yo yo

I am totally done with the requirements for my master's degree as of last night. all i have to do is turn in a bound copy of my case study and a CD with the file on it to the main office. it's all ready to go; i just have to wait for the office to open on monday. i can't believe i'm graduating in less than a week. that is craziness. i look back and think of all i had to go through to get to this point, and i honestly don't know if i would/could do it all over again. well, at this point, i wouldn't, just b/c i need a long break from school.

i am, however, planning on studying french soon. i'm excited about that, b/c braden can help me. i went and saw mission impossible III today with some coworkers, and in the movie, there's a part where they speak some italian, and i could pretty much understand what was being said without any subtitles. it was pretty cool. the movie itself was good...not great. i'd probably give it a 7 or 7.5 out of 10. it was entertaining and kept you on the edge of your seat, but you'd have to wait a while before wanting to see it again, i think. philip seymour hoffman does make a great villain, though, i will say that.

in other news, finally got ahold of my friend rachel....she had her baby!! it was so good to talk to her; we haven't kept in touch like i wish we would. it's hard to do that after high school. i also sent an email to my old friend jenny; she's now living in orem, ut with her husband brad. crazy how we've all grown up and lead such different lives.

i'm in the midst of going through all my STUFF, trying to get through it all so we can pack up. we got an apartment!!! we had to get braden's parents to cosign so the guy would hold the apt for us; he was going to put it on the market, and since there was no way we could get the application to him before next week, we were kind of screwed, but then i came up with the idea to have his parents do that, and the guy relented. we just got the application in the mail today, so we'll send that off to WA on monday.

i want to work next week, which is finals week, but no one will get back to us whether or not we're approved to work, b/c the office doesn't know if they have the extra funding. finals week and the next three weeks are extra money, if the grad assistants want to work them, they can; if not, it's vacation time. i asked my boss if i could work it, and it's fine with him....we're all just waiting to hear from the higher-ups. so yeah....nice to have absolutely no idea of whether to go into work on monday! well, the thing is, i won't go until i get an email saying that it's approved, b/c, yes, i can use the money, but i ain't working for free!

up to cleveland tomorrow for a little visit after church. we'll get some boxes of stuff that i still have up there. more stuff to go through, yay! :) braden takes his lpn test on tuesday, so he's been studying a lot, and mom offered to help him.

well, i'm starving. off to scrounge around for dinner. :)