Raptor bitchsmacking and other life goals...
Ahem... so yeah, anyway.
Am currently pretty ill and feeling pretty shoddy with a weekend of aloneness and sickliness to look forward to. Can probably catch up on some of the masses of uni based things I need to sort (and we're only a week into semester!).
So besides feeling like shit warmed up and then fed through a blender with some added vinegar and semen, what have I been up to? I've been drumming my lil' heart out to be able to drum for Samhuinn this year with the Badgers (this will make no sense to newcastley readers but hey ho) and am so excited. I may not get to do Beltane this year and next so it would be great to at least make this Samhuinn a really great one!
This week has been really quite stressful with lunar cycles of crasy, start of university (that now actually goes towards my final grade) and the lurgey hitting me pretty hard. This is the first time I have stopped and not been on the verge of just falling asleep on my feet all week and it feels pretty shiney. Have had to forfeit a pub get together but i'm sure I'll get to meet all the lovely wee freshers next week. I'm feeling a touch lonely (though getting used to that being the Edinburgh default for me) but taking a bit of time to let my brain crash. Its been fun... it crashed rather productively into lots of considerations of what I want for the future. I started looking at my life presently, what I've previously wanted from it, what I have ended up doing and where I want to be going. I know two things are involved... Teaching and Canada.
I've been wanting to be a teacher more and more as the years have gone by and am now looking forward more than ever to that actually being a prospect (just two more years of the degree and then a year training). Though like all career paths where the government are the main influence to the industry... I have to stay realistic that I may not get a job in it. Screw it- i'm going to try anyway. I figure it would make me happy for all sorts of reasons, and I feel its something I could really put myself into.
Canada has been featuring in my day dreams ever since I saw photos a friend had taken on their travels and heard the stories they came back with, I think I was about 16 and its really stuck with me. I've since then looked into it more myself and the geography, the ecology, the culture even... its the kinda place I would really like to live in, even if only for a little while. Ideally for a long while though, where I get some land and start a ferret sanctuary and live in a hobbit hole. A girl can dream!
So yeah... long term plans. For now though... i think I'll pack in with a lemsip and give up. Night.