Love, and other stuff

Someone To Watch Over Me
by George and Ira Gershwin
There's a saying old, says that love is blind.
Still we're often told, see, and ye shall find.
So I'm going to seek a certain lad I've had...in mind.
Looking everywhere, haven't found him yet.
He's the big affair I cannot forget.
Only man I ever think of with regret.
I'd like to add his initials to my monogram.
Tell me where is the shepherd for this, lost lamb?
There's a somebody I'm longing to see
I hope that he turns out to be, someone to watch over me.
I'm a little lamb who's lost in the wood, I know I could always be good...
to one who'll watch over me.
Although he may not be the man some girls think of as handsome
to my heart he carries the key.
Won’t you tell him please to put on some speed follow my lead,
oh, how I need someone to watch over me.

Sometimes things just can't be expressed better than how someone has put it in a song. The Gershwins especially speak to me on personal level. So, I don't know if it's just the springtime air or what but I seem to be surrounded lately by people in love, or just starting to date...or good friends finding out that they're finally pregnant (yay for them!). I've learned to be mostly okay with this whole 'have not ever dated' thing, but sometimes...I just want someone to watch over me. That's all.

Umm..wait, didn't I do that already?

This is the question on my mind these days: "Wait, didn't I already do that?" I was talking on IM with a friend last night about various british tv shows that we both enjoy and I was having the hardest time remembering the names of actors and of the actual shows. I think grad school is warping my brain and wiping out my long AND short term memory! So, with that said, I can't remember if I announced on this blog or not that I got my grades for the Spring term--and I received A's in both classes! (yaaaayyyy!!!) So, that's about it. Now I'm preparing for my trip to NYC this weekend, and for the trip I'll be taking in about a month to England (woohoo!). I never really thought I'd be a 'planner', but I find the older I get-the more I like to have a plan. It's bothering me that the profs in my new course haven't posted any-hey-this is where you're going to go things on our blackboard site, but I'm hoping by the end of the week they'll have something up there. I need to know where I'm going!

Sunshine and Happiness

Ahh...peace and tranquility....all of my spring assignments have been turned in...I don't 'officially' start my next class til May 12th....I can actually read a 'fun' book, or go see a 'fun' movie without guilt..these are the best days! Of course, it would be even more relaxing if work had slown down too-but no-it's Commencement this Saturday at Regent and the good times are a rollin'! So, I'm reminding myself, in the midst of all the craziness and saying goodbye to dear friends that are moving on--make sure I take time to stop and smell the roses! Or the daisies!

Exam Day

Well, it has finally arrived...the last day of class..and I couldn't be more relieved. Well, actually I could-I'd be more relieved if we didn't have to take an exam today. But, that's neither here nor there--my friends and I have been studying and I feel like I am as prepared as I can possibly be. At this point, I just want to take the durn thing! But, one more hour..I can make it =) I think it's the same kind of mentality with which I approach giving a presentation in class-I just want to get it over with and go first!

This has been a really tough semester. I've been taking 2 grad classes simultaneously and both of them have been a lot of work, but the one I'm taking in person has been a little more attention demanding so it's captured alot of my time. Hopefully after finishing this exam today I can just bang out what I need to for the other class and the professor will have mercy on me. He's been cool in the past, but pray!

On top of school stuff both of my jobs have kicked into high gear lately. I've been given a title change at Regent. I'll still be doing the same old stuff but also doing some other records processing that have trickled down to me. In my time at regent I have gone from temp to records assistant to records processor to scheduling coordinator to the most recent-Senior Records Processor. That makes me feel old. The powers that be want to give me (and others who also had job/title changes) a raise, but it all depends on the ol' budget. I want to be like Tim Gunn and say-Make it work, people! Make it work! A pay raise would be much welcome when I'm going to England this summer. My other job, the one playing piano at church, has also blossomed into something else--and I will definitely get a pay raise there (yay) but I don't know how much at this point. Anything would be welcome.

Is anyone else stalking their mailbox for the economic stimulus checks?!?! Or, are you too cool for school and got it direct deposited...? I went old-school this year. Hopefully it will arrive soon. As I mentioned before..trip to England is looming!


Okay, that's about it for now. I might update later and let everyone (whoever is reading this) know how the exam went.

And whether or not I gouged myself in the eye w/a spoon during it.


Kidding (sorta).

To Everything There is a Season

I attended a home-going service today of a dear friend of our family's. He was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer that took him really quickly and at the young age of 52. It was sobering to think that he was so full of life not even a year ago when we were just hanging out watching our church's co-ed softball team play (his wife is on the team, I used to play but have switched to observing). His brother is in my dad's southern gospel quartet and his mother is in choir with my mom, dad and I-so, our families are really intertwined. I, in general, have a weird thing about funerals. I really do not care for them. My idea is that the person is no longer in that body, you know? They have gone into eternity--so why linger over it? I know it's about paying respects and gathering and remembering what impact that person had on our life, but it all seems macabre to me. I mean, I still go-obviously, but I guess it just seems weird to me. Today's service was a bit different than those I've been to before--by the time the preacher got up to preach the message there wasn't a dry eye in the place after hearing a touching eulogy. But the preacher was so clear in his presentation of the gospel and relating it to how our friend had accepted the Lord that I couldn't help but be glad that the Lord knew exactly what we needed to hear in this setting. I know that there were probably unsaved people in the crowd (and it was a big crowd!) so I pray that what he said today would cause a stirring in their hearts. I want them to realize that the hole in their hearts can only be filled by One-our Lord. As we walked out to the graveside, I looked around at the crowd of people and wondered. Do they know? Will they know? The sun was shining and the air was crisp with that warm spring feeling that still has a bite of cold to it. On our way to the graveyard we walked by a playground full of 2 and 3 year olds playing and shouting and laughing without abandon, and I thought-this is right. This is exactly as it should be. To everything there is a seaon, is there not?

Nothing but Vincente..all the time...

If you ask me how I'm doing lately, I might just yell "Vincente Minelli!!!" at you and run away. This is because I am working on a project about the beloved director and lately I feel as if I am eating, breathing, singing, sleeping--nothing but Vincente Minelli. He was a fascinating man--check out some of his movies if you get a chance-never was a better visionary than Minelli...

This picture is a perfect portrayal of how I feel as this current term wraps up. I'm behind in BOTH of my classes and by Jove, I'm a goin' nuts! So, if you don't see me around for a while...please check in my bedroom-I may have fallen and become trapped under an enormous pile of books and my laptop.

Sigh....off to take another quiz ....