That was confusing. Emily posted that last one under my name for some reason. Silly Emily. I am in grad school, Keith. Urban Planning.

to answer the question Keith posted (and maybe this isn't what you were going for, because i'm not in a grad program yet, just preparing myself for someday) about post-undergrad life, i'd say my feelings are a strange combination of relief and anxiety. just in the opposite way of while at Knox.

to say it more clearly, i can now chuckle & be glad not to have piles of reading waiting for me, and tests, and classes. i get to do lots of reading on my own, and somehow it's just easier to concentrate on the subject material without a next-day deadline hanging over my head. i also feel much more involved in the "real" world, and the professional real world at that, since while subbing i'm working with other professionals. nothing is theoretical anymore. so that's the relief part.

the anxiety part, though, is entirely money. in school, you have loans. you have a meal plan. there are few unexpected expenses, and you feel much more that you have a safety net. being in the real world makes keeping track of your money a much more... almost visceral thing. it needs to be constantly monitered, because there is so little of it, but you need it so often. and unexpected expenses come up out of the blue. like needing my wisdom teeth pulled. and that sucks. but it's a lot like learning to swim by being tossed in the water, having to learn this balancing stuff all at once. so there's my two cents.

FIrst off,

Congratulations Christina! by the way, what kind of program is it?

I love to read this and see how everyone id doing. Wandering around, looking for a balance between those things that make life worth living and those things that make it possible to eat and sleep under a roof. Whether this meandering follows by a path or finds itself directionless, it sounds like we are all moving forward in some way. I'm finally starting to spearhead my own experimental project that is truly all my own. It's dealing with the different types of meaning people seek and what types of meaning are better at buffering against existential anxiety. I love my advisor and all the people around me. I am always working, but for the most part I find it to be work that I choose to do rather than work that I am forced into.

I send my love to all.

...to be is a excellent thing.

If any higher-ups in the dance world deem me worthy, I'm seriously considering finishing up my anthro master's and then quitting the program to go dance. I'm eyeing a couple auditions and gearing up to take some serious classes. I need a nod from someone to give me an opportunity to sneak into the dance world, but if I get that nod there isn't a whole lot that'll keep me from it. I'm even willing to work whatever pays as a day job. Yep. I'm kind of giving up on academia. But only kind of, because if nobody thinks I'm up to par I won't get any chances to dance seriously. And because there's always the chance that by the time I get my anthro master's I'll be loving it. And because if the dancing works and goes really well, I'm going to think about getting an MFA and becoming a higher-ed dance prof ... and thus getting right back into academia. but in a different way.

So there you go. I'm glad to see that things are going well for everyone else, but I'm about to jump ship. If I can get the opportunity and the courage to do so.

yo yo yo. Not much new to tell about my life. I just like writing on Blogger. I didn't get to see Adam's show on Tuesday, but i did see the play this weekend and the hoothoots were definately the highlight. I went to the bathroom after intermission was over so i wouldn't miss the band.

From my new favorite book The Geography of Nowhere by James Howard Kunstler: "Here, you nation of morons, is another inevitably banal, cheap concrete box, of the only type your sordid civilization allows, topped by some cheep and foolish ornament worthy of your TV-addled brains." !!! ***i swoon***

I flew to New Jersey last weekend because my grandmother died and the TSA took my knife. Bastards.

I'm gonna go now and research where we should build a new port city now that New Orleans barely exists and the Mississippi River is damn-near ready to abandon the city and redirect its flow to the west. (seriously. It's some crazy shit http://www.issues.org/22.2/sparks.html)

Peace.

I Got Into Grad School!!!! Oregon State sent me an e-mail telling me that my official letter is in the mail but that I was accepted and that i got a teaching assistantship as well. SWEEET! So now even if I don't get into any other schools I can still go to grad school. Also the show went awesome last night. The hoot hoots made up a song on the spot about Tom Fucoloro who was the sound director for the play and writes for TKS. It was cool though. Also we have a new website that is currently under construction but if you ever want to know about the Hoot Hoots you can check out http://sneakingunder.com/thehoothoots YAY!
Time to shower.

xxx Christina ooo

I am a horse's ass. It turns out that the info I argued for regarding Mr. Rogers's military record was a false internet rumor. I apologize to everyone, especially you Rachel, for spreading the false lies of the wretched Internet. Geez, I just finished this huge assignment for my legal writing class, a fourteen page federal memorandum. You may think fourteen pages is not a lot, but you'd be wrong when weighing it with the subject matter and goofy citation methods they ask us to use. Anyway, it's done now and I did my best. The topic was the hostile work environment claim of Pedro Sanchez against his supervisors, Napoleon and Kip Dynamite, at a breast implant company. Yeah, you heard me, they give us false facts but real issues of law around here. Uncle Rico was the CEO and he was wondering if he could assert an affirmative defense against old Pedro. Hopefully, things will get a little bit lighter around here now. I hope you all are doing great and I wish you all the best.

so the Hoot Hoots have a show tomorrow (Tuesday) at the Alternative Philosophies House in their basement which is supposedly scary. If anyone thinks of good show theatrics before we play at 8 or 9 tomorrow, please let me know. Oh and by the way, we have an EP now (which we recorded and I mixed) and at the play we sold over $300 worth of these CD's and CD's of the music from the play. The ep we sold for 5 bucks and the play music we sold for 2. Not to mention we played in a ridiculously fun play with really nice and uber-talented people. and the Cantakeroos notched their first victory in IM basketball, with the help of some illegal recruits from Champaign. A good weekend. Oh and my penis enlargement kit came in the mail, and I tell you what, the ads don't lie.