No One Knows What My Degree Will Mean

So, while I was seeing the neurologist today, he was taking my history. I told him I was working on my Ph.D. This exchange followed:

Him: So, what are you getting your Ph.D in?
Me: Composition and Rhetoric
Him: *blankstare*
Me: Writing.
Him: OH! You want to be a writer?
Me: No...
Him: You want to be a reporter?
Me: NO. I study how writing and technology work together.
Him: *blankstare*

Dear Orange Marmalade:

Remember that time that I said I loved you?

Well, it seems that I love you more and more each day.

How, how?, have I lived so long without you?!?

*smooches* Jenn

Birds

BIRDS. All the birds.

Sarah and I were driving home from the ICEA conference and stopped for Chinese today. We were both pretty slap happy. Then we saw all these birds.

Then this conversation happened as we sat in the car watching all the birds:

Me: *deadpan* I just hate birds so much.

Sarah: (this is paraphrasing as I was too busy watching the birds and hating them to really know what she said) Holy FUCK! That's a lot of birds! 

Me: *deadpan* I just hate birds so much.

Sarah: It's like the sky is pooping out birds!

At that point, we realized we sounded like a movie, and in the fashion of people who stayed up too late preparing for a conference and beginning to come down off the high of conference presentation, we cackled like crazy people.

GUEST SMOOCHES!

Today, I would like to provide you with a guest post to the *smooches* blog.  Please give a grand welcome to JCE's recent FB status:

Dear student in the skin tight white pants,

Labor day was four weeks ago. I can see your underwear, or lack there of because your pants are so tight. The 80s ended two decades ago. You're lucky I can practice restraint.

*smooches* JCE

Dear Birthday Cake and Blue Bell Ice Cream:

QUIT TAUNTING ME! I deny you once. I deny you twice! I DENY YOU THREE TIMES!  

Why must you be so delicious and so close to my recliner?!

I hate you. If you had a neck I'd punch it. Where's my spoon?

*smooches* Jenn