Welcomed with love....

I am proud to announce the arrival of.............Chapter 2!

My little bundle of pride and joy (yeah, the joy parts a lie) arrived this morning at 4:05 am and came in at a whopping length of 28 pages.

The classic finger and toe check is currently in progress, but it appears to be pretty healthy with just a slight defect....or two.

Mother and Father (my laptop?) are resting comfortably in the knowledge that they were able to be part of such a miraculous event, which in an unusual turn of events actually took 12 months to arrive! :]

This man is a genius. I've been perusing his site (www.phdcomics.com) and see that some themes are universal across grad student experiences, regardless of program. Hilarious!

Delicious Wisdom

This was the quote on my piece of Dove chocolate today: "If they can do it, you know you can."

Can I get an Amen?

People let me tell you 'bout my best friend....

Guilty Pleasures:

1. Rob and Big. I watched this alone last night and laughed out loud a few times. I would love to be a part of their posse. Not too sure what my role would be, but I greatly appreciate their randomness. Come on, how could you not love inviting a polygraph expert over to try to find the phantom duker, training your own street turtle to unleash at Brennans and mini-horse shows where the more be-dazzled the outfit, the more you fit in? Seriously, any suggestions in how I can roll with them would be greatly appreciated.

2. Boston: The band, not the city. Nothing induces the urge to rock a little air guitar than listening to one of their ditties. Current fave: Don't look back.

3. My NSYNC station on Pandora: Takes me back to the good old days..... in college. Hunting down the latest edition of TigerBeat at the newsstand on Kinross. Yoona and I's wall collage. Taping performances on TRL. Learning the dance routines in Midvale II apts. Watching other crappy boy and girl bands play the mall scene in an attempt to win tickets to their show. Ah, the memories.

Really bad singing during a really good movie.

So, I'm trying to focus on the positive in this blog, but before I'm able to do that I need to vent for a second. I hate writing my dissertation. Like hate, hate. Like throwing myself off the Marsha Sharp freeway would be less painful than the writer's block I'm experiencing. There I said it, and most likely at some point in the future it will be stated for the record yet again.

One of the things that does make me happy is horrendous renditions of good songs with the addition of my own lyrics. Case in point: Today I watched "Once". Great freaking movie! Not a lot of action by any means, but the development of the character's relationship was cool to see. And neither of the main characters had names...just guy and girl. You should watch it. Lots of good/heartwrenching songs as well.

I can't remember any of the lyrics that I came up with, but needless to say they were good. I guess you'll have to take my word for it. Or maybe next time, you'll come watch the movie with me and experience it for yourself!

Everybody's doing it....

I've been wanting to blog for awhile now, but always come up with an excuse not to. Well, blogging has now become my excuse not to work on my dissertation. As, I've already cleaned my apartment today, I had to find something new to distract me. Voila-my first post.

My goal is to use this to document my experience with all things random that happen to make me smile. Life's little blessings according to Stephanie, if you will. Let the games begin!