Well, it’s June 4, 2009 and I’m starting my blog back up in a new incarnation. I have been blogging online in various locations since 2006 (see ‘about‘ page for the back story), but now I’ve started up Suburban Kitsch as my (hopefully) permanent blogging home. Hooray for that! In the meantime I did some work to gather all my old blogs together in one place [to clarify: they're not *all* copied over yet... I haven't copied my thoughtful facebook notes yet, which I still want to do]. The old blogs are not formatted very nicely and all the old comments aren’t copied over, but at least my thoughts are in one place.
This first post is just a quick note to say hello and offer a basic introduction. Hi, I’m Kathy! I’m dang near 30, happily married to Jared, and I have two chihuahuas. When I’m at the computer my lap always looks like this:
The Doglets
I work my arse off full time at a state academic institution (I’m a bureaucrat who actually LOVES my job), and I’m also a part-time grad student in the MPA (Master of Public Administration – Political Science) program at OU. I love learning and I try to surround myself with people who also love to learn and can challenge me intellectually (and who I can have fun with). I also love film, music, art, and culture. I can be a bit too opinionated and talkative at times, but I always try to disagree respectfully. I am almost always willing to hear out your position, even if I completely disagree with it. I want to understand where you’re coming from. I am able to be persuaded to change my opinion and will willingly do so when convinced via what I see as compelling and sound evidence.
Oh yeah, and I *love* people. I love to laugh. I want to give the world a hug. Come here, you!
Things I am greatly looking forward to this summer, in rough chronological order:
- Obama health care reform kickoff event Saturday morning
- deadCENTER film festival next week/weekend!!!!! I’m especially excited about this event because it’s the first time I’ve ever gone and there are lots of films I’m really excited to see. Plus I get to hang out with some really cool people during the down time.
- Begin involvement with planning the 2010 International Women’s Day Event in OKC
- Trip to Ft Lauderdale, FL with the fam the week of July 4 (fireworks on the beach and sea turtles… family trips to this same resort in Pompano Beach / Ft Lauderdale have been a staple of my life since I was a child)
- Seeing Wicked (again) in Tulsa in July
- (all summer long) Watching lots of movies
- (all summer long) Time with friends, great conversation, lots of laughter, lots of alcohol, board games
- No school or homework to worry about!
Nice to meet you.
