I'm a year from finishing my Master's in English. I currently have three goals in life: a job with a salary, a god, and a PhD. I'm strongly leaning towards a PhD in Popular Culture, partially because I didn't even know that was a thing. But it sounds epic. It will probably require me to move halfway across the country, and I can't decide how I feel about that. My mom isn't crazy about it (and would much prefer I move to New York so she can come visit me). I am enjoying teaching, which is strange to me. I plan halfheartedly to teach at a community college for a bit until I figure out where my PhD is happening.

The boyfriend is still wonderful, which makes me happy.

It's been raining for 4 days and I hate it. My roof is leaking.

I'm in the process of trying to lose weight. It's going well, except for my fondness for alcohol and cupcakes. I've been trying to go to the gym regularly, but the rain is making me not want to do anything.

I'm ready for Halloween. I plan on dressing as Velma from Scooby-Doo. My boyfriend took the idea and ran with it and is now going to be Shaggy, making this my first Halloween with a matching costume. Strange.

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So my Gmail and Facebook accounts have been hacked. I'm attempting to reset everything and reclaim them, but I don't know how long that will take. I'm very frustrated.

My first year of grad school is almost over. Now to work an assistantship over the summer and take one class online so I can teach a section of freshman English in the fall semester. I have never wanted to teach, but find myself incredibly excited about this. I'm in English Studies which means I can take whatever english classes I want. Next semester: film studies, 19th century poetry, and creative writing. Let the awesome begin. Next spring, I start my thesis. I complete my thesis over the summer, when I fully intend on studying abroad in London. For real this time. My thesis keeps changing incrementally, but still revolves around Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. I'm presenting my research at a conference at a different university in two weeks, and am waiting to hear if I got into a conference in Hawaii next November. I have never felt more academic.

I'm dating a boy who is wonderful and just enough unlike my ex to make me adore him.

I just listened to a full 2 minutes of a Christmas song before realizing that it WAS a Christmas song, and that it's definitely April.

I turn 23 in two hours.

Bullet pointed status update of the past month or so:

-Turned in 2 weeks notice at both jobs (Panera and Barnes & Noble), last day of availability is the 31st, because I like the idea of starting the new year unemployed.
-I have an assistantship waiting for me at ECU in the spring semester, so yay! I'll be working in the writing studio as a tutor, which should be exciting.
-I have two not quite dates in the next week, which is super exciting, because they're actual dates and not just "hey, let's hang out and probably make out." They're with two very nice boys, one of which I haven't actually met yet. I'm excited.
-My housing plans for this next semester fell through, due to a not quite friend's flakiness, so I'm in the process of apartment hunting less than a month before I'm moving down. Luckily, I have lots of friends and lots of couches to crash on in town.
-Got A's in both my online classes, a wonderful pleasant surprise. My final project in my bibliography and methods class was a mock thesis outline, and I used the topic I want to use for my real thesis (parallel novels, which I love anyways) and my adviser loved it and said he can't wait for me to start on it for real. I am SO EXCITED.

Christmas cards are going to be sent eventually, for everyone who gave me an address ever. They won't get there by Christmas, unless I totally start kicking ass, but still.

What's up kids? It's that time again: WHO WANTS A CHRISTMAS CARD??????

Message me your address, and you'll get one, hopefully in the near-ish future.

I love you all, and happy thanksgiving, and sorry I'm never on here anymore!

Edit: My address in case you need it. ^_^

1913 Yellowwood Lane
Durham, NC, 27712

If you don't know what a cappuccino is, don't fucking order one. There is decidedly a difference between a latte and a cappuccino. Don't taste it and tell me it has no flavor - you're drinking two inches of foam, it doesn't have much of a flavor. Don't tell me it tastes like shit. It tastes like coffee and milk, because that's what it is. Don't tell me it made you lose your appetite. If you don't know what the fuck you're ordering, don't fucking tell me I made it wrong.

I don't even drink coffee and I'm becoming a coffee snob. My inner barista is a bitch.

Video meme from Liz!

Ask me a question. One (or two) per person please and keep in mind that YouTube has a ten minute limit.

I'll answer as many questions as I can in a video to be uploaded in a new post later in the week at some point.

Let's see if I can relearn how to use my webcam. And use youtube for the first time ever. This will be an adventure. Please ask me something, guys. This should be exciting.

Sunday night, I went to Charlotte to see Cobra Starship. Tiny concert space, super loud music that I knew all the words to, and a lead singer who I am completely in love with = best concert of my LIFE. And Gabe Saporta likes my typewriter necklace.


...does ANYONE else listen to this band? Because you SHOULD.

Today's writers block:
"Imagine you manage a coven of baseball-playing vampires. The Cullen family is really strong this year and you want to bring in a ringer. Which currently active MLB baseball player do you sire?"

lolwhat.

So there were a lot of things that I had taken for granted in my future. I was going to get married in a dress I've already picked out, I was going to have kids, I was going to go to Europe. But then I realized that there were plenty of less-significant things that I still took for granted. I was just looking at a list of anime conventions and I realized that I have no one to go to Penny Arcade Expo with someday. That made me very very sad all of a sudden. And I was doing so well.

I know, I'm a nerd.