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So I have a few minutes to do a real post but am still not really feeling it.  I am so over school these days.  It’s causing me to feel pretty agitated on a fairly regular basis.  Today in my last class the girl beside me was chewing gum.  I hate chewing gum on principle but she wasn’t just chewing it, she was snap, popping, cracking it.  I almost lost it.  It’s just not right blowing and popping gum bubbles in class, it’s just not right.  So when I was leaving class I looked over my shoulder, didn’t see the girl, and mentioned to the woman who sits on the other side of her that I can’t stand the gum chewing.  She responded with something I didn’t hear and then when I looked up the girl was right there.  She very well may have heard what I said.  I’m not worried so much about whether I hurt her feelings as that now she’ll retaliate with more gum chewing.  I couldn’t handle that. Continue

You can always tell how much work I have on my plate by how often I update my blog. When I seem absent for days it’s because I’m off having fun somewhere away from my computer. When I’m posting multiple times a day it’s because I’m shackled to it and looking for diversion. I got an email today from a neighbor tipping me off on a cool site. I can’t believe I hadn’t heard about it until now. I’m a big book nerd when I have time for personal reading and have always aspired to start my own book club with friends or what have you. This site is like a big virtual book club. I love it, I’m obsessed at the moment the way I was about rating movies when we first got Netflix. The only problem is that it has been some time since I’ve read some of the books that have made lasting impressions on me. As a result I find myself giving star ratings and wishing I could back them up with some kind of comments but nothing comes. It’s ok, I’m marking the days until I can have free time again and it’s not that far off. Continue

Or so my sticker tells me. Today was the Potomac Primary so you know we both made time to cast our votes. The family that votes together stays together? I don’t know but we split it straight down the middle and both finally confessed that once we got into our respective booths we both waffled, checked and unchecked and finally cast votes opposite of what we originally intended. This was so far from just a primary. We both fell back into the car completely emotionally and mentally exhausted. Chase got a sticker too and felt very patriotic. Ben and Chase got a little ahead of me leaving our polling station and watching them walk down the hall hand and hand had me a little freaked out. She’s so small I said but I know the day we walk her to kindergarten will be all too soon.

I had two good classes today in spite of the fact that I only brought about 50% of my materials with me. I have this knack for putting half my books in my bag and sitting the other half on the chair near the door. Then, I put my shoes and coat on, grab my bag and leave. Most of the time I remember my coffee but I never remember those unpacked books. We’re covering the Truth in Lending Act. I get all geeked up over combing through code to puzzle out answers to problems. When did this happen to me? I used to be so cool and then one day bam, I’m hunched over my code book with my hand in the air, ooh, ooh, pick me pick me. In my defense, who wants to sit in a room full of silent people? The class needs to move at a good clip so I don’t fall asleep. Continue

That’s right, it came! My brand new phone. I already tested and it does not in fact turn off as soon as you remove it from the charger. I got the krazr in what I imagine is called black cherry. It’s all red and fabulous and I ordered another razr for Ben pursuant to my plan. The krazr is like the old rzr all metal and solid feeling but the new rzr doesn’t have any of its old heft. My new phone is super slick and I love it. I promise to treat this one well because on first inspection it doesn’t appear to be a total piece of crap like my old one.

On to other news…

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I thought I’d give due deference to the sentence I hear the most today by making it the title of this post. I find securities regulation interesting, I do, really. But seriously, exercise your put? Honestly. If you want to know more about it be sure to google “exercise your put” with the quotation marks. For if you neglect to include the quotation marks you’ll find yourself exercising your way to a better sex life at lifetime.com be warned.

I find it funny how sometimes you just vibe with a professor and sometimes you just don’t. Two weeks into the semester I have already figured out which classes to just keep my mouth shut in. Continue

and already a snow day! Did I tell you the pieces would start to fall into place or what? Add a snow day on top of the long weekend and I am way ahead of the reading curve. I’ll try to read ahead some over the weekend but either way I’m feeling better about things already. I just got an email reminding me to reapply for federal student aid and I… deleted it. It felt so good. I read today that Governor O’Malley wants to set aside funds for UB to build a new law building. Sure, I graduate this year and the new building won’t open until 2012 but this is huge. It’s still important to me because the stronger UB’s reputation is the more my degree is worth. We’ll see what happens it all hinges on approval by the legislature and somebody might not like the fact that the figure is almost twice as much as what was spent on the new UMD building a couple of years ago. I was happy when they upgraded the bathroom but this would be fantastic.

The new Martha Stewart came today. It’s full of brilliant ideas. Most notable of which is the recipe for topfenknoedel with stewed plums. I just want you to remember when they’re making knoedels on the Today Show that I made them for you years ago… Continue

…and already a class cancellation. I told you I chose my classes carefully. I visited an old friend today. With the exception of one new recipe that I tried (and forgot to take a picture of or write about) I am still in my little cooking slump. Wednesdays are busy so I was trying to get something hot on the table before I had to dash out to class. Ordinarily I would leave at 6:00 to return at 7:30 leaving Ben to his own dinner defenses but this afternoon was relatively slow so I had no excuses. I pulled out some ground beef and decided on shepherd’s pie. I used to make it all the time when we had the apartment on Baltimore Avenue but I got out of the habit at some point. Probably because it’s so heavy on the meat and potatoes. Shepherd’s pie isn’t something that Ben reminisces abut from childhood but for me it’s definitely comfort food. Over time he’s come to appreciate it for it’s comfort food value too but seriously, the meat and potato quotient adds several points in its favor. Continue

How come as soon as the semester starts time starts to fly.  It’s unreal I mean it’s already Wednesday.  I haven’t picked up my camera in days as you can see.  The good news is that so far I think that my classes will actually be interesting i.e. not totally draining and impossible to get up for.  You can’t beat that.  Not to mention that I shipped off my bar application today.  I’m so glad that’s out of my hair for now.  Talk about hanging over your head.  I even managed to get some other stuff off my plate this evening.   I haven’t done my reading for tomorrow but you know, whatever.  I’ll get over the hump and the pieces will start to fall into place some time next week by my estimation.  Continue

You want to know how many Comp USA’s I visited today?  Two but the first one earned two visits, one on either side of a trip to Target.  Can I just say that I find computer stores exhausting.  Well, let me add the caveat that I find them exhausting unless we’re buying computer stuff for me but that wasn’t the case today.  We had a great visit with Nadia and Jason and pizza at Bertucci’s.  Without calling attention to my plan I secretly ordered the opposite of what I would have ordinarily suggested.  I’m surprised Ben didn’t say anything about it although he was probably more happy than confused that I picked toppings that he likes. Continue

Sometimes I find a few minutes in the course of a day to do something. I say something because I don’t often know what to fill the time with and often just fritter away the few precious minutes. I had a few of those stolen moments to myself today and thought hey, why not do a post? That’s when I discovered something very curious. It appears that blogging is something I can only do at night. Even though I’ve been keeping a mental list of things to write about I just couldn’t seem to pull my thoughts together. So I put is aside and came back to it tonight and it flows much easier. Continue