Part 2 of The Lichenwold Crossing is up on the Torn World website ( Read more... )

After fifteen years of working for newspapers and using AP style, now I'm writing research papers and having to retrain myself to use serial commas again. They even look wrong!

(This entry is also posted at http://layla.dreamwidth.org/172255.html.)

Ugggggh ... now that classes have started again, I'm trying to reset my schedule from mostly-nocturnal to at least somewhat diurnal. It's not getting off to a fantastic start; I went to bed at 1, popped awake at 5:30 a.m. and now here I am, zombie-shambling around campus. braaaaaaaaaaains...

( Just nattering about school )

But I've added some more tools to my repertoire (router and belt sander). And I have a direction, at least, for my final sculpture project (which is due Wednesday *cries*).

I may not be enjoying this sculpture class all that much in some ways -- it's still not really my kind of art -- but I think I've gained more useful skills than in a dozen ( Read more... )

So, one of the reasons I'm feeling massively accomplished this week is that I finally got my welding project done for the sculpture class.

( Pictures of a very big strawberry under the cut )

The last couple of weeks have been hella busy, but I'm feeling so accomplished right now! All my exams are out of the way until finals, and I think I did really well on them; I finished my big welding project in Sculpture; I turned in all of the paperwork and completed most of the school-related errands that I've been putting off, including ( Read more... )

Picked up next semester's course schedule today, and have spent the entire evening poring over it and happily fantasizing about next semester. I made half-hearted attempts to work on my homework in the Native studies class and also to study for the two(!!) art history exams I have next week, but ... lack of functional brain is a problem. So I'm ( Read more... )

Yesterday it snowed lightly, and it's been kind of misting snow all day; there are a couple of inches on the ground. I think this is probably the "big one" ... the one that's going to stick and not melt off. Last glimpse of ground until spring. Well, it's not like I can complain at this point -- this is almost a month later than our usual big ( Read more... )

It really is astonishing to me how school EATS YOUR LIFE. Or, perhaps more accurately, makes it impossible to focus on anything that isn't school, because I'm the sort of person who doesn't really like having tasks hanging over her head -- I either want to get it done right now, or I end up engaging in a lot of avoidance behavior trying not to ( Read more... )

I am now officially among the ranks of the unemployed. My last day at the News-Miner was July 24th; then I was traveling, and now I am back, taking stock and figuring out what the future holds for me ( Read more... )