some notes...

- met with my professor a few weeks ago, and she expects me to be done with my project the end of august...yikes! so, she said i need to start thinking about what i'm going to do after graduating...looking for jobs or post-docs, etc. thought i had a year to figure that out, but now i realize that i need to start the search now...excited but also scared...could end up anywhere next year...

- got a "magic" straight perm...birthday gift from the gals. yes, i likeee...but dude! i wanted to post pics of the torturous process, but i'll just leave it to your imagination...just think 3.5 hours of inhaling perm fumes and having your hair pulled in every direction. it makes a pretty big difference, though...the first week or so after i got it done, i did double-takes every time i saw myself in the mirror.

- my first quarter of ta-ing is over. dunno how my students liked me, but i had fun. i definitely like teaching, but i don't think that i'm very good at it...sometimes i have a hard time explaining things and i'll say or do stupid things...so you can guess how good of a teacher i am. at least i made them laugh at me sometimes. ;p but because i don't entirely trust myself, i'm constantly looking for confirmation that i'm making some sort of sense. my catch phrases of the quarter were, "does that make sense/am i making sense/we good/alrighty?" i used those phrases at least a coupla times each section - probably to the point where it got really annoying. but i really liked the students in my section, and i had a good time this quarter.