Must see movies

I love movies. Love love love. And I enjoy watching the ones I really like again and again.

Whenever I meet someone who has never seen my favorites, I want to have an immediate movie night. So, I'm just going to say these are my favorites and absolute must-sees.

1. Breakfast at Tiffany's (Audrey Hepburn is so classic, and I love Moon River)
2. Funny Face (Audrey Hepburn is so fabulous)
3. When Harry Met Sally (Meg Ryan's fantastic way to order food is hilarious every time. Low maintenance vs. High maintenance??)
4. Buffy The Vampire Slayer (so so corny, and yet..)
5. Sleepless in Seattle (love love..)
6. The Princess Bride (my name is inigo montoya...)
7. Notting Hill (love love...)
8. Cats and Dogs (maybe I think this is great because it stars a beagle... but he's so cute!)
9. Tommy Boy (it makes me miss Chris Farley every time, but so so funny)
10. School of Rock (it's kind of dorky, but it's great, and so many people need rock schooled and can sort of get it from this movie)
11. Forrest Gump (it's a great movie, and a history lesson for those crazies who aren't into the 60s and 70s and should at least know a little bit about the time and protests of the war.. plus the music is FANTASTIC)
12. Working Girl (the outfits are so incredible everyone should watch it, and a bonus: the story is good too)
13. The Big Lebowski (you will laugh your head off. just be forewarned, the f-bomb is way overused in this movie. and this movie will make you want to drink white russians)
14. The Lord of the Rings.
15. Runaway Bride (just to see someone in the movies obsessed with Jerry and the Dead, so fabulous)

Alright, I think I should stop at 15. Go see them!! They are fabulous!!

done!

After a very very very very long day, I am done with graduate school. Lots of running around, printing my thesis, getting signatures, plus having my boss take the lab out for lunch (yummy indian food!), I am exhausted.

I spent the night at a friend's house last night so I did not have to drive back and forth and waste all that time. I had a ridiculous dream last night:
My friend's fiance came in to ask if I wanted to sleep another 30 min. I didn't respond, I didn't feel like it I suppose, so he took that as a yes and left. What felt like a half an hour later, I woke up to look at the time. Literally. It was 1:30 in the morning.

I think I'm losing it. Or I was. I'm done, I've found it, and I'm not going to lose it anymore.

through the eyes of my cousin..

With the fancy facebook messaging that is now available, I talk to my much younger cousin much more often than I ever used to. He is a freshman in undergrad and I think enjoys making me feel old. During my stressful period of finishing experiments and writing he posed the question of me: "How many credit hours do you have?" Well, my initial guess was 400. I don't really know, because I don't remember how many credit hours I had when I graduated from undergrad, and I only have 20 credit hours of classes in grad school but a ton of research hours. Well, his most recent question of me: "How long was your thesis?" At the time, it was at 150 pages, I have a few things to add, it will be longer when I deposit on Friday, but I think when I told him 150 pages he might have fallen out of his chair. I realize I have been a bit crazy to have gone to school for so long, and we'll have to see if it actually pays off and I end up doing a job I love, but cousin's questions really make me laugh.

Ok, yesterday my enter key wasn't working very well. Today, my space bar isn't working very well. What theheck isgoingon?? See! I didn't fixit! So strange...

PhD, three days in.

Friday was wonderful, Saturday was great. Sunday, I had the stomach flu. I couldn't eat anything all day. By the end of the day I was so weak and dehydrated I could barely stand up. I was able to eat a few pieces of toast and drank some 7up. When I woke up I was no longer the very weak person that fell asleep the night before, but my stomach is still killing me. And Spunky had another seizure this morning. I need to work on my thesis corrections and add a couple appendices and I am feeling like total CRAP. It's funny how you stress yourself out enough that as soon as the stress is over your body turns into a giant ball of germs and illness. I need to go back to school this week in order to meet with my boss and deposit my thesis, plus clean out my desk and bench, pass on all my stuff, etc etc. Hopefully I'll feel better soon.

it's official!

My defense is over and I am officially a PhD! My presentation was a bit short, only 25 min, even though i had 45 slides (apparently 1 minute per slide went way out the window), and the defense part was done in 30 min. And we have a lab tradition that we shoot a champagne cork down the hallway, and mine went farther than anybody!!! So awesome! Then lots of partying and I'm not too hungover today. It was a great great day.

PhD Day!

PhD Day is finally here. And while I should be practicing my talk at this moment, instead I am writing this little note.

My stomach is all tied up in knots and I've been awake for three hours already today. More coffee anyone??

I cannot believe today is finally here, it was not too long ago it felt like this day would never come, and now it is here!

so, to help with the calming of my nerves, i visited a shoe i am in absolute love with (if only it wasn't so tall and i wouldn't break my ankle attempting to walk while rocking these beauties)

Naughty Monkey Side Swiped in purple $35.10 at 6pm.com. oh they are so so pretty...

my PhD practice

I practiced my defense today. I flew through that bad boy like it was going out of style. The speed demon speak was OUT OF CONTROL. I have to spend the next two days practicing SLOOOOWWWWWWW speak. While cleaning my entire house. I almost wrote apartment. That's funny, I don't live in an apartment anymore. I live in a house! That we bought! That I love! And provides much more to clean! And I really need to unpack the linen closet in order to find all my blankets, cause I'm not sure where they all are at the moment...

Slow speak, slow speak, slow speak..........

and, a shoe:

Chinese Laundry Trenton in Dark Teal, $35.10 at 6pm.com