The happenings...
Life's been pretty good.
I applied to the local community college on Friday afternoon. Told Mom that night about my plan to get my certificate for medical billing/coding. She's very pleased and supportive. I'm pleased that she's supportive. It's good.
I'm fighting a little Seasonal Affective Disorder... while i'm making progress with life stuff like the college works and generally feeling pretty hopeful about the direction my life is heading in general, my basic gestalt is melancholy bordering on just plain depressed. It's rather difficult to figure out just where I actually am mood-wise.
I've spent the last two days sitting outside and reading. Yesterday I was able to catch a few sunbeams in between the clouds, and today I enjoyed the intermittent rain showers and watched the squirrels and blue jays. One of the squirrels did something I've never seen: he came down to the ground and started to dig. After getting about an inch down and not finding anything, he pushed the dirt back in the hole and covered the spot with the leaves he'd pushed aside. So adorable. The only things I didn't enjoy were the loud pump running the hot tub we haven't used in the 2 1/2 years we've lived here, and the damn dogs that live in the house behind us. They've broken one of the planks in our fence and shove their snouts through the gap to bark and growl. The little Lhasa mix growls so viciously that it's very reminiscent of the scene in The Shining. (For some reason, now that I'm using Google Chrome, I can't italicize anything. I guess I need to download Semagic for my new computer.)
On a silly note, Varsity Blues is on TBS right now. It's that stupid MTV-backed Texas football movie starring James Van Der Beek, Paul Walker, and Jon Voight. There's also an awesome part by Scott Caan, who was just a Golden Globes nominee for his work in Hawaii Five-0. Mom, Sis, and I were extras during all the football stadium scenes, since they were filmed up in Georgetown - a small town north of Austin. It was two nights that filmed from 8p-8a, so they had all night to shoot all the night games. They provided free soda, popcorn, and hot dogs, and we moved around the stands collecting t-shirts that were for the supporters of the different football teams that were playing. There's one scene toward the end of the movie where, if you're watching on a big enough screen, you can see the three of us in the stands behind Paul, Jon, and James talking on the sidelines. James was rather cool, and came up to the stands and signed autographs for tons of girls going all "OMG IT'S DAWSON!!" on him. Paul Walker was rather aloof and kind of a jerk, walking by and completely ignoring any girl trying to get his attention. Jon Voight was a complete dick, staying in his trailer the whole time and only appearing for the few scenes he needed to be in. A final note - the actor who plays the orthopedic surgeon that works on "Lance's" knee is Marco Perella, Mom's acting coach from Austin. He lives in Austin and takes minor roles in movies and tv shows that film in Texas. You can see him in The Chase (with Charlie Sheen), Tuskegee Airmen, and JFK. He's how I connect in 2 degrees to Kevin Bacon - I'm in Varsity Blues with him, and he's in JFK with Kevin Bacon. I'm a dork and use my 2 degrees to Kevin Bacon as a conversation point at parties.
I applied to the local community college on Friday afternoon. Told Mom that night about my plan to get my certificate for medical billing/coding. She's very pleased and supportive. I'm pleased that she's supportive. It's good.
I'm fighting a little Seasonal Affective Disorder... while i'm making progress with life stuff like the college works and generally feeling pretty hopeful about the direction my life is heading in general, my basic gestalt is melancholy bordering on just plain depressed. It's rather difficult to figure out just where I actually am mood-wise.
I've spent the last two days sitting outside and reading. Yesterday I was able to catch a few sunbeams in between the clouds, and today I enjoyed the intermittent rain showers and watched the squirrels and blue jays. One of the squirrels did something I've never seen: he came down to the ground and started to dig. After getting about an inch down and not finding anything, he pushed the dirt back in the hole and covered the spot with the leaves he'd pushed aside. So adorable. The only things I didn't enjoy were the loud pump running the hot tub we haven't used in the 2 1/2 years we've lived here, and the damn dogs that live in the house behind us. They've broken one of the planks in our fence and shove their snouts through the gap to bark and growl. The little Lhasa mix growls so viciously that it's very reminiscent of the scene in The Shining. (For some reason, now that I'm using Google Chrome, I can't italicize anything. I guess I need to download Semagic for my new computer.)
On a silly note, Varsity Blues is on TBS right now. It's that stupid MTV-backed Texas football movie starring James Van Der Beek, Paul Walker, and Jon Voight. There's also an awesome part by Scott Caan, who was just a Golden Globes nominee for his work in Hawaii Five-0. Mom, Sis, and I were extras during all the football stadium scenes, since they were filmed up in Georgetown - a small town north of Austin. It was two nights that filmed from 8p-8a, so they had all night to shoot all the night games. They provided free soda, popcorn, and hot dogs, and we moved around the stands collecting t-shirts that were for the supporters of the different football teams that were playing. There's one scene toward the end of the movie where, if you're watching on a big enough screen, you can see the three of us in the stands behind Paul, Jon, and James talking on the sidelines. James was rather cool, and came up to the stands and signed autographs for tons of girls going all "OMG IT'S DAWSON!!" on him. Paul Walker was rather aloof and kind of a jerk, walking by and completely ignoring any girl trying to get his attention. Jon Voight was a complete dick, staying in his trailer the whole time and only appearing for the few scenes he needed to be in. A final note - the actor who plays the orthopedic surgeon that works on "Lance's" knee is Marco Perella, Mom's acting coach from Austin. He lives in Austin and takes minor roles in movies and tv shows that film in Texas. You can see him in The Chase (with Charlie Sheen), Tuskegee Airmen, and JFK. He's how I connect in 2 degrees to Kevin Bacon - I'm in Varsity Blues with him, and he's in JFK with Kevin Bacon. I'm a dork and use my 2 degrees to Kevin Bacon as a conversation point at parties.