I know I haven't been around for a while here, but I wanted to stop by and wish everyone a happy holiday season and a very happy New Year. Even if I haven't talked to you lately, I've been thinking of you all and hope you're doing well :)

i keep meaning to update, and then i realize i don't really have anything to say. or at least not anything i can imagine anyone wanting to read. i mean, i could write all about my recent cookies (an uncharacteristic disaster!), the pepper plants i killed (i blame the heat!), or the three plates i've broken this week (i've always been clumsy! don't look surprised!), but i'm afraid that i would bore you lovely people so terribly that you would never come back.
i have started a (somewhat) serious workout routine to make up for the months of sitting around i had been doing. i've been walking/jogging for about half an hour on my dad's old treadmill every day for the past week. i hope to get some very light weights sometime when i think i have the necessary commitment to stick with using them.
hmmm... i guess that's all for now :)

hello everyone! i'm sorry it has been so long since i updated. i've missed you all and i hope everything is going well for everybody :)

Current Mood: calm

well i'm still here and all, and in the big picture, everything is good and fine. as for school, everything is blah. my classes are going fine in terms of me getting my work done and not freaking out, but i'm not as happy in them as i was last semester. last semester's classes were awesome and useful and taught by great professors. this semester i feel like nothing is getting done, like i'm not learning anything useful. but what's bothering me more, i guess, is how much i dislike one of my professors, personally. but it's not that i've had a bad encounter with her or anything like that, in fact, i've never even spoken to her (it's a huge class, and i'm sure she doesn't even know i'm there). my problem is that she is mean and condescending to students asking questions about the topic that are (in my opinion) totally reasonable. she seems really irritated that she has to be there telling us this stuff, and that we should all be ashamed of ourselves when we come to lecture because we don't already know it. i'm keeping up with the reading and i've attended all of the lectures, so i should feel good about turning in my first paper. but i don't, because of the things i've heard her say to other students. and they're not even helpful criticisms, she's just snide, and then, a couple of times, i heard her laugh when students asked questions after class. seriously. so even though i haven't personally interacted with her yet, i don't enjoy the class because i know that at some point, either through a question or an email or a paper, i am going to have to talk to her. and i also don't enjoy listening to her lecture about a topic that obviously annoys her so much. to people she obviously hates for no reason. and i'm sure that there is probably a reason for her attitude, and there may be something bad going on in another part of her life. but the same is true for her students, and i bet her sneering, unkind remarks have ruined a lot of people's days. (and whenever i do the reading for this class i hear it in her voice in my head. ugh.)

i'm still around, never fear, i just don't seem to have any post-worthy thoughts lately, or any thoughts at all. i think i'm mentally hibernating. i made some cookies earlier (chocolate with walnuts), but besides that, i have done absolutely nothing lately. i need to get moving or i am going to find myself stuck to this couch.

Current Mood: lazy

much delightful soup made from the aforementioned celery!

seriously, why don't i have a food icon?

hmmm... i've spent much of the last hour searching online for recipes involving celery. why celery, you ask? well my mom bought a lot of it. A LOT. two packages that each look as though they could easily be several family packs. i figured she had some purpose for it, and so i didn't use it in anything. but then it stayed there, in the fridge, unused. and when i asked, she said it had been on sale and she didn't have any reason for buying it. so now i have a limited amount of time to use A LOT of celery. and the thing is i hate throwing food away. i hate it because i feel wasteful, but also i feel like the food never got a chance. like it got sent to the Island of Misfit Ingredients. so, celery muffins, anyone? ha ha, maybe not :)

i was going to post about the carrot cake i made this afternoon, but i'm in some kind of euphoric post-cake sugar-high, and i can't concentrate long enough to get anything meaningful out. in summary, new carrot cake=love.

as i lay here on the couch (oh, well, yes, i did have to get up to sit at the computer, but you know what i mean), i ponder this question: make a new year's resolution or no?

Current Mood: contemplative

i can't tell which word i feel like more, "blah" or maybe "moosh." i feel like a formless jelly and am acting like one too. i am guiltily languishing between semesters refusing to do what little work i have to do. and feeling like i ought to do it. but i don't feel quite guilty enough to actually be motivated. if i actually got myself together i could accomplish it in a couple of days, but that would require that i get myself together. and get out my notebook, and a book, and all kinds of other skills and plans that seem thoroughly beyond me lately. ah, moosh.