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Jan. 5th, 2011 11:48 pmI am in A Mood. Partially brought on by the fact that I am going back to New Orleans Saturday evening -- I have a red-eye that should get me into MSY around 9 am Sunday morning, but naturally I have to leave Ellensburg at 6 pm since I'm taking the airport shuttle -- and then I have to go back to my roommates, and it's the combination of living situation + cross-country plane flight that's making me unhappy. And I'm trying to brush up on my Latin, as I have Latin first thing on Monday morning. And...well...I have the doldrums on Dust 24, for various reasons. (Okay, for one reason that I know of for sure. I really didn't get the response on Dust 23 that I was expecting, and that shook me pretty badly. Which could be for any number of reasons! Bad timing on the posting, the fact that it was another no canon whatsoever chapter, or maybe it just really sucked, I don't know. Anyway. Doldrums.)
On New Year's Day the hot water pipe in the upstairs bathroom froze. The only shower in the house is in said bathroom, so it was baths downstairs for the next couple of days, until it finally thawed out yesterday and we were able to take showers once again. I was starting to worry I wouldn't get a proper shower until I was back in New Orleans. (Not that New Orleans hasn't been short its fair share of water problems. See: boil water advisory, water coming from kitchen ceiling, rain, hurricanes.)
Will probably not do a 2010 fic round-up, as I think the results might be too depressing for me. Am still sort of vague on New Year's resolutions. Am torn between specificities and sweeping statements. (Am I late? Heh, yes. Oh, well.) Specifities include "make pasta from scratch", "knit eleven shawls in 2011", and "don't flunk out of university." Sweeping statements include the one word trend I've seen around the blogs: "look" and "be."
I'm really not looking forward to flying back to New Orleans. I'm sick of going back and forth cross-country, and while I'm very fond of Tulane and New Orleans, I love Ellensburg and Washington, and I hate leaving. Also, transit between the two is pretty much a full-day affair, which is exhausting at the best of times. I know why I didn't stay home and go to Central, but sometimes the option is very tempting. Am still torn between doing a whole year next school year or graduating in fall 2011, which I think is theoretically possible. If I did the latter, I could stay home until I started grad school (if I get into grad school, oh god oh god).
Also my birthday is in one week. I'll be 21 on the 12th. Two of my friends are abroad this semester, and I am trying to figure out if there is a delicate way to tell Maryland that I really don't want her at any birthday celebrations, if we go out. Which we probably won't on Wednesday, but I want to go down to the Quarter on Saturday. I don't really care about drinking, legally or not, but perhaps one drink at a classy bar. I have no interest in going to the Boot, the joint that's two steps off campus and makes me wince every time I walk by it to get crepes.
Ah, yes. Definitely depressed and generally gloomy right now. Hey, alliteration. Also weepy. Anyway. Hi, 2011! Try not to make me consider homicide in a longing manner! Wait, that's probably a good New Year's resolution.
On New Year's Day the hot water pipe in the upstairs bathroom froze. The only shower in the house is in said bathroom, so it was baths downstairs for the next couple of days, until it finally thawed out yesterday and we were able to take showers once again. I was starting to worry I wouldn't get a proper shower until I was back in New Orleans. (Not that New Orleans hasn't been short its fair share of water problems. See: boil water advisory, water coming from kitchen ceiling, rain, hurricanes.)
Will probably not do a 2010 fic round-up, as I think the results might be too depressing for me. Am still sort of vague on New Year's resolutions. Am torn between specificities and sweeping statements. (Am I late? Heh, yes. Oh, well.) Specifities include "make pasta from scratch", "knit eleven shawls in 2011", and "don't flunk out of university." Sweeping statements include the one word trend I've seen around the blogs: "look" and "be."
I'm really not looking forward to flying back to New Orleans. I'm sick of going back and forth cross-country, and while I'm very fond of Tulane and New Orleans, I love Ellensburg and Washington, and I hate leaving. Also, transit between the two is pretty much a full-day affair, which is exhausting at the best of times. I know why I didn't stay home and go to Central, but sometimes the option is very tempting. Am still torn between doing a whole year next school year or graduating in fall 2011, which I think is theoretically possible. If I did the latter, I could stay home until I started grad school (if I get into grad school, oh god oh god).
Also my birthday is in one week. I'll be 21 on the 12th. Two of my friends are abroad this semester, and I am trying to figure out if there is a delicate way to tell Maryland that I really don't want her at any birthday celebrations, if we go out. Which we probably won't on Wednesday, but I want to go down to the Quarter on Saturday. I don't really care about drinking, legally or not, but perhaps one drink at a classy bar. I have no interest in going to the Boot, the joint that's two steps off campus and makes me wince every time I walk by it to get crepes.
Ah, yes. Definitely depressed and generally gloomy right now. Hey, alliteration. Also weepy. Anyway. Hi, 2011! Try not to make me consider homicide in a longing manner! Wait, that's probably a good New Year's resolution.