Sha Naa Naa » general http://www.marteki.com The life and times of Naa Marteki Reed Mon, 31 May 2010 12:00:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Hello again. http://www.marteki.com/2010/03/20/hello-again/ http://www.marteki.com/2010/03/20/hello-again/#comments Sat, 20 Mar 2010 21:19:17 +0000 Marteki http://www.marteki.com/?p=465 It’s the first day of spring! A perfect date to start blogging anew.

Of course, it helps that the world outside my apartment looks like this today:

Pedestrians on South Michigan Avenue battle snow and wind on the first day of spring in Chicago today.

And that my living room currently looks like this:
Piles of moving boxes in my apartment - March 20, 2010

Also, the design of this blog has temporarily changed. Stay tuned for more news and changes.

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  • I failed at everyday blogging. I think I’ll still try for “much more frequently than previously” blogging.
  • I succeeded in fixing my church’s internet.
  • I failed at not getting sick during tax season. Too many sick people handling my ballpoint pens. So now my throat is raw, yet coated in mucus. I cough when I want to  laugh and I cough when I want to cry and I cough for no reason at all, except for when I sneeze instead. And my slowly filling sinuses are foretelling a world of hurt and headache for tomorrow.
  • I succeeded at pestering various UPenn officials into approving and officially posting the completion of my undergrad degree. My transcript even says that it’s as of “12-17-08″.
  • I failed at finishing the schoolwork and freelance work that I hoped to get done today.
  • I succeeded at starting the two hundred sit-ups program, despite my tendency to cough more violently when lying horizontal. Week 1, Day 1 results: 15+18+10+10+20 (column 3).
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  • I didn’t have a single paying client at the tax office today.
  • I am drowning in grad school work.
  • I almost hit a very large SUV today.
  • I suspect that my undergrad university is actively attempting to keep me from graduating. (Latest example: Imagine that I needed you to receive my transcript in the mail, look at it, and click four buttons in acknowledgment of it. My transcript sits on your desk for three weeks, until I call and cajole you to take  a peek at your desk. Oh wait! There it is! And look, it then takes you almost exactly 1 minute to click those buttons — since you send an e-mail that you have finished about 1 minute after I hang up with you.)
  • I am exceedingly grumpy today because of the previous four bullet points, which has colored all the potentially good things that happened today.
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    Andrew made an amazing beef stir-fry for dinner.

    I haven’t watched SportsCenter in 3 days. (I keep catching the X Games and college basketball. I’m not a fan of either.)

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    Forecast for Wednesday (when I supposedly fly out to Seattle):

    Snow. Blowing snow in the afternoon. Several inches of accumulation possible. Highs 12 to 16. Wind chills as low as 10 below to 20 below zero.

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    12 hooks to be hung on our new pot rack

    11 loads of laundry

    10 items to take to Goodwill

    9 knitting projects in progress

    8 days until I fly out to Seattle to visit Sarah for a week

    7 thank-you cards to write

    6 possible names to choose from for our new Roomba

    5 people to e-mail at Penn about my bachelor’s degree (again)

    4 days before the latest (and last) deadline for the big freelance project

    3 choir songs to add downloads and/or lyrics to

    2 publications to order from the IRS now that tax season is here

    and 1 successfully activated DePaul University student ID.

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