well, after much packing and stress i am finally settled in my new home! i can't believe this cute little apartment is all mine and that i actually own it. how nuts is that? i'm 24 and i have a mortgage...weird. albeit that mortgage is only $26 more per month than my rent was, so it makes sense. especially since i'll be out here in minneap for yearrrrrs.

i still have some unpacking to do. my desk needs an overhaul as well as my file cabinet which is currently full of 8,000 random articles from last semester. last time i checked i had some spivak article mixed up with old tax forms and the receipt from my last oil change. i don't know what happened to me. i used to be so organized. i think it's related to the fact that as i've gotten older, i've obtained more furniture in which i can store such items out of sight in a complete mess.

i've got to get my stuff together. thankfully, next week is spring break (!) and i'll have a little time to weed through all of my papers.

new home photos to come as soon as i find my digital camera :)

i watched a marathon of "miami ink" on TLC last night and, once again, it made me think about all the body mods i want so desperately to get, but feel almost too old for. two months ago i struggled with the idea of getting a marilyn piercing, but then realized i didn't have a punk rock enough look to pull that one off. last night, i decided for the 800th time that i desperately want a tattoo on my back shoulder. who knows if i'll actually have the guts to do it this time, but i *have* narrowed down my choices. i either want this, which i found on someone's myspace a long time ago and then recently on someone's buddy icon on LJ or a 1940s pin-up girl. i think i'd prefer the latter, but i feel like they're super popular and i don't want anything that's trite. if i did go with the pin-up girl, i'd get this one, but she'd have that orangey red pin-up girl hair and a white bikini with grass green polka dots. i feel like she needs a little bit more oomf. maybe black hair instead and some bright colored bikini like red or something. what do y'all think?

i'm totally feeling overwhelmed and like a big ball of nerves today. i'm usually so calm and laid-back, but i'm moving soon and am trying to stay on top of packing and school at the same time. maybe i'm a wimp, but it's totally tough to find time to pack up my entire apartment while trying to get through 500+ pages of reading per week. originally my g'ma was supposed to come out and help me (she's a very active and amazing 80 year old), but she wound up having to have a pretty serious and unexpected surgery. needless to say, she couldn't come out and so i've had a week of my own where i've had to try and balance both packing and school. i'd say my apt. is about 60% packed at this point. my mom will be flying out friday or saturday to help me finish up and then hopefully tuesday will be my moving day. i think it is all the uncertainty that's getting to me - like that i don't actually know when my mom is coming or when i'm officially moving. it's a big deal and too much is up in the air or something, you know? thank goodness for my amazing mom and g'ma who won't let me drown out here in a sea of despair. i just can't wait until my mom arrives. it'll be a huge sigh of relief when i see her at the airport.

i'll be at school until around 8:30 - 9pmish. mondays are long and tough, but when they're over, i only have one more class to go to during the week and that's on wednesday. tomorrow can be filled with sleeping and packing, which should make me feel accomplished and rested. tonight i have to finish up a response paper that i didn't get to last night because *ahem* i spent most of my day yesterday trying to figure out LJ. uber problematic for the grad student who finds procrastinating all too easy already.

well, off to school i go for my super long day.

xoxo
jess

i think i could get into this LJ thing. you know, if i actually had time to spare. it could become my new procrastination tool extraordinaire. i'm pretty excited about it. to think i've been reading the new york times' wedding section and the savage love column to procrastinate when i could be writing about whatever is on my mind or interacting with dope, new people on here.

hmmm...this could be rather dangerous for my graduate career. though i have to figure out how this all works before it can become a hazard. be patient with me.

xoxo
j