summer

Summer is here and I am so grateful. I can tell my body is slowly beginning to adjust to the calm and serenity but it did take me a while to breathe and slow down. I spent a week at home in Norfolk with my parents which was nice- picked up a sweet purple mountain bike for 20 bucks too. I also got to see a lot of friends I haven’t seen in a while. I’ve still got a day or two of freedom before summer school starts so I’m trying to make the best of it (which means I’m cooking, playing piano, reading, and thrift store shopping) I’m still in the middle of Peter Pan but I’ve started a series of young adult fantasy novels (not my usual I know) but they are actually pretty good. I’m on the third in a series of five. The first is called hawksong, if you’re interested. It’s good stuff, even if you’re not into weird fantasy, which I’m not…
I met with Dr. Moeller about my honors thesis and left feeling exhausted and overwhelmed but excited at the same time. I feel like I’m just jumping into the deep end but I don’t know how else to do it. It’s going to be a really cool project, I’m just wondering when it is that I will actually be able to do all the work!! I’ll take te research citi test Monday and then hopefully get started on the beginning phases of reading up on it and learning how to grade the tests using the rubrics. I should explain… I’ll be working on identifying factors that influence writing in the foreign language classroom, so I’ve got to learn to grade writing samples from students with one, two, three, and four years of foreign language and then enter this into a database and determine the common variables of students with superior writing abilities. Doubt that sounds exciting to you, but I think it’s pretty schway and am pumped about getting some hands on experienee working with dr. moeller.
Got trained with region V systems this week, I should be getting a child to mentor in the next week(s)..depending on what comes up. I’m excited about it…but I wish I would’ve started sooner, since I’m only in Lincoln for 8 more months. Wow that’s not long at all. Crap.
Helped bethy move to Omaha yesterday… bittersweet to see her go. It has been so much fun having her right next door, I’m really going to miss that. Jenn and I are only here a month longer though…I’m excited to move too, but it will be sad moving away from teddy and Nora. It’s been great having them only 10 blocks away!! I’m sure I’ll still keep up my visits for laundry, free food, and sewing help. Tomorrow Nora is going to help me set up my sewing machine so I can get to work on the quilt she’s helping me with and so I can sew john mark his pirate pillow cases. She’s pretty much best aunt ever… Living closer to downtown will be a plus though, as will be paying 125 a month rent for a while haha.
I’ve decided to give my body one more chance to heal itself before I try this new remicade… I’m just not ready to throw in the towel yet, not that taking remicade would be, but I just want to see if I can pull through this on my own. I really think I can now that I have so much off of my back with the semester over. I can’t decide if it’s just naïve of me to keep trying or if it’s me just knowing my body and what it can and can’t do. I guess we’ll find out. I’ve got… let’s see…at least a couple weeks left to get off of the steroids. It’s going to come down the last couple days…that’s when I’ve gotten sick the last four times. At least it will still be summer and I might even have a couple weeks with no steroids to adjust before school starts again in the fall! Wouldn’t that be amazing… no steroids… I can’t wait!!! I don’t mind all the extra adrenaline that they give me but they make me so strange. I just am not myself…I haven’t been since late January. I’m always jumpy and anxious and that’s not me.
I’m going to try and dedicate more of this summer to my music. I’ll let you know how that goes.. not sure if that means I’ll be writing a lot more or just improving what I’ve already written or just learning some songs I’ve been wanting to know for a while –some ani difranco, coldplay, ben folds… we’ll see. I’m without internet for the next four weeks so I won’t waste nearly as much time as I normally do I hope! I’ll just be making frequent stops to mo java and the mill until we move  p.s. what are you doing the week of june 19th? Helping me move?? Why thank you so much! Haha I’ll probably just take a box over to jeremy’s every day from now until then so I don’t have to do it all at once.
What a silly blog this is.