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cerulean_sky) wrote2011-09-12 10:53 am
cerulean_sky) wrote2011-09-12 10:53 am
In which Sky is resigned to not having a cat for a while.
Goodness, it's been a while since I posted about my life, hasn't it?
• I've started school! So far, so good. My Bible and Ethics classes are very basic. I should have pushed to have my seminars from St. John's cover the things they're covering, but I was too hesitant. Still, they allow me to sort of ease into "real college" I guess. (I had to take a test last Friday! I... didn't even remember how to do that. I only got 65% on it, too. I will do better next time.) Anyway, I'm hoping those two will be easy A's. My writing classes (two of them, each is only one class per week) were really awful the first class, and then got better for the second one. Should be interesting. I think I can something out of them, even if the rest of my classmates are awful. Then there's my lit class, which is pretty neat. The teacher is a young British guy. At least listening to him is fun.
• My cat has been missing for three days. Unfortunately, I saw a coyote eating the grapes from our grape vines the night before last. Which, by the way, is three feet from my front door. I don't have a whole lot of hope for finding her, not when coyotes are venturing that close. But I am going to go to the animal shelter today and I will do all the things with her microchip. But I am sad. I don't think I'm going to get another cat while I'm living in this place. The house isn't really the sort that can keep an animal in, and this is not the first, second or even third cat we've lost up here. So I'll just have to wait until I'm living somewhere else.
• I got sick on Friday. I'm still sick today, but not nearly as bad as I was. Saturday was my bad day, but luckily, I stayed home and rested and pretty much didn't leave bed. I was hoping to beat it by today, but if I keep up my regimen of warm liquids, cold meds and lots of blowing my nose, I should be all right. It needs to be gone in two weeks.
• Two weeks will be Rosh Hashana, which normally I am not into. But this year I joined my old Temple's choir, so I will be singing for the High Holy Days, which includes Rosh Hashana. I am quite enjoying the singing, despite my stage fright, but I'm just not auditioning for any of the solos, so I ought to be fine within the group. A lot of the songs are familiar from when a) my dad was in the choir and b) from going to services even when he wasn't. Some of the songs bring back strong aural memories of the man who used to do the music for our Temple before he left—which, I realized years later, precipitated my loss of faith and interest in Judaism. (I don't know that I am up for explaining this, so please take it at face value.) Anyway, singing again is nice. I would like to maybe find a voice teacher for my own enjoyment. I'll ask our director about it.
• In case you missed it, I posted a fic! (I guess it's more like a ficlet, as it's just over 1k words.) It's Just Darkness I'm Living In, X-Men: First Class, PG-13 with mentions of domestic abuse. It was intended to be Erik/Charles, but. Um. That ended up not being the focus of the story. There is a second one coming (which is turning out to be twice as long as I anticipated) and will have smut in it. So. Keep an eye out.
• I got woken up by policemen again over the weekend (luckily, even though it was early, I just went back to sleep). It seems to have something to do with the rain? Idk. That's what they thought. Either way, my mom or I will call the phone company and ask them what's up. Because it would suck to be the person living in the house that's calling wolf, so to speak. If something happens to me, it would be awesome if they were happy to come help. (Speaking of, I ought to start putting together my Emergency Kit. Hm.)
Can't think of anything else right now. I have some stories to read over for workshops this week.
• I've started school! So far, so good. My Bible and Ethics classes are very basic. I should have pushed to have my seminars from St. John's cover the things they're covering, but I was too hesitant. Still, they allow me to sort of ease into "real college" I guess. (I had to take a test last Friday! I... didn't even remember how to do that. I only got 65% on it, too. I will do better next time.) Anyway, I'm hoping those two will be easy A's. My writing classes (two of them, each is only one class per week) were really awful the first class, and then got better for the second one. Should be interesting. I think I can something out of them, even if the rest of my classmates are awful. Then there's my lit class, which is pretty neat. The teacher is a young British guy. At least listening to him is fun.
• My cat has been missing for three days. Unfortunately, I saw a coyote eating the grapes from our grape vines the night before last. Which, by the way, is three feet from my front door. I don't have a whole lot of hope for finding her, not when coyotes are venturing that close. But I am going to go to the animal shelter today and I will do all the things with her microchip. But I am sad. I don't think I'm going to get another cat while I'm living in this place. The house isn't really the sort that can keep an animal in, and this is not the first, second or even third cat we've lost up here. So I'll just have to wait until I'm living somewhere else.
• I got sick on Friday. I'm still sick today, but not nearly as bad as I was. Saturday was my bad day, but luckily, I stayed home and rested and pretty much didn't leave bed. I was hoping to beat it by today, but if I keep up my regimen of warm liquids, cold meds and lots of blowing my nose, I should be all right. It needs to be gone in two weeks.
• Two weeks will be Rosh Hashana, which normally I am not into. But this year I joined my old Temple's choir, so I will be singing for the High Holy Days, which includes Rosh Hashana. I am quite enjoying the singing, despite my stage fright, but I'm just not auditioning for any of the solos, so I ought to be fine within the group. A lot of the songs are familiar from when a) my dad was in the choir and b) from going to services even when he wasn't. Some of the songs bring back strong aural memories of the man who used to do the music for our Temple before he left—which, I realized years later, precipitated my loss of faith and interest in Judaism. (I don't know that I am up for explaining this, so please take it at face value.) Anyway, singing again is nice. I would like to maybe find a voice teacher for my own enjoyment. I'll ask our director about it.
• In case you missed it, I posted a fic! (I guess it's more like a ficlet, as it's just over 1k words.) It's Just Darkness I'm Living In, X-Men: First Class, PG-13 with mentions of domestic abuse. It was intended to be Erik/Charles, but. Um. That ended up not being the focus of the story. There is a second one coming (which is turning out to be twice as long as I anticipated) and will have smut in it. So. Keep an eye out.
• I got woken up by policemen again over the weekend (luckily, even though it was early, I just went back to sleep). It seems to have something to do with the rain? Idk. That's what they thought. Either way, my mom or I will call the phone company and ask them what's up. Because it would suck to be the person living in the house that's calling wolf, so to speak. If something happens to me, it would be awesome if they were happy to come help. (Speaking of, I ought to start putting together my Emergency Kit. Hm.)
Can't think of anything else right now. I have some stories to read over for workshops this week.
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BUT WE SHOULD TALK MORE. I shall be on this afternoon. SHALL YOU BE? *hughughug*
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I think I will be! I have to run to the library and return books, and go to the animal shelter which is way outside town, and also possibly get my hair trimmed as I have been putting it off. (On the other hand, I haven't washed my hair in a while, so maybe that will wait...) But! After all that, I will likely be online for a bit!
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YAY BEING SOCIAL. I... was not.
(Also, because I am the worst friend ever, I didn't get around to your fic. I will have to read it Wednesday afternoon at this point, I think. Sorry! But I have tons and tons of time then, so I will go at it with the proverbial red pen and all my knowledge of... you know, things like plot and things like that.)
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COME TALK TO ME THIS WEEKEND, YEAH?
omg, what is it with you and making me talk in all caps....
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I WILL.
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I just discovered that my $1 Wednesday theater only charges $3.50 for regular showings. Hm. Maybe that's what I'll do Friday after class...
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Our theater is $2.50 everyday but Tuesday, where it's $1. Granted, the place looked like crap lol. Maybe it'll look better -- I'd pay extra for better seats!
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Ooh, that's not bad. Ours has really shitty screens, so that's the price I pay for only paying $3.50 haha.
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Ugh, summer colds are the worst. Fuck them and the horse they rode in on. Luckily, I seem to be staving the worst of this one off, and I hope to have it totally conquered by Wednesday rehearsal.