a post I wrote actually around midnight last night
Happy 2011, Internet! I rang in the new year just now with Star Wars, a cheeseburger, and a long and mildly creepy series of texts from my mother. I’m pretty sure she’s drunk; she texted me at 10:30 PM (her usual bedtime) asking whether she owns the LOTR movies, and then I got a series of texts that went
Eyes
Eyes
Eyes
Eyes watch
And when I politely suggested she should have a drink of water before bed, she said Y, no booze great idea u’ll c! which could mean “no, booze is a great idea!” or “no booze is a great idea!”, I honestly can’t tell. She only learned to text two weeks ago. It’s very exciting for everyone.
Anyway, it has been . . . well, it has been a year. I scraped through the semester with two As and two Bs, by which I don’t so much mean that those grades qualify as barely scraping as that I have no idea how the fuck I came out that well. It was a hell of a rough time; I went from three classes, one job, and no shows to work on last semester to four classes, two jobs, and designing a show this semester. I didn’t sleep or eat nearly as much as I ought to have, I was miserably depressed for a lot of it, but I also think I did a lot of good work and made a lot of progress on things. Maybe next year will run a little smoother. I sure hope so.
To that end I, of course, have New Year’s resolutions! Which I’m sure you’re all on the edges of your seats to hear about.
> First of all, I am also ringing in the New Year with a new laptop-well, almost; it’ll be ready for pickup on Monday. After a lot of faffing about with memory issues, the old one died suddenly and irreparably of a corrupt boot file; according to the tech guys at Staples, this is an endemic problem with Vista and I am damn lucky it lasted almost three years. I’m getting a nice little 14” Thinkpad now, with Windows 7, and I am going to turn it off at night and leave plenty of memory space free and keep crumbs out of the keyboard and everything, because God, this is so stressful, and I want to put off doing it again for as long as possible.
> My second resolution is sort of more nebulous and difficult to explain. I keep wanting to call it being girlier, and it does in fact encompass things like “putting actual thought into my outfits” and “wearing heels sometimes” and “last week I bought a makeup bag instead of a comic book.” But it also encompasses Derby Lite, which is not necessarily a stereotypically girly thing, and even vaguer things like “actually sticking to the daily morning/evening routines I set out for myself.” So . . . okay, girlier, kind of, but in a more general sense of having greater control over, and confidence in, how I present my body and my personality to people.
I have no idea whether this makes any sense any more, so maybe I should just stop talking now.
> My third resolution is more along the lines of an announcement, which is that I am going to do a webcomic! It is going to be called Two Old Maids, and it’s going to be about two ladies who work in a nightclub in Brighton in 1930 or so and sometimes fight crime, because I’m the most predictable Pringle in the world. And it’s going to be awesome, even though I just read Lackadaisy the other day and am now intimidated as fuck. I think I’m going to start it up on June 1, once the spring semester is over, and post once or twice a week. I have no idea what the hell I’m doing! Isn’t it great? :D? :D?
And, because I haven’t done this in a long time, books I’m currently reading:
Agatha Christie, What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw
AUTHOR?, Kay Sage: Solitary Surrealist