cerulean_sky: ([kc] carry on)
• After talking to some people, looking at some schools and thinking about it, I've officially decided to withdraw from St. John's at the end of this semester. I've decided that it's not worth making myself suffer through half the program and making myself miserable just for the half that I like. So, I've filled out my withdrawal form, and I have to make a trek through all the administrative offices to get them to say that I don't have any outstanding balances or what have you, and then... I will officially not go to this school anymore.

• Since the part of the program that I like can pretty much be done in a Classics program, that's what I'm looking at. I'm looking at a bunch of schools in California (land of fair weather and mostly no snow) that are cheaper than St. John's and Lang. And have good Classics programs, of course. I might look into getting some sort of Creative Writing minor, but I'm not sure I want to focus on my writing in a college. I prefer to do that in specialized workshops around the country (which I swear, one day I will actually apply to them).

• Since it's too late to apply for the coming Fall semester anywhere, I'll be taking the next 6 months off at minimum. It's possible I could find a place to start for the 2012 Spring semester, but it's entirely possible that I will wait until the 2012 Fall semester to actually start somewhere, which would give me the most amount of time to work and make/save money. Since I have cats, I'd like to be able to live off of whatever campus I end up at, and saving money through a year would allow me to have a cushion of savings for rent somewhere.

• Still looking for a car. School officially ends on May 19, and I would really love to have a car by then. Or soon after then. (Found a couple good ones on Craigslist, and I am going to ovary up and call them tonight.)

• I am planning on selling most of my Japanese manga on eBay this summer. Because I have a bunch of it that has been sitting in boxes for years that I am never going to get back into or ever going to be able to read and I can make some extra $$$ off of it. If anyone has any experience with selling on eBay, please let me know. I am kind of clueless. I have an account, have registered as a seller and have hooked my Pay Pal up to it, but between now and when I sort through all my manga in a couple weeks and start taking pictures, I kind of need to know what I'm supposed to do? Idk. (Possibly I will sell some of my books to a used bookstore, too. Because why not. I have too many of them that I've never read and am probably never going to.)

• Have to decide which of my next... four tattoos I want to get once school ends. Fleur-de-lys tramp stamp, celtic pentacle on my hip, "Steal Your Heart" on my... ankle?, or "Keep Calm and Carry On" on my... wrist? If I felt like sticking a poll in here, I would. Maybe another time. Just tell me in comments if you have an opinion. :)

Whoops, class time.
cerulean_sky: ([yv] hold me close)
• Talked to Mom about Mexico. She said she might be able to get me a trip there for my birthday. Commence squeeing like a disturbed fangirl. Warm and toasty, here I come! Beach, oh how I have missed you. Did you guys know that like... two months before I moved to Santa Fe, I bought a bikini. I've never worn it. Clearly, I need to go to Tulum and the beach, if only to have a chance to wear this friggen' bathing suit!

• I am thinking about getting a netbook—yes, I am deviating from (but not abandoning!) my fierce loyalty to Apple—to take back and forth to school. Since my MacBook is heavy and if it gets stolen or damaged, I will probably have to commit ritual suicide. (My life is on here!) But a teeny laptop that can do internet and documents and has a little bit of storage space is perfect. So. Any suggestions? I'm looking at the Acer Aspire and this Acer AO532h-2223. But also I know that [livejournal.com profile] exrpan liked HPs, so I'm sort of looking at this HP Mini, one of my techy friends has a Lenovo, so I'm looking at this Lenovo Netbook, Mira has a Vaio so I'm considering this Vaio Mini Netbook. Or, I guess an Asus Eee PC, a Toshiba Mini Netbook, or a Samsung Netbook. YOU HAVE TO HELP ME OUT GUYS. The only computers I've ever worked with have been Macs. For my ENTIRE life. I clearly have no idea what I'm doing. But, uh, I guess the goal is to keep it under $400. Under $350 if you can, and under $300 would be even better. But I don't want to get something crappy just because it's cheap. SEND HELP STOP I AM CLUELESS STOP SAVE ME FROM MYSELF STOP.

• Hah. Yeah, having a period at the end of that last bit there is a little redundant. Oh well.

[livejournal.com profile] fantasybigbang is doing ok. We're still in dire need of artists, so if you know someone who's an artist, please point them in the direction of the challenge. Still, we had many authors sign up, but life is getting in the way of many of them finishing, so the number of authors and the number of artists are slowly moving towards each other. I'm praying that everything works out.

• This past weekend was Parents Weekend at school. My mom came to three of my classes and said she was really impressed. We're both sort of beaming with pride at me. Hah.

• I'm considering my next tattoo. I know the design I want. I've worn this pentacle for years, and there's something about it that makes me feel safe and protected, even though I am no longer a practicing wiccan. I want that pentacle as a tattoo—but I'm now considering where. Mothers on my flist, you might be able to help with this too: if I got it on my hip, or more towards my lower stomach (yeah, sort of closer to the pelvis)... Is that a place that's going to stretch if I decide to have kids? (Oh the sort of things I think about.) I'm thinking on my back possibly if hip/pelvis area doesn't work. We'll see.

• Kind of random: I sent an email to someone about FBB, but I sent it to the wrong domain name. Right email username, wrong domain. And I got an email back! Mostly asking if I had possibly emailed the wrong person, but asking if I was in a pinch for a story and maybe she could write one if I needed. !!! I let her know that I had sent the email to the wrong person, but if she was a fantasy writer—and how could she not be with the email she had—she should check out the challenge, and think about joining in the future. So she might join up! Life is sometimes weird and cool.

• Man, that makes me want to go back to writing my Letter Game-inspired novel. Bad Sky! You already have a novel plan for this year's NaNoWriMo!

• Also, sometimes, my life is hilarious. Mostly in that sad sort of way that amuses me so terribly. My fuckin' life, guys. I keep saying this. Mostly to myself, but sometimes to other people. They smile and laugh with me, probably because they know I need it. Because really. My fuckin' life.
cerulean_sky: ([death] um-bre-lla!)
I know some of you on my flist have tattoos. So instead of randomly searching google, I thought I'd ask you all: About how much does it cost to get a tattoo? Plain black (probably solid, not just an outline), small enough that it would fit on a business card, but probably not on a quarter.

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a rose named sky

I'm a: 20-something, fantasy writer, deep thought thinker, sometime knitter, bookstore browser, amateur cook, journaler, cat owner, cheap wine connoisseur, ancient and medieval history lover, occasional philosopher, avid reader, museum wanderer.

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