Crystal has returned from her interview at Tufts. They apparently loved her, as they made her an offer last week - full tuition/expenses paid, plus a $28,000 a year stipend. She’s 95% certain that she will accept. I’m 100% certain that I am excited, as I will now have a viable reason to travel East more frequently.

Speaking of traveling East, my boys just announced that they will be playing a string of reunion shows in the NYC/DC area at the beginning of August!!! As this just happens to coincide with Crystal’s planned move to Boston, I will be accompanying her to the coast to help her settle in, then the two of us will hop a train to NYC and party like the Champions we are. These are, of course, only tentative plans at this point, but I promised the gods a cheese sandwich if it happened, so I expect that it will. (What deity could turn down a cheese sandwich, honestly?!)

I will be doing some traveling before that, as my job has decided that they like me enough to send me to San Francisco for a conference in July. I have no idea why they would think this is a good idea. They’ve seen the way I act - let me loose with no supervision in a party town like SF and they’re bound to be paying bail by the end of it. Melissa and Mary will be accompanying me (yayz!), so I’m hoping they will keep me in line. And make sure that I don’t take any pills that will be freely offered to me whilst walking down the street. (The green ones with the smiley face are particularly tasty, I hear.)

Speaking of drugz, this Psyc class is turning me into the most gigantic dork ever. The last chapter I studied was about the inner workings of the brain: parts of the brain, neurons, hormones, neurotransmitters, etc. Crystal and I were discussing the subject one evening, and she pointed me to this website, where I proceeded to spend an entire hour in a knowledge-induced trance. (Most of that hour, however, I spent watching the mouse on Ecstasy dancing. He was mesmerizing. Perhaps he was the cause of my trance, even.) I put all those mice into the machine several times to see how the drugz were affecting their brainz, and I squeed every single time just because I knew what “synaptic vesicles” and “dopamine receptors” were. The next day I showed it to everyone at work, which prompted Melissa to declare, “No one ever give her a textbook again, ever.” Probably for the best, tbh.

I dunno what happened to me. Six months ago, I would’ve never thought that a month into the new year, I would’ve ended up keeping all of my resolutions. Especially when said resolutions included a) not smoking, and b) going to the gym. Yet - amazingly - I haven’t had a cigarette in 4 weeks, and I’ve gone to the rec four times every week for the past month. I’ve also cut my social circle in half, which has only served to make me feel more stable and comfortable with myself. I’ve decided that I’m taking this entire year to sort of… be me. I feel like I’m really starting to discover who I really am, and it’s awesome. I feel really good about myself right now, which is the exact opposite of how I felt six months ago.

Dude, I don’t even need drugs! This is all natural, yo. Rad.

I’ve been super-amazingly-busy lately. I’m taking a class this semester (Intro to Psychology) to kinda get me back into “academic-mode.” I know that it’s an introductory Psych course and really super simple, but it’s also incredibly interesting (I’m starting to take a bunch of classes that I had always been interested in but could never fit into my schedule when I was still an undergrad; this is the first of a few ’social science’ classes I plan to take). It reminds me of something I was once told about Psychology majors: “They only major in Psych because they’re completely mental and want to figure out why.” I’m beginning to think that’s true. o_O

Crystal is going to Boston next weekend for a grad school interview at Tufts University, then later this month she’ll be spending a week in Seattle and Washington D.C. for interviews at University of Washington and Johns Hopkins. Between her grad school preparations and working at Grad Studies at UNL, I’ve been feeling the itch to get back into it. I’d love to get my Master’s Degree right now, especially since, as a University employee, I don’t have to pay for tuition. I’ve been thinking that I might get an MA in History (Modern Europe), just because I can get it for free if I do it now, but I’d really just like to pack up and move somewhere that has a program in East European/Russian Studies and not waste my time on a degree that I don’t really want. I wish UNL had a program that I was remotely interested in… maybe my newfound love of the social sciences will prompt me to get a degree in Psychology, Sociology, or Anthropology. I dunno. Too early to tell, I guess. Really, I just want a change of scenery. I’m suffering from ‘wanderlust’ at the moment.

B requested political commentary. I haven’t been following the race just yet (I’m registered as an Independent, so I can’t vote in the primaries), but I’ll most definitely end up voting Democrat. I’d love to see Hillary in office because she’s a woman, but I like Obama - he just seems like an awesome dude. I know for certain we need to get away from these crazy Republicans who keep trying to turn us into a nation of Jesus-freaks. (Bush and Huckabee, I’m talking to you.) Andlettehgheysmarryandhavebabiezplzkthnx.

Working on a new layout. I need inspiration. Think I may have found it in this clip from Torchwood. Jack/Ianto snog FTW!!