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Mood:  not sure
Topic: what the?!

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5508453273

two words: 32 bids!

And there was much rejoicing!
Mood:  a-ok
Topic: woo hoo!
so, i finally have someone to sublease my apartment and i'm super happy to not have to worry about that for a while. hopefully they will stay until next july and all will be good.

things are picking up as far as advising goes. i've had a bunch of new student conferences this week, the phone rings off the hook, people email me like crazy, and stop in too. it's mostly pretty fun, but totally scary at the same time. if i give them wrong information and they don't graduate...big trouble for kate. yikes!

stuff with other job is just buck wild. i'm a graduate hall director and found out my supervisor is resigning at the end of this month. they might not be replacing her, so i would be lone res life person. this is certainly a job i can do (since i have a bunch of times) but i just won't have a lot of time to pick up the slack with another assistantship and 2 classes next fall (both of which will probably kick my ass). so, that's a little stressful. i'm hoping if i am the only one that i can wrangle a bigger apartment or more money or both.

i've incorporated working out into my schedule lately and i'm starting to see some results. that keeps me motivated to stick with it. it's actually surprisingly fun to see that i'm making progress.

other than that stuff, i'm guessing the rest of the summer will be quite busy. i'm heading home in early august. hoping i find some money laying around so i can visit mike in vegas while he's there. and then RAs will be back and training will start, people are moving, and classes start. this summer is going way too fast!

oh---and i went to the dentist yesterday and now i'm just a Yank instead of a snaggly-toothed Yank. woo!

my teeth are pansies
Mood:  accident prone
Now Playing: Seal on the radio
Topic: jesus h. tap-dancing...
happy day after the 4th of july. i spent the 4th eating lots of food with good buddies, playing frisbee until it go too dark, and watching fireworks. good times overall!

on saturday afternoon i was eating some tortilla chips and caso for lunch and chipped one of my bottom front teeth. so that totally sucks and since i have some anxiety about going to the dentist, as many of my close friends know, i'm a bit stressed now. the chip is not super noticable (except that i can constantly feel it) and it doesn't hurt. my mom said something about how i'd have to get a root canal which terrified me to the depths of my soul. i'll find out for sure soon enough, but not today as dentist's offices and all other offices are closed for the holiday except texas a&m. figure that one out? it's crazy.

in other news, mike and i went to see dodgeball on saturday night and it is one of the funniest movies i have seen in a long long time. we laughed our asses off pretty much from beginning to end. go see this movie. right now! stop reading and go. do it!

that's all for now from the snaggled-toothed yank.

settling in
Topic: bored at work
so, i'm getting settled in to both of my new offices today. it's kind of fun to make the space mine, but i've been so tired lately that it's not as exciting as maybe it should be.

not a lot going on with me right now. have a few trips that might be coming up, including a weekend in vegas and some time up north. looking forward to a break no matter where it is!

i'm so money and i don't even know it
Mood:  surprised
Now Playing: lenny kravitz on the radio
Topic: what the?!
so, there was a time when i used match.com to try to find people to hang out with and possibly date. i actually went on one date with a guy i met on match and it was scary to say the least. i went on another date with a more normal guy who then met someone else the next weekend and they are still dating. needless to say, my faith in finding people who aren't freaks on match has diminished significantly after an email i received today. it was from a liberal, christian married couple who practice "poly-fidelity." this was by far one of the wackiest propositions ever and i have made sure that my match profile is hidden now. apparently it is still visible even if you're not paying the subscription costs, so people can view it and then send you emails asking you if you want to become a "part of their family" and have an emotional bond with them that could eventually become physical. to me, this sounds like the beginning of some scary serial killer movie. needless to say, i am not taking them up on the offer to be their "poly-mate". i know that it said i was open minded in my profile, but damn! what the hell attracted a married couple with two sons? must be my hot ass. or the fact that i'm so money and don't even know it. (a quote from the movie swingers if you have for some reason not seen that kick ass movie.) or maybe it was my match handle: aggieswingerchicmonkeyass. just kidding! it doesn't say monkey ass. :)

in other news, looks like i might have a subleaser for my apartment. no, not the poly-spouse couple. :)

info on poly life style choices: http://www.twomoons.com/polyamory/swpc/polyintr.htm