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cerulean_sky• Once again Delicious has fucked up. Idk what's actually going on business-wise (I gather someone bought the site and wanted to put their own stamp on it) but I imported all my Delicious bookmarks to Google Bookmarks and then deleted my Delicious account. Both as a way of saying, "Fuck you, please die in a fire," to the people who fucked up the website, and also to remove the temptation to keep bookmarking there. I'll have to take some time to get to know Google bookmarks (which needs a shorter and catchier name) and to edit all my bookmarks to make them readable again, but then hopefully everything will be fine again. For a while.
• School is still going well. I wrote the worst paper on Machiavelli for my Ethics class... and got 25 out of 25 points on it. The only comments from the teacher were that it was well constructed and well thought out. Which... is sort of hilarious actually. I mean, if I had handed in that paper at SJC, my teachers would likely have given it back and been like, "You're joking, right?" Apparently the bullshitting skills I learned in high school will serve me well here. Anyway, I seem to be getting good grades. Here's hoping that continues.
• I have a meeting with my Academic Advisor and the guy in charge of Study Abroad in 25 minutes. I am looking forward to that, but a little worried that the deadline for applications for next semester (Spring semester, which is sometimes deceptive, as it actually includes a whole lot of winter) are due October 1st. Which is impossible for me to meet. On the other hand, spending a fall semester (which, again, is deceptive as it usually includes a fair chunk of summer) in Barcelona might be awesome. Then I could always take a few weeks before the term begins and do some exploring in Europe. Though, really, I could also just take weekend trips to Paris/Berlin/Nice/Madrid/other places in Europe when I'm there for school. But that's sort of exciting.
• I've also been notified by Hillel and some other Jewish Youth organization that I might be eligible for a Birth Right trip to Israel. While that's not exactly the safest place on the planet right now... not a whole lot of places on the planet right now are totally "safe" anyway. I'm definitely going to sign up to be selected, but I want to wait for a summer trip. I don't want to miss school. I gather that the trips are fairly short (10 days, someone told me) but you can extend your trip once the group breaks up. So I could do some exploring of that region too. (Egypt, Turkey, Greece, &c.) Fingers crossed for that, as it's possible I could age-out (apparently). Hopefully I am still young enough that I have a little time for this.
• My first real workshop is tomorrow. I am somewhat anxious. I submitted a story that I'd already written (at my first Alpha, I think) but that I've been wanting to revise pretty much since the moment I finished writing it but never really knew what to do with it. Actually, about two days before I handed it out to the class I realized what I wanted to do with it, but I am hoping that I will still get some good things from having people look at it. (I don't think this piece ever got workshopped at Alpha, so.) I am excited but also nervous. Eeeeee.
• Rosh Hashana starts tomorrow evening, and I have already informed my teachers that I will be out of class for Thursday day. Yes, I could technically make it to class if I really wanted to, but it's a holiday. And I suspect that I will be exhausted, as I am also taking my mother to the airport at 6:30am. I am very much looking forward to the singing, even though the director (I think) wants me to sit in the most visible place of the entire choir seating. I expect I will be bright pink and shaking for all of our songs.
• Still working on fic things. Not making much progress because it makes me cranky that they aren't doing what I want, but. Technically, still working.
• A friend of mine -- or, rather, someone I thought was a friend -- is being passive aggressive, and lying to me (I think) and talking about my behind my back (or so I've been told). Which is upsetting. I knew she was a compulsive liar and that she had trouble keeping anything confidential (and by trouble I mean that it never happened) but I overlooked that for the majority of our friendship because there are a lot of things I actually like about her. I think I'm going to give up. I've done my part. I've made the effort, and if she's not going to, I don't think it's fair to myself to keep trying. Which... is rather sad.
And now my meeting is in 10 minutes, so I think it's time to wrap up this post.
• School is still going well. I wrote the worst paper on Machiavelli for my Ethics class... and got 25 out of 25 points on it. The only comments from the teacher were that it was well constructed and well thought out. Which... is sort of hilarious actually. I mean, if I had handed in that paper at SJC, my teachers would likely have given it back and been like, "You're joking, right?" Apparently the bullshitting skills I learned in high school will serve me well here. Anyway, I seem to be getting good grades. Here's hoping that continues.
• I have a meeting with my Academic Advisor and the guy in charge of Study Abroad in 25 minutes. I am looking forward to that, but a little worried that the deadline for applications for next semester (Spring semester, which is sometimes deceptive, as it actually includes a whole lot of winter) are due October 1st. Which is impossible for me to meet. On the other hand, spending a fall semester (which, again, is deceptive as it usually includes a fair chunk of summer) in Barcelona might be awesome. Then I could always take a few weeks before the term begins and do some exploring in Europe. Though, really, I could also just take weekend trips to Paris/Berlin/Nice/Madrid/other places in Europe when I'm there for school. But that's sort of exciting.
• I've also been notified by Hillel and some other Jewish Youth organization that I might be eligible for a Birth Right trip to Israel. While that's not exactly the safest place on the planet right now... not a whole lot of places on the planet right now are totally "safe" anyway. I'm definitely going to sign up to be selected, but I want to wait for a summer trip. I don't want to miss school. I gather that the trips are fairly short (10 days, someone told me) but you can extend your trip once the group breaks up. So I could do some exploring of that region too. (Egypt, Turkey, Greece, &c.) Fingers crossed for that, as it's possible I could age-out (apparently). Hopefully I am still young enough that I have a little time for this.
• My first real workshop is tomorrow. I am somewhat anxious. I submitted a story that I'd already written (at my first Alpha, I think) but that I've been wanting to revise pretty much since the moment I finished writing it but never really knew what to do with it. Actually, about two days before I handed it out to the class I realized what I wanted to do with it, but I am hoping that I will still get some good things from having people look at it. (I don't think this piece ever got workshopped at Alpha, so.) I am excited but also nervous. Eeeeee.
• Rosh Hashana starts tomorrow evening, and I have already informed my teachers that I will be out of class for Thursday day. Yes, I could technically make it to class if I really wanted to, but it's a holiday. And I suspect that I will be exhausted, as I am also taking my mother to the airport at 6:30am. I am very much looking forward to the singing, even though the director (I think) wants me to sit in the most visible place of the entire choir seating. I expect I will be bright pink and shaking for all of our songs.
• Still working on fic things. Not making much progress because it makes me cranky that they aren't doing what I want, but. Technically, still working.
• A friend of mine -- or, rather, someone I thought was a friend -- is being passive aggressive, and lying to me (I think) and talking about my behind my back (or so I've been told). Which is upsetting. I knew she was a compulsive liar and that she had trouble keeping anything confidential (and by trouble I mean that it never happened) but I overlooked that for the majority of our friendship because there are a lot of things I actually like about her. I think I'm going to give up. I've done my part. I've made the effort, and if she's not going to, I don't think it's fair to myself to keep trying. Which... is rather sad.
And now my meeting is in 10 minutes, so I think it's time to wrap up this post.
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