1. Dissertation – well, this is the big one. I really should channel all of my energy into this single task until it is done, but I think I would go insane. It’s coming along…I don’t really like it still, but I want to finish, and my advisor is confident I can finish. Desired finish date: January 2010, which means I graduate in May 2010.
2. Ballet – The activity that I do where I cannot possibly think about my dissertation. I just started at a new studio, two or three times a week. The teacher is good, she is really into actual dancing as opposed to drilling at the barre, which is good, because I am not so great at the dancing part, but bad because I look like an asshole. The studio offers pointe for adults, so someday I can fulfill my dream. It’s funny because I’ve always hated feet, especially my own, however, the women at the studio seem to love my feet. They are not used to all of the attention.
3. Fiona’s quilt – Poor Fifi, who is 1.5 years old now, doesn’t have her quilt yet. I started this before she was born, but everything went crazy around that time and the quilt got moved to AZ while I was still in Philly. Now my sewing machine is acting up. I will finish before her 2nd birthday. It’s all pieced together and about 1/3 quilted.
4. Area rug – I started making an area rug for our “Arizona room”. It will be grand when it is finished, if I ever finish it. There are about 7000 “noodles” I need to weave into it. So far, I have done about 1000.
5. French – I still watch French TV, mainly southpark, everynight while falling asleep, though I think I have reached a plateau of understanding, it’s not really getting better – or it’s getting better very very slowly. We saw Inglorious Bastards this weekend, which had a lot of French in it, and I was thrilled that I could understand about half of it without the subtitles. Also we have French speaking friends, where the Dad only speaks French to the children, and I can understand just about everything he says. But my speaking is terrible and my husband gets mad when I speak at him in French, so now I am speaking to my cat, who doesn’t speak french but understands it. She responds, naturally, in the Queen’s English.
If I can finish 1, I may regain my sanity and stop photoshopping myself into photos with Edward Cullen. If I can finish 3 and 4, I’ll be thrilled. I’ll never really finish 2 and 5 I guess.
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Lauren // September 19, 2009 at 1:50 am |
Why would you want to stop photoshopping yourself into photos with Edward? I see no benefit to this.