I am exhausted. Part of the reason is because I didn't get much sleep last night. It doesn't help that I've been sick this past week and that it's also been pretty busy.

This could really be about a dozen different posts, but I believe in consolidation. So, here goes my week in review.

• V-day
  I'm not big on Valentine's Day, but I did have a Valentine. I also spent the evening supposedly studying with Arshad and Yousef at Arshad's apartment. Rather than do our work, they helped me figure out some stuff. I like my guy friends.
• Ickiness
  I resolved the weird privacy issue and felt a lot better about the situation afterwards.
• And she used to fall down a lot (c) the Cure
  I've been really scattered all week. Tuesday morning I wasn't quite paying attention as I walked up the steps in the SV parking structure. I tripped and banged my right knee against the concrete step. Ouch.
• Sexy trucks
  I was reminded on Tuesday of my strange attraction to trucks and the men who drive them. Seriously, I always check out the driver of a truck.
• School stuff
  I had a paper due Wednesday, but I was completely unmotivated to write it. I turned it in a little after class. I don't think I should be slacking off in a class that my advisor is teaching.
• Locked out
  I was so scattered on Wednesday that I locked my keys in my apartment as I left to school. I was late to class because I had to take the bus.
• Will the wolf survive?
  On Wednesday after class, my advisor let me know that Los Lobos would be performing at Royce Hall in about two weeks. She's not able to go, but I decided I wanted to go and bought the $15 ticket (student discounts are great) today. I like that our musical preferences overlap a little.
• Dissertation on my mind
  Thursday in the divisional meeting of my doctoral student seminar we had a panel of older Higher Ed students and two postdocs who just completed their dissertations last year. My mind was swirling a little afterwards as I tried to think about what I would like to write my dissertation on, what methods (quantitative or qualitative?) I would like to use, and who I would like to be on my dissertation committee. This is a little far off in the future, but I need to start jotting down ideas.
• Adoptee
  I'm being adopted by the Urban Schooling cohort. Arshad seems to feel sorry for me because I really don't have meaningful relationships with the students in my cohort. So, he said I can become part of US. I feel closer to some of the older Higher Ed students than the ones who just entered wth me. Anyway, rather than have lunch after class with some of the Higher Ed folks I had lunch with a bunch of the US students.
• Breaking down stereotypes
  I think I might have started something by recycling my Not a Fetish entry from a few years back.
• Living his dream
  I told Kris that he's my hero. At a young age he's doing exactly what he set out to do, entertaining people with great theater. He's my muse.
• Conference jitters
  My advisor told our research team for the NIH-project that she won't be going to the AIR conference in May. This scares me, I'd be much more comfortable presenting if she, one of the best known researchers and professors in higher education, was around.
• Made my day
  It's nice to get compliments. Sometimes I'm not very good at accepting them, but this one I received from a fellow blogger made my day.

I think you're beautiful. Really I do. You are so pretty in your pictures. And your writing is marvelous. I hope God makes more people like you.

Me siento: lonely
Escuchando: "always" by rilo kiley

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