, and I was pretty pleased with myself for not falling asleep during the three hours in the theater that began at 10:45 pm!
Saturday, I definitely slept in. Not long after getting up, we headed to campus for the CU vs K-State basketball game, which was great fun. We stayed for part of the women's game and then went home for supper and a movie (P.S. I remember watching like one movie last semester. This semester I've watched at least four!). A bit later we met the friends we went to the movie with the night before at Cheesecake Factory for dessert. Yeah. I suppose we won't be going back there either. Who charges $2.75 for a mug of brewed coffee?!
Sunday we slept in again and this day actually got some work done. Hm, I don't actually even remember what all went on. One of the best things about this weekend is that there was an extra day! Yay for Monday off! And I don't have Tuesday classes, so it was a four-day weekend. Probably why I am drawing a total blank on what we did Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday. As it should be.
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Sunday, January 17, 2010
ol' sap
This is not much of a blog post, but I just wanted to note that I think I cry at more parts of Love Actually every time I watch it. I love that movie.
Thursday, January 14, 2010
decade
So maybe this is after the fact, but I just now read similar posts on other blogs and thought it would be fun.
On Jan. 1, 2000, I:
-was smack in the middle of one of the best years of my life (freshman year at Bethel)
-had recently met a lot of new people, including some of my greatest lifelong friends
-was a Chemistry major
-had never lived anywhere but Kansas (and, basically, Newton, Kansas)
-was about to leave for one month in the Middle East (one of the best, most life-changing months of my life)
-thought there were lots of desirable eligible bachelors at Bethel
-was beginning to become good friends with my brother
-thought I was a dog person
-wore a flannel shirts and cords a lot...I think a lot of my clothes might have even come from the men's section of stores
-had recently learned how to use the internet
-telephone-wise, I used only the shared, corded, industrial, orange-light-blinking-when-you-have-a-message phone in our dorm room
-watched...?? 7th Heaven?? on tv (I don't really remember if I watched tv that year.)
-had a super great roommate
-had spent the super scary (haha) Y2K New Year's Eve in Wichita with Kristine and her relatives. I think we went ice skating.
-had settled on Brad Born as my favorite professor
On Jan. 1, 2010, I:
-was smack in the middle of my first year in fulltime school in six years
-had recently again met a lot of new people, who I find to be incredibly wonderful and hope to also have as lifelong friends
-had graduated an English major (with a Chemistry minor) and am a speech-language pathologist master's student
-was living in a new state for the first time
-was elated to be back in Kansas
-had been married to one of those desirable eligible bachelors for just more than two years
-consider my brother one of my best friends
-am a definite cat person and sad I had to leave my baby in Kansas
-try to be a little more fashionable (at times) and a little more feminine :)
-daily spend way too much time using the internet
-usually use a cell phone, though I have only ever had one (going on 5 years with the same one) and we still have a landline
-am still watching fluffy tv: Grey's Anatomy, Desperate Housewives, Brothers & Sisters, and One Tree Hill, as well as one show I can admit to all: The Office
-had recently visited my freshman year super great roommate, who is now married to one of my childhood friends and had a tiny new cutie-patootie baby girl
-had spent New Year's Eve in what at first glance looked like a sketchy-ish motel but what turned out to be pretty nice and have surprisingly good amenities in Topeka with my brother-in-law, sister-in-law, and nephew
-maintain that Brad Born is my favorite professor
On Jan. 1, 2000, I:
-was smack in the middle of one of the best years of my life (freshman year at Bethel)
-had recently met a lot of new people, including some of my greatest lifelong friends
-was a Chemistry major
-had never lived anywhere but Kansas (and, basically, Newton, Kansas)
-was about to leave for one month in the Middle East (one of the best, most life-changing months of my life)
-thought there were lots of desirable eligible bachelors at Bethel
-was beginning to become good friends with my brother
-thought I was a dog person
-wore a flannel shirts and cords a lot...I think a lot of my clothes might have even come from the men's section of stores
-had recently learned how to use the internet
-telephone-wise, I used only the shared, corded, industrial, orange-light-blinking-when-you-have-a-message phone in our dorm room
-watched...?? 7th Heaven?? on tv (I don't really remember if I watched tv that year.)
-had a super great roommate
-had spent the super scary (haha) Y2K New Year's Eve in Wichita with Kristine and her relatives. I think we went ice skating.
-had settled on Brad Born as my favorite professor
On Jan. 1, 2010, I:
-was smack in the middle of my first year in fulltime school in six years
-had recently again met a lot of new people, who I find to be incredibly wonderful and hope to also have as lifelong friends
-had graduated an English major (with a Chemistry minor) and am a speech-language pathologist master's student
-was living in a new state for the first time
-was elated to be back in Kansas
-had been married to one of those desirable eligible bachelors for just more than two years
-consider my brother one of my best friends
-am a definite cat person and sad I had to leave my baby in Kansas
-try to be a little more fashionable (at times) and a little more feminine :)
-daily spend way too much time using the internet
-usually use a cell phone, though I have only ever had one (going on 5 years with the same one) and we still have a landline
-am still watching fluffy tv: Grey's Anatomy, Desperate Housewives, Brothers & Sisters, and One Tree Hill, as well as one show I can admit to all: The Office
-had recently visited my freshman year super great roommate, who is now married to one of my childhood friends and had a tiny new cutie-patootie baby girl
-had spent New Year's Eve in what at first glance looked like a sketchy-ish motel but what turned out to be pretty nice and have surprisingly good amenities in Topeka with my brother-in-law, sister-in-law, and nephew
-maintain that Brad Born is my favorite professor
Monday, December 21, 2009
slhs winter party
So our department really knows how to throw a party. The Friday before finals week, the chair of the department had all grad students, faculty, and staff over to her kickin' pad designed by her architect husband. There was an amazing buffet of food, wide selection of beverages, and wonderful company. My favorite nugget of the evening to store away in the old memory is of one of my professors, who is majorly renowned in his field, very effectively getting rid of all of the alcohol. All first years were assigned to bring wine or beer, so the proportion of alcohol to people was pretty high. Pretty soon after we got there, he took it upon himself to start opening bottles of wine and taking them around the room, making sure to top off everyone (mind you, we were all perfectly comfortable opening and pouring for ourselves and everyone had been doing this from the beginning, so this was just a bonus). Also to note is that our cups were the classic party 8oz plastic cups, and he filled those right up. So each bottle probably served like two people. Here is a photo grabbed by one of my classmates on the sly. Rachel, if for some reason you ever stumble upon this blog, sorry for stealing your photo! Then he started in on giving away all of the rest of the beer...and finally bottled water. Hey, we all need to stay hydrated, after all!
Monday, December 7, 2009
just a couple of kitchen mishaps
Sometimes I feel like I am the queen of them.
We used to store our oatmeal lying down on the shelf above the stove. However, one Sunday a few weeks ago, when I decided to have oatmeal for breakfast, this is the scene that followed.
FYI. It does not work to vacuum up oatmeal. It just sprays it everywhere. Even using an attachment on the hose does not work. It was as if the oatmeal would get sucked toward the attachment and then go ricocheting off somewhere. I'm sure there is still oatmeal to be found in odd places in our kitchen. Oh, of course there is. Just tonight I smelled burning when utilizing a burner not often used. I took out the burner pan and found oatmeal below. Wonderful.
Two nights ago I was making this delicious soup. I bought a new bottle of paprika for the recipe. I am terrible at opening freshness/safety seal things unless it has that nice large semicircular pull tab like ketchup often does. Just tiny pull tabs around the circumference? Think again. So I am in a bad habit of opening that type of seal with my teeth. Terrible idea when you live at a higher altitude than most food items are packaged. Paprika exploded out of the top when the seal broke. This might have happened regardless of how I opened it, but I would not have had a mouth full of paprika had I opened it in a more conventional manner. It was all over my mouth, face, shirt, and arms (made them very dry...odd), not to mention the counter, floor, and refrigerator.
Winner.
We used to store our oatmeal lying down on the shelf above the stove. However, one Sunday a few weeks ago, when I decided to have oatmeal for breakfast, this is the scene that followed.
FYI. It does not work to vacuum up oatmeal. It just sprays it everywhere. Even using an attachment on the hose does not work. It was as if the oatmeal would get sucked toward the attachment and then go ricocheting off somewhere. I'm sure there is still oatmeal to be found in odd places in our kitchen. Oh, of course there is. Just tonight I smelled burning when utilizing a burner not often used. I took out the burner pan and found oatmeal below. Wonderful.
Two nights ago I was making this delicious soup. I bought a new bottle of paprika for the recipe. I am terrible at opening freshness/safety seal things unless it has that nice large semicircular pull tab like ketchup often does. Just tiny pull tabs around the circumference? Think again. So I am in a bad habit of opening that type of seal with my teeth. Terrible idea when you live at a higher altitude than most food items are packaged. Paprika exploded out of the top when the seal broke. This might have happened regardless of how I opened it, but I would not have had a mouth full of paprika had I opened it in a more conventional manner. It was all over my mouth, face, shirt, and arms (made them very dry...odd), not to mention the counter, floor, and refrigerator.
Winner.
Monday, November 30, 2009
holding on to thankfulness
Even though most people focused on this last Thursday, I'm kind of bummed that Thanksgiving break is already over, so I thought it would be healthy to think of things I'm thankful for right now.
I'm thankful...
that I was able to travel home and see so many loved ones.
that my cat seemed happy to see me this time!
for all of the beloved people in my life.
(and also not thankful, health-wise) that I got to eat so much good food.
for the chance to babysit our nephew.
for running into friends by chance at the grocery store at home -- a week sounds like a long time to be home, but we were so busy that we made no plans with friends. there was much joy in that hug.
for safe travels for everyone.
for good ski deals.
for the privilege of going to school.
for my friends here at school...I think my heart leapt with joy when I saw the first two at the bike racks this morning.
for starting off my day with free, good coffee, three friends, and taking the time to sit down together around a table before rushing off to class.
for sharing in the excitement of new bling on my friend's left ring finger.
for classmates who like to stick around after class just to catch up with each other.
It's a good life.
I'm thankful...
that I was able to travel home and see so many loved ones.
that my cat seemed happy to see me this time!
for all of the beloved people in my life.
(and also not thankful, health-wise) that I got to eat so much good food.
for the chance to babysit our nephew.
for running into friends by chance at the grocery store at home -- a week sounds like a long time to be home, but we were so busy that we made no plans with friends. there was much joy in that hug.
for safe travels for everyone.
for good ski deals.
for the privilege of going to school.
for my friends here at school...I think my heart leapt with joy when I saw the first two at the bike racks this morning.
for starting off my day with free, good coffee, three friends, and taking the time to sit down together around a table before rushing off to class.
for sharing in the excitement of new bling on my friend's left ring finger.
for classmates who like to stick around after class just to catch up with each other.
It's a good life.
Friday, November 20, 2009
youtube most viewed video
This is just crazy to me that this is YouTube's Most Viewed Video today. Crazy, I tell you. When I took this screenshot, 1,875,630 views?! It was just uploaded two days ago. Apparently it was also on ESPN twice, including an interview with an assistant coach. And, here on Dr. Saturday, some Yahoo! sports thing. Funny stuff.
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