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January 31, 2006

It's a Bad Sign

I need to focus. I need to hammer down on all the things I'm doing. On the two essays due next week, on the two novels I need to finish ASAP. To the rest of the articals and readings that need to be done for next week. That is the only way I'm going to be able to acutally enjoy Imbolc and Andrea's party, or the small time I'll acutally get to spend with Andrew, or the possible minor encounters for a meal or a cup of tea from a random visiter. (Just a note to all, please don't be offended if you come to visit Andrew and I spend most of my time hibernating in Andrew's room).

After this week, maybe, maybe I'll have a little more freedom, but that all depends if I can get the next wave of readings done. I hope I can. This will have probably been the worst week of reading due to the sheer number of pages, other then the struggle that shall be Me vs. Ulysses that is. All I can think about are books. It's a bad sign.

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Heh. Funny thing. So I'm sitting in one of the classes that has one of the dreaded "due-next-week" essays and about 30 seconds after I posted this entry, the teacher of the class I'm sitting gave us an extra week to work on it. GLEE! I'm still going to try to get a start on it but still. Someone is watching out for me.... Thank you!

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January 27, 2006

Unpleasent

The pages are invading. They run like a waterfall, hitting me with such an impact that it knocks off all focus and leaves me to drown. I can't find "up". There's more then I can handle. I've already decided to omit the second half of a book that will no longer be lectured on, at least formally, and therefore was no longer priority.

So why do I have to be sick on top of it. And not just one kind of sick, oh no, for you see that would be much to easy. My stomach is attempting to both dehydrate and malnourish me (at the same time no less), though I guess I have to be thankful that I can still eat and food still taists good. I'm still going to Sir Kutz though (come hell or high water). *Tim, bring your med kit for me? Please? Pretty please with gay-boys-that-look-like-you on top?

My eyes are also unwell. Considering the torrent of reading that I'm facing, this is a bad thing. It main side effects seem to be two major things. 1) I can't wear contacts without my eyes going completely bloodshot and dry (though it subsides a day after I take the contacts out which means it's not "pink-eye" because it doesn't goo like pink-eye and the redness wouldn't go away without drops if it was pink-eye). 2) It's causing double vision/trasers. The best way that I could explain it is that it is similar to trying to read a message on msn when someone has "nudged" you making your window shake only on a lesser degree. I can read, but fuck does it suck. This is also combined with the fact that my glasses are not the proper perscription so seeing at a distance sucks even more (I'd be really screwed if I needed them close up). So long as none of the books are printed in red I should be ok (red words and I do not get along well). The greatest part about this whole eye thing is that it's a VIRUS and therefore it have to wait it out.

Andrew's house is now my headquarters. I have almost moved in at the rate I'm going and it's cute to see the look on my mom's face when I come home for a visit or to say the night. I miss the stuff that I have there, but it needs to stay there, for now anyway.

Oh and I'm poor. Very poor. But I might have more time to consider that in greater depth when I manage to surface from the reading, which I'm going to continue to trudge through now.

Kerkeis is getting to me. I need a trip to the sea wall or some other body of ocean.

It's a dark night out there kids. Don't get lost.

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January 19, 2006

Swimming

I'm still amazed that I managed to read for 7 straight hours yesterday. There were minor breaks to eat or read Bill's blog or do some laundry, but on the whole, I simply let the words attack my eyes with their stark contrast and allowed them to leave me battered and confused on the couch after I'd finished attempting to file them with no avail. I didn't realize that this semester would require not only about 20 books to read but critiques and additional articles to supliment each one. They remind me of an anoying little sister who insists she is cool enough to hang out with to you prove that they are worth more then they really are.

The worst of it is that I'm only half finished. Angus, I envy your reading speed and sometimes I wish I had a cord that could download your upgraded verson of "How to Read Quickly 5.1". I hope to get it finished by the end of the weekend. I shall be reading in Celdae's car (as rude as it is but she'll still have Andrea). I don't even want to look at what the rest of the semester has to hold for me. Lets say it this way, at least there isn't anything thicker the Ulysies (sp?).

There is Wrapped in Grey tonight. I think I want to find a Salvation Army to find a skirt for it tonight... I wish I has some skating tights to keep me warm as well but Meh. It hopefully won't be more then two hours. It's been so long since I've role played. I'm starting to wonder if i've forgotten how. I just need to remember that this is not the same "mother" I normally play, she's a little more harsh and possessive of her child, though still loving. I enjoyed helping Ryan scramble to find replacements for tonight. The tea will be wonderful.

I guess I should go back to Rhetoric... *takes a dive*

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January 17, 2006

Auntie Social

Melodrama doesn't exist. Atleast not in my world. And if it does, I'm not aware of it. Did I mention how good life is right now? I'm behind in my reading for school and eventually I'll have to start realizing that I'm going to have a fuck load of papers to write and that I have a large amount of credit card debt when I'm supposed to have three times the amound of debt I have in savings. Yet this doesn't matter. Things are mellow and stable and comfortable.

I am graduating, for certian this time, by the end of this semester. I will be taking the summer off and I will not be starting PDP (the teaching program) until Spring 2007. Again, I am ok with this. Things are getting done, but for a change I'm not in a hurry to finish them. I like the slow lane sometimes.

I'm still excited about the chance to have a summer. The list of events that are going to happen during it are ever increasing and work might kill me but to fucking bad for them :D

I've been anti social lately. Look at the KMM pictures on Chris and Tim's Flickr accounts. It's just time for me to mellow out a bit. The pixie is on vacation. She'll be back soon, but not yet.

Oh and YAY for capoiera starting again soon. Probably next week due to WiG (also yay) and the aforementioned unfinished reading.

Painting will begin soon at the house of Andrew. If any should like to come visit/heckle/help you're welcome to.

~navi

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January 6, 2006

The Last Escape

I am fleeing the country to dwell where "freedom" has become propaganda and it's stench is thick like fog.

I plan to watch my little bro play hockey tomorrow night (later tonight techincally) where I get to sit in the stands, surounded by "adults" who resemble drunken teenagers, and have them glare at me and mine when we cheer for the opposition.

It's still worth it. I'm proud of him more then he'll ever know.

From there, I shall be visiting one or more of the americans I can tollerate, and even like. Sebastian is one of thoes people. We shall be house sitting for two nights. I expect many stories of various kinds and a star chart reading that I've been waiting a year to recieve. I'm excited.

Then I have the read through for smf. The seven lines I have seem much less scary compared to the mass of information I had to remember for Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Damn I miss that play. The prospects of being involved in another play make me giddy, though that might not be the only reason.

School starts on Tuesday. It's only a mildly frightening thought at this moment. When thursday hits me with it's full swing of textbook doom and 8 hours of straight class, I'll understand what I've managed to get myself into. I look forward to this semester like a man waiting to be electrocuted to death: "Just get it over with." With any luck, I'll be free from essay hell when all is said and done.

Oh and several things may be happening in the summer:
- going to halifax with andrew in june (and we will be back for tim's brithday heh)
- camp goodtimes during july somewhere
- shambala (sp?) when ever that is
- the bathazado for capoiera... i missed it last year but not this year

other then that i'm working... no classes shall i have to dig through which makes me happy.

It's time for bed. I have a long road trip ahead of me tomorrow. Talk to you from the land choking me with patriotism.

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January 3, 2006

The Fun of it All...

My last week of freedom begins. It is packed with many adventures to be had and a last trip that is very unlike me.

I shall finally have my glory and be able to watch the last episodes of Battle Star Glactica with Ryan that night. It will be brilliant. I've only waited three weeks for it.

I will get to have a long overdue coffee with William (aka Bill) after 9pm. It took three parties to organize. This is the hell of two people attempting to connect who do not like using phones.

I feel creepily domestic. Living somewhere other then home seems to be the best for me. The only thing that really holds me there is work. Oh, and my family... They're an interesting crew.

The weekend shall be spent in the states, sleeping in a borrowed house, paying for food with borrowed money. I can't afford it but I'm going anyway. I'll have to be there twice anyway that weekend, I might as well save the gas money... I can't wait to see sebastian. It shall be brilliant. If they have wireless down there I might even be able to send the world a blog entree.

Anyway. I'll write something interesting later. I mostly just wanted to remember what it felt like to write more then an entree a month.

Hurrah.

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