Hand to Page Combat

It really is crazy to think that I will be walking into my first day of classes in two years. I am expecting grad school to be very challenging. Brian never studied harder in his life than in his first year of grad school and I should expect the same. As a planner at heart I hate the fact that I don't really understand what my classes are going to be about. I was a Communications major in undergrad and the classes were pretty much obvious in their name. Public Relations Writing was obviously going to be lots of press releases. But The Information Environment, Information Knowledge and Organization? I have no clue.

My Young Adult Literature class is a little easier to approach. Like the dork that I am (and since I have plenty of free time), I have already pushed through much of the reading list for the class. This includes almost twenty books written for the teenagers. So far most of them have been very nice reads. The stories are fast paced and the reading is quick. Right now I am reading Graceling by Kristin Cashore. Summary below:

Katsa has been able to kill a man with her bare hands since she was eight—she’s a Graceling, one of the rare people in her land born with an extreme skill. As niece of the king, she should be able to live a life of privilege, but Graced as she is with killing, she is forced to work as the king’s thug.

She never expects to fall in love with beautiful Prince Po.

She never expects to learn the truth behind her Grace—or the terrible secret that lies hidden far away . . . a secret that could destroy all seven kingdoms with words alone.

I would never have picked this book up on my own, but I'm so glad I picked it off of the Sci-fi list for my class. I can't put it down.

Fierce

I never know what kind of things I will find at our local library. Sometimes I find a million things I want all at once and other times I come home with nothing. On Monday night, I was ready to leave empty handed when I came across my very favorite TV show back from the days when I had cable. I was lucky enough to find Project Runway season 4 (which I had never seen). Our lovely library lets you take the whole season at once, but you only get two days to watch until the DVDs must be returned. Needless to say for the last two days I have been watching Project Runway all the way though. I didn't realize how much I missed it. Watching it again was great and the season may have been the best one I've seen yet. Now I'm just waiting to find season 5, but I have to wait for August for that one to come out.

Things have been pretty busy for Brian and I. Even without much to do (without full-time jobs and all), we always end up busy. Two weekends ago we had Anna up for a visit and really enjoyed the 4th of July fireworks that Albany has to offer. This past weekend we had Brian's friend PJ and his girlfriend Katie staying with us and attending Tim's wedding. The wedding was great and kicked off our Wedding 2009 season with a bang.

I find it really hard to believe that July is already half way over. The weather is so cool that it just doesn't feel like the dog days of summer at all. I've already been at my part-time job at NYS Library Development for a month or so. It reminds me of my days temping at OMH a lot, which if you have a good memory, were really boring. But at least this one will look good on the ol' resume.