BioPhys_Kim's corner of the universe

So there has been no new post for a while. I'm actually using my slight headache tonight to catch up with a few things online so I might make a couple of posts (but doubtful). I doubt anyone reads this anymore anyway but I'm going to start using it as a place to try and express certain thoughts but since my mind is so nonlinear, we'll see how it goes. But before I get serious and give opinions I'll sum up the last six months.

( Marriage... )

( Vacation and awesome work! )

And now we're back to school (although I'm only auditing one class this term and not doing any TAing). Hopefully soon I'll make a post about something that I've been thinking about and learning about over the past few months (mostly in a reading posts and thinking introspectively kind of way). Specifically, the realization that I am totally a feminist and that is cool and awesome.

I'm posting this for two reasons. One, cause I haven't posted in awhile and should update you (the end is near!! Yay!), and two cause I got my first mean anonymouse (I feel like I'm a real blogger now). I was going to screen their comment, but I don't really like doing that and they brought up a semi-valid point (amongst a bit of bleh).

( Serious, dull matters )

( Post of GLEE! )

Edit: Because this page is possibly linked to from somewhere off my wedding site I have friends locked some of the posts. I apologize but they were really only intended for my venting purposes and I wouldn't want someone to get the wrong idea when I'm just letting off steam.

I have a shitload of work to get done and yet I’m sitting here writing a blog post. Why? Well, for one, it’s better than work. For two, I’m actually waiting for a bunch of people to get back to me about stuff so I can move on. For three, I don’t have everything I need here today. Four, I’m bored. This entry will really be a bunch of rapid fire things.

( Enter long, ranty sections )

After posting such a depressing post I’d thought I’d post a nice uplifting one. I’ll start by giving out the link to my fiancé James’ blog. You can find it at http://blog.foolsjourney.ca/ and so far he updates his blog far more frequently than I do. And his is probably much funnier than mine. So go read it! We should be putting up a wedding website on his site, hopefully before very long.

( Yay Christmas!! )

And yes, I am still avoiding work. :-) Although it's partly because I can't do assigned reading with a textbook that hasn't arrived yet.

Well surprise, surprise, I went a really long time without posting. I wish I could say that I won’t do it again but I can’t. I have such grand ideas of regular posts and I just can’t seem to take the time to write a nice post. I can’t even seem to bother to post a short one. So why am I bothering now? Easy. Because I’m avoiding work. Ahh, you say, she’s exhibiting a classic behaviour, especially for a student. But I’m worried that my recent work avoidance is more serious.

( Into the breach )

Can I just say, that while my title can be a funny joke if used occasionally, it’s not that funny when multiple people ask you. I’m just saying. I don’t know if I realized how negative my last post was until I got those nice replies from people. Thanks for being nice. I appreciated those comments, as I don’t think even I realized how frustrated I was by everything until I wrote it all out.

( Moving... )

Okay, I admit it. I have a fondness for cheesy disaster movies. Cheesy action movies as well, but especially cheesy disaster movies. And NBC recently aired what is possibly the cheesiest action movie I’ve ever seen (although I’m sure there are many more I haven’t). ( I don't think Apocalypse means what you think it means... )

I keep meaning to update more often but at least right now I have an “excuse”. ( See excuse here… )

( Wedding! )

( I occasionally have fun. No, really! )

EEEEKkkkkk! I don't think I can emphasize how freaked out and stressed I am at this very moment. Why you ask? Well, as most of you know by know, my boyfriend popped the question on April 9th and I am now engaged (I would have posted about this before but I was trying to catch my RL friends in "person", i.e. over MSN before I put it on LJ). So we've been trying to plan a wedding in Fredericton (July 21, 2007) while liveing in Halifax. Not easy whatsoever. Although my dad makes a pretty good wedding planner.

Other source of major stress? We put an offer in on a condo townhouse this afternoon. I leave for Seattle for a week on Saturday. I have panic attacks about major trips anyway let alone a trip during our reviewing period. *Freaks* It's a gorgeous condo that we first saw last week but didn't seriously consider cause it's the first one we saw. He have since seen others (one of which was a dump) and been to the area where others are available and have not seen anything that even remotely compares (all new flooring, kitchen, main floor windows, paint, bathrooms, etc....). It is the awesome. We would only need to buy a washer (may need to replace the dryer in the long term) and some stuff like curtains and maybe a rug for downstairs. Now I don't know the area very well but it seems decent (not great but not a slum either, and I am still a student after all). And our mortgage guy lives like four blocks away so it must be a decent area eh? But did I mention we made an offer this afternoon after seeing it again this morning? I knew I should have spoken about it in length to some people this past weekend for opinions but the fiance (see how the word just rolls off... :-) ) didn't want to seriously consider it since it was the first place we saw. He was brought around to its awesome when we saw a couple of other places. *Continues freaking*

And man, I still have to book a caterer to go with my reception location since there is apparently a "rival couple" who had also been looking at our reception location (but we won darn it!) who may snatch them. And my desired (and the only decent one I can afford) videographer may be travelling on that date, and I need to pick a photographer, and.... Eeeeekkkkkk!

Whee! I update not so very much. And when (and where) do I write my next update? Why at work of course while waiting for a download of a program I need as well as waiting for a couple of people to come in to work. I’m a baaaaad person. So I was talking to my friend Cat on the weekend and said I would update my LJ soon so here it is (but still after a little bit of a wait). Awww, the tech guy came in and said that it would be at least an hour before the bloody thing downloads. Oh well, more time for writing!

( Moving on is hard to do… )

( The other stuff, i.e. don’t read if you don’t want to hear personal gossip about my relationship. )

Well, now that I’ve overshared about all the big stuff I will completely sum up all the little stuff. V for Vendetta is an awesome movie. I highly recommend it. It has its little flaws but overall, it’s damn good. House is also an awesome show and I swear the writers are toying with me, the bastards. Apparently first year University students cannot be trusted to put their names on the labs two people have forgot in the last two weeks. And I think that is all. Join us next time for the adventures of Kim, the grad student who found that she had to grow up.