Hometown: The Roch, MI (aka. The Crotch, aka. Crotchscratcher, aka. Crotchmolester, aka. Rochester)
Currently Living: Clawson, MI
Height: 5'8
Weight: Ha ha, yeah right
Favorite Color: Blue (preferably navy)
Profession: Researcher
Favorite Nickname: Trick, Sloan
Favorite Drinks:Vodka Tonic, Guinness, Diet Dr. Pepper, Dirty Martinis, red wine
Favorite TV Show: Friends, Sex & The City, Project Runway, The Amazing Race, Iron Chef America
Least Favorite TV Show: A Baby Story, I Love Lucy, Martha Stewart, Everybody Loves Raymond, every hour long drama
Favorite Books: The History of Love, Beloved, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Fight Club, A Prayer for Owen Meany, The of Being, SurUnbearable Lightness vivor, Empire Falls, The Corrections, The Bell Jar
Favorite Movies: Little Miss Sunshine, Anchorman, The 40 Year Old Virgin, Wordplay, American Beauty, Life is Beautiful, Amelie, Breakfast Club, Singin In The Rain, Sixteen Candles, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Sleeping Beauty, Dancer in the Dark, Duets, The Virgin Suicides, The Manchurian Candidate (1962), Austin Powers I, II & III, My Best Friends Wedding, Moulin Rouge, Tommy Boy, Billy Madison, The Shining, Gone With The Wind, Bridget Jones' Diary, Chicago, Love Actually
Guilty Pleasure Movies: Xanadu, Dirty Dancing, Overboard, Groundhog Day, Steel Magnolias, 10 Things I Hate About You, Bond movies, Footloose, Clue, Murder By Death, High Spirits, A Cinderella Story
What I Do Too Much: Check email, crossword puzzles, complain about my job to friends and family,
Obsessions: sushi, Indian food, ranch dressing, toenail polish, song lyrics, hands, awards shows, symmetry, avocados, maps, dreams, This American Life, the display in my car that tracks my MPG
Pet Peeves: loud eaters, slurping, gulping, arrogance, snoring, bad grammar, repetition, late mergers, ripping cardboard, the word "chunky", intolerance, couples in a restaurant sitting on the same side of a booth, pop-up ads, privacy manager, men that drive without shirts on, being foolish, unfairly jumping to conclusions, being made fun of, cat-calling, people who type too hard
Greatest Fear: crossing bridges
Relaxing Activites: late night drives to sing by myself, headstands, hot baths,
Wish I Was: Ansel Adams, Jenifer Aniston, in love, living alone
Prized Possessions: ring from my grandparents, flower pot of my Grandma's, electric blanket (temporarily broken), tongue scraper, my bed
Craziest Thing Ever Done: getting a tattoo, strip Jenga
Things I Eventually Want To Do: skydive, buy a guitar, learn how to play the aforementioned guitar, take flying lessons, travel to France, write a novel, learn how to play the harp, tap dancing lessons, run a marathon
Tuesday, December 07, 2004 The disappointment of success hangs from your shoulders like a handed-down dress....And so tack another semester on to my estimated date of graduation. I just got the big nix from my advisor about doing my thesis project next semester, citing that there are still too many classes that I need to take (5). So it will have to be done at the end. Although I'm kind of disgruntled about it (mostly about having to stay at my job for an additional 3-4 months), there are certain options that I now have for this winter.
1. I have the option of taking a random elective next semester. I don't need anymore for my degree program, but free tuition is part of my benefits package, so why not? Although I have a suspicion that it will somehow have to be related to my job in a vague, approved-by-a-higher-up kind of way. So even though it's tempting to peruse classes like Polish, Chicano-Boricua studies, Forensic Toxicology, or Opera Workshop, I would probably end up being limited to classes with alluring titles like, "Health Promotion," or "Health Care Finance." I know my eyes are all agog with excitement...
2. There is the overwhelming urge to take a class in the Business or Law programs for the higher probability for eye candy. But in the end, I am going to have to do work right?
3. And then the best option. Maybe this semester is a gift. Perhaps I should be taking this semester of a lesser workload to focus on other things. Like things I keep saying I'm going to do but don't because of my hectic schedule. Namely, actually finish things that I start writing (currently have multiple different things in varying stages of completion). Maybe if I approach it like an actual class and find some discipline for myself, I could get something done. And you could be my teacher! You could hold me responsible for finishing. You could be my reviewer. My editor if you will. You could set deadlines and submission dates for me. You could give me topics to write about. OOoo!! This does actually sound like fun!
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