Moving to MySpace

I know, I've kept this blog for a long, long time, but I've been coerced by the forces of darkness to move to MySpace to keep my online diary, but I'll probably double post both for awhile 'til I get bored with it. Anyway my link is http://www.myspace.com/jonfishonline so make sure to update your links and add me to your friends. I'll see you all there!

~Peace out

Meet our friend Bacadri

Mood: Relaxed
TV: CSI

Okay, to everyone that may have recieved a very strange instant message from me last night, don't worry, there are two good reasons for it: 1) I was drunk and 2) It probably wasn't me anyway.

Me and my friend Erin decided that since we were stuck in Knoxville during spring break (well, for the second half of it anyway) we could at least pretend we were on vacation in the sunny Bahamas. 1800mL of Bacadri Gold and a fifth of tequila later, we were very much on vacation.

Anyway, she decides it'll be fun to drunkenly instant message everyone currently online on my buddy list. See, she doesnt use IM, so she has fun using mine and taking to my friends.

Anyway, it was good fun, and I haven't been that drunk in a looong time. So we're gonna do it again tonight. But I promise that this time I'll try to keep the keyboard out of her hands heh.

In other news, I had a great time at NCState and Florida State and I'm really looking forward to seeing Texas A&M next week. Now I just gotta find the motivation to finish out the school year lol. I'll have a full update on my grad school visits when I get back from Texas.

Okay, I think I'm about done. Time to go buy more Bacardi. Talk to ya later!

~Peace

On vacation...?

Mood: Exuberant
Music: Foo Fighters

Hey all, just thought I'd check in one last time before my trip. I'm leaving tomorrow to head out and visit grad schools. The pay for TAs sucks, but thats pretty much par for the course. They tell ya it's only 20 hours a week, in which case the pay would friggin' rock, but you'd have to be dumb to believe it heh. Ah well, I'm just happy I got offered funding anywhere, I dunno how I'd pay for it otherwise.

First I'm heading to Raleigh, NC, to visit the North Carolina State University Department of Sociology and Anthropology. NCSU is having all their recruits come down on Thursday and they're flying us in from all over the country. We have a meeting with the department head that evening, then we get the night off and are taken out on the town by some of the grad students. Friday we have an informal breakfast with the whole department, followed by a talk about teaching and and current research at NCSU. Then it's lunch with the grad students, followed by one-on-ones with professors in our prospective research fields and the department head. That night we're going to one of the professor's homes for dinner with the entire department.

After all that, I wake up Saturday morning, head back to Knoxville, repack and get ready to get on a plane the next morning to Tallahassee where I get to do it all again at the Florida State University Department of Sociology (I know, plugging the departments, but hey, I think I have a right to be proud). This one isn't structured, I just told 'em when I'd be down and who I'd like to meet with and they set it all up. I plan to rent a car while I'm down there and take Sunday and Monday nights touring the city and going down to the beach. Should be a good trip.

Then I get to relax for about a week or so til the Texas A&M University Sociology Department flies me out to Middle of Nowhere, USA (aka College Station, Texas). And I'm not kidding. Look at where this place is:

See? It's a hundred miles from everything! There's about 120,000 people who live there, and 40,000 of them go to Texas A&M (as opposed to Knoxville, for example, who has over 320,000 people in the greater area, and only 22,000 attending UT).

Anyway, I don't really know what the plan is there. They're having everyone come down at the same time, too, but that's about all I know. But one good thing is that one of my best friends, John Garrison, is down there earning his doctorate in Computer Engineering right now, so I look forward to hanging out with him for a few days.

Oh yeah, I'm also going to make sure to visit the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library while im down there too. Maybe I can get a better understanding of the evil currently residing in the White House by learning more about the seed that spawned him. Ugh...

Anyway, that's about enough I think. Wish me luck and I'll report back sometime after I'm home. Have a great spring break all, and I'll see ya in a couple weeks!

~Peace