Glasses

It's October here at UoP, and midterms are over for me. I am very happy with my scores so far. Now to keep the energy up for the second half. οἴμοι. Registration for next semester will happen next week. I know what classes I need to take--but at this point, there are so many I want to take that it's hard to narrow it down. I'm fairly certain I will have: Content Engineering, History of the English Language, Meaning of Life, Masterpieces of World Literature, Cross-Cultural Training (study abroad preparation). I would love to add either Greek II or Kung Fu. I'll have to decide about getting an 18+ units petition. I'm not sure I can handle it in addition to work, or if it will cost more. θεωρητιον.

I'm considering going to Florence or Rome, Italy or London or Reading, England for the fall semester next year. Trying to a get a head start on the process, so I've recently begun the application process. All of these locations have classes that will potentially be useful for my career path. Hopefully I will find ways to narrow my options in the next few months.

Lastly, it's been a little difficult to read powerpoint presentations/class notes lately. So I got my eyes check. Sadly the 20/20 vision is no more. >< But, I've always said I liked glasses, so it's going to be fun. I'm farsighted, 20/40 now. I suppose I should have expected it, with the eyes in my family. After wandering around the doctor's office for a while, I settled on some DKNY frames.

I can always change them in a few years.

I certainly am content here. Hopefully I'll be able to do a little more recording along with the living. I don't want to forget any moment of this. Continue reading →

Midterms

Wow. It's been a while since I wrote to you.

A lot has happened in a month. This school has offered me a lot of opportunity, and I'm still in the process of taking advantage. Two weeks into school I was offered a job at the Wellness Center, where I do social media and marketing things. Mostly I do design and research. Recently I found out about two school publications which I am going to do my best to be involved with, Calliope and the Pacifican.

I've also been given the chance to go to London during spring break; we would visit Oxford and Stonehenge and Bath and many other places. It all sounds very exciting. That, and studying abroad next year. I've wanted to leave the US for quite a few years now. Finally I will begin to have the chance. There are so many beautiful things in this world.

My professors here are wonderful and personable. They each have their own senses of humor, and plenty of wisdom to share. The relationship between students and teachers here is different than I have previously experienced. I'm quite enjoying it. Already I have the feeling that I will leave this place with good connections to my mentors, without having to labor for it.

I'm in a good place, learning good things. The good people are in progress. X) Ah.

I will try and write more often, because this is a little ridiculous.

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School's Out

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NDAA 2011

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november

I haven’t written anything most of this month. I’ve been feeling really stretched by end-of-the-semester projects and work and everything. A lot did happen though.

• Turned 20
• Went to Six Flags
• Saw Breaking Dawn at midnight despite my total lack of interest
• Kaitlyn came back for Thanksgiving
• Joined the Astronomy club unofficially, because apparently they like me and want me to come on trips with them
• Unmentionable things that are blowing my mind
• Bought two dresses in a month, which beats my lifetime record. I think that’s more than I usually buy in five years.

Anyway, I could keep listing ridiculous things. But yeah. I’m ready for the end of December to come and the restoration of peace to begin. I don’t know how this year is going to end. It’s only November 26th and I’m already looking for it.

Come on, live in the moment self. Stop it. Guh. Continue reading →

teachingliteracy:

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I decided to be Spock for halloween this year. It was really fun, actually. A week before I started working on the process of covering one’s eyebrows, since that can be a bit hard. Then I drew on some new ones, donned latex ears and a black wig and voila. Mr. Spock. I think Dad was probably the most excited about it. X) Trekkie that he is.

My third round of tests just went by. I’m fairly sure I aced them. Today I’ll get my math test back to find out, and on Monday I’ll get astronomy. I already got Enviro Science. Besides its distinct lack of English courses, I think this had been my most enjoyable semester. Not so much because of the classes, per se, but the teachers are all great.

Oh, which reminds me to go figure out next semester’s class schedule. Oops. Continue reading →

Yes Peter, sometimes I feel that way too.

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A few interesting things

Apparently my cousins on a whole think I’m hot. I think this is really funny. I don’t really know most of them, but their Dads have been reporting back that they have interesting things to say about my pictures. X) Life is strange and comical. Luckily I don’t live in Alabama.

Second, I live near a livestock and agriculture center. What this means is that at certain times of the year, the population of files swells ridiculously. This huge fly has been bouncing around knocking into my windows and mirrors for like two days now. My cats just sit there uselessly and watch it. >< I need a fly vaporizer.

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University of the Pacific

On Saturday I went to a preview day for UoP. I’m rather hoping to attend. It was an awesome day, and a really cool school. Not to mention they have a Harry Potter fan club, played quidditch on the lawn and it looks like Hogwarts.


They had lots of different tours and current students around to talk to. They held workshops/information sessions through the morning and early afternoon. Everyone there seemed very friendly and… strong? I don’t know, they were all obviously leader-types, which was nice.

This is the view out from the front of the big library:



All the buildings are brick/stone. It’s kind of expensive, as a private school, but they have a lot of financial help for people that need it. Like me, hahahaaah.

I guess that’s all I really have to record about that. I want to get in, but I’m trying not to get my hopes up. I’m pretty good at it. I don’t like being let down.

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Robin Hobb Quote

“Tomorrow,” he told me gravely. “We shall be ourselves again. The Fool and the Bastard. Or the White Prophet and the Catalyst, if you will. We will have to take up those lives, as little as we care for them, and fulfil all fate has decreed for us. But for here, for now, just between us, and for no other reason save I am me and you are you, I tell you this. I am glad, glad that you are alive. To see you take breath puts the breath back in my lungs. If there must be another my fate is tied around, I am glad it is you.”

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The Sun

Today my lab group and I had to view the sun. Every since I heard we were going to do this I was excited! Pictures of the sun are always so surreal and beautiful. It didn’t disappoint. There were a good number of large solar storms and sunspots that we could see. Our professor is hilarious, he loves it so much. Although he was teaching at the time he kept walking out of his physics class to look through our telescope, haha.

First we used a Dobsonian with a solar filter, it looked mostly like this:



Then our teacher got out a special solar telescope, and it looked more like this:



There was a little less detail on the surface with what we were looking through, but it was awesome all the same. It’s such an incredible piece of the system. Continue reading →

I haven’t had much interesting to say lately. So here’s how morning looks at my house.

It’s like a cat sitcom poster.  Oy. I’m gonna be an old cat lady. >< Continue reading →

auditions

Well…. I did it! I auditioned for the Glee Project. I wasn’t entirely happy with the whole thing because my computer’s mic creates some distortion, but… I can’t do anything about that. So I guess I just live with it. I’m excited to see if this leads anywhere, but I’m also very aware that it will be months before I hear anything, if I hear anything. Mm.

Tomorrow morning early I am going with dad to fill in for Scott at a biker rally. I’m not looking forward to the less-sleep. But a bacon-egg-and-cheese biscuit in the morning might make me a little more happy. When it’s that early, I don’t always care that I’m eating crap, so long as it is made of things that taste really good. X)

I’m going to bed. Goodnight computer, internet, and world. Continue reading →

There's a big world out there

I’m trying to decide whether or not I should audition for the glee project. I suppose it’s an audition for an audition for an audition…. So I shouldn’t put this much thought into the whole thing. I should just do it and see what happens. But I’m scared of getting half-way there and failing and then having to come back to the “plan” I screwed up by going in the first place. There are too many words in most of these sentences. Anyway.

I always tell myself a story before I go to sleep. Sometimes if I’m lucky the story bleeds into my dreams. I’m usually not myself, in my dreams.  I can be a boy, or an androgyne, or some foreign ethnicity or a race that doesn’t exist at all. My dreams are one of my favorite places, actually. It’s way easier to be the hero in dreams.

One last thing: There is this person that reoccurs in my nighttime adventures. I don’t know what he/she looks like. They switch genders and clothes a lot, but when this person is there I always know it. They’re like my closest friend, and I always feel safe. My protector, sort of. The kind of feelings you get when you’re with someone you’ve known forever, and silence is okay and you know in a glance what the other person is thinking. It’s great. But I haven’t seen them in a while. I don’t know why. Continue reading →

dreams

…Had some weird dreams last night. I went to bed feeling pretty good, and somehow my brain translated that into:

• Deep-scuba and running out of air.
• Becoming a teen mom (Read: Horror.)
• Getting kicked out of the house.

These were all separate dreams. I don’t know what to do with them. Needless to say I feel a little crappy this morning. Continue reading →

Just experienced my first college ungrad interview.

Don’t know how I really feel about that. But finishing was definitely good. It’s validating to hear someone say you belong.


It was over the phone and I still cried. Jeez. Who’s the emotional one? Continue reading →