01.23.09
Grades due
That time again where I need to finish grading, averaging, and posting grades online. 
08.07.08
Back to work
I posted on our joint page already that I really need to get back to work before the kiddos show up. Tomorrow entails several hours of rearranging furniture that is currently piled up in one corner of my room. After said lugging of heavy stuff, my friends and I will get to enjoy a nice lunch. The only stipulation? According to my friend it must be an establishment that serves alcohol.
07.14.08
Yes, I got married. Still married, in fact.
Ok. It has taken me like 6 years to update this site, which I do plan on updating more frequently. Which I guess would mean see you in a year, right? Maybe this is running on super Latin time. 
I did get married on June 21st, 2003. We are still together, and I am keeping my Yellow Submarine domain name. Can’t give that away. lol.
I would like to give a nod to someone my husband received an email from about purchasing this domain. Just as soon as I ask my husband what the English group is called, I’ll revise current post.
Also, completely unrelated to anything here, I would like to add that I will be revising any spelling errors, etc, which are rare for me when I take my time typing away.
06.17.03
no title today… i’m just getting nervous now that the wedding is days away. at least i know my dress still fits, despite the fact that i havent worked out in a couple of weeks.. possibly longer. but i watch what i eat so i don’t gain at least..
damn. i hope i don’t mess anything up at the ceremony… or worse..faint. i’m supposed to be well-hydrated..and i cant forget to eat breakfast, either. crap… i’m going to be starving at the reception, i bet. but most brides say that they are too busy to stop to eat. though at the wedding i was at last weekend.. the bride and her husband took time to fill up a plate.
i really hope the sangria comes out okay. woo hoo! 80’s videos on now on mtv. i love retro videos lol. the best ever is still “Take on Me.”
ok… better get back to “Il Postino”… or El cartero de Neruda…. formerly Ardiente paciencia. (ardent/burning patience). i still cant get over the fact that the actor that played Mario, se llama Massimo Troisi, died like the next day after wrapping up the movie. he had a heart condition, and he only worked a few hours a day, but he felt he had to complete this movie. and he never even got to see it in completion. so, it’s kinda hard to watch the movie knowing the man was dying at the time.
05.14.03
i hate essays
after today, only two days left! that I’m excited about, but i still have lots of work to do. I’m glad i had started early on the one due tomorrow. and also it’s only 8 pages, which is really a god-send in the graduate department. but this still sucks. i love literature, but i was not meant to be a writer.working? i hope it does. i wrote yesterday, but i think it timed out when i went to post my message. well… i said thanks to josh for fixing my site..
one paper down, ,two to go. and i have a good bit already for paper #2, taken out of my presentation from a month ago. so.. hopefully this one will go faster, esp. since it’s only 8 pages.
thanks baby
i am assuming you must have seen what i wrote and fixed the problem for me, for which i am greatly appreciative. i wanted to just jot my thoughts down here…. ’cause you’re right, this is more efficient than a hand-written journal… though real journals are prettier.12.12.02
one more essay
thank god. i’m almost through. got one more due at 5 tomorrow….. trying to revise certain sections right now. then will have a friend revise my spanish in the morning. i cannot wait to be done. i have essay writing now. well, just venting a little frustration…. it’s just so stressful at this level.12.05.02
finals
hmm, well.. not much to say and no time to say it, really. i’m in the middle of finals, and believe it or not i have 3 things due on Tuesday. Final exam, research proposal, and a 20 page term paper. but i’ve already got half of that paper b/c that was the midterm assignment.i just feel so overwhelmed!
so….no posts probably until after the 13th.
11.26.02
Jailhouse Rock
ok. hopefully this will work from the main blogger site. anways, of course when you reallly want to post, the “page is not available” so i’ll stop being lazy and just come here if that’s the case in the future.last night on Conan some comedian i guess was making fun of elvis’ “jailhouse rock”. he’d make the band sing a verse which the comic would then criticize. like “warden threw a party in the county jail” comedian: (heavily sarcastic): no, he didnt!
yeah, that one was funnier at the time, but this part of the song never occured to me:
Number forty-seven said to number three
“You’re the cutest jailbird I ever did see”
“I sure would be delighted with your company”
“Come on and do the Jailhouse Rock with me”
Let’s rock, everybody, let’s rock.
ok. think about this one. this is a men’s jail, not even coed. no women. “Your the cutest jailbird i ever did see” hmmmm….# 3, just dont drop the soap, man.
11.24.02
brief, brief entry here. cause i’m supposed to be working on my stupid presentation for tomorrow. but i need a break to just ramble.
well, by 2:40 tomorrow, i am hoping to prove that the characters and background of Historia de una Escalera represent the postwar (civil) of Spain in one way or another.
I think the coolest thing i found in my research is the metaphor of the stairway (la escalera). for one thing, it represents the immobility (inmovilidad)….[not sure if i had it right in english. lol] anyways, it represents the immobility of the oppresive posguerra situation in Spain, after Franco took over.
yeah, really exciting. well, ,better finish so i can go to bed soon.
11.19.02
all posts are back!
i just fixed the setup so that all posts will show (at least the last 999 of them :p).11.16.02
eh… i almost hate to write now, b/c i know that one post will have to be sacrificed. but i’ll fix that eventually so people can read my posts about my trip to spain.
in the meantime…. i saw Frida last night. If you dont know, Frida Kahlo is a famous Mexican artist, and this movie is Salma Hayek’s project. I really loved the movie. it was funny, charming.. .. and salma did a wonderful job of bringing this artist to life. she must have been such an interesting person.
I also really need to get the soundtrack. I saw this with Karli, and there was one point during the movie where i swear this old man was singing “soy como chile verde….picante pero sabroso…” and when both of us picked up on the chorus, we couldnt stop laughing. this may or may have not intentionally been funny, but i just cant imagine someone singing about being like green salsa or chile. i wish i could remeber the lyrics more accurately. but the music was great. they had great actors… very verosímil in my opinion. i cant think of how to say that in english right now.
11.13.02
wow. so my post really was lost. i wrote a long one yesterday… and i refreshed the page as i usually do to see it. dorky, maybe…. but i thought maybe it just wont refresh… and i couldnt get the add a post to work, but that happens sometimes… that it’s not available (blogger).
oh well. it’s not like it was anything really important. nothing exciting has happened to me, although josh has a different story to tell. poor guy was stuck in Paris without being able to communicate past the very basics (greetings, numbers, my name is), and his roommate never knew any french at all past “oui.”
i’m still a little pissed that i spoke to the desk staff in french and they corrected me in British English! come on. but… i asked someone in my class what would be a nice way to ask for josh’s room, ,and that seemed to work. perhaps i was a little too direct/nervous to be understood well. but then again, they repeated whta i had said in french, back in english. Parisians are so snotty.
But i have to say i really miss the crepes. those were awesome! i had a really good spinach one, ,and the another day had a dessert one… chocolate with bananas. words cannot describe.
ok. going to stop now before i write my heart out again, and it gets lost,.. again. honestly it’s no biggie b/c it’s not like i lost anything important yesterday.
11.12.02
i’m getting a little better at this now.. i mean posting more often.
ok.. and so now i have nothing really to talk about. heh. as i was telling someone earlier, josh really did get an offer for this domain name. i told him to hold out until he got a good offer, but the person didnt write back again.
i am lucky to have gotten this. cause i’m sure almost anythign else yellowsub or yellowsubmarine is taken.
it reminds me of something on saturday night live from a few years back. where the only only name left was… well something i maybe shouldnt post. i’ts not bad, but not appropriate. lol no bad words, promise.
what else…. well, not much now that the semester is almost over. not looking forward to doing 3 more presentations. although, the one in linguistics i did last tuesday went well. i cant believe i went for 30 mins and had to leave out a little b/c we were pressed for time. but this one was in english, so i felt soo confident. amazing how doing things in spanish will give me english confidence.
i was watching VH-1 the other day, and they were doing a special on celebrity weddings, and it was so weird when they got to Paul’s. because they pointed out that Ringo was the only former beatle in attendance, or something like that. and it just hit me again that there’re only 2 of them left now!
they are going to put out George’s last album, that he was working on right before he died. it’s going to be so weird one day when there are no more Beatles left.
well, i’m goign to leave with that. i read an email once that Paul should re-release “When I”m 64″ in a few years. that would be great if he actually did something lol.
11.07.02
Ok. about time to write again, except i have no bargains to brag about. what i did realize just a minute ago, is that i need more links here. and not just to cool sites people should check out.
I want to do what josh did and make a small page about myself. hm.. is that grammatically correct. i swear since i’ve been immersing myself in spanish that my english grammar/spelling has slipped a bit.
Ok. so what i want to do is make a small bio page with my favorites and dislikes. Maybe this is just too ambitious for a very busy grad student with no free time.
But it seemed like a nice idea. Josh is in London right now. i’m very jealous, one, because they’re like an hour away from Abbey Road and dont give a crap. i dont care how many people attempt to do this, but i want a picture of myself walking across that famous crosswalk. one day…..
And also i want to go to Europe with Josh. I know he wants us to go to countries that the other hasnt been to, ,but we have to go to Italy together. just have to. especially Venice. i think i was the only person i know who didnt think it smelled, but it was so incredibly romantic. i was single at the time, but couldnt help but think that i’d have to come back with someone i loved very much.
Maybe josh is right. it is easier to get a lot more out on here as opposed to the hand-written journal. but journals (the book variety) are so personal….pretty if you’re into that…. I got him a very nice leather one for his trip, but he already hates it. I didnt think it would be a hard task to write in it. and now he has to cause i bought it for him.
But it looks and smells so nice! how could you not want to just write? wait–that’s an idea. i hate writing papers and stuff, so maybe i should get an essay journal. hmm. but i like having lots of paper space for essays, ,so i guess it wouldnt really work.
speaking of, have to get back to it…. the daily grind i call literature. :p
10.26.02
well, i guess this is just turning into a once a week post since nothing worthwhile happens on a daily basis. today i went to exchange some clothes that my mom got for me at the gap. and i was looking through the sales items and found a cute v-neck, ribbed shirt for $7!
but the best part is about the pair of pants i got. Someone accidentally marked down these $60 pants down to $19.99 in the clearance section, and b/.c it was their mistake, they gave it to me! not bad at all.
i think i may have to get them hemmed, even though they are the “short” pants. yeah, sucks being a wee person, well wee as in short. anyways, it’s a good thing i can find pants on sale, b/c they invariable have to be altered. and that can be at least $10 in itself.
well, going to eat then call josh, then get back to reading. literature sucks sometimes.
10.18.02
ok..well, josh pointed out that i havent posted since 9/30 after i teased him about his page.
so, he’s here this weekend (yea!) and we went out to eat tonight at a so-so place, Portobello’s. I liked the atmosphere, my lasagna, my dr. pepper was excellent, and the bread was good, too.
but i dont know if we’ll go back, though.
um….let’s see. game tomorrow but we’re not going. so…i think we’re for sure going out to sam’s club to check out some luggage.
well,i better go for now. more posts later since im almost done w/midterms.
09.30.02
Wow. been quite a while since i posted. i guess i shouldn’t tease josh for not keeping his up if i dont do the same. well, i regularly check his and like reading his journal.
Been back at LSU, ready to be finished already, and i think i like this semester better. i dont have any teachers that hate me, and my reading list is much less demanding compared to last semester’s. i just have to remember that even though i dont care for LSU, i love Spanish.
wow,… i really need to add more features and get more involved with my site,.. prob. over xmas break when i have time to breathe. it’s almost midterm season and i have a paper and a test. The third class the graduates dont have to take the test (yea!) but at the end we get to not only hand in a lovely 12-15 page paper, but we have to present it to the class, too.
Personally i dont want to share my essay with the class, but it will most likely prompt me to do a better job.
havent really found out what my side of the class is supposed to do when the others take their test. would be nice to have a day off, cause it’s not like we can present or anything to disrupt them.
ok, i think this is a long enough post. time to get back to studying a little more before going to bed.