David and I are engaged!!! He proposed Saturday on our vacation in Jekyll Island. We'd been having a great day of hanging out on the beach, biking around the island, eating good food, and we had some time to relax in the hotel room before we were going to go on a guided sea turtle walk on the beach at night. And then to make a long story short, he proposed (and I said yes)!



This is a picture of my ring (I love it!). We haven't set a date yet, but it'll probably be in about 2 years. We're really excited!

movie review

my review of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix:

well that was a great preview, now when does the actual movie come out?

::lightbulb of inspiration::

so i was flipping through random blogs and felt inspired to write, even though i'm never that satisfied with my posts. i always end up rambling when i'd actually like to have a point to get across or something. i don't know. it never works, so i'll just keep rambling.

so the 5th harry potter movie comes out on wednesday and i'm thoroughly excited. though i am a little confused about how the longest book in the series has turned into the shortest movie so far (it's supposed to be just over 2 hours long). i was hoping for a 3 1/2 hour movie or something. i also wanted to reread the book before i saw the movie, but i just seem to have such a hard time making myself sit down and read. and i really hate that. i was at lunch with some people from church today and they were listing off all of these books they've read. where do people find all of this time to read? maybe i should stop watching tv. probably a good thing to do. i want to exercise and read more. i have all of these books i bought like 5 years ago and there just sitting there looking pretty waiting for me to crack them open. and i really do want to read them.

i got this beautiful strapless dress yesterday on sale at dillard's and it makes me want to have a tea party complete with fancy tea sets, lace table cloths, parasols, and all that jazz. i wish i knew a photographer who wanted to take pictures of all of these scenarios (such as the tea party) that i think of and wanted me to dress up and be in them.

only 2 more weeks of work and i am ready to get them over with. my time at mcg has been pretty good. it's definitely a good experience. i've learned quite a bit and now know what it's really like to work in a lab. the research i'm doing isn't really what i want to do for my career but it's still giving me a taste of research. of course i'd much rather be playing with bacteria than tumor cells :-) my mentor told me that he's really pleased with the work i've done and that i've worked hard and i have a lot of potential. i feel better about my time working there after hearing that. i wasn't sure before if i was really contributing anything useful and of good quality. but it sounds like i'm a pretty good scientist and the connections i've built there will be good for me in the future.
but i am ready to be done with working. i'm ready for a little vacation and then to go back to school. i don't miss the homework, just the going to lectures and learning new things.

david and i went to see the movie "sicko" last night. if you're looking for me in about 10 years, you might just find me in canada or england. someplace with universal health care and government that doesn't keep revealing new stupidities to me everyday. i don't hate our country. i just think it needs a lot of work. so for the moment, my future i see in my head shows me in california getting my doctorate and then heading out of the country finding work and seeing new places. sounds like the kind of adventure i need.
for now i'll settle for visiting canada. i'm going there with david near the end of the month. i'm excited. and i get to go on my first plane ride. :-)

when i first got the new maroon 5 cd i was seriously disappointed, but now that i've listened to it more and let sink into my head it's not so bad. definitely not as good as the first album, but it's grown on me some. current music obsessions include: "gravity" by john mayer (aka the wonderous musical genious), "wasted" by carrie underwood, "good directions" by billy currington, and "meet me by the water" by rachael yamagata (one of my new absolute favorites whose songs inspire me to create dances whenever i hear them).

someone please give me a swift kick in the ass and make me stop being a lazy fatty.

just breathe

My roommates and I have finally found a place to live for next year! Half of the weight of the world has been lifted off of my shoulders. The other half that's still sitting there consists of finding someone to sublease a room for the summer, getting through the last 2 weeks of classes, and surviving finals.

I'm really excited about working at MCG this summer. I get to do real research!

I'm failing horribly at this getting in shape by summer thing. Someone please come kick my butt and make me exercise.

Lately my mind has been preoccupied some with making up a dance for Variety Tech in the fall. I know I have plenty of time to do it, but I would really rather be doing that than school work. I want to do a modern dance. I don't know what music I want to use yet and I haven't done any choreography. But I do know what I want my costume to be :-)

spring time wooo

There are only 4 weeks of class plus finals week left and then I'm done with this semester! I can't wait because it's been dragging on and I'm tired of it. I got an A on my last medical microbiology test which I totally deserved because I studied my butt off for that. But my super happy news for now is that I got into the STAR research program at the Medical College of Georgia this summer! I get to do my own research and they will pay me and it will be awesome. My three roommates and I are looking for an off campus place to live for next year that's not too far from Tech. If anyone has any relatively inexpensive suggestions, please let me know. Most of the people we've called and emailed about looking at houses haven't gotten back to us and it's been over a week. I think we're not looking hard enough though. We just don't want to be homeless next year. I went to see the Lewis Black show the other day. It was hilarious. So apparently I'm allergic to soft contact lenses. So I'm going to have to stick with glasses for now and maybe try hard contacts this summer and then hopefully I'll get to do Lasik sometime in the near future. Until then I have to search for some new sunglasses that fit on my glasses.
I keep having this deep artistic urge inside of me but I feel like I don't have the time or resources to do something, and I actually don't even really know what it is I want to do. Last night I pulled out my coloring book and crayons, which was fun, but it didn't really fulfill my need to make something that could be considered real art. What I ultimately think would put my creative longings at ease would be to decorate a house. But that one might take a while... like a 15 years from now while... when I finish with graduate school and have a job and hopefully will be making lots of money... yeah.

randomness before bed

I just thought I'd get some stuff out of my head before I went to sleep.

Today I decided that my favorite building on campus is the Swann foreign language building. It kind of reminds me of my highschool's old building, even though this building is pretty new. It has some of those nice hard wood floors that kinda creak and make the perfect noise when you walk on them. And the smell of the building just kind of makes me feel really comfortable. Unfortunately it's the foreign language building and so I don't get to be in there much. I was there today picking up some papers from outside of my Spanish professor's office. As I sat outside the building waiting for the bus I had one of those beautiful day happy moments. It was quiet and the air smelled nice. And I had just come out from a really cool building. I soaked it in before I got on the bus and went back to my room where I remained for the rest of the day. But it was nice enough out to have the windows open and I could just dance around the apartment and act like I was frolicing outside.
I then commenced the cleaning of the bathroom. It had gotten to that nasty point where the shower was starting to clog up, so I had to pull the monster out of the drain (I know you probably didn't care to know about that part).
After that this really artsy feeling hit me. And for a couple hours I wanted to quit Tech and become a modern dancer and a photographer. I tried playing with my camera, but I don't have the manual here so I couldn't figure out anything cool. So then the feeling became kind of depressing as I sat at the computer and just looked and photography and dance stuff online instead of getting up and actually doing real art. I felt lame.
The day was slightly downhill from there because I didn't become anymore productive. I have too much free time on Wednesdays. So much that it's really hard to focus on work. I need to stay away from my apartment.
Well I think that's enough babbling to keep my mind from racing and let me fall asleep. Nighty night my peeps. :-)

smile, damnit!

Cyanide & Happiness @ Explosm.net


This comic is basically me. I can't stand it when people are all sad and grumpy. I'm that dancing ray of sunshine that comes along and annoys you with smiles and corny jokes you when you're depressed and have no intentions of becoming undepressed for the rest of the day. I love it!

this one is for marie...

i'm posting something for the first time since september. yes, i have been a slacker. but marie got on to me about not posting, so here i am. and apparently i have to update it to google something or other. so yes, life is good. um, grey's anatomy made me slightly angry and sad tonight. and for those of you who watched, you probably felt the same way. so here's my prediction for what's going to happen to meredith. she's gonna be in a coma for a few weeks or a month or something and then she's going to wake up with amnesia. she's not gonna remember who she is, how to be a doctor, and worst of all-- she's not gonna remember mcdreamy. the previews for next week said that there's going to be a devastating conclusion to this series of events, and what could be more devastating than meredith not knowing her true love. because of course she can't die... it's her show! so yeah, that's what i think.

so i'm beginning to remember why i started a blog and how fun it is to just write whatever i want up for people to read (now that i know people are actually checking it). so i guess i'll try to post more. yay.