it's september? (insert your own septum joke here...)
well, well, well...back at school!
after all those weeks of longing to get back to school and mentioning that to a number of people, i'm now hip deep in unfinished reading and regretting my misuse of those long summer months. le sigh, eh? (except for that month in greece. that was a'ight. well, let's be honest - that was way more than a'ight. :) ) so, school! yes. history 101:western civilization 1500-present just does not tug at my heart strings as one would imagine it might... my favorite class this semester, and i hope it remains so, is psychology of peace and reconciliation. it's been a bit theoretical for my taste, but also a lot of discussion - finally a psyc class i can give a feces about! >what are feces? - baby mice!<
I'm working again - all the same places: coffee cart, jewelery room, ceramics room, 2-d design room... all good stuff.
also, the volunteering is up and running, with mixed results. there's a program i'm really interested in based in los angeles that helps victims of human trafficking (oh god the spelling) get settled here and reestablished into a lifestyle. alas, i had no way of getting to the orientation, so we'll see, eh? i AM, however, finally able to fit ArtSmart into my schedule (as a result of dropping them's dance classes for the semester - thanks again emma jane for the support! and all else too :) ), which means 2 hours a week i go do art projects with kiddies. awww, kiddies... i'm organizing food for fright night again. 'organizing'. way easy, but it's still fun to see the kids all dressed up with their tiny faces painted and their pudgy hands chock full of candy. also, i gave maddy the job of ensuring that my lazy ass gets on a de colores trip this year. anyone else who can help light the fire under my bum with regards to that and one of them alternative break trips would be very much appreciated - on my own, i am useless and conventional, overpoweringly prone to napping; while i am at the same time, in a wicked twist, also overpoweringly prone to regret...
i'm excited for spending this weekend at school - finally a chance to fully finish unpacking and organizing. apartment is good. in the opposing corner, we gots the rocking cat. and in the other corner we have the groovy eileen. and in the..other corner we have the awesome holly. (i don't know why i decided to relate that to boxing. i did a poor job of it in any event. and didn't go anywhere. okay cool) anyway, they're all foxy ladies and it's been fun so far - no altercations as of yet!! :D
while i say i'm excited to spend this first whole weekend on campus, i'm not sad about spending the last two weekends away. the first i fled for the homestead - cashew was home, bringing the lovely Yurie along. always fun :) i like the direction our relationship has taken in the past few years. as in.. we have one now that doesn't involve 'ah! you're a kid!' (i've never been an older sibling - i really don't know what it's like or if it involves any thought process like 'ah! you're a kid!' but i imagine it might. i don't even know what i'm getting at right now. i seem to have that problem a lot) also, briank was in sebastopol for fundraising and it was of course great to see him. any chance i get, it's welcome! (i also went up to see him in etna a couple weeks before school - he played the sax and the bass and sang subterranean homesick blues! i'm giggling with delight at the very thought!) especially considering that come november... well, i don't want to think about that. for now, i'm just so happy i got to see him for a few days (((side note: i realized that the last time i spent more than two days at a time with him was march. ugh. end thought))) so, yes, that was the weekend at home. and last weekend was nichole's birthday! it was a big ol' ursuline party which was unexpected but not unpleasant! (for any ursuline grads) rachel, christina, and sally, along with nichole and myself, went to a barbecue at nichole's friend house and it was good times. one good cab driver "i'm only supposed to take four of you, but since none of youz are FAT, just get in..". one mean cab driver "::grunt:: i'm just having a bad night ::grunt. grunt.::"
i know the date stamp on this says september 16, but it's really not! it's the 15th! which means HAPPY BIRTHDAY EMMA JANE!!!!!! i won't sing and i will stop, as i don't want to annoy you. but i hope you had a day as wonderful as you are. (meaning extremely wonderful and fascinating and fantastic and fun. the 3 f's - very important!)
i'm itching to go to some sort of concert. just something GOOD. the velvet teen, the new trust, cursive, heck - matchbox 20, ben folds. something that feels legit.
all in all, things are good. there are definitely moments, but there are some great people that always manage to peel me up and away from my yucky places. my aspirations seem to be somewhat beginning to (baby steps, people, baby steps!) crystallize. it's late for me to switch things around drastically, but i don't think my degree >at least at this point< will have a huge bearing on the direction my life takes. could be good or bad, but i'm constantly being told that whatever degree i have will be useful to me in some way. i'm banking on there being at least small beads of truth in that so that the remainder of my college career doesn't continue in the whirlwind 'what's your major again?' fashion that the first half turned out to be.
tea and crumpets, this turned out rather longer than expected, but such is life. i shan't apologize, though - my usual tendency to apologize wears me thin and i won't have any more of it; hear that self - no more! at least..you know...less....
for all of y'all who don't have a myspace and to whom i have yet to show a singly greece picture, here's one (it's my favorite. all the prettiness of greece wrapped up on one..+ me as proof i was really there)..
i hope that worked; if it didn't, it's on myspace, which is free, and the name of my profile is currently 'like spinning plates'.
fun fact for the day: did you know that the term 'scapegoat' comes from an old, village-based ceremony in which a goat was caught and each member of the village told the goat their sins and/or secrets; the goat was then either let loose in the forest with the idea that it wouldn't be able to find its way back, or killed in one way or another. i had no idea about this and thought it was kinda cool. (as cool as abusing a goat can really be..)
with that, <3 i'll sign off
after all those weeks of longing to get back to school and mentioning that to a number of people, i'm now hip deep in unfinished reading and regretting my misuse of those long summer months. le sigh, eh? (except for that month in greece. that was a'ight. well, let's be honest - that was way more than a'ight. :) ) so, school! yes. history 101:western civilization 1500-present just does not tug at my heart strings as one would imagine it might... my favorite class this semester, and i hope it remains so, is psychology of peace and reconciliation. it's been a bit theoretical for my taste, but also a lot of discussion - finally a psyc class i can give a feces about! >what are feces? - baby mice!<
I'm working again - all the same places: coffee cart, jewelery room, ceramics room, 2-d design room... all good stuff.
also, the volunteering is up and running, with mixed results. there's a program i'm really interested in based in los angeles that helps victims of human trafficking (oh god the spelling) get settled here and reestablished into a lifestyle. alas, i had no way of getting to the orientation, so we'll see, eh? i AM, however, finally able to fit ArtSmart into my schedule (as a result of dropping them's dance classes for the semester - thanks again emma jane for the support! and all else too :) ), which means 2 hours a week i go do art projects with kiddies. awww, kiddies... i'm organizing food for fright night again. 'organizing'. way easy, but it's still fun to see the kids all dressed up with their tiny faces painted and their pudgy hands chock full of candy. also, i gave maddy the job of ensuring that my lazy ass gets on a de colores trip this year. anyone else who can help light the fire under my bum with regards to that and one of them alternative break trips would be very much appreciated - on my own, i am useless and conventional, overpoweringly prone to napping; while i am at the same time, in a wicked twist, also overpoweringly prone to regret...
i'm excited for spending this weekend at school - finally a chance to fully finish unpacking and organizing. apartment is good. in the opposing corner, we gots the rocking cat. and in the other corner we have the groovy eileen. and in the..other corner we have the awesome holly. (i don't know why i decided to relate that to boxing. i did a poor job of it in any event. and didn't go anywhere. okay cool) anyway, they're all foxy ladies and it's been fun so far - no altercations as of yet!! :D
while i say i'm excited to spend this first whole weekend on campus, i'm not sad about spending the last two weekends away. the first i fled for the homestead - cashew was home, bringing the lovely Yurie along. always fun :) i like the direction our relationship has taken in the past few years. as in.. we have one now that doesn't involve 'ah! you're a kid!' (i've never been an older sibling - i really don't know what it's like or if it involves any thought process like 'ah! you're a kid!' but i imagine it might. i don't even know what i'm getting at right now. i seem to have that problem a lot) also, briank was in sebastopol for fundraising and it was of course great to see him. any chance i get, it's welcome! (i also went up to see him in etna a couple weeks before school - he played the sax and the bass and sang subterranean homesick blues! i'm giggling with delight at the very thought!) especially considering that come november... well, i don't want to think about that. for now, i'm just so happy i got to see him for a few days (((side note: i realized that the last time i spent more than two days at a time with him was march. ugh. end thought))) so, yes, that was the weekend at home. and last weekend was nichole's birthday! it was a big ol' ursuline party which was unexpected but not unpleasant! (for any ursuline grads) rachel, christina, and sally, along with nichole and myself, went to a barbecue at nichole's friend house and it was good times. one good cab driver "i'm only supposed to take four of you, but since none of youz are FAT, just get in..". one mean cab driver "::grunt:: i'm just having a bad night ::grunt. grunt.::"
i know the date stamp on this says september 16, but it's really not! it's the 15th! which means HAPPY BIRTHDAY EMMA JANE!!!!!! i won't sing and i will stop, as i don't want to annoy you. but i hope you had a day as wonderful as you are. (meaning extremely wonderful and fascinating and fantastic and fun. the 3 f's - very important!)
i'm itching to go to some sort of concert. just something GOOD. the velvet teen, the new trust, cursive, heck - matchbox 20, ben folds. something that feels legit.
all in all, things are good. there are definitely moments, but there are some great people that always manage to peel me up and away from my yucky places. my aspirations seem to be somewhat beginning to (baby steps, people, baby steps!) crystallize. it's late for me to switch things around drastically, but i don't think my degree >at least at this point< will have a huge bearing on the direction my life takes. could be good or bad, but i'm constantly being told that whatever degree i have will be useful to me in some way. i'm banking on there being at least small beads of truth in that so that the remainder of my college career doesn't continue in the whirlwind 'what's your major again?' fashion that the first half turned out to be.
tea and crumpets, this turned out rather longer than expected, but such is life. i shan't apologize, though - my usual tendency to apologize wears me thin and i won't have any more of it; hear that self - no more! at least..you know...less....
for all of y'all who don't have a myspace and to whom i have yet to show a singly greece picture, here's one (it's my favorite. all the prettiness of greece wrapped up on one..+ me as proof i was really there)..
i hope that worked; if it didn't, it's on myspace, which is free, and the name of my profile is currently 'like spinning plates'.
fun fact for the day: did you know that the term 'scapegoat' comes from an old, village-based ceremony in which a goat was caught and each member of the village told the goat their sins and/or secrets; the goat was then either let loose in the forest with the idea that it wouldn't be able to find its way back, or killed in one way or another. i had no idea about this and thought it was kinda cool. (as cool as abusing a goat can really be..)
with that, <3 i'll sign off