Tomorrow and Settling Down

First of all....I'M HOME.....I was away this weekend but then dog sat last night. I love the dogs and the place I stay but it's nice to be at my house with my stuff. That in itself is an odd feeling for me. I used to be a complete gypsy. Sleeping different places (not like you think - ok well maybe a little) practically living out of my car while paying rent for an apartment I was hardly at. There was this complete restlessness that I just could never get rid of. I think a fear of commitment would be putting it lightly. I believe it worried my parents and made some of my friends scratch their heads - other friend's would just say "that's just Jenn". About 18 months ago I bought a cute little one bedroom condo kind of in between work and my family. Close enough that people can drop by if they are in the area but far enough away that it doens't happen all that much.

The first two months I owned this condo I was feeling like a cornered animal. I actually asked my mom at the end of the first month how long she thought I needed to hold on to this before I could sell it (she's in real estate) I thought she was going to have a small stroke. Of course now the market is down so I have to hold on to it and if I wanted to move I would probably have to just rent it out. The thought of being a landlord does absolutely nothing for me. Anyway it's kind of nice to not have to worry about repainting the walls, or not putting holes in the walls etc. I just put pergo floors in and they make the place look great. The only issue is that I'm already outgrowing the place. It helps that I am now doing mostly watercolors so I don't need the physical space that I did with oils but I know I'm going to eventutally go back to oils.

Right now I'm making decisions about Grad School. I've got three that are on my list so far. Boston University which has a great dual degree program of Masters of Social Work (Macro level) and Masters of Public Health - Sara Lawrence which has the only Masters in Health Advocacy in the country and Lesley which is an interdisciplinary degree wich I could do with a concentration in Health Advocacy. Lesley is my safe school - I'm about to graduate from there and I know the director of the program really well so I know I would get in. I never thought I'd have to deal with this whole "being accepted" thing again. It's kind of freaky.

So, speaking of school - I have been asked by the director of my current program to come to campus tomorrow and address the board of trustees about the program I'm in. I even went and bought a fancy new outfit becaue the director took one like at my clothes at residency (NIN t-shirt and long jeans shorts) and said "remember, you have to look board of trustees for this". Yeah, yeah, yeah - did she think I grew up in a barn? So these are the questions that I have to base my little speech around:
1. What brought me to LCB?
2. What is central to me about my learning experience in LCB and what was meaningful about it?
3. How did it differ from or build on my previous learning experiences?
4. What am I taking away from my experience?

I literally have no idea what I'm going to say - I'm sure something wil come to me.

ADW sent me some great questions that I will finally get to tomorrow.......

iTunes backup #2

15 discs. That's how many it took to back up my purchased songs. Seems like a lot of time and money spent to make sure I don't lose "The Night The Lights Went Out in Georgia" or "Jackie Blue" or better yet anything by the Thompson Twins.

Ok maybe it was worth it.

iTunes backup

So I thought I would be an adult (I hate that) and back up my iTune purchases. I have about 1900 songs on iTunes and over 200 of them are songs that I have purchased. When my work lap top went down I lost a bunch of purchased songs because I kept hitting the no button whenever it asked me if I wanted to back up. So tonight after purchasing two Happy Mondays songs and 1 LCD Soundsystem song I thought it would be a good idea. Let me tell you there is nothing that pisses me off more then when I purchase a song and I get that message that says "you've already purchased this are you sure you want to do it again?" They might as well as finish the sentence with YOU DUMBASS you should have backed up.

So I'm backing up and I'm on disc #12 - I really wanted to go to bed early tonight but who knows now. This is what happens when I try to be responsible. It takes too freakin long.