kind of a big day

Albert Hofmann, the Swiss chemist who discovered the hallucinogenic drug lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) died today, aged 102 years.

not the best hallucinogenic substance, nor the most reliable, but were it not for this invention world of pop culture and a bevy of other phenomenon would be far different from what they are today. i would be a touch different from who i am today. not saying i would ever touch the juice of Satan's loin, but let's fuckin' face it, i was sixteen once just like the rest of you (& to top it off, i was living in a small town with not much else to do)! it's no assuage for your post work week blues, but i hear it can open you up to some new possibilities. no. really. i hear it!

not one to gloat or find glee for the dead i never met. rather, this day should be remembered merely for the good things he brought to one and all. for it is unto us, that he gave his only begotten visions...

i am a grad student!

i received an email today telling me that i have been accepted to the master's program in the sociology department at PSU. yes i cried. this clears up a load of issues which would have otherwise created some huge problems for me. it is also incredibly exciting because I have a ridiculous amount of research ideas waiting to be explored/funded. i am far too excited to type any further, so this will have to do. YEAH!!!!!!!!!

i am not a doormat. i'm a door prize!

well folks, it look as if this kid may some day find employment after all. after nearly four weeks of solid job searching and resume re-working, i received two interview offers today. the first is with a non-profit called Stand for Children. stand is a grass roots advocacy organization that helps school raise public funding and change funding policy concerning children's activities. this would be a great opportunity to work for something more than a paycheck, and would also be a good thing to put on my applications for grad school. the second is a desk position at a local drug and alcohol rehabilitation center called DePaul Treatment Centers. honestly i would prefer this job over the former, primarily because it i closer to the populations of folks i would like to research in the future. i will take either position, and it is really nice to have two openings at once. this way i don't have to go in to the interview all nervous and seem needy. i can enter the situation with the confidence that i can get either job, and will take the one which seems the most interesting. i didn't think anyone was ever going to contact me. the non-profit industry in portland is ridiculously competitive, and flooded with people in my same position. now if i could just hear something from grad school i could start to have some idea of what life will look like for the next year. i'm truly fortunate that these are the things i have to worry about, rather than where my next meal is coming from or if i will be raped while walking to church at night. i'm a fucking lucky person!

catchup. tid-bitz and etcetera. penelope is crawling, talking a bit, and is the only baby alive in the world. emily is rocking a huge term with like 89 credits or something ludicrous like that, and is a bit overwhelmed. she is handling it well though, with booze and friends to cope. we have two roommates right now. jared smith, who i have lived with before, is in the basement on banjo and harp. emily's friend cheryl is upstairs on the shoe percussion backup performance. so thanks to that situation we are saving a truckload of money right now. i graduated from psu a few weeks ago. no big party yet, but that will definitely come if i get into grad school.

enough for now. gerow is signing off for the evening. sweet dreams.