1000

As busy as I have been lately... and boy have I. I have also been bored. I don't know exactly what it is that is causing this boredom, perhaps it is because my kitty has been forced to live in a 10' x 12' box (and this also makes me sad) so she cannot run around, sit on me and wreak the havoc I crave. It's been several weeks since she has been put in the room because of ringworm. I can choose to go in there and play with her, which I do sometimes, but it isn't the same. It is also painful to see her sitting on the porch behind a glass door looking back at me and meowing.

I know this has only added to my overall boredom and it will only be another few weeks before she can come back to play in the rest of my home, but it sucks.

In the meantime I have been taking full-time graduate school classes, which although interesting and I enjoy them, they are a lot of work and very little fun. I have also become employed in my time as a graduate student, working 15 hours a week at the school. This basically means that I am at school for 9 hours on Monday, another 9 on Tuesday (4 classes total) and then another 5 the last three days of the work week.

I am employed as a Research Assistant (here) working on a major project (here). It is both fun and very tedious. This week I need to gather data for all the counties on the coast and 1 county in from the coast from Texas all the way to North Carolina. I was told I would also get to work on the web page when needed.

All of this basically leaves me with very little Chris and Sarah time and even less Chris time. I would say about 95% of my time is me doing something school/work related. I get very little sleep and in about a week I have 3 papers due, a presentation, and need to turn in raw data that I have yet to gather.

I guess it is easy to see the reason why I am bored, I am too busy doing things that do not entertain me and my spontaneous kitty entertainment has been curtailed for what will be a total of about 9 weeks.

The basketball season is shortly around the corner and that should help me tremendously. Plus, the Bears beat the Packers, that made me happy.


As for the title of this post, I am going to start numbering because I am running low on sleep and thus creative titles and I like how when you start a checkbook for the first time they let you start at 1000, so there you have it, this is a new beginning and it starts with post 1000. The 999 posts before are irrelevant and, yes, I am aware there aren't 999 posts previous to this one but I just don't give a.............