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I suck!!

But better late than never! Congrats to Emily for passing her nursing boards last week!!! Hooray!

posted by amanda @ 8:03 PM 0 comments

My first week in Palo Alto

So we moved in on Sunday and started unpacking and realized we needed some stuff to make life a little bit more homey. So while Jess took her friend to the San Jose airport, Kristina and I ventured to Target. Apparently Target and Wal-Mart are closed on Easter. Frustrated because it didn't feel like Easter to us, we went to Rite Aid and Sears to get a few things. After a trip to Subway for dinner, we returned home and tried to make due. We worked on the internet with no success and decided that Monday after we were done with the intern we would go to Target and get a new router and create our own wireless network. After fighting with the router for 2 days, we finally had internet...which we only had a few hours. I think I finally have fixed it after working on it all week. We've had wireless for 24 hours now without problems. Keep your fingers crossed. I think it was Wednesday morning when we blew a fuse and had to travel to 4 stores after work to find a stupid fuse they don't even make anymore. So needless to say, it's been a long week.

The weekend has been great though. Friday night the girls and I found a Thai restaurant that was suggested by our supervisor. It was mighty tasty. We pigged out and split a bottle of wine before heading to Cold Stone for some dessert. We came home and all read a bit before passing out from exhaustion. It was kind of rainy and cool on Saturday so we stayed home and worked on our homework a bit. We also jammed to some songs from our childhoods and tried to find a good song for Kristina and Corey's first dance at their wedding this summer. No success. We worked on some more homework before heading to the Alfred Hitchcock movies at the Stanford Theatre. We watched a double feature of Psycho and The Birds for $7. It's a great old theatre that features one person's movies for about 2 months. Starting next week is all Bette Davis movies. I know nothing about most of the movies showing, but we'll probably check out at least one weekend's showings. We walked around downtown Palo Alto for a little while last night too. We're just now getting up and around, so I'm not sure what we're doing today. Regardless, it's going to be pretty stress free.

posted by amanda @ 12:38 PM 0 comments

FINALLY!!

After 3 days and 5 hours of work...we finally have internet. I don't want to talk about it right now.

Internship is going fine. Just orienting right now. That is all for now. I'm hungry and a little bitter with the internet.

posted by amanda @ 8:25 PM 1 comments

The bests and worsts of my NYC trip!

Bests:
10. Karaoke with my classmates.
9. Getting to know the Fall class.
8. Girl's night
7. Hanging with Forney.
6. Walking around NYC.
5. Being blindfolded in NYC and traveling with the cane.
4. Going out drinking with the gang.
3. All the cute doggies!
2. Using a dog guide under blindfold.
1. Holding Helen Keller's Oscar.

Worsts:
10. 3 1/2 hours sleep Sunday night and multiple seminars on Monday.
9. Getting wasted Tuesday night and having seminars all morning on Wednesday.
8. Personality clash with a specific person who shall remain nameless, but is really difficult.
7. The wind.
6. Sitting for 2 1/2 hours on a runway in Norfolk, VA because of storms in Newark.
5. Sitting for an hour on the tarmac at Newark waiting for a gate.
4. Sitting for 30 minutes near a gate at Newark waiting to be guided in then sitting another 30 minutes while they wait for someone to run the jetway.
3. Circling over Detroit and Cleveland...my poor poor belly.
2. Waiting for an hour to get our bags after sitting on a plane for 11 hours.
1. Sitting on a plane for 11 hours for a 5 1/2 hour non-stop trip from LA to Newark.

posted by amanda @ 5:52 PM 0 comments

It's over!

The most grueling 10 weeks of my life is over. My case study is done, all my finals are done, my student teaching is done. Holy cow! I haven't slept in 10 weeks--ask Alan because I keep him up too. In 11 hours I will be on a plane to NYC to party with Matt and my classmates, and play with Seeing Eye dogs. Speaking of Seeing Eye dogs...you can only call them Seeing Eye dogs if they are trained at Seeing Eye (one of our seminar stops on our trip). Seeing Eye is trademarked, so all other dogs trained for the blind or visually impaired are 'guide dogs.' So I'm going to get to be blindfolded and use a real Seeing Eye dog. How cool is that?!?!? Ok I'm exhausted. I'm off to finish packing and crash out ASAP. Toodles!!!

posted by amanda @ 10:59 PM 1 comments

OMG!

It's almost over. One more exam. Everything else is done. I'm so tired. Only one more day of student teaching. I leave for NYC on Saturday. Matt is off duty this weekend so we're going to hang out Saturday night and Sunday. I'm so tired and hungry and tired. Weeeeeeeee!

posted by amanda @ 11:29 PM 0 comments

I'M LOSING MY MIND!!

I feel better now.

posted by amanda @ 11:23 PM 1 comments