Doh!

So, I raked in the books for Christmas, which makes me very happy. I love books, it's like a bad smack addiction. I have literally about 80 unread books at my house. I'm working on it (which can be seen here). I'm kind of grumpy in the last couple days though because of two funny stories:

One, I put some LJ Smith books on my amazon list to remember to read. My parents bought them for me for christmas. Hooray! And then I found I had the original copies of them buried in my closet. DOH.

Then I was looking for the other series that I had to take back with me so Cynthia could read them (and I could reread them). Double DOH. It appears I have misplaced NINE different books (some of which are not findable on Amazon any more, but thankfully on half). Blah.

Stupidness.

FIXED

Got this working again after some finagling. Hoping to get my iphone to sync with it soon :) Anyways - here's some funny stories of the week.

A+M/Tech Basketball game - well it was a lot of fun, especially since I had never been to a game here at Tech. They are crazy and it was pretty packed and that made it more fun. Word to the wise though - shouting A+M sucks dick doesn't improve your image. And you wonder why we all (Texas, A+M) think that you're a little immature. I just rolled my eyes. We (A&M) got our asses handed to us, but I'll survive. We were siting next to Graham Harrell (read: Tech's quarterback) and Cynthia had to take a picture with him. He was really nice about it, especially since we were decked out in A+M stuff.



Bday party went off with only a couple small hitches, including some rude people being immature. But we (ahem: Katie) dealt with them pretty effectively, and they finally got the hit. Vague enough? I thought so.

I had a phone interview today :( It went ok, but I was nervous and said "stuff" a lot, which is annoying. I felt like it went ok, not bad (I didn't say anything incredibly stupid) but not great (OMG we have to hire this girl). I was honest, so that's the best that I can do. I had answers for everything that they asked me (about mentoring students, research plan, teaching etc). Going to stay positive about it though. (Read I NEED A JOB HIRE ME PLEASE I'M AWESOME).

What else? OH!

Last night I tried to set the house on fire! Well ok not really. Katie's tried to by burning toast in the toaster oven (collectively we have about 15 years of higher ed and we can't figure out to make toast). So, I start to smell burning, to which I ask katie why I smell burning:

Me: why does the house smell like burning?
Her: I'm not making toast!
Me: Oh shit! My power cable is sparking! It's melting on the floor!

Yep that's right. My four year old laptop cable for power decided to melt last night. Sigh. I'm about to buy a new computer and this happens. Oh well, since I have to buy a new one makes it easier to sell, but still! Couldn't it just have held on another week! And then I bought a new keyboard and mouse, which I don't get to play with because I got them in the mail and was practicing delayed gratification (read: erin work on your dissertation before you play with your new toys). No playing til i get the new cord. And Monday is a holiday. SIGH.

That's all for now. :)