Eyes, Birthday, School, Clockwork
I've been living in a hippie town too long. I say this because I realized today that one of my chief annoyances about Lubbock is the fact that is is not easy to recycle here and it makes me cringe a little bit every time I throw out a plastic carton or a glass bottle. *shakes fist* The hippies have gotten me!
I just got back from a follow-up appointment with an opthalmalogist here in Lubbock about my eye and he said that it's healing up nicely. I just have to keep taking my eye drops through the end of the week and no contacts until next Monday, but that is quite okay. I'm just glad that I caught this before it had the opportunity to develop into something really nasty. Apparently I'll always have a tiny tiny scar on my eyeball, but I'm all right with that.
My birthday is in three days. I'll be twenty-four. Good lord, where did twenty-three go? I don't have many strong feelings about this birthday except that I'm glad for an opportunity to go home again and celebrate it with friends and family. Is anyone going to be around? Anyone? Anyone?
School is going schoolishly, as always. I have a four page paper due tomorrow that I've got some work done on but that I obviously need to finish and then some various school things. There are always various school things, it seems. Looming on the horizon is a major paper for my English LIt class that I'll be writing on magic in Marlowe's Dr. Faustus and then a major project in my Addiction Prevention class wherein I have to analyze a community and pick a prevention program that suits its needs. Fun stuff, I tell ya.
I'm looking forward to Thanksgiving (specifically Thanksgiving break) but most of all I am looking forward to Christmas. Getting to go home for a month is an amazing incentive all by itself, but I think this Christmas will be particularly awesome. There has been talk of embarking on a new writing project and Zandra and Boo and people will be in town so I'm really excited for it.
On a vaguely related note, I have recently been doing some research into Clockpunk and Dieselpunk. Because, you know, Steampunk is far too mainstream. Clockpunk, in particular, has really piqued my interest as I was planning on using a lot of clockwork elements in a story that I'd like to get down on paper sometime soon. This has led me to stumble upon some truly amazing wooden clock projects like these, which I am dying to attempt despite the fact that I have neither the time, nor the money, nor any knowledge of woodworking. But they are just so COOL.
I just got back from a follow-up appointment with an opthalmalogist here in Lubbock about my eye and he said that it's healing up nicely. I just have to keep taking my eye drops through the end of the week and no contacts until next Monday, but that is quite okay. I'm just glad that I caught this before it had the opportunity to develop into something really nasty. Apparently I'll always have a tiny tiny scar on my eyeball, but I'm all right with that.
My birthday is in three days. I'll be twenty-four. Good lord, where did twenty-three go? I don't have many strong feelings about this birthday except that I'm glad for an opportunity to go home again and celebrate it with friends and family. Is anyone going to be around? Anyone? Anyone?
School is going schoolishly, as always. I have a four page paper due tomorrow that I've got some work done on but that I obviously need to finish and then some various school things. There are always various school things, it seems. Looming on the horizon is a major paper for my English LIt class that I'll be writing on magic in Marlowe's Dr. Faustus and then a major project in my Addiction Prevention class wherein I have to analyze a community and pick a prevention program that suits its needs. Fun stuff, I tell ya.
I'm looking forward to Thanksgiving (specifically Thanksgiving break) but most of all I am looking forward to Christmas. Getting to go home for a month is an amazing incentive all by itself, but I think this Christmas will be particularly awesome. There has been talk of embarking on a new writing project and Zandra and Boo and people will be in town so I'm really excited for it.
On a vaguely related note, I have recently been doing some research into Clockpunk and Dieselpunk. Because, you know, Steampunk is far too mainstream. Clockpunk, in particular, has really piqued my interest as I was planning on using a lot of clockwork elements in a story that I'd like to get down on paper sometime soon. This has led me to stumble upon some truly amazing wooden clock projects like these, which I am dying to attempt despite the fact that I have neither the time, nor the money, nor any knowledge of woodworking. But they are just so COOL.