Trumpet Fanfare...May I introduce Dr. Gerbil the younger

Yup! Today I filed and I have a piece of paper announcing that I am a Ph.D.! Sure you might remembered I walked last year. But that was partly because the Drs Gerbil, the elders were in CA for the event... Being non-flying Gerbils, they had to take a road trip. In the course of evolution, I became a flying Gerbil (as are all of the Gerbil kids).

In a few years we'll have the next Dr. Gerbil....

Where have I been

Many of you have been wondering about this....well...I have been locked in an office finishing my dissertation. It is all done...I just need to find my committee members and make them sign the papers they have agreed to sign and turn it in to the registrar!!!!!!!!

So hopefully, now I can devote more time to random blogging.... but to give you a brief update on life....

Just saw DD (C) last night along with her family...which is always a delightful experience

I am now obsessed with the English Premier League....Sir GB pulls for Man U and I cheer for Liverpool (I LOVE GERRARD) and Chelsea (also a big John Terry fan).

We are headed off to St. Lucia in mid august, as a post dissertation experience.....

And I am eagerly awaiting my new Harry Potter book which will be delivered tomorrow morning.

Oh...and I think Tiger has a boyfriend....he is big, fluffy and orange...so I named him Crookshanks...he is the only cat she tolerates...so I figure they are going out...thank goodness she is fixed....I don't think I could handle kittens....

Happy Birthday Big Sis!

I hope you are enjoying your birthday!

This puppy seems to be enjoying it!

Mr Lee the cat

Yes, I am working on becoming a crazy cat lady....although right now we only have one...although I keep trying to steal this delightful orange cat who I call crookshanks (yeah i am a dork).....I keep thinking it would be so awesome to see what Tiger does during the day. Well this guy in Germany found out...his cat...Mr. Lee has a camera that is programmed to take pictures at different times during the day and the we get to see what Mr. Lee is up to....it is sweet

I recommend checking it out...

In the mean time....back to work for me....

Yup, I've been HIDING

So, yes, I have been missing quite a bit lately....but I am been trying to finish the bitch that is my dissertation. The next to final version went to my advisor on tuesday...So I am getting ready for my next vacation, to the beach house...

But in other news, I had this dream awhile ago and I got two dogs, Skwiggles and Aloysius....so I found a picture of what skwiggle looked like in my dream....apparently he was a cockapoo....I am still looking for Aloysius.....

New rankings of graduate departments

based on crabbiness of the professors....well someone suggested this somewhat jokingly....but actually this piece brings up quite a few good points. I mean if I had known what I know now, I may have chosen differently in many respects. I don't mean to imply my advisor is crabby, she isn't, she is actually one of the least crabby and loveliest people in my department or even the university. But she is way too overstretched, and there just aren't the faculty to really handle the number of students we have in the right way. So would I have done something differently academically --yup, I probably would have gone to cornell if I knew then what I know now....but instead I ended up with a fabulous boyfriend and a pretty ridiculous cat.....so life isn't that bad

Dornbusch Award in Social Psychology

Yup, I am the winner. It is just a departmental award, but it is nice to be recognized. I will miss the ceremony b/c I'll be on the beach...which is where I would rather be.....but Kyra will pick it up for me...since we are twins, no one will know the difference :)


Ok...back to my dissertation revisions.

Once these revisions get off to the copy editor I'll have more time to post.

Little Miss Sunshine

I have to say, this is the best movie I have seen in a long time. If you haven't seen it go, please rent it, or netflix it or how ever you watch movies get it.

Ok so you may ask Gerbil, why did you like this, you hate everything....

well, this has some of the most interesting characters I have seen in long time...I am particularly fond of Dwayne, Frank and Grandpa.

I guess for me Dwayne and Frank are pretty close to home....Dwayne reminds me a bit of a high school Gerbil...all I wanted to do was get the hell out. Frank is what I could be in 10-15 year, but instead of a Proust scholar I'll be a trust scholar....but the pettiness of academia and what it can drive you to is only too apparent if you hang around too long without appropriate balancing mechanisms (like Sir GB).

But I also have to say, I enjoy the statement it makes about children's beauty pagents. Olive is the only kid that actually looks like a kid, not a shrunken barbie doll. I won't ruin the movie for those who haven't seen it. But she is the only one with integrity.

It isn't often I moved to write here about a movie or anything I have seen, so I think that should be good enough for some of you to check this movie out.

Picturs from Kauai

We are back...and it was fantastic.

If you want to see them, click here

Here are a few highlights!

if you haven't been, you should go...

Aloha

So far so good....sure we have coral cuts and blisters, but we are having a fabulous time. We have had 4 honu (green sea turtle sightings) many awesome fish sightings, as well as a fred willard sighting at LAX. We were supposed to go on a helicopter adventure yesterday, but it got postponed due to weather...So we will go tomorrow. Today we went on a kayak adventure....and yes I paddled, and didn't even put my feetin the water the entire time. The kayak trip was up to a waterfall....it was so totally cool...we are having a fabulous time!

Animals in Need

So I was reading one of my favorite blogs stuff on my cat, and I read about this horrible fire at the jacksonville, fl human society. All but two of the puppies made it, but most of the kitties didn't. You can read about it here and make a donation if you would like.

you may wonder where i have been lately

well here is the answer....Tiger and I have been asleep....

Actually we have been working our butts off...well Sir GB and I have...Tiger has been busy playing.

But we are headed to Kauai on sunday. In the mean time we see the A's and the Yankees tomorrow, and then spend all day saturday getting ready....

Need help procrastinating...

Ok...sure I did the dishes, watered the plants, organized my bathroom cupboards...but then I found this....a flickr stream of famous basketball players with random people

In honor of my favorite holiday...please enjoy this break before the madness starts tomorrow morning. I'll be holding holiday festivities at home with tiger with some visits from the regular crowd.

Oh, some of the highlights of the flickr stream...the chrish duhon lapdance and cherokee parks...you kind of wondered what happened to him didn't you. Oh the comedy....I remember when we were in school...he was a poser then too.

New Sports Blog that I love

Ok....maybe it wouldn't be to everyone's liking...but Ladies... is the kind of sports blog I would have if I had a bunch of my ladies friends help me out. For example I have been loving their panty raid feature, which gives you the lowdown (not the down low) on each conference tourney, but also picks an all-hottie team. Now this is the kind of information I like. Quality analysis of the teams, and someone spent the time looking at all of the rosters to see who was hot.....this will save me so much time as I am watching games/writing my dissertation....It all makes sense my friends. So check it out. And if you get bored of that and want to dress up your favorite athletes or celebrities go to stardoll I had fun with tom brady...but who hasn't...he is a ho.

The most wonderful time of the year

For some people it is the winter holidays....for me...it is march basketball. I havve fully gotten into the spirit by watching some little conference tourney games, and the ACC women's tourney. Yeah, I have a dissertation to write....I'm working on it as I watch games.

Congrats to Penn being teh first team to make it to the big dance. Yup for them it is just nice to be invited....the poor ivy league...they just never make it that far. We'll see who else gets invited today as a few automatic bids are determined. For some reason I am tranfixed by the VMI vs Winthrop game. I am pulling for Winthrop.

Marcus Matthew

So we have confirmation that this is the name of Sir GB's nephew....and we finally got a picture!

I'm in love

no, i haven't dumped sir gb, but i have found a puppy so damn cute I don't know what to do. Check him/her out....given my previous dog named spike (who was a girl) I won't make gender assumptions....hmmm...what will it take to make sir gb and tiger agree this would be a good idea.

Puppy Bowl vs the Super Bowl

I was pretty into the puppy bowl....the cutest golden puppy ever, named jackson....

but then I changed to cbs as Tiger was getting kind of jealous of all of the puppies (but I told her we would watch the kitty bowl at half time) I saw a former classmate of mine is one of the captains of the bears...Pat Mannelly he is the long snapper

all i'll say so far is the colts look like crap. the bears returned the kickoff for a td, and then intercepted payton. i might go back to the puppies if this game doesn't get more competitive, but rex hasn't been oout on the field to mess it up for the bears yet.

Sir GB rocks

So some of you know I have been kind of down about this job search thing. I have gotten more sleep in the past few weeks than I have in a long time. But to cheer me up, Sir GB is taking me to Kauai in April. Yup that is Hawaii.

If you want to find out some information you can click here

So now I have something to look forward to...and maybe this will help our gym routine...got to get in shape for the beach!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARISA

Here is a little crazy pup also celebrating his birthday!

Hope you have a great day!