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| finals week. i only have two tests. just finished one of them. so now one left. woo.
i actually learned a lot this quarter, which is good. and i did some work i was really proud of. and my professors recognized that, which means something. and makes me feel good. yay.
i can't believe that a month from now i will be back here, thrown into my med/surg clinical at UW. and in that time i will have gotten my final grades, flown to san jose, had enrico meet my family, celebrated christmas, seen a bunch of old friends for the first time in months, flown to la, met enrico's friends, celebrated new year's, flown to portland, seen a bunch of old friends for the first time in months, driven to seattle, printed out a bunch of syllabi and oriented to UW medical center.
that's the plan, at least. stay tuned for future developments.
it'll be good to go back to california - seattle has gotten extra shady recently. enrico and mikey commented that it feels like gotham city, and they're right. there were a bunch of shootings and a crazy cop killer (well, two.) and all the sirens and helicopter blades thudding have instilled a lovely sense of paranoia in us all.
i still have to do christmas shopping... and i have no idea what to get most of you. i don't even know who i should be exchanging gifts with at this point. if you want to do a swap, let me know. : P | | |
| oh hi there. me again.
secondarily to a certain someone's text regarding a certain stir fry incident over thanksgiving break, i am pondering my crabbiness. i have a few situations that invariably make me crabby. i get very possessive when in the kitchen, and when building things. like out of wood. also when i am sleepy and/or hungry. which was evidenced in a certain honey incident last summer. there are probably other times but i haven't noticed them yet. i'm sure you have. you could tell me and then i would be more conscientious (maybe).
so, sorry about that. i should be less crabby.
also, right now i am very very poor. the winter holidays causes a great decrease in my paycheck because my work hours are cut back when i am on holiday, and then just to ice the cake we hired two new people so my hours are really really cut back. and tuition is due. and that is lame. so -- i had to call my mom today and ask her for money. which i haven't done in... six months? or something? but i hate having to do it. because i try so hard to be responsible and budget well. but then i get comfortable and i think, "well, a girl's allowed to have a little fun! a girl's allowed to buy a new pair of pants... and two pairs of shoes." (to be fair, they were all on sale. i think i spent $15 on the pants and $20 total on the shoes. and i did need to buy one pair to match my dress for the anniversary party, and it was buy one get one half off. so whatever.) the point being, i get a little too cocky, and i start imagining that i should be entitled to have THINGS, things that i don't NEED, and then i get slapped in the face by life. and life leaves a handprint on my face that says "YOU ARE POOR. AND YOU DO NOT DESERVE TO HAVE FUN YET BECAUSE YOU DO NOT EARN ENOUGH MONEY TO HAVE FUN. FUN IS FOR PEOPLE WHO HAVE STABLE INCOMES. AKA NOT YOU."
so. that's that.
but then christmas....
i really can't wait to have a stable income. so i can have a phone that doesn't cut out in the middle of calls for thirty seconds for no reason, and that doesn't have broken charger port. and a computer that has BOTH shift keys, and enough RAM to run more than three programs at once. although i do love stanley, and will hate to leave him behind.
also, i would like to be able to afford to run the heat. it was 55 F this morning in my apartment. (see previous post about being cold.)
but! i do have it pretty made. it is a golden life for me. i should be more thankful. and i am! i just also wish i had warmth and a reliable computer and phone so i could be thankful for those things, too.
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| the internet can be inhospitable.
so whatever.
it's so cold here now. i think it's a full moon. it's clear out. which i suppose makes it colder? i don't know anything about weather but it seems colder. something about cloud cover.
it's dead week, i guess. i am pretty much done with projects; it's just a few more classes and then my finals. which i'm not too worried about, i think. i haven't given it a lot of pondering because i've been pretty busy.
thanksgiving was a crazy crazy crazy time. very fun. too many things to say about that. but let's all agree it was overwhelming in many ways.
i have a migraine and i can't shake it for some reason. tried to take a nap but just listened to my roommate and her boyfriend watching office space in the living room.
i'm in bed with 8 blankets. i'm not kidding. and one of them is electric. but i am still cold. i'm also wearing a sweatshirt with the hood up. i think there is something wrong with my circulation. i would go take a hot shower but i took one this morning and i don't want to waste water. you know, because it is immoral as a global citizen.
so this is where we are now. all in all, it's pretty amazing.
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| so, this summer... i bought my first real six-string! bought it at the five and dime.
not really. good song, though. (i have broken out my six-string, for the first time in months. it took a while to get over that, but i did. and i have been playing more lately. not until my fingers bled.)
what i have been doing is working (previously four days a week, but now three). the rest of the time...
gardening! i am still waiting for my zuccs to really come in. i'm banking on the late northwest summers.
dehydrating! i got a food dehydrator on craigslist and i have been drying tomatoes like there's no tomorrow. i've been eating them like there's no tomorrow too, so i've broken about even.
cannnnning! i picked 4 cups of blackberries from the neighbor's bush and earned myself a number of flesh wounds in the process. then i needed to do something to keep them all from going bad so i enlisted mikey and wessie and we made JAM! four kinds, to be exact: blueberry, blackberry, triple berry, and a strawberry orange marmalade. 24 jars in total. it was miraculous.
missing people! all of you who are far away.
and finally talking to some of you! finally got a thirty-second skype session in with tracy, plans to talk to laura and liz soon. after they've fallen off the face of the earth, it should be wonderful.
vacation! went to vancouver, wa on the train to meet lu and mary there and have a great time hanging out and house hunting. as always with that bunch, hilarity ensues.
reading! finished animal, vegetable, miracle. and read choke on the hottest day ever in seattle. and now i'm rereading stranger in a strange land, because i miss you boys. also rewatching firefly and making enrico watch with me, partly for the same reason.
carpentry fun! fixing my bed which was sagging immensely in the middle by adding a support beam. and now i'm starting a litter-box hutch for birdie. it will be an adventure, surely full of splinters.
with all of this fun stuff i have learned some things. like, i have learned things about forgiveness, and saying sorry, and moving forward while simultaneously living in the moment. and about gardening, canning, and carpentry!
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| so this weekend was very different from how i have been thinking it would be for a long time. some plans i had to travel changed, and i ended up with a conundrum: what do i do with my six days off work now that i have nowhere to go? i searched for cheap last minute flights to anywhere, considering joining bobby in amsterdam (but tickets were over two grand) or going on a solo long weekend to maui. after realizing that going anywhere worth going would break my bank account, i was presented with a beautiful plan c, a weekend trip to the san juan islands. so on monday, planning begins. enrico and i bully mikey and katrina into coming with us, we pull off a thursday night trip to puyallup to gather camping gear, we make a reservation at the last campsite available on the island and stop at safeway on friday morning to get marshmallows, graham crackers, and chocolate bars (aka the essentials).
the weekend was an amazing retreat to a beautiful place with great people. i couldn't imagine a better way to spend three days.
it entailed!:
wind in my hair
alpacas
a short hike in english camp
a breathtaking sunset + a bottle of cava
four people sleeping under the stars
two people sleeping in a one-person tent
a day at the beach (with real sand!)
being buried in aforementioned sand
and then attempting to rinse off in 42 degree waves
chocolate fondue over a coleman camp stove (once i figured out how to jerry-rig a double boiler)
ice cream x2
cherries from a tree
ridiculous conversations
and amazing memories.
<3
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