Today really wore me out but, in the end, I think it was a good day.
I got to nap. I added more to my presentation for Women's Literatue, and I got to play video games.
Hunter: The Reckoning for Gamecube is still my favorite game in all of the world. Well, at least until I buy a Wii. That won't happen until August or September, though. It's silly to buy a gaming system when you're moving out of the country.
I'll continue trying my best to not screw myself over at school.
If I keep pressing forward, surely something good will happen, right? Right.
This is my favorite mug of all time. I received three of them as a gift when I was in high school. Only this one remains of those three. The other two broke during various moves.
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So, today.....
Today was alright, I guess. Our group did our presentation and it went well, I think.
Now I have to prepare a presentaiton for Women's Literature. *sigh* I really dislike giving presentaitons, and I'm not sure I can actually talk for a full five minutes without offending anyone.
I'll try, though, and I already have pardon for any offenses, since my topic is pretty....well, I'm talking about how societies will twist religious texts to suit their advantages.
Fun!
But I need to go get this work done so I can rest.
Today's picture isn't a mug, as promised previously, but the mango smoothie I had at Denver International Airport on the way to Kansas. No, I still haven't blogged about the trip, but I'm still pretty upset by it, so I can't treat it properly. Maybe sometime this week.
Anyhow, my stomach has been bothering me for a few hours so I took the last of my Dicylomine. Now I'll have to figure my health insurance out (select provider and all that jazz) and make an appointment of some sort to go get more, hopefully they'll give me something that won't knock me flat with exhaustion.
Medications always make me sleepy so I really try not to take them. When my stomach cramps, though, I can't even move out of a curled ball until it stops cramping. Even breathing too deeply hurts.
So yes, despite my general dislike of going to the doctor - why must they always take blood? - I'm going to have to go. I'll have to go for JET if I'm accepted, anyhow, so might as well get the process started.
As soon as I have money, which will probably be in January. (＃⌒∇⌒＃)ゞ
I'm really thinking of just not giving gifts this year, except for the things that I've already decided to give to people.
For the first time in, well, ever I don't really feel the urge to spend, spend, spend during the Holiday. Mostly, I'm guessing, because I'm poor as dirt right now, but also because all the people I know more or less have the merchandise they want. I know I have more or less everything I want. (There is the matter of that terabyte hard drive, but I'm planning to get that for myself when I buy my laptop in January.)
I've got everything a happy monkey needs. Well, there's my desire for a Wii, but buying an American Wii when I'm only going to be in the US for another eight months or so is silly. Also, I just got that Gamecube and it's providing V2 and I with tons of entertainment. And, really between now and July I won't have any time to play with a new gaming system anyhow.
So yes, let's just be happy to be alive this holiday season and forget the whole gift giving thing. It was never what it was supposed to be about anyhow.
One of my favorite things about winter is that I can use my mug collection to the fullest.
Yes, like a dork I collect mugs. I took photos of some of my favorites today, so I'll be introducing you to my collection while cleverly avoiding a few stress issues in life at the moment.
Once classes are over for the semester, maybe I can relax a bit more, eh? I usually don't stress too much about school, but it's imporant that I graduate on May 4th. Everything revolves around me obtaining my diploma.
No diploma, no going to Japan. No going to Japan, plans explode in my face and I have to panic to find something else to do with myself.
The graduating part is the only thing I'm worried about at the moment and, really, my American Women Writer's class is the only thing I'm worried about. And, in grand me style, when I worry I W.O.R.R.Y.
I'm trying to be productive about it now, though. I've got assignments ready to go and a plan of action kinda together. Hopefully I can pull through.
The fish at the top is Koharu. The fish at the bottom is Chitose.
I came home from classes today to find one of my new starburst platies presumably dead. It was lying at the bottom of the tank, not moving and on its side.
Imagine my surprise when it started bobbing about as the net came to scoop it out.
Koharu nipped off both side fins of the poor fish and was trying to do so to the other starburst platy as well.
Koharu is now in the Time Out Bowl and will reside there indefinitely. The nipped platy finally gave up during the evening and was given the usual fishy rites of passage.
Today was very hectic for me. Things at work were crazy, I'm having issues getting my JET letters of reference (the last thing I need before I mail out my stuff) together, and now I have a killer fish in my aquarium. Well, had a killer fish, since he's in the TOB.
And what's worse? The sole platy left in my aquarium keeps swimming over the place his friend died as if in morning. I'll have to get him other sunburst platies so he doesn't stop eating or something.
Really, this whole fishkeeping thing is getting out of hand.
Who knew fish could be so complex? That a "peaceful" fish could wind up biting the arms off of another fish?
I'm going to bed. And, in the morning, if things don't perk up, I'm violating No Coffee November and going to Starbucks.
