i am such a slacker

remember when my guy was this tiny? i do. it was the cutest.

i ought to have done so many things this weekend. i ought to have written a paper for mike. i ought to have worked on my next presentation for arthur. i ought to have caught up on my reading. instead, i've snuggled with these puppy-types. i did do some laundry. but not even all of my laundry. sigh. i'm getting burnt out on school. especially on teaching. four semesters of teaching have worn me down. i don't think i'm really cut out for it. (don't even ask why i'm working towards being a professor.)

on the flip side, i am really excited to be heading out of town on tuesday. i'll be traveling around (alone) for a week. i think i need the break. and it'll be a lot of fun. i even get to go to a warm place! yay! i look forward to packing a pair of flipflops.

peanut got sick today. she's one sad little pup. i feel so bad. there's not much i can really do for her though. hugs and water seem about all i can provide. but every now and again she looks up at me with this sad face.... poor little girl.

puppies!

so this weekend i'm puppy-sitting for cheryl. right now, there are two chihuahuas running around the apartment like little insane things. sometimes they let out a battle cry and wrestle. if you're wondering what the battle cry of a chihuahua is like, it starts out as a little snort and then moves to a high pitched squeal. hilarious.

so aside from the puppies, not much is going on. i have tons of work to do this weekend that i am, predictably, having trouble doing. the goal for tonight is to write an exam for my kids. they take it on thursday. at least this time i won't be there to watch. so they can't bug me with all their dumb questions. (have fun john)

tuesday afternoon i leave for chicago and begin my whirlwind tour of grad schools. i'll start at UIC, move to NWern, and then to UT. ND i think, is basically completely out of the picture by now. they rejected the dude, and i think that now, if anything, i am on the waitlist for the waitlist - which i think translates into 'patty is just waiting until she can send me my rejection letter, too.' its too bad, i think it could've been fun. me and sayre have always got on well, and we all know my obsesion with ND. but, i think chicago or austin could be really cool... and more like a real adventure. k-zoo has only been an excursion, not an adventure. the town's too small and too much like places i've lived before and too close to ND to make this time a real adventure.

i'm hungry. i've already had two dinners. but i'm still hungry. i need to find a snack now. and put on lotion. my hands arent doing so well. stupid cold.

tag!

ok, so southie tagged me, and i cannot ignore the rules of the blogosphere. so, here goes...

The rules:
List seven songs you’re into right now. No matter the genre, whether [or not] they have words, or even if they’re any good, they must be songs you’re really enjoying right now. Post these instructions in your blog along with your seven songs, then tag seven other people to see what they’re listening to.

The List:

R.E.M - The Outsiders
Cake - Commissioning a Symphony in C
Norah Jones - Lonestar
Gustav Holst - Jupiter (from the Planets)
Cake - Shadow Stabbing
Eiffel 65 - I'm Blue (the dabadee song)
The Caesars - Jerk it Out

The Tag:

I don't think i have seven blog friends to tag... but i do think paul and erin should do this, if for no other reason than that both of them seriously need to update.

bored....

baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah.

i got nothing. absolutely nothing. everyone's gone tonight. so i'm sitting here alone. with the cats.

yep. just me and the cats. yay.

blah.

and i slept in today so i'm too awake to go to bed.

i'm hungry, too. but there's no food in the place, and i don't want to go to the store right now.

i guess it's just one of those nights.

cosmo!

did any else have trouble seeing my blog in safari earlier today? or was that just me?

i know, i haven't blogged in about a million years. oops. i meant to while i was home (MO home) this weekend, but it never quite worked out. and now i'm home in k-zoo and i just got back from the bar where i had three cosmos, so let's see how many typos i don't catch.

so, i went to MO on friday. friday was nice. as was saturday. i spent some quality time walking outside with my doggy in the warm, thinking about how much i missed my farm. and how weirdly accustomed to city life i am now. its so strange for me to think that living in a suburb (which is what k-zoo essentially is) is now almost my standard. i don't think i like that change. i think it might help me adjust to chicago or austin... but i think i've lost something. i miss being out in the country, where things are quiet and i know all my neighbors and i can leave things unlocked (though i guess i can do that here too). point is, its different there. the pace of life is different. the focus of life is different. the air smells better. and there are cows. and let's face it, cows are cool (but not too eat!).

unfortunately, today (sunday) was not good at all. this morning mom and erika decided that right before i left home was a good time to gang up on me and be as mean as possible (about grad school next year, about paul, about not being married, about not having babies, basically anything and everything they could think of). it was horrible. i had the biggest knots in my stomach and i just wanted to cry. i held myself together though... i didn't want to get upset and make a scene and let them know they had gotten to me. so i just sat quietly, tried to reason with them. and when that failed, i washed my face and put on eyemakeup. it was the only thing to do. and then, to top it all off, mom needed a ride to walmart, so the last 15 minutes of my home experience were comprised of an exceedingly awkward drive to eureka. ugh.

and then roughly 7.5 hours driving home. joy.

but then john and darci convinced me to go to the bar. and i had three cosmos. and woah. i think i'm really starting to feel them. woah. i mean, i was silly before... but now i feel strange. it might be time for sleep.

grits!

today is the sunday of my spring break. which means school starts again tomorrow. =(

i am sitting in paul's room now. not doing much. just sitting. trying to find some motivation to get out of bed and be productive. amazingly enough, the pile of grading sitting next to the bed just isn't doing it for me. but school starts tomorrow, and i have a paper due on wednesday that needs writing. so i should get up. i'll prolly just sit here and watch siflnolly or some other movie.

if you haven't noticed the new thing on the side bar... i put up all my responses/non-responses from grad schools there. so now you can keep track of them with me! and tell me where to go when the time comes! yay!

so on thursday, delaney took me out for a drink. it was great. i had two glasses of wine and was quite tipsy. but, i countered the tipsyness by trying to act really serious. in the end (so paul tells me) i just came out acting normal. but once we left delaney and i was free to be as ridiculous as possible, i may have been hopping around like an idiot. i also found i had very little control over how fast my feet would walk. paul had to grab onto my arm to slow me down. it was the only way.

i cleaned paul's room the other day. i should have done before and after shots so you could understand just how momentous a task this was... but for those of you that know paul (and knew his rooms in keough), you understand.

ok, now its time to go and wait for my grits. and yes, i love grits. they're quite yummy. and waaaaay better than oatmeal or cream of wheat. =)