In 2007…

1. Will you be looking for a new job? My TA assignments will change each semester, but the money's coming from the same place.

2. Will you be looking for a new relationship? No.

3. New house? Yes! Right now a townhouse/condo seems to make the most sense.

4. What will you do different in 07? I will be slightly cooler and smarter than in I was in 2006. And hopefully write something publishable.

5. New Years resolution? I definitely wouldn't keep one.

6. What will you not be doing in 07? Competing in the Iditarod.

7. Any trips planned? Research in Maine during the summer, possibly Atlanta for a conference.

8. Wedding plans? Going to Scott and Julie's.

9. Major thing on your calendar? End of March- results of NSF released.

10. What can’t you wait for? See above, and my birthday.

11. What would you like to see happen different? Actually get an NSF this year.

12. What about yourself will you be changing? Maybe my hair, I'm getting bored with it. Blue? Purple?

13. What happened in 06 that you didn’t think would ever happen? I moved to New Jersey.

14. Will you be nicer to the people you care about? I hope to keep in touch with them more.

15. Will you dress differently this year than you did in 06? Yes, I do not plan to wear the same exact clothes that I did in 2006.

16. Will you start or quit drinking? I will start and quit many times, with each bout lasting 1-5 hours.

17. Will you better your relationship with your family? That's a lost cause.

18. Will you do charity work? I have thought about volunteering at Petsmart as a kitty caretaker.

19. Will you go to bars? Most likely I'll go to a few.

20. Will you be nice to people you don’t know? As long as they are polite.

21. Do you expect 07 to be a good year for you? Yes.

22. How much did you change from this time last year till now? A decent amount, with the move, going back to school, and such.

23. Do you plan on having a child? Hellz no.

24. Will you still be friends with the same people you are friends with now? Yes.

25. Major lifestyle changes? No.

26. Will you be moving? If we find a suitable house.

27. What will you make sure doesn’t happen in 07 that happened in 06? Missing Valentine's Day with Ryan because I'm waiting tables.

28. What are your New Years Eve plans? Party at Dan's.

29. Will you have someone to kiss at midnight? I'm thinking Ryan would be better than Dino.

30. One wish for 07? I can't tell you or else it won't come true.

I'm not usually too big on memes, but now that I have time galore, what else am I to do? :) The first sentence of my blog entries from each month of 2006:

Jan. My first day of work back at the station actually hasn't been that bad.
Feb. Money in, money out.
Mar. I am in a very odd mood right now and basically want to capture it before it's gone.
Apr. What's that?
May Another week begins.
June For info on last weekend's trip to Boston, you can read Liz's blog.
July Now that I can't even get comments I have even less motivation to blog, but I will try to put my hands to the keys.
Aug. Fortunately, Unfortunately is closing shop after 3+ years.
Sept. I've wanted to update for so long, but have had absolutely no internet.
Oct. I HATE my car.
Nov. I've still got it.
Dec. Ryan and I had a very nice weekend.

Pretty boring, huh?

I'm done with my first semester of grad school, making me ever-so-slightly closer to my degree. Woohoo!

You're getting something in the mail this week. And it's something that has a kitten on it! Just wait and see. I have a sixth sense about these sorts of things.

Ryan is still pretty busy finishing up his end of semester final projects. Hopefully he'll be done by Saturday (the last isn't due til New Years, but he wants to get it over with). Then he only has one semester left until he's Master Ryan, with a degree from a school that he's never even been to (GA Tech) that has a bee as a mascot. Bzzz.

Ryan has let me open some of my presents already, because remember we're not any good at keeping secrets from each other. He already knows his big present from me (a continuation of his anniversary present). So far I got the hand-held 20 questions games (regular and music versions; I like the regular better because it's harder to stump), a mousepad with kittens on it, and the Sims Pets expansion pack, which is awesome. Ryan says it's so I can simulate having many kittens instead of having our house turn into a crazy cat house. I still want 3 real cats, but it's fun to pretend to have 6. I'll post a screenshot later, but I even customized one of the Sim Cats to look almost exactly like Jibblies!

We're driving up to Po-town on Saturday and staying until probably the 27th or so. Ryan goes back to work on the 2nd, and my stuff starts back up on the 8th. I should spend the second week of my break working on that research paper that I'm submitting with people from the field station, which pretty much went on hiatus during my semester.

I'm TAing Animal Behavior next semester, which is awesome. It was one of my favorite CU courses, and it's kinda cool to be TAing a non-intro course as a first-year. Also, it has discussion sections, which are much shorter than labs, so that should be nice. Now if only I could get away with bringing in Jibblies and having the students observe and comment on his erratic behavior.

We had Dan over on Saturday and made more cookies, although we didn't take pictures of them this time. Thanks for the wine, Dan, I had a good time drinking it. Ryan had a couple sips :)

Ryan and I had a very nice weekend. Saturday we went to a tree farm to get a Christmas tree, decorated it, and baked cookies. Sunday we decorated those cookies and went shopping for gifts, including stuffers for Jibblies' stocking. Pics on Flickr. And Dan, if we can ever get ahold of you, we want to invite you over to decorate more cookies!

Last week of classes, and I found out today that my only final is a take-home! I dunno, I feel like my first semester of grad school was actually too easy. Maybe I'm not doing enough intellectual thinking on my own time, but I certainly had no problems keeping up and doing well in my classes. I guess I can blame it on my CU education, which was apparently too rich and sweet to spoil my dinner/grad education.