I have to say this. I just have to.

You know those couples who have been together since high school (or even earlier) and they are STILL together even after college?

Well, I can't help but wonder what's wrong with them.

Seriously. Talk about being co-dependent.

Eh, but I'm obviously biased on the subject.

Summer breeze makes me feel fine...

The sliding glass door is open and the sun and breeze are filling our apartment while we drink iced coffee and relax. Ohhh Spring, I do love you.

We had brunch with a couple of friends this morning and we sat out on our little balcony. It was really wonderful, although it did get a bit chilly after a while. Our porch is mostly in the shade... Sarah pointed out that we'll probably be really grateful for that once it's really hot out, and she's definitely right.

I'm doing some work for the research assistantship that I'm doing. I just read a memoir by the woman I'm studying, and now I'm reading a few chapters from a book about women authors in her time. It's all pretty interesting stuff, especially when you consider it from the point of view of how much she contributed to the whole field of women authorship... pretty awesome, if you ask me. But there I go again with my crazy ideas about women's education!

In other news... well, there isn't any. :)

Insane in the membrane- no joke here, peeps...

I can't believe this effing day. Excuse me in advance for being so cranky, but I think I legitimately have a reason!

So today I was really not feeling well- cold to the max: stuffy nose, cough, headache, sleepiness, and just general sucky. So, I decided to head out of work early today and head home.

Only to hear the sound of our neighbor's carbon monoxide alarm going off. So, after opening the door to my apartment, having a panic attack about whether I should try and save the cat or run for it, getting really dizzy and shaky, I decided to call 911 and have them rescue the cat.

When the fire department showed up, they very kindly rescued Tiggs from a horrible brain-cell killing death. She awaited patiently in my car while the firemen checked out the sit.

Long and short is that the heat is off, because it is extremely faulty and leaking CO, and won't be fixed until Monday. The CO registered VERY high, and we had to have the gas company come out and see what was going on before we were clear to go back in the building. Insane.

And it's making me really cranky, because I found out that:

1.) Our carbon monoxide detector is posted so high on the wall that it is essentially ineffective.

2.) Our boiler system for heat is a big no-no, and must be fixed before we can get heat- absolutely annoying and cold!

3.) I still have a super sucky cold, and now I have to sit in the cold and wallow in my misery. Not the weekend I had planned.

Well, thanks for letting me complain, universe! I'm just glad it worked out ok is the important piece. Everyone's ok.

Sarah did it, not me.

Don't believe a word she tells you. Seriously.

I just enrolled at Simmons (HOLYLORDGODFUCKFUCKFUCK). I'm a little freaked out. It's not my 100% decision... just my 85% decision. So. We shall see.

I'm going to visit the Schlesinger Library at Radcliffe tomorrow with the professor I do a research assistantship for. She's chum chummy with those folks, so I'm getting a private tour, which makes me feel like royalty. Seriously though, I'm really excited and feel very lucky to have such an opportunity. I'm hoping I might be able to do an internship there during grad school.

I'm terrified (ABSOLUTELY TERRIFIED BEYOND FUNCTIONING) of living in the city. Ter. I. Fied.

We had our birthdays this week. Fabulousnessss. We're awesome (obviously).

We just watched the SNL "Jizzed In My Pants" skit. Too good. Love it. Want to make it my ringtone, but feel it could come back to bite me in the ass in a big way... awk.

That's really gross, I wish you would stop doing that

Book I am currently reading: Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater.

Abby just tried to pass a burp off on me.

And to top it all off, I just got a new theme for my Google Chrome- best browser evah!!!

There's just a feeling in the air!

Spring is coming!

I'm in such a terrific mood today! It's a nice reversal of last week when I was horribly cranky for absolutely no reason at all. I'm convinced I was channeling the moods of friends and family.

I went to work today from 8:00 to 1:00, which should have sucked because, a) I don't usually work Fridays, making this a very long week (particularly after last week when I worked two days and the week before when I worked two days, LOL), and, b) I usually go in at 9:00 and mornings and I are not traditionally friends.

Today did not suck, however, for which I'm quite thankful. Work flew by, and I've spent the afternoon working on my research assistantship (and surfing the web). I'm being quite productive, amazingly, and I'm happy to boot.

I was just reading this book, An Epistle to Posterity by Mary Elizabeth Wilson Sherwood, for the research assistantship I'm doing. In the chapter I just finished, MEWS describes a trip to Switzerland that she took in the 1860s... and it sounds majestic and enchanting. I'm enamored, and I suddenly have a burning desire to visit Switzerland and much of eastern Europe. Dorkily enough, her passages remind me of the non-creepy passages of Elizabeth Kostova's The Historian. I get the sense (and rightly so, I think) that eastern Europe has an immense, rich history that is greatly complimented by the lush beauty of the region. I wonder if I could do a semester abroad there?

Speaking of semesters anywhere, I'm still trying to decide where to go to graduate school. It's between Simmons College in Boston and University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. I love Ann Arbor, but I don't love the idea of being in the Midwest. I think Boston could be a great adventure and an excellent horizon-widening experience for me. Plus Simmons DOES have study abroad in the MLS program... I'm really leaning toward Simmons lately. I can't really pinpoint why, but I guess I'm just drawn to the intellectual scene there (in Boston and Cambridge), plus its proximity to my family and friends is deeply appealing.

I've just been imagining summer in this apartment, and I love what I've created. It's nothing special, but the sliding glass door to the balcony is open with a fan in front (it's hot!), and Sarah and I take long walks in the evenings (it's light out past 4pm!). I'm hugely sad that I'm not going to live here for longer. I need to go elsewhere, though, just for the experience if nothing else... and of course for grad school. I strongly suspect I'll come back, and perhaps not too far in the future. Imagine... I could work at Dartmouth... it could be wonderful.

In other news, Tiggs and I have officially made up after our falling out of last week (she peed into a suitcase of my clothing because the door was shut to the bathroom when she needed the litter box - excuse me for showering!). She's snuggled up to me now, probably mostly because she misses Sarah, who is away on a sales retreat in South Carolina (North Carolina? I should know this...) for a few days.

Next week is Birthday Week 2010 as I've dubbed it. Monday is my birthday (and I even have the day off!) and Wednesday is Sarah's. We're going out for a nice dinner on Tuesday night, and tomorrow my mom, sister, brother-in-law, nephew, and niece are coming to visit me for dinner. They're bringing me a homemade carrot cake! Yum! And my mom got me a new yoga mat and blocks and a strap as b-day gifts; she seems to have rightly predicted my growing obsession with yoga!

I guess I've rambled on for long enough now... off to do more reading and writing!