they could have been anything...
So. I'm sitting at work. I have two days left till the end of the semester; nine left before I graduate and am done with undergraduate work. forever.
I really should be doing work; I have two papers due on Friday, and a final tomorrow. I've already studied my ass off for the final, and one of the papers is almost done. I'm letting the second paper stew in the back of my mind for the moment...I'm not sure what I'm going to write, just that I'm going to write on Octavia Butler's Dawn because I love that book.
I have no idea what I"m going to do after I graduate. I wanted to do Americorps and make some kind of difference in the world, but the program I applied to has been blowing me off for the past two months and I'm starting to get sick of it. I'm moving to Seattle with Justin, I know that much. I want out of the midwest. Out and gone, off to adventures in the pacific northwest. I'm moving sometime this summer, not quite sure when yet. So I'm moving to Seattle, getting a job, living with Justin, volunteering at crisis clinics and stuff to take my mind off everything. I'm leaving my car behind. CRAZY. At least my parents are okay with all of this.
So I'm taking a year off, then back to graduate school for a clinical Ph.D. I want to go into human sexuality and behavior, or depression and self-injury (though Favazza already wrote the book on that one), or the adult course of pervasive developmental disorders (such as autism). We'll see where I get in.
Here's what has stuck out in my life:
- Not-quite-dating Justin since October. I care about him more than I want to admit.
- Breaking up with Sean in late December. I hated doing that, but the long-distance thing just wasn't working out. I still miss him and still regret having to end it. We're still friends, still talk, etc.
- Julia. Oh, Julia.
- Fully realizing/embracing how polyamorous I am; bitches, deal with it.
- Getting my Mirena IUD in March. NO BABIES for the next five years (or ever), and hopefully no periods either. The process was long and agonizing, but it was so worth it.
- I started taking pole dancing lessons. And I'm freaking hooked. I love it; I suck and am clumsy and chubby and awkward, but I feel so powerful and sexy when things work out. Pics/videos available on request if I like you enough. Oh, and the lovely girls at dance class - they rock so fucking hard. And I can walk in six-inch stripper heels. Damn. P.S. Justin says we can get a pole in our apartment in Seattle...yes.
- The HUMANWINE concert!! OH, I adore HUMANWINE. I got to sit and talk with Holly and M@ and Brian and Paul...and see Gravity Plays Favorites and the Alley Cat Revue (and get hit on by one of the burlesque girls) and the MUSIC! I dressed up as an Enjoyour, and Justin was a thief - we were the only Vinland inhabitants at that show and it was amazing. I'm so in love. Pics available upon request...so is music.
- My paternal grandmother dying. It was her time.
- Piercing my left inner conch. Long story: for a long time I wanted helix piercings, then everyone started getting helix piercings and I got bored with them. So then I wanted an industrial piercing, but then everyone started getting industrial piercings and I got bored with them. So I started wanting an inner conch piercing...and they're still unusual enough that I'm not bored with them. So I got that done in memory of the aforementioned grandmother. Pics available upon request.
- Photography! My darling Canon Digital Rebel XTi. I love that camera. http://ohjezebel.deviantart.com/ - if you like.
- Piano. LOTS of piano.
- School. Independent research. Applications and failures and grades and reading and
- My goldfish, Turtle, dying. I'm still upset about it. Justin says we can get a cat in Seattle, though, and we plan on making a fishtank.
- HOLYCRAP, GRADUATION!!!! And the real world. I'm so not ready for this.
- Ethiopian food is amazing. So is the soundtrack from the movie "The Fountain" - great movie, great music.
I'm going to go be productive now.
I really should be doing work; I have two papers due on Friday, and a final tomorrow. I've already studied my ass off for the final, and one of the papers is almost done. I'm letting the second paper stew in the back of my mind for the moment...I'm not sure what I'm going to write, just that I'm going to write on Octavia Butler's Dawn because I love that book.
I have no idea what I"m going to do after I graduate. I wanted to do Americorps and make some kind of difference in the world, but the program I applied to has been blowing me off for the past two months and I'm starting to get sick of it. I'm moving to Seattle with Justin, I know that much. I want out of the midwest. Out and gone, off to adventures in the pacific northwest. I'm moving sometime this summer, not quite sure when yet. So I'm moving to Seattle, getting a job, living with Justin, volunteering at crisis clinics and stuff to take my mind off everything. I'm leaving my car behind. CRAZY. At least my parents are okay with all of this.
So I'm taking a year off, then back to graduate school for a clinical Ph.D. I want to go into human sexuality and behavior, or depression and self-injury (though Favazza already wrote the book on that one), or the adult course of pervasive developmental disorders (such as autism). We'll see where I get in.
Here's what has stuck out in my life:
- Not-quite-dating Justin since October. I care about him more than I want to admit.
- Breaking up with Sean in late December. I hated doing that, but the long-distance thing just wasn't working out. I still miss him and still regret having to end it. We're still friends, still talk, etc.
- Julia. Oh, Julia.
- Fully realizing/embracing how polyamorous I am; bitches, deal with it.
- Getting my Mirena IUD in March. NO BABIES for the next five years (or ever), and hopefully no periods either. The process was long and agonizing, but it was so worth it.
- I started taking pole dancing lessons. And I'm freaking hooked. I love it; I suck and am clumsy and chubby and awkward, but I feel so powerful and sexy when things work out. Pics/videos available on request if I like you enough. Oh, and the lovely girls at dance class - they rock so fucking hard. And I can walk in six-inch stripper heels. Damn. P.S. Justin says we can get a pole in our apartment in Seattle...yes.
- The HUMANWINE concert!! OH, I adore HUMANWINE. I got to sit and talk with Holly and M@ and Brian and Paul...and see Gravity Plays Favorites and the Alley Cat Revue (and get hit on by one of the burlesque girls) and the MUSIC! I dressed up as an Enjoyour, and Justin was a thief - we were the only Vinland inhabitants at that show and it was amazing. I'm so in love. Pics available upon request...so is music.
- My paternal grandmother dying. It was her time.
- Piercing my left inner conch. Long story: for a long time I wanted helix piercings, then everyone started getting helix piercings and I got bored with them. So then I wanted an industrial piercing, but then everyone started getting industrial piercings and I got bored with them. So I started wanting an inner conch piercing...and they're still unusual enough that I'm not bored with them. So I got that done in memory of the aforementioned grandmother. Pics available upon request.
- Photography! My darling Canon Digital Rebel XTi. I love that camera. http://ohjezebel.deviantart.com/ - if you like.
- Piano. LOTS of piano.
- School. Independent research. Applications and failures and grades and reading and
- My goldfish, Turtle, dying. I'm still upset about it. Justin says we can get a cat in Seattle, though, and we plan on making a fishtank.
- HOLYCRAP, GRADUATION!!!! And the real world. I'm so not ready for this.
- Ethiopian food is amazing. So is the soundtrack from the movie "The Fountain" - great movie, great music.
I'm going to go be productive now.