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| Today's the second football game of the season. I can't say that I'm really all that excited. It's kind-of gross out, and I just want to sleep. I want to be excited though. I want to go to this game and to all the rest of the home games. I've got to get my money's worth before I graduate, and I know I'm not going to get it from basketball games (though perhaps I'll make it to at least one game this year, since I don't have a second job... of course, I could end up getting another job by then).
I don't think I could be too excited about anything right at this moment.
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| Life is pretty good right now. There's a lot going on, not all of it wonderful, but I'm feeling pretty good right now. I'm working on making my life less stressful and more worry-free. It's nice.
This semester's classes are a bit scary, but I'm sure I'll survive. It's nice to have a friend to help me through it all.
I got a new computer to replace the old tablet. It's nice and pretty.  Oh, and it works, so that's awesome. I got another tablet because I like having something very portable for class, and the whole tablet thing's nice for my notes since I have a bunch of symbols, diagrams, etc.
I really don't have much news. I usually don't. My life's really pretty boring, but I'm okay with that. Right now, I'm really okay with my life not going much of anywhere. I'm okay with being alone and with not knowing where I'll be in a year. Everything will be all right.
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| While I was a bit upset that I was going to have to miss the state fair for orientation today, I must say that orientation was a good experience for me. The second-year students were required to attend orientation again so that we could go over the time line for the year and such. We also got to meet the new students and the new faculty members. I had an opportunity to talk with the professor who will be the third member of my thesis committee. We are going to go with a non-traditional, four-person committee for my project so that I can get going with my research and still add a statistics guru later to fulfill the requirements for my unofficial minor.
The rest of today has been less than wonderful, but I've got to stay positive, right? At least the carbon monoxide detector is just beeping because of a malfunction and not because my apartment is filled with carbon monoxide. Right?
It's going to be a good year. I've got to make it a good year. Once I get through this semester, it'll all be smooth sailing. I need to get the thesis pretty much finished this fall so I'll be ready to defend early next semester. Then I'll just have two classes to go to. Piece of cake.
I guess I'll need to be working on securing a job too. Hmm. I think I'll go with the government. That'll still be here a year from now.
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| I'm in Wisconsin for a few days. My boss came into my cubicle a couple weeks ago and asked if I'd like to take off the week before school starts, since most GAs take that week off. So, I booked a flight. I hadn't planned on coming up here until January, but it's good that I went ahead and did it.
People are asking me how my vacation is going. It's really no vacation. It's going pretty well so far though. So far, Grandma hasn't made fun of my weight, pale skin, or political leanings. It's pretty good. She's only (sort-of) made fun of my face and my foot. Shwhatever.
We'll be flying back to Virginia (it's cheaper to fly in and out of Roanoke than anything in West Virginia) Thursday morning. I've got to be at orientation Friday morning. Ugh.
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| I feel bad for considering switching churches. I've only been there a year, and the people who leave over trivial issues really bug me. I'm afraid I'm making something small into something unreasonably big. I'm not growing spiritually, though. If anything, I'm shrinking.
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