My graduate school tuition, all tied up with a nice little red bow. NOW they truly have everything.

I just finished my presentation, as in, just presented it. I think it went really well. I've finished applying to the 9 programs. Now I just turn in my paper and BREATHE.

Happy birthday to hannah_sofia !

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For some reason, mine is Thanksgiving. Oh, and Easter, but especially Thanksgiving. I have no clue why. It's always bad weather, all about food, and I'm mostly always working on some awful paper, but I still love it. Today was great. I'm over my weird illness, so I got to run the Drumstick Dash this morning. Nothing like a chasing a guy in a turkey suit for several miles in Broad Ripple in the rain! So fun. We did our meal at the Olivier's house like every other year, and I worked on 42 pages of revisions for my thesis from 2-9:30. All in all, a pretty great holiday:)

I think it goes without saying, but I'll say it anyway: if you're reading this, I'm probably thankful for you:)

So... here's your story-of-the-day.

Last night I started getting that horrible feeling where you know you're sick but you can't do ANYTHING about it... shivery, headache, tired, ache-y, the works. I took a hot bath and got out, knew I was going to throw up, then did so. I felt GREAT afterwards. A couple hours later I went to go brush my teeth, started blacking out, hit my head on the counter and sprawled out across the sink, then completely blacked out and ended up on the floor. My mom and sister came in and woke me up. I went to the ER, they did a bunch of blood work and a CAT scan (I had to take out all 7 earrings!) and I got a saline drip so I'd be less dehydrated. I stayed until about 5 am, then my mom took me home and I sort of slept for a couple hours. I feel pretty good now, a little pathetic and weak but not too bad. I was going camping with John tonight... guess that's not happening! Grrrr.

This week so far is looking up, as compared to last week. Saturday was fun, with Monon Bell and all. I guess DP lost the game, but who cares? I had a really, really nice time with John:) Then the Colts game on Sunday night was pretty sweet. I don't typically watch football, but I did catch that game, and WHOO was it good! I got my psychology GRE scores yesterday morning and they were WAY better than I was expecting. I am almost completely finished with my applications now. I had a good session with Dr. Richardson, and I got a lot done on my seminar presentation and paper. I got a pretty blue hoodie from Target. Today I had a good appointment with Dr. Rouse and got my schedule for next semester- for once I got every single class I needed and wanted without having to get the special codes and all that. I guess being a second semester senior is finally good for something. I'm babysitting tonight. Life has given me 3 good days! Let's keep this up, shall we?

Happy birthday naturalog !

These 5 words brought to you by nnothinbutherain ! If you want 5 words, leave me a comment and I'll give you 5 words that make me think of you. My words from her are:

Dr. Pepper- diet Dr. Pepper makes my life complete. Yesterday was the first day in months that I didn't have any. So weird.
Family- my family is pretty good. There's issues but everyone has issues.
Baking- I'm probably going to bake some bread tonight.
Running- love running, happy to be doing it again. I'm doing a 5-mile on Thanksgiving that I've been doing for the last couple years- someone runs the whole race in a turkey suit. Ridiculous.
Foo Fighters- funny, I'm wearing my FF shirt right now.

Today was just stupid. No, scratch that, it really wasn't that bad. I got up the other day and went running, then discovered my left tonsil was literally the size of a golf ball, so I went to the doctor and got some antibiotics. It got worse yesterday while I was at DePauw, but somehow got WAY better overnight and now I'm feeling pretty good. But then tonight I was going home from Meijer and a lady was driving across the parking lot, like you're not supposed to do, and totally smashed the hell out of my front passenger side. Luckily there were witnesses and the policeman let her know it was her fault, but still, not a fun ending to the work week. There's kind of a lot of damage, ugh.

Tomorrow is Monon Bell... I've come a long way since last year, let's just leave it at that.

Tuesday is 2 appointments, babysitting, and my mom's birthday, Wednesday is DePauw again (like yesterday and tomorrow), Thursday is another appointment, and possibly camping next weekend. Wow, after that is Thanksgiving week already? Where has time gone...

Happy early birthday mockingbirddd !

Hooray, hooray, comps are over.  Now I've got the paper and my applications left for this semeser.  Oh, and about $800 to make, somehow, for my Haiti trip in February.  Minute details, really. 

I'm in my lab in Harrison and wanted to make some oatmeal.  I went up to the history department lounge so I wouldn't have to run into my professors while using the microwave.  I managed to somehow let the oatmeal go too long and it spilled all over the microwave.  Then, I used a rag to *sort of* clean it up... didn't work out so well.  I got oatmeal all over the rag and the counter, and it didn't do much for the microwave, either.  So, instead of doing the right thing and continuing to clean it up, I simply left.  Real cool, right?  I threw away the oatmeal.  It was a lost cause. 

I've got a meeting with my seminar advisor in 6 minutes, time for brutal criticism on my paper!  Hooray, my favorite part of the week, really.  After that there's the poster presentation event at Julian where I will be standing next to my poster from last summer's research for about 2 hours while people wander by and pretend to care.  Since we all know they're just there for the free food, I bought a bunch of breast-cancer-support peanut M&Ms to pass out by my poster, seeing how my poster focuses on breast cancer research and data.  With any luck, there will be sufficient leftovers.  My mom wants to come see the poster presentation, so she'll be there, and I believe John will, too, so at least that will pass some of the time.  

Alright, upstairs to see a slew of red marks all over my paper!  

-Kelly   

Happy birthday scorpio02894 !

1. What is your happiest memory?
When my mom and sister and I went out to eat at fast food restaurants and went to Target on school nights when I was a little kid.  We called them "Just Us Girls Nights."  Eight grade cross country was pretty sweet.  I also liked the end of my sophomore year of college. 
2. What is the most important life lesson you've learned?
Be yourself.  Yeah, that's totally simple, too bad it took me until I was 20 years and 2 months old to figure out that it was right. 
3. What is the most difficult decision you've had to make?
This semester. 
4. What is the best thing about your life?
Love from my family and friends. 
5. What is the biggest challenging you're facing right now?
Not freaking out, getting through my seminar and applications, trusting people, maintaining stuff I learned in my program, and trying to have fun sometimes. 

I liked this Friday Five.  Made me think a little. 

Kati and I went to see Third Eye Blind tonight- lotsa fun.  I saw them last year at DePauw, too.  I've finished my applications for all 6 schools, with the exception of some odds and ends, like test scores I'm waiting for and some processing fees and stuff. 

SAE's Halloween party tomorrow!  I don't have the energy or desire to dress up this year, so I'm not going to.  If enough people give me crap about it, I'll put on one of John's hoodies and go as "John." 

visited 40 states (80%)
Create your own visited map of The United States

I very much disagree with this policy.  Not only does it perpetuate socioeconomic inequality, I'm thinking gender inequality as well, because I'm pretty sure men and women wouldn't be given the same roles within that armed forces services.  That being said, I don't want ANY role in it, so that's my main argument.  With my political and moral beliefs, I'd make a crappy member of the armed forces, and I wouldn't want my country to be depending on the likes of me for its protection.  

It's been a long time since I've done any kind of REAL update.  I'll try to make it brief:

Finished the program- I did 8 weeks PHP and 2 weeks IOP, and it was the hardest and best thing I've ever done.  I met some wonderful people. 

My seminar paper is truckin' right along.  It's tedious and not exactly fun but it's going. 

My applications for grad school are also coming along decently well.  I took the GRE twice, the psychology GRE once, and I'm in the process of finishing up the personal statement and essay questions.  The final-cut schools are: U of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, U of Louisville, Ohio State U, Bowling Green State University, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, and Indiana University.  Shit is expensive, too- GRE costs, application fees, transcript fees, driving costs... blah. 

I'm going to Haiti in the first week of February.  If anyone would like to donate $1300, let me know.  Even part of that would be okay:)

Then there's John.  I won't bore anyone with the details but things are going really, really well with him.  He's the kind of person I've wanted for a really long time, and he makes me very happy.  There's no naivety in my happiness, either.  

Classes for next semester should be pretty sweet.  I'll be taking an applied clinical course with a lab component (motivational interviewing therapy at the Putnam County Jail!), a memoir writing course, a lame gym course (bowling or racquetball), and intro to religions, just for an "easier" class.  Yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhh second semester senior!  May 23 here I come.

And never you fear... I have had time to keep up with a little bit of shopping, albeit not as much as normal...

That's the basics.  I will be updating more regularly, but probably not so much until mid-December, when all of my applications and seminar stuff will be done.  Then I'll feel like I have a little more free time, hopefully.   

Happy 23rd birthday duckygirl !!!!!!!!
I LOVE MY SISTER!

I met John in Plainfield and took him to Indy to catch his Megabus this evening... only there was a little mess-up on the times and he ended up missing the bus.  So, I thought that maybe if we drove fast, we could meet the bus at the Zionsville stop.  We drove fast and got there pretty damn quickly, but it turns out that the bus no longer stops there!  Whoops.  Our next endeavor was to find out when the Greyhound left Indy.  A little phone work revealed that the last bus ride would be at 9:30.  We got to the station, scrounged around for cash, and got him one of the last tickets just in time.  Amusing evening, and it was actually a lot of fun, although I would have felt bad if he hadn't made it home tonight, and it was too bad that he paid for the Megabus and didn't get to take it. 

Kati's birthday is Monday.  My paper is coming along decently.  I'm sick of tests. 

Lots going on these days, more later.

Happy early birthdays to both nymphbamboozled  and thetourist1 !

1. how old were you when you first started your livejournal?  13, wow
2. how has your life changed since then? OH MY GOODNESS.  So many things.  I don't even know where to start.
3. if you could go back and change one thing from your past, what would it be? I wouldn't.  I don't know where I'd be today. 
4. what is one thing you would do to make livejournal better? Be able to make all old entries friends-only without changing every single one of them individually. 
5. if you joined the spice girls today...what would your spice name be? (ie, baby spice, scary spice, etc) Um.  I wouldn't. 

I've got the GRE tomorrow, hooray hooray.  I went out to DePauw last night to see John and it was wonderful.  My seminar is going decently.  I got a new coat and hat this week.  I cried 4 times this week for various lame reasons.  I have new music and now that my dad has his new car, I can listen to CDs in the car since I'm driving his old one.  I also have a Freud action figure in the car.  I think I'm going out to DePauw again sometime this weekend to see John again.  An apple orchard needs to happen.  

My short list for grad schools, as of today:

Northwestern
U of Illinois Urbana-Champaigne
U of Louisville
U of Ohio
Indiana University
IUPUI

More updates later this weekend.