meh-wage

marriage is cool, yo. carolyn said she hasn't heard much about it since i've been in school. that's b/c school has been this insidious leech that drained all my powers. but now i'm back, baby!! it's early in the morning, so if i don't make any sense, that's why.

we LOVE the medical drama House, MD. it's so cool. we have the first season on dvd. basically, once we started House, we disowned ER; it's that good. what's funny about that is that there was a really climactic moment on the last episode of ER, but we were like, meh.......let's watch HOUSE!! i wholeheartedly recommend it, even if it is a bit formulaic. it stinks that we have to wait a while for the second dvd to come out, seeing as how season 2 is still going on! (i believe the season finale is this tuesday). i haven't watched regular tv in so long, since we don't really get reception in our apartment, and also due to lack of time in general. so we will be going through house withdrawal in a little bit, especially the way we've been tearing through episodes in the past couple of days. i hope they don't wait forever to bring out the dvd, like ER. whoever's in charge of ER dvds is way lame...what is ER on, like season 13?? and yet, they're only on season 4 of dvd. how long does it take, really?? they're just keeping all those ER fans in suspense so they get more sales.

as of now, we are without: a kitchen table or chairs, dresser, office chair, desk, 2 lamps, 2 bikes and bedside tables. trust me, there's still plenty of stuff in here!! we're going to try and tear through some packing today. yesterday i was focused on getting some translation samples together for an interested person in WA. so i had to go through all my past translations from the last 2 years, decide which ones i wanted to use for samples, and then go about typing up the source (spanish) text if i didn't have an electronic version of it. since this laptop is not, shall we say, conducive to accents, it took a while to do all that. i would also like to put together some other samples from other classes. the ones i sent are mostly medical.

i meet with one of my profs today for some advice on getting started in literary translation. i'm going to pick his brain, since he's pretty well established in the field and has done well.

braden's still asleep, but i guess my body's pretty accustomed to waking up around 7:15am or so... i've never changed the time on my blog, and now it's pointless to do so, since it will finally be correct in a couple of weeks. it's kind of like the clock in my car...right for 6 months out of the year! lol.

what's up with the weather around here lately? you'd think we were already in WA!! nothing but rain. i guess WA's having great weather, nice sunny days.

grampa invited us, mom, dad and kevo out to dinner on monday. i don't know if that means no brunch the next day, since we told him we'd like to come down from cleveland and do that on our way to cincy. i'll have to ask. but, dinner will be fun!!

braden tried to blog about us being together again, meaning that now that he's done with work, and i'm done with both work and school, we get to spend a lot more time together, which is very nice. ah yes, it's-a, very nice-a. i remember days when we wouldn't see each other for 12 hours or more, usually when I had 8am work and he worked until 9pm. i hated those looong days. but we got through it.

i can't believe i'm done with everything. it's a good feeling, though. i'm totally done with school!!!