begins_with_an_m amy hello, micah... have you graduated? 030508 ... ( ... ) hello thar. not yet. decided to take another semester next fall. will take a couple of grad math classes, which makes me happy. though mostly i'm sticking around because i moved too slowly to apply to grad school for next year. what've you been up to? 030516 ... jinx mmmmm moans and groans of my morning stretching and back cracking... 030516 ... amy sounds good. no need to go to grad school right away. :) i quit grad school. i now teach chemistry at a community college - it's an incredibly good job. i'm looking into getting a second career going in alternative health. 030517 ... megan ! 030518 ... ( ... ) mm. alternative health. my parents are both chiropractors. it's funny how i see their views as normal, regular, and not alternative. been talking to many peeps, from co-op. some go on to undergrad, some to grad, some to teach. for the last half a year at least i've been happy with what i do and what i've done. 030518 ... amy you're lucky - the world of regular health reaches far. most of my students are going into it. yup, i'm still in education, mostly out of service and a curiosity to find out where i fit. and now i want to re-educate myself to see if i can find an even better way to fit in/help out. and support myself. there's more to life than education, too, though. what've you been doing? 030518 ... ( ... ) i could probably fill a book with all the stuff i've been doing, but for the most part, it would be a very boring book. the last semester of school spiked the standard deviation for both interesting and boring, at times. i also work half time at the university of california press, fixing computers and doing system admin stuff. it's like every other job i've had since i was 15. i seem unable to find anything better, though not for lack of trying. school and work together suck more than ninety odd percent of my time. i still live in the co-op, casa zimbabwe. it'll be exactly three years of that in a couple of days. when i moved in it was an anarchistic plague-ridden riot-loving low-down drug- sketch-housing den of iniquity. it's cleaned up a bit since then. the elected managers are no longer blatantly corrupt, and the tables are usually clean enough to eat from. i'm not really sure how well i fit in there anymore. my brother, two years younger, seems on better terms than i with most of my friends. yet it's the only place that feels like home. the only thing doing on the spiritual plane is trying to fight off the last vestiges of addiction. drugs, alcohol, and everything else just seemed to blur together. i burned out, and pretty much stopped, about a year ago. on a more positive note, i've started running again, which should do me good. this is all probably more than you wanted to know. sorry, couldn't stop once i got started. it was either all of this or "not much". heh. 030523 ... miasma my name does, it does. mbwahahaha 030523 what's it to you? who go blather from