Ahem...
Time for an update, I suppose. It has been a while.
First and foremost...I just canceled my myspace account. Anyone else sick of the random creeps looking to friend you? Yeah...I don't care how sexy you think you are, I do not want to "come on over" and "have a crazy time" with you. Ugh.
I've been working loads. I started my first fulltime week this week. Should be exciting. I've got next Friday off so Kristen and I can drive down to Berkeley TO SEE RADIOHEAD!!!! :) I'm a bit excited. Also, I found out today that I get the day before 4 July off as well as the holiday itself. Long weekend...maybe I'll ask for the Thursday/Friday before off as well and take a long trip home? Or I'll just go to the beach. Either way...anyone want to do anything that week? :)
Mum and Grandma came for a visit! That was lovely. Mum spoiled me rotten, of course...bought me all sorts of pretty things, none of which are at all useful, but who really needs useful things, anyway? I found Ed Emberley's drawing books at Prize, which really made my weekend. In second grade my teacher would post a new animal or scene on the board each day and teach us how to draw them. Ed Emberley is great...especially for visual-art challenged people, such as myself. Heh. We also went to the Midsummer's Dream art fair, which was really cool. There were costumes that anyone could wear and walk around in - huge ten-foot-tall wizards and goblins and a wolf-spirit, with lots of crazy birds. I love Ashland. Where else can you find such insanity and still be so mellow about it?
Anyway, that's all that's really going on in my life. I'm moved in to my apartment and out of the dorms. I'm still working on finishing up my Linguistics paper...er...avoiding it, actually. I don't want to work on it. And Dr. Nash doesn't want me to write about video games as much as he wants me to write about the internet. My paper, by the way, is about the gendered nature of language on the internet and in video games. Interesting topic, no? I thought so. And I was having fun writing it until peer-edits. Then Dr. Nash informed me that perhaps I shouldn't use video games. Ugh. That's two whole pages gone. Peer-edits did lift my spirits. Some very nice person wrote that my paper was the most interesting in the group. :) Made me all warm and fuzzy inside, lol.
Namárië
First and foremost...I just canceled my myspace account. Anyone else sick of the random creeps looking to friend you? Yeah...I don't care how sexy you think you are, I do not want to "come on over" and "have a crazy time" with you. Ugh.
I've been working loads. I started my first fulltime week this week. Should be exciting. I've got next Friday off so Kristen and I can drive down to Berkeley TO SEE RADIOHEAD!!!! :) I'm a bit excited. Also, I found out today that I get the day before 4 July off as well as the holiday itself. Long weekend...maybe I'll ask for the Thursday/Friday before off as well and take a long trip home? Or I'll just go to the beach. Either way...anyone want to do anything that week? :)
Mum and Grandma came for a visit! That was lovely. Mum spoiled me rotten, of course...bought me all sorts of pretty things, none of which are at all useful, but who really needs useful things, anyway? I found Ed Emberley's drawing books at Prize, which really made my weekend. In second grade my teacher would post a new animal or scene on the board each day and teach us how to draw them. Ed Emberley is great...especially for visual-art challenged people, such as myself. Heh. We also went to the Midsummer's Dream art fair, which was really cool. There were costumes that anyone could wear and walk around in - huge ten-foot-tall wizards and goblins and a wolf-spirit, with lots of crazy birds. I love Ashland. Where else can you find such insanity and still be so mellow about it?
Anyway, that's all that's really going on in my life. I'm moved in to my apartment and out of the dorms. I'm still working on finishing up my Linguistics paper...er...avoiding it, actually. I don't want to work on it. And Dr. Nash doesn't want me to write about video games as much as he wants me to write about the internet. My paper, by the way, is about the gendered nature of language on the internet and in video games. Interesting topic, no? I thought so. And I was having fun writing it until peer-edits. Then Dr. Nash informed me that perhaps I shouldn't use video games. Ugh. That's two whole pages gone. Peer-edits did lift my spirits. Some very nice person wrote that my paper was the most interesting in the group. :) Made me all warm and fuzzy inside, lol.
Namárië