rah rah sis boom bah

this is my week:

okay settle in boys and girls.

my advizor told me she would like to have my dissertatchun propzzle by friday. then, as you may have gathered she was all like no my plane leaves on thursday so give it to me by wednesday night.

so basically i frantically wrote (i mean put the finishing touches on my already nearly-done propzzle) the entire thing in three days. yeah i could have worked on it over the weekend but i didn't , okay? get off my back, sheez.

then i finished it at 10 :30 pm wednesday night, and was met right outside my bedroom door with melissa, holding my coat and saying cmon girl we're going out. I didn't really have a choice.

anyway so i did that, stayed out kind of late, then thursday happened.

got up at 7:30 to go to class at nine, had not one second of free time all day (including an HOUR of reading emails i had missed in the past three days when i was writing the propzzle), ran 5 subjects in this experiment that makes my thighs hurt (yes, really), and then went to a talk that lasted, i shit you not, TWO HOURS. now by this time i was pretty exhausted, having not slept for several days.

anyway then i got home at 5:45, shoved a slice of pizza and some salad down my gullet, and we had to go to our show. of course, thursday was 0 degrees. ZERO. degrees. yes. really. so we're moving all of our equipment in the perma-snow that inhabits all of chicago during january and february. i couldn't feel my: face, hands, legs, feet, pretty much anything other than my torso was totally frozen. then we played the show, it was pretty sweet, i think you can see some pictures someone took here. note that in each picture i look like a lunatic.

anyway...then we played, moved all of our gear across the frozen tundra to our practice space, came home, etc. basically i got home at 3 am or so.

this is what the temperature was in my apartment when we got home:




CAN YOU BELIEVE IT?

anyway saturday i slept until 3pm, watched akeelah and the bee (made me cry three times, i know i'm cheezy), ate some ethiopian food (awesome--i love when utensils are edible too), and went to a "jam session" where this guy knew every single tv theme song ever on the guitar. including silver spoons. and even the bridge for diffrent strokes (everybody's got a special kind of story...everybody finds a way to shiiiiiiine). now i'm about to ride my bike to my favorite cafeteria and maybe go to like the record store or something.

altogether one of the best weeks of my life. i wish you were here!