whirlwind of craze

i've been blogless for a literal age and that upsets me.  it's not intentional and is certainly not due to our lives being stable and boring lately.  sadly, on or around the last day i posted, my computer stopped recognizing the internet.  this should probably concern me more than it does, but surprisingly, i don't really care.  or, rather, i don't care enough to take the laptop to an apple store or call time warner.  it's been over a month now and i've cracked my laptop open a grand total of two times, each time hoping that it had miraculously healed itself as spontaneously as it broke.  nope.  however, i'm kinda enjoying it.  i'm using my phone for the basics, like email and facebook, and am stealing luke's computer for bigger projects (such as watching "extreme makeover: weight loss edition" while stuffing my face full of cupcakes).  reasons for my lack of interest in computer problems: in addition to my being hugely lazy now that the school year is over, i also kinda love not staring at my computer screen all the time.  gone are the days of checking facebook and watching tv and talking to luke at the same time.  honestly, no one needs that much stimulation.  i'll probably need to figure out the computer situation by the time school rolls around again, but in the meantime, i'll survive.

recent happenings:

1) i finished my first year of grad school with a 4.0.  yipee!  this last quarter was one for the record books, in terms of all-consuming stress and anxiety.  i have never in my life felt anything like it before and i have never been so grateful to leave a quarter behind (especially because it might as well have been  ten years long, rather than ten weeks.  so.  horribly.  long.).  apparently, the first year is the worst.  here's hoping!

2) i had planned to have a low key summer of odor patrolling and reading cool books i'd ignored throughout the school year.  this was going pretty well until about a week ago and a half ago, when i bounced back into the landfill's office on a friday morning after work and was casually told that my full-time job was essentially deleted.  cue a tailspin into crazytown that took me through the weekend and halfway through the following week.  i cannot believe how difficult it has been for me to just hold down an effing job for two seconds while in school.  however, there was a major silver lining to my four days of abject panic, because while scouring craigslist for some leads for myself, i came upon a fantastic librarian opportunity for luke and forwarded the link to him, thinking we could both just through caution to the internet job application wind.  as it turns out,

3) luke applied last tuesday, immediately heard back about the resume he'd submitted and swiftly climbed the interview ladder (totally three or four interviews in all).  by friday, we'd had a hugely nerve wrecking week, staying up most of thursday night due to nervous anticipation, the likes of which don't come around unless it's christmas morning.  this position was pretty much a dream come true for luke, and waiting to find out if he got the job was. so. hard.  it was all insanely worth it though, because HE DID!  he got the job and i am so proud of him and so excited for him.  it's definitely a career-making move and i'm thrilled that he finally has the security he deserves.

4) luke getting this fantastic position helped to chill me out, so i've stopped sending out mass responses to internet postings for administrative assistant jobs.  tomorrow, i'm going to head over to the local school district classified employment office to hand in a resume and perhaps charm some people in person, because i've decided that it's damn near impossible to stand out and be selected, even just for an interview, when you're competing on the interwebs with ten bazillion other faceless people who also swear that it's been their lifelong dream to file papers at some undisclosed corporate office.

5) i spent today cleaning up after our impromptu mini fourth of july barbeque, catching up on crappy tv and reading a book.  after having what may have been some of the most emotional weeks in recent memory, things are looking up.