Thank you Spamalot for catchy and quotable songs.



Anyhow, I'm really not. In fact, I'm taking an intro studio art (painting, specifically) this semester, the first official art class I've taken since 8th grade. We're working in oils. I love it.

Once I can snag a digital camera (mine disappeared this summer ) I'll try to post some pictures. I may be gone but not dead yet!

Love to all



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It's Spring Break - thank goodness, I sure needed it!

I've done nothing productive (happily, and yet unfortunately) aside from apartment searching, but I have started my first painting!

You see, after I did the mural escapade I was given a small acrylic set, some brushes, and two canvases. For a long time they've just sat there; I didn't have the time to paint, and I was afraid of ruining their pristine white surfaces.

I'm excited. It's coming along well. It's on a white background because I don't have big enough brushes to cover that area.

It's getting warm again. I'm so happy. He makes me happy. The best part about this Spring Break was spending a ridiculous amount of time with him, because regularly we have to squeeze in moments, steal time and run late and all sorts of things. To languidly and simply enjoy his company has been wonderful.




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Ok, ok. I know I haven't updated much. As ~dancingxvicariously would say, I've been making penguins cry. +

In any case, this has been a roller coaster of a semester. Despite the ups and downs, I'm so happy I ended up living with the girls that I did. They are absolutely AMAZING, and they have truly made my year. Speaking of important people in my life, rather unexpectedly my (now) boyfriend appeared in mine. Jazz brought us together (I guess I wasn't aware that my voice was in my arsenal of feminine wiles!), and general nerdiness kept it that way.



(Happy dance break!)

*ahem* I'd like to think I'm a pretty lucky girl.



In any case, school was crazy and hectic, but I managed to get through with a 3.84 for the semester and and 3.71 cumulative. Hooray!

I'm doing my ITS job again over the break, and staying in a friend of mine's apartment (so I can be near campus to work, since I don't have a car). I don't know what I would do without such kindness from my friends. My bosses are amazing, as always (they even got me a Christmas present!), and my co-worker, Shelby, and I are working on painting a mural in our student workroom. If that actually comes to fruition I will most certainly post pictures, because it will be amazing. Hahah, it's funny. A dance major and a voice major working an IT job painting a mural.

I will try to update sooner....hopefully... but in any case, I wish everyone the happiest of holidays and a wonderful New Year!



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Oh man.

So much has happened since April, I don't even know where to begin. I'll try to give the Reader's Digest version, so bear with me.

School ended (I made the honor roll), and I moved in with an old high school friend of mine and his family for the summer because they had an open room and live about 10 mins away from my college. It was a fabulously lucky situation, and I feel really blessed. They are such amazing people - I simply adore them, and I could never thank them enough for opening their home to me. I got a job at the ITS dept. at Meadows (and became an expert at public transportation), and am now an RA for a gifted/talented program that they host at SMU. It's been basically a dream come true - I've been at school almost every day since I moved out

The ITS job and most especially the RA position have been a really great thing for me. It turns out my mothering tendencies make me a pretty dang good RA....fancy that! What surprises me the most is that the kids seem to actually like me. Well, they aren't really kids - 8th through 10th graders. But still.

The family situation is still complex and dysfunctional, but I am finally beginning to get some distance on it. I hope that I'll be able to continue to do so in the future.

So many things have happened this summer, mostly good. This is a summer of transition, of change, and I am still smack dab in the middle of my metamorphosis. I haven't written a whole lot recently - a lot of journal writing, but unfortunately no poetry. The mood hasn't struck me in a while. I've posted some recent photography, but I've finally managed to completely mangle this camera [see [link] for more details]. *sigh* I hate you Kodak. I don't know what I'm going to do without a camera.... does anyone have any suggestions? I've heard that Canon is really great.

I suppose all in all, for the moment at least, my life is pretty good. I am happy, safe, content, and loved, and school starts back up again in about five weeks.

Fin



P.s. I am pissed off at J.K. Rowling for copping out and writing such a trite ending instead of what could've been a literary twist. I expected more from you J.K.


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I've been feeling a total lack of inspiration and/or creativity lately.

Nothing I write is coherent, and I just don't have any desire/time to do any art/photography.

Blah.

Where's a muse when I need one?


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