Atlanta here I come!

Tomorrow after class I am driving (not flying) back to Atlanta for the long weekend!!!!! I am sooooo excited:) I can't wait to see my girls again! Everything with the wedding shower is working out, which is worrying me a bit. I am just hoping the weather holds out so we can have it in Beth and Matt's backyard as planned:) In 24hrs I will be on the road!!!!!!!

"They're urban raccoons, and they're not afraid."

Just damn funny! kind of reminds me of the crazy racoons when we were camping:)

http://keyetv.com/watercooler/watercooler_story_234121113.html

Has this gone too far?

I normally don't post much on the political side of things but today I just couldn't help myself. I read yet another article on CNN talking about a plane being flown back to amsterdamn b/c people were showing suspicious behavior. I read futher to see what they were doing. To my suprise the article said they were trying to talk on cell phones, reach in plastic bags, and some of the passengers had un-buckled their seat belts when the little seat belt light was still on. So the cell phone thing a little strange (however people are crazy about their cell phones these days) but come on! reaching for a bag or unbuckeling your seat belt!!!! I have done this a million times...who hasn't? those seat belts are uncomfortable. So now will we not be able to bring plastic bags on the planes? we already cannot bring bottles w/ liquids on the plane (god forbid I can't have my Diet Coke!) and the other day I heard on a news show that the airports were considering banning women's bra's that have gel padding! WTF!!!!!!! are they going to ban women w/ breast implants b/c they have liquid in them too?! These restrictions are getting a little out of hand! I have never heard of other countries outside the US and now some European countries that had such strange restrictions. Perhaps I'm being naive and one day some suicide bomber will walk onto a plane w/ fake boobs and blow the whole thing up! stranger things have happened.....I say watch out for the two girls on the plane who are wearing snowboarding helmets! (hehehehehe Beth if we were to do that now we'd be in federal prison!)

Where's chaka?

The race to lose 10lbs has started!

This weekend was full of exercise exercise exercise!!!!! I went to the sat morning Hatha yoga class thinking what a great relaxing way to start my weekend. Boy was I in for a huge surprise. The girl who usually teaches the class was out of town so another girl was teaching it. She had bright red hair and tattoos (not your typical yogi in Gainesville) We start off slowly relaxing and then it begins! This girl was super crazy about some yoga! It started at 10:30 and went to noon, at 11:00 I was about ready to throw in the towel. As I'm in downward facing dog all I could think was "what in the hell did I get myself into this morning!" But I stuck with it and proved to myself I could survive the craziest yoga session known to man:) I'm sure it wasn't that bad but I just started yoga a month ago so it was a little advanced for me. But afterwards I felt great! I totally got my ass kicked and I loved it;) Then Sunday came along all to quickly. The soccer team has made it to the semi-finals, my alarm goes off at 8:15am, and I get on my way to my 9am game. I show up sort of chipper and ready to play. Again, I had no clue what I was about to get myself into. Now I'm feeling a little sore from my crazy yoga session the day before and as I'm thinking this one of the guys on the team comes walking up to me and says " I just want to prepare you for today's game, the girls are not going to have any subs" As soon as he says this my heart hits the ground and all I can mutter is Great! Being that its 9am one would think that its not that warm yet perhaps we have a chance. Well, it just so happened to be one of the hottest days of the year yesterday and it was around 90 at 9am. OUTLOOK NOT SO GOOD! Not only did the girls not have any subs the guys did not either. This was going to be a long game. To my suprise (and everyone elses) 15min into the first half I score a goal! and we are up 1-0...70min later and very dehydrated our team one our semi-final game 4-0 and we are going to the finals!!!!!!!!!!! I could barely walk to the car I was so tired but very very happy that our team pulled off an incredible win:) It is now monday morning and I can't walk:) but my first week of the "lose 10lbs before Beth's wedding" was a success. Now another week of crazy yoga and soccer begins! Yay to exercise;)

Neurocentric or science nerd....

So I have noticed a weird trend lately via Myspace and the like. I have been contacted by a few "old" friends from high school and such. We message back and forth in the usual "how are you?" fashion. Then the topic of What are you doing now? starts. It seems everytime I tell people that I am getting my Ph.D in Neuroscience I never receive an e-mail back or if talking on AOL, they all of a sudden have something to do. Now the first couple of times this happend I didn't notice anything but it has happend 3 times in the past 2 weeks. I find this very very odd. Do people feel threatned by others going to get a Ph.D or do they think that I (or others in my position) am on some other level causing them to feel uncomfortable or disinterested? I sure as hell hope not! I feel I am still a very down to earth person. I don't think that I am better then anyone else or smarter then anyone else for that matter. I have just found something that I love doing day in and day out. However, to pursue this I have to get my Ph.D. I really hope this is me just me being silly; but is it?