Crystal’s Adventures

I would just like to announce that, were not for some “*&^%$#-clowns” who are holding my fiance hostage at work, I could be eating a roast beef po-boy with horseradish on it right this minute. Instead, I am at the computer lab on a Friday night (opening night of Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy!)
This week [...]

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This afternoon after class and work I’m meeting with the potential wedding planner named Susan and then Clinton and I will get our engagement pictures taken in Audubon Park before we tour a possible reception venue called Venusian Gardens, which is supposed to look amazing at night because of all the glowing jellyfish sculptures. Then [...]

On Monday, Clinton asked me to marry him! Yippee!
The tentative date is Monday, December 19th.
Photo of engagement ring coming soon!

Wow, a lot has happened in the last week.
I finished a couple books:
The Calcutta Chromosome (a medical mystery novel about malaria, which was disappointing)
and
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, by Anne Fadiman, which was EXCELLENT.
On Friday evening I saw Sin City with Clinton and some friends. It was amazing, artistically speaking, but Clinton [...]

Today I just found out that I have also received the Population Fellows Programs’ Graduate Applied Project (GAP) Mini-Grant for my summer work in family planning research and programming in Vietnam!
It doesn’t get better than this.

Hello all,
Today was one of the best days I’ve had in a long time.
Not only did Dr. VanLandingham tell our group project team that we had the best student presentation he’s ever seen, but it was announced today that I am one of the five recipients of the Hewlett Foundation Travel Grant of $2000 for [...]

Dad and Clinton and I drove 6 hours this weekend to Eufaula, Alabama for the town’s annual Pilgrimage festival and to visit Clinton’s parents. Be sure to check out the pictures!