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God I love this icon. I've gotten so much use out of it over the years.
Anyway, nothing much to report. I've been sleeping a lot this week, whether from the winter blahs, not having any work scheduled to force me onto a normal sleep schedule, or feeling bummed out about my dad. Or all of the above. I had one of those really horrifying nightmares I have about him every couple of years on Tuesday, but thankfully the experience has so far gone unrepeated. Which is good, because god. I do not need that kind of messed up Freudian shit in my life right now.
I also got an e-mail from Direct Loans saying that it's time to start making payments on my student loan again, which is a little scary because with my hours cut at work due to it not longer being the holidays I'm going to have to belt tighten like whoa to make rent in February. I WAS planning to look into plasma donation, but that plan got shot to hell by the antibiotics I had to take for the bladder infection they discovered when I went to the ER. Maybe next week. I was ALSO planning to look into babysitting jobs or other part-time work on craigslist, but that plan was also shot to hell by this weird diurnal narcolepsy I've been struck with. Again, maybe next week.
The REAL irony here is that literally the night before I got that call from my mom, I made all these great plans about how I was going to be super motivated this year and start regulating my sleep on my own and be hyper productive on the creativity front and find a super awesome job, and then...I got the call, and started sleeping a lot. I don't even know. I kind of hope this IS a reaction to trauma, because accepting that I really am this lazy would be too depressing for words.
It's not like I've been not creative at all, however! (wow, that was one awkwardly worded sentence!) I'm still working on chapter two of MO, because I would pretty much have to shoot myself if I abandoned that project after all the thought I put into it over the course of 2010, and I'm also working on a video, which I will probably post the wip of once I get around to making a youtube account. It's been lots of fun because I'm doing all the voice work, and I LOVE doing voice work. When I was in middle school I used to own all these Elfquest graphic novels, and I remember reading them out loud to my mom and giving all the characters different voices, it was the most fun ever. I kind of wanted to do professional voice acting for a while, until I got all self-conscious about my girly voice. To be honest I'm still kind of down about it (mostly because I can't give Big Boss the UBERMANLY voice he deserves) but whatever. It's fun! And I could use some fun in my life right now.
Anyway, nothing much to report. I've been sleeping a lot this week, whether from the winter blahs, not having any work scheduled to force me onto a normal sleep schedule, or feeling bummed out about my dad. Or all of the above. I had one of those really horrifying nightmares I have about him every couple of years on Tuesday, but thankfully the experience has so far gone unrepeated. Which is good, because god. I do not need that kind of messed up Freudian shit in my life right now.
I also got an e-mail from Direct Loans saying that it's time to start making payments on my student loan again, which is a little scary because with my hours cut at work due to it not longer being the holidays I'm going to have to belt tighten like whoa to make rent in February. I WAS planning to look into plasma donation, but that plan got shot to hell by the antibiotics I had to take for the bladder infection they discovered when I went to the ER. Maybe next week. I was ALSO planning to look into babysitting jobs or other part-time work on craigslist, but that plan was also shot to hell by this weird diurnal narcolepsy I've been struck with. Again, maybe next week.
The REAL irony here is that literally the night before I got that call from my mom, I made all these great plans about how I was going to be super motivated this year and start regulating my sleep on my own and be hyper productive on the creativity front and find a super awesome job, and then...I got the call, and started sleeping a lot. I don't even know. I kind of hope this IS a reaction to trauma, because accepting that I really am this lazy would be too depressing for words.
It's not like I've been not creative at all, however! (wow, that was one awkwardly worded sentence!) I'm still working on chapter two of MO, because I would pretty much have to shoot myself if I abandoned that project after all the thought I put into it over the course of 2010, and I'm also working on a video, which I will probably post the wip of once I get around to making a youtube account. It's been lots of fun because I'm doing all the voice work, and I LOVE doing voice work. When I was in middle school I used to own all these Elfquest graphic novels, and I remember reading them out loud to my mom and giving all the characters different voices, it was the most fun ever. I kind of wanted to do professional voice acting for a while, until I got all self-conscious about my girly voice. To be honest I'm still kind of down about it (mostly because I can't give Big Boss the UBERMANLY voice he deserves) but whatever. It's fun! And I could use some fun in my life right now.