Leap Year

Happy Leap Day!  My day started with the usual cup of lovely coffee on the way downtown for class.  After my brain was as full as it could be I headed back home for the ladies to come over to celebrate the fact you only get this day once every four years.  We obviously needed chips, salsa, and chocolate because that is our standard operating procedure.  I promptly locked my keys and cell phone in the car.  Thankfully I have a spare at the house and the grocery store is only 5 minutes from the house so Brandy came to the rescue.  And now we are enjoying the movie Leap Year and dreaming about a Christmas trip to Ireland/London/Scotland...no really...we are feeling it.

Zzzzzzzzz

My posting history is tragic and the year is barely started...apparently PhD students don't have blogs.  Either that or they don't have jobs.  I barely have the energy to type but I feel obligated to at least let everyone know that I am in fact still alive.  I finally went to my blog list and started reading the blogs I used to follow all the time and realized that it's been since...wait for it...November since I read any of them.  Which then made me realize it's been quite some time since I posted my own.  So, here are a few of the highlights and lowlights from the past month...



- my grandfather died

- all my cousins and aunts and uncles had a beautiful celebration of his life

- I'm loving the job

- in a very scary way I'm loving statistics...I know, clearly I need mental health assistance

- it just took me an hour to organize my list of things to do...that is NEVER a good sign

- I've eaten my weight in s'mores and ice cream as rewards for just getting through some days

- I've drank my weight times 8 in coffee as rewards for just getting out of bed



A few facts I've learned in the past month...

- the word occupation in occupational therapy means the things that 'occupy' your time...it makes so much more sense now.  By the way OTs are kinda amazing I figured out in the process of learning about them.

- reviewing 9233 articles to find the ones that relate to my literature review can actually be just one of the to-do items on a list of 20 things to do this week...tragic

- it seems as though literature reviews may be a pretty standard 'oh, I need to do a literature review real quick' thing in my life for the next 4 years...and beyond

- you can in fact listen to the same Jesus Culture DVD over and over again every night while you study and it never get old

- Words with Friends and Scramble are spectacular ways to take a mental break from studying...again, the fact my 'break' is a word game likely lines me up for the mental health assistance

- Emoticons are very addictive...if you do not know what this is get yourself an iPhone and download them, I'm in love (I would insert an emoticon with hearts in it's eyes here if this was a text)



So...happy random Thursday.  I'm giving up on accomplishing anything else tonight and instead I'm going to head to bed.