Hey all! So I'm transitioning to a new journal. Check me out at perskettios .
I just needed a little change. I'll be keeping this one active for the time being until I can join some of my communities that require a journal to be up for more than six months. But it'll all be crossposted.

 There is nothing in life that makes me happier than watching the Martha Stewart Halloween episode.

 Dear random real housewife of atlanta I unfortunately caught when I didn't turn the channel fast enough, 
                 It's pronounced jew-el-ry not jew-ry. If you can't say it you shouldn't buy it. 
Love,
Me

 There's a mouse in my apartment. I've decided to cede him the library as long as he promises to wear a bell so he doesn't startle me. If he hadn't snuck up on me (rather closely at that) he'd have been rather cute. Stupid nature.

I passed the written first half of my barista test! And I snuck a peek at the practical section and it's all drinks I know how to make. So pretty soon I'll be able to run the bar all by myself. I'm probably more excited than I really should be. But yay! 

My dinner consisted of a pb&j (strawberry jelly, of course) and macaroni and cheese. My dessert was oreos. I'm a grown up.

Please stop being pretty and charming and making me think that eventually I'll stop finding Under the Tuscan Sun to be boring. Ok, so you wear some cute clothes and Sandra Oh always seem pretty fierce even when the show or movies she is in suck hard (I'm looking at you Grey's Anatomy). But falling for obviously smarmy types and bursting into fits of girlish giggles is beneath you and it makes me nervous to see movies with mostly women casts. See what you've done Diane Lane? You've made me a bad feminist. I hope you're happy. Oh, and I saw the preview to your new film. Please stop cutting your hair like that unless you also plan on coaching a peewee soccer team.

Sincerely,
Jennifer

Answer A: I will become fabulously svelte and buff (can one be both at the same time?)
Answer B: An early grave

I've mowed about a third of the yard. I'll mow another third around dusk and finish it off tomorrow morning.

My thoughts whilst mowing: "Couldn't we just get a pet goat?"

Yeah, that's right weather, that's how I like it. I just spent the first half of the summer in Iowa on the precipice of drowning. So what I'd really like is if all that rain could follow me here. Like maybe while I'm trying to move into my new apartment. Imagine how much fun unloading my boxes will be in a thunderstorm. Awesome.

I wants it:



When delivered please attach a pretty bow. Thanks.

Maybe it's me, but after I've been away from lj for awhile I always find it really overwhelming to jump right back in. So here is my sorry little contribution to remind everyone I'm still alive. I think the gf and I are gonna be museum hopping tomorrow but Sunday could be the day of the big, scary, all important catch up post.

It appears I've been pretty MIA lately. I'm moving to Massachusetts on wednesday and have spent the last week procrastinating packing. My stuff is about half packed and nothing has been cleaned yet. But my mommy is coming to help tomorrow. Although she recently had surgery so all she can really do is point out what I've missed.

On a happy note, I have a job interview on the 8th. It's for this company that partners with charities and helps them raise funds. It would be nice to work in a job that has something to do with what I spent that last four years studying. I mean, I'd be pretty low on the food chain and I'd have to commute into Boston everyday. But it would be a good first step in having a career in non-profits.

Anyways, I'm gonna be without the internet for a few days. Have a lovely holiday and I should be back online shortly!

Basil (my external hard drive) is full. This is a sad day. I'll have to purge some stuff.

I just woke up from a weirdo dream. I was shopping with Claire and some person I don't know but knew in the dream. They both decided to try on wedding dresses. I didn't want to. I did however find this gorgeous coat on sale for $7. Anyways, they decided we couldn't leave until I tried on a wedding dress. They sent me upstairs to find one but I couldn't find the wedding dress section. I kept running around the second and third floor looking for the section. Dejectedly I started heading back to my friends when I ran into Nancy O'Dell from Access Hollywood. She asked me what I was looking for and she dragged me off to these ladies who were personal shoppers and told them to take care of me cause I was one of her favorite people. Then I lied and told them I was gonna step outside quickly and I ran away.


I'll do a real post later. Suffice it to say I'm back in Iowa City. It looks better then I expected. Laters! 

Sorry I've been m.i.a. and might continue to be so for the next few days. I graduated from college on the 17th (and before anyone asks, I was blackmailed into going. I didn't want to walk but my dad said no present if I didn't walk. At least there was cake). The very next day I flew out to Wellesley to spend some time with my girl and watch her graduate (which will happen on friday). Somehow my body has decided to mutiny and I've been having all sorts of trouble. It started with bad allergies and then my gf's mom suggested upping my dosage which gave me a wicked bad sore throat. Then I decided to clean the antihistamines out of my system to see if that would fix the the throat, and it did but now I've got a major case of the sniffles. I can't seem to win.

Mostly I just wanted to say hi and apologize for being a poor interwebs buddy.

Oooh, and to say I just finished the book Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore. I'm thoroughly smitten. It's very Life of Brian-esque. If anyone's looking for a quick, funny summer read I totally recommend it.

Today was my official last day of college classes ever. I left on a good note. It was professor Scott's Totalitarian Art class which was the only class I actually enjoyed this semester. We watched a documentary about the 50th celebration of the cultural revolution in North Korea. My professor was comparing it to the Nazi rallies at Nuremberg, which is where the quote came from. They always have on of those sections where people hold up big cards to form some sort of picture or phrase, like at a football game. But they practice all year for one ceremony. They showed one in the documentary that was a missile taking off, it was kind of amazing. Professor Scott told us if we ever want to go to North Korea we should write to the ambassador and tell him we are scholars who study festivals and we heard that North Korea has the best.

Now the only things standing between me and graduation is a few minor details,
-Sex in the Middle Ages final (it will be the first group study session I will have ever gone to)
 - my take home exam for professor Scott (I get to pretend to be a dictator and tell him how I'd use art to fashion my world, which is sort of an awesome idea for a paper)
-my senior project that's due tomorrow

My senior project is really the only roadblock, the other's should be a piece of cake. My only issue with the senior project is that I'm in no way emotionally invested in what I'm writing. I did an empirical study on levels of integration within Europe. I'm just so bored with it after having to think about it all semester that its become such a chore. I have to admit, all the times I complained because Shannon was so busy with her thesis that she didn't have time for me, I was really more then a little jealous that she was so enthusiastic and motivated by her topic that she was willing to put that kind of time in to it. Which is saying a lot, cause while the girl is a genius her laziness rivals my own. I mean, I have to write 20 pages, she wrote something ridiculous like 130.

Btw, congratulations go to my girl cause she so successfully defended her thesis today that they had to create new levels of distinction to honor her. They practically made her empress of the universe (I'd totally vote for her for that position). AND there's talk of having bits published. How amazing is that? She's totally going to become the utmost scholar on art of the Troubles and people will beg her to write and speak to them. Then she'll make lots of money and buy a pretty house, and let me live in it and I'll spend all day baking and playing with the ponies she'll buy me with all her money. And I'll never have to write about the levels of integration in Europe ever ever again.

I'm in a super good mood today! It's been soooo long since I have been in a proper good mood I'm almost giddy.

I'll spare you all the details and just give you the bullet points:
-I got a good night sleep last night
-my art history professor decided he didn't want to give us a quiz in our last week of classes so her gave everyone an automatic A
-he then told us that our final exam would be a take home essay due the day the final was scheduled
- I baked bread then made a super yummy sandwich on it
- my apartment building finally has the air conditioning working again
- I made some crazy experimental muffins that will get their own post later if they're good
-today is my last tuesday of classes in college EVER!
-This picture of Peter Pevensie wearing a Steve McQueen shirt

As we speak (or as I type more accurately) I'm watching the 7th episode of Dexter and baking cheddar herb bread.

Shows on my hard drive waiting to be watched instead of doing class work:
- The rest of season 1 and season 2 of Dexter
- Rewatching seasons 1-3 of Six Feet Under
-Seasons 1 and 2 of Big Love
-Keen Eddie