27 February 2006

Mardi Gras tomorrow. Ash Wednesday follows.

Where do I live that walking outside into 28 degree air I smell spring on the rise? An extra spring in my heeled steps, ready to face my day. Yesterday one of my student said that he wished it was May 24th and it chilled my blood. I am definately not ready for it to be May 24th (a paltry 3 days before graduation and the day of Colleen's graduation!) but I am ready for it to not be winter anymore. I am feeling the pull of this season, feel the convictions and growth that I have developed through this time...my roots are ready. Applying for jobs this week. One of the bravest things that I have done for quite a while. It's gut-wrenching. It's unnerving. It fills me with this sense of "I have no idea of what the hell I am getting myself into." It fills me with hope and joy. It is right that I am making these steps.

Growing up isn't much more than just learning how to fake it really well.

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06 February 2006

Simple pleasures, Monday.

1. Walking through a group of freshly showered guys. Living with girls makes me miss how GOOD guys smell sometimes. Sometimes being the key word. SOMETIMES.
2. My YOMI sanity group (aka Thursday nights out)
3. Ordering my carmel macchiato, medium, skim before class.
4. Ordering my carmel macchiato 2 minutes before the pre-9 am-class rush (no wait, priceless)
5. Having everything put into my planner.
6. Good books before bed (reading for an hour and having to force myself to put it down. Love "Speaker for the Dead").
7. Having been up for 5 hours at 10:30 in the morning and still going strong. If this semester doesn't prep me for real life, I don't know what will.

Okay Monday, here we go.

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02 February 2006

So....today was officially my last first day of undergraduate work. I got up, ate my Marshmallow Matey's, drank some cranberry juice and got to school at the ungodly hour of 8:20am...only to find after my first class (out 50 minutes early) that the espresso machine at school is broken. No caramel macchiatos for Kate today. It's okay, there are better things to consume as the day goes on for certain. ;) Strange to be back, strange to see everyone else. Plans for people post-graduation are starting to come together. Amazing.

Strange to think that there are only 12 weeks left. Getting antsy.

Kate

ps--January is overoverover. February is HERE and there are good things on the horizon. Come on spring!