Parting is such sweet... utter nonsense; and attack of the parenthetical observations of DOOM!
I love Shakespeare but that particular line has always annoyed me. Heck, that whole play annoys me. Romeo and Juliet (the couple, not the play; I think the play supports my point of view) exemplify the sort of teenage angsty attitude about love and life that I most despise. I don't believe in love at first sight (lust is of course something else entirely), or choosing to marry someone without addressing a fundamental issue of incompatibility like "our families are trying to kill each other". But that was a digression. I am very digressive tonight.
Anyway, back from a long weekend with my beloved. (Nice word.) Most likely it'll be over two months before I see him again. Nnngh. Long distance relationships = not fun at all. (However, the parts of the relationship that take place up close and personal = way too much fun). It gets harder to leave every time. Still six months until I won't have to leave ever again. The anime convention that he helps organize had their monthly meeting this weekend, so I tagged along and got to hang with the geeks. Three of them tried to get me to sign over my soul - er, agree to take over tasks for next year's con. And this year's is still five months away. These people are hardcore. Dan's college buddy was in town for that so he hung out part of the weekend and we watched a bunch of anime (all of Area 88, bits of Excel Saga, some of the new Ah Megami-sama, Howl's Moving Castle, and some Urusai Yatsura. The last turned out to be a mistake since the buddy had left by then, Dan had seen it too often, and it was just not quite entertaining enough. We had to go back two episodes to where we'd stopped watching at one point.)
Oh, and we did work on finishing the basement. I learned how to wire outlets and hang sheetrock and we did a whole half of the basement. We're going to turn it into a home theater so the living room can be our library. Get a video projector and some massive speakers down there and it'll be awesome. Of course, all we'll watch are movies and anime since neither of us particularly cares for American tv. (Except Lost. I like Lost. But I get that off bittorrent right now anyway).
So I have the rest of spring break to catch up on homework, assigned readings, work, and maybe my thesis. I don't know... If I had one more class worth of credits I could consider switching to the other master's degree option, but I'd need to take two more courses and I don't know if I can do that long distance. Sigh. But I'm leaving in May, I don't have a choice. I can come back to defend my thesis if I get it done... it's just so boring. I want to get married, get a real job, have money, free time, and a husband around. I want a couple years of fun and not doing school, I want to do some traveling and work on my novel, and then I want to have five kids and be a boring grown-up for a good long while. Oddly enough I think I might get what I want.
Anyway, back from a long weekend with my beloved. (Nice word.) Most likely it'll be over two months before I see him again. Nnngh. Long distance relationships = not fun at all. (However, the parts of the relationship that take place up close and personal = way too much fun). It gets harder to leave every time. Still six months until I won't have to leave ever again. The anime convention that he helps organize had their monthly meeting this weekend, so I tagged along and got to hang with the geeks. Three of them tried to get me to sign over my soul - er, agree to take over tasks for next year's con. And this year's is still five months away. These people are hardcore. Dan's college buddy was in town for that so he hung out part of the weekend and we watched a bunch of anime (all of Area 88, bits of Excel Saga, some of the new Ah Megami-sama, Howl's Moving Castle, and some Urusai Yatsura. The last turned out to be a mistake since the buddy had left by then, Dan had seen it too often, and it was just not quite entertaining enough. We had to go back two episodes to where we'd stopped watching at one point.)
Oh, and we did work on finishing the basement. I learned how to wire outlets and hang sheetrock and we did a whole half of the basement. We're going to turn it into a home theater so the living room can be our library. Get a video projector and some massive speakers down there and it'll be awesome. Of course, all we'll watch are movies and anime since neither of us particularly cares for American tv. (Except Lost. I like Lost. But I get that off bittorrent right now anyway).
So I have the rest of spring break to catch up on homework, assigned readings, work, and maybe my thesis. I don't know... If I had one more class worth of credits I could consider switching to the other master's degree option, but I'd need to take two more courses and I don't know if I can do that long distance. Sigh. But I'm leaving in May, I don't have a choice. I can come back to defend my thesis if I get it done... it's just so boring. I want to get married, get a real job, have money, free time, and a husband around. I want a couple years of fun and not doing school, I want to do some traveling and work on my novel, and then I want to have five kids and be a boring grown-up for a good long while. Oddly enough I think I might get what I want.