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Yesterday and today I have been sick. This has both positive and negative effects.
The negative:
A lot has happened in my life since I made anything resembling a detailed post here. I guess I did that freewrite recently, but it's not particularly clear. Oh, I guess I did write about Daniel and Ann breaking up. Well, now Daniel and I have moved out. We finally live in Amherst! This is kind of cool, because I am finally living where I have been wanting to live for a very long time. Our roomies are a couple who just got married shortly before we met them, so that when they eventually go to Japan things will be easier. They are very kind and chill. We have a lot in common: we are all HUGE nerds. They play DnD regularly and love anime/all things Japanese. We like cooking.... and CATS. Omg, we live with 4 cats now, count 'em, four! Our two, Sher Khan and Jean-Luc, and their two, Lady Grey (hahah!) and Snickers. We live in apartment complex neighborhood. I always think these things are kind of ugly outside. But the inside is great. Its town-house style, very neat. I love that finally I am not living in either a place that was made by partitioning a house or in a triple stack. It feels whole. Upstairs are the two bedrooms, a full bath (what a NICE tub!), and a generous linen closet. We have our desks set up in our room and they're situated well. The cats love perching on the stairs. Downstairs is the front living room, which Sabrina and Adam let us decorate/organize. We put the Gohonzon in there and most of the bookshelves. We also added the dining table there. The kitchen is pretty sweet. Sabrina simply divided the cupboards in half and had my half emptied out already when we got there. What would usually be the dining room is the DnD den, complete with all kinds of nerdy fantasy and video-game posters and tables for playing. I guess I kind of want to take and post pictures at some point. I think our camera's dead but maybe eventually. There's still a few boxes/things to find homes for, but Daniel has been working very hard and things are looking nice.
School is intense. I figured it would be, but it is a major challenge to read everything. I hardly got anything read last weekend and it made my week very stressful. I got a lot done yesterday and today, but more would be much better. I am considering not going to class tomorrow if I still feel this way though, and that would give me some extra time. Hindi is beautiful, cool, and haaard. All my classes are pretty interesting and I'm learning a good deal. I am glad to be doing what I'm doing. It can be stressful, and I'm trying to remember that this should be joyful, I'm living as I choose.
Could write a good chunk about SGI stuff, but will leave that for another time. Food is here!
The negative:
- missing World Peace Prayer Meeting for the second month in a row, and for 3 out of the last four. Absolutely a bummer.
- not babysitting = making bank the only way I have right now. Also not spending half the day with 3 cute little girl
- Getting all of my reading done for one class this week
- getting about 1/5th my reading done for another class
- being treated kindly by my roomie and my boyfriend
A lot has happened in my life since I made anything resembling a detailed post here. I guess I did that freewrite recently, but it's not particularly clear. Oh, I guess I did write about Daniel and Ann breaking up. Well, now Daniel and I have moved out. We finally live in Amherst! This is kind of cool, because I am finally living where I have been wanting to live for a very long time. Our roomies are a couple who just got married shortly before we met them, so that when they eventually go to Japan things will be easier. They are very kind and chill. We have a lot in common: we are all HUGE nerds. They play DnD regularly and love anime/all things Japanese. We like cooking.... and CATS. Omg, we live with 4 cats now, count 'em, four! Our two, Sher Khan and Jean-Luc, and their two, Lady Grey (hahah!) and Snickers. We live in apartment complex neighborhood. I always think these things are kind of ugly outside. But the inside is great. Its town-house style, very neat. I love that finally I am not living in either a place that was made by partitioning a house or in a triple stack. It feels whole. Upstairs are the two bedrooms, a full bath (what a NICE tub!), and a generous linen closet. We have our desks set up in our room and they're situated well. The cats love perching on the stairs. Downstairs is the front living room, which Sabrina and Adam let us decorate/organize. We put the Gohonzon in there and most of the bookshelves. We also added the dining table there. The kitchen is pretty sweet. Sabrina simply divided the cupboards in half and had my half emptied out already when we got there. What would usually be the dining room is the DnD den, complete with all kinds of nerdy fantasy and video-game posters and tables for playing. I guess I kind of want to take and post pictures at some point. I think our camera's dead but maybe eventually. There's still a few boxes/things to find homes for, but Daniel has been working very hard and things are looking nice.
School is intense. I figured it would be, but it is a major challenge to read everything. I hardly got anything read last weekend and it made my week very stressful. I got a lot done yesterday and today, but more would be much better. I am considering not going to class tomorrow if I still feel this way though, and that would give me some extra time. Hindi is beautiful, cool, and haaard. All my classes are pretty interesting and I'm learning a good deal. I am glad to be doing what I'm doing. It can be stressful, and I'm trying to remember that this should be joyful, I'm living as I choose.
Could write a good chunk about SGI stuff, but will leave that for another time. Food is here!