guys!!!  where have i been???  I know for reals, i ask the same thing.  Well i have been all over europe and stuff and getting my phd and stuff and i haven't been having as many moments as you know i usually have so i haven't felt the need to write.  but just right now i had a moment and i wanted to share it.

So i submitted my masters project idea as a poster for a conferences and it was accepted.  this is my first step to becoming a super star.  yes it's true, someday i will work at an ivy and my shit will matter.  this is the plan anyways.  So yeah i did this not because i think it's a particularly interesting project but rather i just needed some pressure to force myself to finish it and i figured having to present it next week would put that pressure on me.  So i'm putting my poster together and my friend sent me a template.  And the reason i had a moment was that i started plugging in the title of my project and my name and right under it it says "psychology department, university of michigan ann arbor" and it has a picture of the u of m seal and i was like...holy shit that is me!  my name is on some printed thing that people i respect will see!  and that symbol is right next to my name and it will be next to my name forever.  and i don't know, it was just kind of like...wow.  I guess it was just kind of the first time i thought about where i am.  

also i have been super stressed all week and after 6 hours of doing statistical coding yesterday i totally got home to my room and considered crying in my bed but instead chose to put on my whitney houston record and fist pump jump around to "i wanna dance with somebody."  And you know what?  it totally made me feel better.  and i thought that i would have to have a solo dance party regularly to let out the stress.  

that's kind of it for now.  but i promise i'm back.