Originally published at Calobee Doodles. You can comment here or there.
What a hard-ass. His exact words as he was assigning it were "Because I know yall will want something to do." psh. Whatever.
Oh well. I'm uber excited about going home and seeing the fam for the first time all semester!!! Gonna make a pumpkin pie, gonna eat lots of good food, gonna relax and laugh over a margarita. It's going to be awesome! And then I get to see the boyfriend as well!! I'm soooo excited! It's the little things I miss like going places with him and just being with him and talking with him that I miss the most. And cuddling. Not going to get mushy or anything, but I definitely miss my snuggle buddy.
Originally published at sixhours.net. You can comment there.
It's contest time, all! I think you're going to like this one. The grand prize....
A 12x18 Alphabet Soup poster print!
This was the doodle that started it all, and easily one of my most popular items. If you don't have kids, consider it a jump-start on your Christmas shopping for your family or friends who do.
If that doesn't motivate you, I'm also giving away some runner-up prizes--4 $10 gift certificates to use in either of my shops. That means there will be not just one but FIVE lucky winners.
There are four ways to enter, which means you can have up to four entries in the contest:
1) Leave a comment on this blog post. Visit either of my shops (sixhours or calobee) and tell me what your favorite item is. Make sure to leave a way for me to contact you, too!
2) Re-tweet the contest on Twitter by copying and pasting this message:
RT @sixhours Please enter me in the Calobee Doodles contest! http://www.sixhours.net/2009/11/23/yay-for-free-stuff/ #calobeedoodles #contest
3) Become a fan of Calobee Doodles on Facebook and leave a comment on the wall naming your favorite Calobee Doodles print.
4) Blog about this contest, making sure to include a link back to this entry - http://www.sixhours.net/2009/11/23/yay-for-free-stuff/
The contest runs until 11:59 p.m. on December 6. On December 7 I will collect all entries in a list and generate a random number for the grand prize winner, then four more random numbers for the gift certificates (one prize per person). This contest is open to U.S. and international participants alike! Gift certificates will be sent via e-mail with a code--you can use this code in the "message to seller" box at checkout and wait to pay until I've sent a revised invoice.
Good luck!
...to upload photos of the tuna mornae. But work has blocked the compose page for vox! rotten sods.
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And right now I just don't care
For a week at least.
So I see my last blog post was back in July. No one could have predicted the slew of projects and activities I got myself into since then. I guess it all started when I got accepted for the master's program I was trying to get into. The graduate school program that started 2 weeks after I graduated from my undergrad career that is. Quite the quick change. In a nut shell, with my dad's help I found a quiet place to live. Advertised as small, it is anything but. I have all this room to myself and it's private and quiet and I can do whatever I want, whenever I want to do it. It's a tiny little bungalow rent house, but it's the perfect size for one person and it seems even bigger since I went with minimal furniture. It is quite the cutie.
So I started school here. On the first day, they corralled all the new students into one big room, locked the doors and proceeded to break us of our silly undergrad habits. Any student to arrive to a class more than 5 minutes late will recieve no higher than a 75 on the next test for that class. Anytime a student is to be absent, it is that student's responsibility to contact the faculty coordinator before their first class to notify them of their reason for being absent. A student is not encouraged to work during the semester (I also think they should have warned us that our nutrition and rest would also need to be forgotten).
All in all, it's been a tough semester so far in regards to tests and the work load, but it's no more difficult than what I had imagined. My grades are lower than they were in undergrad, the professors make up tests from sometimes miniscule details in the chapters, and 99% of my free time is spent writing papers, finishing a project in lab, etc. I'm not complaining; I feel challenged to a degree I've never been challenged before and it's quite exciting. Today, for example, I am reviewing a classmate's 20 page paper on the genetics of neurological disease. I can't be too easy on her because my review of her paper is 20% of my own grade. If the professor finds things that I don't catch then I get docked points.
To sum it up, what i've been doing since July is finishing undergrad, studying for the certification exam and then attending graduate school. And while I've been in graduate school, I've volunteered to help a researcher on campus with her study and in return I get to use her study as the topic of my make-believe grant proposal (the 20 page paper mentioned previously). That went very well. I guess I expected too much of myself, because I thought I was the most clueless grad student she's ever had, when in reality, I was "the best grad student" she ever had. Her words to my professor! I'm flattered to say the least and I take back every bad thing I ever said about her.......
On to something completely different. Today I was perusing the christmas gift magazine I got in the mail when I found two things of interest. The first was Absinthe. No joke. They were selling an absinthe glass, spoon and sugar cubes with a description of the proper way to pour this famous drink. Never tried it personally, but I don't think I'd be too keen on trying anything green you have to pour over a sugar cube into a "special" glass.
The second was a kit to test your dog's DNA. You swab your dog's cheek and mail it to a lab to find out the breeds in your mixed-breed dog. Quite the variety of gifts in this magazine...
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