Merry Almost Christmas!!!!!!!!!!

Well I hope everyone is where they are going to be for Christmas and safe and sound. I am still in my apartment packing like a fiend. I have two more days after this to be ready to put everything into my moving van and then off to MD I go. I have a ton of errand that I have to run before that. I have to turn in my cable box, modem and controller. I have to take a big pile of stuff up to Good Will. I have to get 2 money orders to give to my apartment people when I get there. And finally I have to close out my bank account up here. So a list of things to get accomplished.

On Christmas day my friend Sara and I are going to do the "Jewish" thing and go see a movie and eat chinese. So that should be exciting. I am looking forward to it. I still have to find a movie theatre that is open. But minor details. :)

I am picking up my friend, Ruth, from the airport on wed. morning at 9am and then the mass chaous starts. The truck gets loaded and then the next day we drive down to MD. I get to move into my apartment on the 29th. So I will be without internet until Jan. 2. That is when I actually have to go into the office. So I will update you all then when I have more news. And if I figure it out I might even post picture of the apartment. But that is a maybe. :)


Merry Holidays to all and to all a good week!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I"M DONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ok first of all sorry it has been so long since I have posted but I have been swamped. I took my final on Friday and I think that I did pretty well and I turned in my last paper on Tuesday night. I am finished!!!!!!! Now all I have to do, well for school anyway, is hurry up and wait for my grades to come in to make sure I actually graduate.

My mom was here all of last week and she helped me a lot. She packed up a bunch of my stuff before she went back to Ohio. About 3/4 of my kitchen and a bunch of my living room. Now all I have to do is kick my self in gear and pack the rest of my stuff. I mean there is no pressure I am only moving in a week. :) But here is the good news. I have a address!!! YAY! I got the apartment I was trying to get and I have a place to put all of the stuff that I am packing up to move. I am hoping that over this long weekend I will get the rest of my stuff packed up. In between that I have to find time to return my cable stuff and go to goodwill to drop off all of my give away stuff. Which is good because being a pack rat runs in my family.

I am moving to Greenbelt, MD and I should be there by the first of the year. And instead of taking anytime off I will be starting work full time right away. Hopefully sometime later in Jan. I can take some time off and I don't know relax. :) but I hear that is overrated.

I have two of my friends coming up to NY to help me move so that will be fantastic. I have a truck rented and everything. So hopefully I have everything squared away. However since I have been so worried about moving and graduating I have fallen behind in my X-mas shopping and even if I do find stuff all I have to do is pack the stuff to move to. So I have been avoiding it.

I hope that has caught everyone up. :)

A Reprieve

I got an e-mail from my teacher a day or so ago and it was to extend the deadline on my research paper. She hasn't finished any of the rough drafts yet and the paper was due on tuesday and alot of people need their rough drafts back. So the deadline go tmove back a week. How cool is that!! I was so happy. Now I only have to worry about my final the week my mom is here and spend more time packing up boxes and stuff. :)

Presentation is done. YAY!!!

One thing down two more to go. I gave my presentation this morning. I was so nervous that when I walked up to the front of the classroom and felt like there was an elephant on my chest. But I got through it and I think that it was even semi coherent. I had practicied it a couple times the night so far, so I knew it was under the time limit, but then I start to talk all fast so I was afraid I would finish it in like 5 min instead of 15. Then there was a question period after that and people actually asked questions that I had answers to. So that was exciting.

The reason I was so nervous was because my teacher is a expert on Domestic Violence and my presentation was on Whether Mandatory Sentencing for Domestic Violence Offender reduces recidivism. So I was affraid I would not have enough detail in my presentation or she would be like nope everything you said is wrong. But she didn't say anything. YAY!!!

Oh and guess what my mom is coming in on Sat. I almost called her like 3 times on Sat. to tell her that she was going to be here in a week (4 days now) not that I am counting or anything. So that should be fun.

My Weekend

So I decided that I was doing absolutely nothign on Sat. It didn't start out that way I was planning on getting a ton of stuff accomplished over the weekend...so much for that right. So I basically was glad that I made it from my bed to the couch and back on Sat. It was so nice. I haven't just had nothing to do in a while, well I had stuff to do but I blatently ignored it. Granted I did manage to do the dishes. Yay for me. :)

Then Sunday I wasn't great, but I wasn't so bad either. I woke up late and stayed in bed reading. Then I made some lunch, tacos are good. Then I tortured myself by going to the Library all day after that. I managed toe read 4 or 5 articles that I should have already read because I have presentation to give on Tuesday about Mandatory sentencing in Domestic Violence. I know hold back the excitement. Then I have to finish up the paper that goes along with it for the following week.

That means all I have left to worry about are the presentation, the research paper, and one final exam. Then no more school for me. YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!! by the 15th I will be done with school forever....NO Ph'D for me. Except that I was told at work that as soon as I move back to MD and start full time at my job I am going to be sent to a licensing class. How much does that suck. I mean I was hoping for a while with no actual thinking. Is that to much to ask. I guess it is, so much for that right.

Oh well back to working on my presentation.