NEW JACK CITY

Heyyy look! It's new years eve again! That means it's time for my yearly blog update. What happened this year you ask? Well...January through May I worked on my thesis. All was well until May when I still had no subjects and my thesis advisor dropped out of sight. In May, through some trickery by yours truly, I landed a swank temp job at a law firm that paid me great and had the world's greatest cafeteria. Yummers. September I found myself, thanks to school shenanigans, flat broke. Somewhere in there I rustled up enough cash to propose to Stephanie. She said yes. Four months into the engagement and we're still going strong. Yayyy! Because my thesis advisor dropped out of sight I was not able to get my manuscript finished, I was not able to finish my participant recruitment letter and, additionally, because of poor gre scores and zero clinical experience - I postponed applying to PhD programs. Instead I've applied to the Presidential Managment Fellowship and have made it to the final round wherein I take a big test at the end of January. Keep fingers crossed because there's a government job and student loan repayment at the end of that tunnel. I've started working at a rehabilition center for people with mental illness in jamacia Queens, I got a paper accepted into APLS which I will present in March in Texas (I will also expand this paper into my new thesis since my old thesis had so many problems it was starting to become ridiculous)and I joined a new lab group and will be the co-author on two chapters in a book being published by John-Wiley and Sons in June. All this plus some GRE improvement should haelp a great deal with those PhD apps when I decide to do it. My back up plan if the Fellowship doesn't work out is to temp and apply for next fall. No new tattoos since January, gained some weight and lost some hair. That's been 2008 for me. On to the fun stuff:

Best Movie: I have not seen Rambo or the Wrestler but as of now, best movie is Tokyo Gore Police followed by Cloverfield.

Best event: Obama

Worst event: Forrest J. Ackerman dying

Worst singles: The only really grating song I've heard this year has been Pink's "So What."

Best singles:

"Single Ladies" - Beyonce
"Ms. Officer" - 'Lil Wayne
"Paper Planes" - M.I.A

Best Albums:
"Gorilla Marketing" - The Steinways
"Civil War" - Dillinger Four

Phrase of '09: "Big time watches"

Shit..that's about it. Oh, the Funeral Crashers broke up so I am currently bandless but have designs on a new outfit that, if all goes well, will fucking shake up everything. Big things poppin' in '09. Yes we can! Happy new year peoples!