the secret to life

good lord it's been a while!
but you know, life gets in the way of blogging sometimes. important point: who reads this blog? pls please comment and be like "here!" so i know. just curious! xoxo

anyway, grad school is in it's denouement, if you will, and i have literally 1 month left of master's student coursework. then this summer i'm here in williamsburg writing the thesis and i defend in the fall. i'm trying to get a job (other than the Harv) so i can stay here another year and apply for phd's and then fall of 2010 i'll start my PhD program.
ah, plans. how i love them. i also plan to drive up to boston/nyc area in early june and i'm coming home to texas for the end of july/beginning of august. it's funny how i came home during the coldest part of this past year so my heating bill has overall been low, and im going home during the hottest part of the year so presumably my electric bill will be low. nice! i just now thought of it that way, and that's awesome.

so world, springtime in virginia is mighty nice. there are tulips and daffodils everywhere (daffodils in my yard! and i pick them and put them by my computer and its GREAT). i have all the windows open (the cats really love this) and birds are chirping and everywhere (prob. b/c i have 2 birdfeeders out...) and i can hear my wind chimes singing in the breeze...it's really really lovely!

other things in life are not so lovely, but that's okay. this is the secret to life: i'm okay when everything is not okay.

i haven't quite achieved that yet, but i'm trying. and that's the best we can ever do...