Major blog slacker here.

It's me and Ryan's 5 year anniversary! There's some contention over whether this day is still important, now that we also have a wedding anniversary. I say yes! For one, I am so selective that in my telling Ryan that I liked him, I could forsee no reason for us to break up, so I was fairly certain we'd get married anyway. Besides, the actual wedding date is more of an anniversary of what Saturday the Aquarium had available that we didn't have a conflict with. Anyway, I don't expect flowers and Dom Perignon, but I at least want to say, "5 years, woot!"

Yesterday was the flea market. I made $305, $298 of that being my slickdealt drugstore goodies, which for the most part I got for free or pennies. There is another flea market in the spring...I'm looking forward already. I have pretty much stopped CVSing for a little while because their store coupons have dried up, but I will start again prior to Black Friday.

School is okay, not great, but not majorly sucky. I am indeed a research assistant instead of a TA this semester. It's great, especially since my advisor only had a few samples for me to count. It's waaaay less time than TAing. I finished my second comp essay, and have started background reading for the third and final one. I may even go up to Maine for a week this fall (TBD).

We made it back from the trip way back on Tuesday night, but I just haven't been in the mood to update. I came back with a souvenir head cold that I'm just now getting rid of. I'll go over trip details later, but it's nothing so thrilling that it couldn't wait.

School starts this week :O Tomorrow is my advising session, which I'm kinda jumpy about since it's me at a table with a bunch of faculty members, and I haven't seen any of them since December. I haven't even emailed my advisor since May. And I pretty much only know one of the classes I'm taking. I think I am on my advisor's research grant payroll instead of TAing, but even that I'm not 100% sure of. Sigh.