Graduate School

How did this happen?!

Oh yeah, I chose to do my undergrad in a field that requires a masters. Duh.

I'm never doing that again.

Last night, I made these.


Snickerdoodles.

A bit crunchy on the outside (darn it) but deliciously soft and snickerdoodle-y on the inside.

If you would like the recipe, I don't have it. Sorry.

I like to make goals. A lot of them.

Accomplishing them is a different story.

Here's my latest goal:
No caffeine. For a year.

This means no Diet Coke. For a year.

I have 362 days left. Wish me luck.

Oh hey, my name’s Kat. I’m a recently unemployed college graduate who lives at home with her parents. Oh, and I’m single.

Go figure.

I have absolutely no idea why I was dealt the cards I’m holding, but I’m beginning to understand how the game of Texas Hold ‘Em (aka Life) is played.

Or maybe it’s Black Jack.

Anyway, I like where I’m at. I don’t love it, but I like it. These aren’t the cards I had planned on getting, but I’m learning to use them to my advantage. I’ve learned how to make a mean poker face and not let the opposition know what my next move is going to be. I like the suspense and tension...I like the unknown.

Hurray for breaking the mold. Hurray for being scared out of my mind. Hurray for something new.

Hurray for life.

Books

I miss books. I miss reading them. I miss flipping the pages back and forth trying to figure out where I last stopped reading. I miss smelling them...haha just kidding, I can't smell. I miss reading the ending first so I know if I want to continue reading it. I miss reading old favorites over and over again. I miss riding the bus for an hour and a half to work every day so I could take the time to read. I miss having any time to read. I miss having the desire to read.

Missing books stops today.

A couple of weeks ago during my break from work, I had an extra half an hour before I had to head to a bridal shower (which, by the way, ended up being seriously awkward). I was already at Target, and since there was a Barnes and Noble in the same strip mall, I decided to wander on over and get a drink from Starbucks. While I didn't actually make it to Starbucks, I did make it to the fiction and literature section of the store where I re-discovered some of my favorite authors: Virginia Woolf, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Charles Dickens. I decided to venture out of the so-called classics written by these authors and pick up some new titles I hadn't previously heard of.

The Beautiful and Damned by Fitzgerald is a tale similar to that of The Great Gatsby, but with a twist. It parallels his own life when, after his success of This Side of Paradise, Fitzgerald squandered his ambition and talent. I am thrilled to be reading this book because I feel that so many young people squander their ambition and talent today; I feel that it will relate well to any time period, and that's what will make this book a great read.

Night and Day by Woolf contrasts the lives of two friends--one lives with her parents and is engaged to a "prig" while the other is an independent woman working for the womens' rights movement after attending college. I think it will be interesting to see how Woolf deals with the marriage v. independent woman debate from the early 1900s as she incorporates the nature of romance and love.

I didn't end up getting a Dickens, but that's next on my list. Stay tuned for a full update on both of these books as they will surely prove to be entertaining...and probably misunderstood greatly.