| An Update of Sorts |
[Dec. 29th, 2009|03:21 am] |
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Shockingly, I'm not dead.
Let's see... what have I been up to?
I finished the semester, PASSED my classes (well, I don't have my Voice grade yet, but I'm fairly certain I've passed that one- grades are due on the 4th, so I'll check back later). I got a B- in Astronomy (phew!) and French II (phew! again). And a C in Writing from Personal Experience (I think my grade was so low for the same reason my Voice grade will be so low- due to all my absences- got to work on that).
Signed up for classes for the spring semester. FULL schedule this time around! This ought to keep my mind occupied: Graphic Lit (comics!), Chinese I, Music Appreciation, Voice II, Piano II (had to sacrifice taking Horror lit for that one), and Writing Horror and Sci-Fi.
Will work 3 days a week through Intersession (between fall and spring semesters).
X-mess was a mess, but nice when Boyfriend finally came home. I had a terrible loneliness which I could not shake no matter how much sleep I got. Sleep usually helps. But couple my regular holiday moodiness with MASSIVE PMS, plus being extremely lonely because Boyfriend did not come home until the 27th when I was expecting him home the 25th so we could open our presents to each other and have our own little X-mess, plus not having a phone (I left my charger at mum's house and my phone had run out of juice)... I was, for the first time in a long time, suicidal. I was taking one or two sleeping pills every time I woke up (taking a break once to try to absorb some sun from the window- which also usually helps, and during which time, had a visit from a couple friends passing through town, and I watched a movie), and I had a very difficult time keeping myself sleepy enough to NOT take all the pills at once. I think at one point, I took 3 at once, and by then, they'd stopped working all together. I tried one last thing... Skype. I downloaded it, bought land-line/mobile phone credits, checked my voicemail, called Boyfriend's phone, danced on the idea of using Skype without a headset to call the suicide hotline, and then when all hope seemed gone, remembered his parents' house number. I talked to his mum for a while, and it made me feel better, and then tried to sleep again au natural (I mean without pills, not naked). And then Boyfriend finally came home, and we opened presents in the morning.
He got me a Theremin!!! And Coraline the movie, and a game card with over a hundred games on it for my Nintendo DS! and a new battery for my laptop, and oh it's great! I got him a Sonic Screwdriver (with psychic paper), Stephen Colbert's graphic novel, salad flavored floss, USB chargeable batteries, a Star Trek tricorder, a new synthesizer toy, and the complete series (60 disks!) of Star Trek: The Next Generation (because he asked for it).
His birthday is in a month. I don't really need to top X-mess, do I? >_<
My family only added to my depression, although most of them were much more enthusiastic about my gifts to them than they ever have been in the past. My dad gave me $50, which I spent today on some gorgeous skull boxes from Indonesia (like these, and I gave him this utility key, which looks like a key, and goes on your keychain, but unfolds into 4 tools. He made fun of it, said he'd probably forget about it, or maybe sell it, and I ran upstairs with "gluten-induced pains" for the rest of the night. Anyway, I got a few things I liked, but mostly a lot of junk. I'm not ungrateful about the gifts from my family. I'm ungrateful that they don't even TRY to get to know me enough to shop for me (I DO only ask for money or gift cards- why do they insist on getting me crap from the holiday aisle? I really WANTED gift cards).
Anyway, I think that about wraps it up, right?
Me- depressed, but not as much as before.
Classes- passed, and signed up for next semester
X-mess- mixed bag, but MINE ended up awesome.
Skype- username fawndolyn.
Family- still sucks.
Oh, and thinking of going vegetarian again. Or at least trying to get a head start on the obligatory healthy diet resolution for the new year. I picked up some vegan cookbooks (one for sweets- so now I can finally make that Shadoweyes cake for ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) mooncalfe (had a great recipe for the cake, but no vegan frosting which was the essential part of the decorations).
Also crafting again. Got lots of steampunk junk and just now remembered that I had originally gotten online to look up how to gut a lightbulb (remembered the first half of the steps though).
And xkcd just posted THE MOST ELABORATE 'your mom' joke ever, with a mis-quote by Carl Sagan (it should be 'a STILL more glorious dawn awaits').
OH AND I SAW AVATAR. Or as I call it, ThunderSmurfs in the Matrix: The Last Samurai Rainforest. It was bad. It had every single mainstream movie trope in it, and nothing else, but hey, it was damn pretty.
Okay, that ought to be enough to bore you into a deep coma. It did for me. Goodnight, everybody. |
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