Boyfriend and I have our own apartment now. It's small and our kitchen has zero counter space and the spare room is still filled with miscellaneous junk that we hauled over and haven't found homes for yet, but it's ours and the mother-in-law has only set foot in it once so far ( Read more... )

One of my highest priorities when I got to Canada was getting a job, so that I wouldn't feel like a parasite and also because we're currently living with my boyfriend's mother and we want to move out as soon as possible for lots of reasons. So I surveyed my experience and skills and realised... I don't have the recent experience in programming to ( Read more... )

It's been a super long time since I posted. Some of that's due to general busyness: moving to Canada, getting a job, exploring the city, Christmas, etc. But the majority of it is the adjustment to living with my partner. As an ultra-introvert, I can only take a certain amount of interaction with people before I need to go somewhere quiet and be ( Read more... )

It's been a while, mostly because semester started and I got all busy again. The main thing that's happened in the meantime has involved me flying over to Canada to go visit my boyfriend, where I discovered that a) we get along just as well in real life as over Skype, b) I am not in fact asexual. I am demisexual, aka "asexual until you fall in love ( Read more... )

I always find that no matter how busy semester was, in the holidays I end up feeling even busier due to my tendency to shelve all my ideas and promise myself that I'll work on them when I have time, ie during the summer holidays. Here's a small sampling ( Read more... )