I'M BACK

I have to apologize for all of those people who read my blog, although it is probably very few now, for not updating in a million years. It has been a very busy couple of months with grad school really kicking my ass! But I thought I would take a few minutes to let you know what is going on in my life and as I promised F, I will update more often.

School:
So, I'm in my third month as a Historic Preservation grad student. I'm taking four classes and I'm totally wiped out. I'm not quite sure how some people are working simultaneously. I really like a couple of my classes but there is my Preservation Law class which continuously leaves a bad taste in my mouth. I'm so glad I never continued down that track! I've just finished my first round of exams and papers, so we'll see how well I'm doing in the classes this week. Other than that, I have my own little schedule set where I go to school, come home and read....that is all I do. On kind of a cool note, there is a project I've been working on, documenting an historic building in Austin. In our last class that I have to do this project for, we explained the state of the building and mine was not in such great shape. Anyway, a girl in the class who volunteers for some historical society in Texas (can't remember which one) told her boss about the building and her boss wants to nominate the building as one of the "Most Endangered" buildings in Texas. So, I'm supposed to send it all this information that I've been gathering about the building so that it can be nominated. Pretty cool huh?

Personal Life:
For those of you who don't know, Jeff and I are living in sin and loving it. I love our apartment. It is so huge and there is a guest room for all of our friends who come to stay the weekend or in many cases gets too drunk to drive home.

I went to Las Vegas for Renee's bachelorette party two weekends ago. That was a very fun trip although a bit stressful because I had two papers due immediately when I got back. Four girls managed to kill 2 bottles of liquor, drink half a normal bottle of vodka, half a 1.75 litre of citrus vodka, and two flasks. We were totally sober the entire time! I swear!! I went to my first male strip show while I was there. It was the American Storm, supposedly these guys were on a show on VH1 to see who was going to be a stripper or something like that. Renee got all of them to sign a poster as a memento of her bachelorette party. I thought it was interesting and amusing but I don't know about the whole thing. I really don't think I want to go to a strip show for my bachelorette party. We managed to stay up till at least 5am every night that we were there. I would call Jeff before I went to bed and he would be getting up to go to work...ooopps! Got back to Austin extremely tired and not ready for two papers.

I went to Dallas last weekend to see my family and celebrate my birthday which is this upcoming Sat. I enjoyed my weekend although I wasn't able to see a couple of my friends up there. Jeff, me, and my brother went to the State Fair of Texas on Saturday and had fun. I've gotten my fill of fair food which I've been craving since the beginning of September. We looked around at the cars and the different exhibits and of course we did the Midway. My brother won me a little stuffed duckling at one of the booths. It was very sweet of him. I got some nice gifts from my family and my mom said that she would pay for my trip to Puerto Rico in January so I'm so psyched!

Now, I'm back here in Austin not wanting to go to school this week....booo! I need to also get back in my gym routine which I neglected all last week because of Vegas and papers. And this weekend, I'm supposedly going to Houston to see buzz fest except that Jeff and I do not know if the tickets have been purchased or not. So, then again we might not!

So thats whats been up in my life...hopefully I'll be back soon to update!