An Ending

Aug. 19th, 2011 03:55 pm
ceitfianna: (journey's end)
Today in the mail I got back the grant I wrote and I got an A- on it. I should have an A in that class easily and graduate. Its all feeling a little more real but I really won't believe it until I have the diploma. I feel like I'm finally about to have some time off as this Wednesday was my last late shift of the summer semester and with my grade back, I can stop worrying about that.

On the 25th, I'm flying to California for five days with my family and one of my brother's wedding and I keep realizing just how much I need that. I have a list of jobs to apply for which I know I can do but lately I keep sleeping and really recovering. Though one of the great parts about having time is I'm cooking more. Last night I made roast chicken with a delicious yogurt sauce and homemade sweet potato fries.

Luckily before I leave I don't have too many errands to do, once I have the shredder and a stronger box for my papers, I'll do a good clean up of my place. I have some presents to mail for [livejournal.com profile] moofoot and [livejournal.com profile] sardonicynic, which is a fun project. I think I'm just going to keep taking things slowly and get used to the idea that I may have actually finished getting a masters. When I left Wellington a few years ago, I honestly didn't think this was possible for me and now I have a plan for a job I have passion for.

Today I'm going to try and do some writing, I had plans for some OOMs and a prompt meme but a really bad day of not sleeping threw them off. Things will get done but today is going to have some definite celebration.
ceitfianna: (pooka illustration)
I really did mean to sleep tonight but it didn't seem fated to happen. Perhaps I can reset myself by staying up today and then sleeping when I get home from work tonight. I do plan on treating myself to a proper breakfast of pancakes or French toast or waffles at I think the Broken Egg.

In the meantime, I've finally started setting up my playlists on my new computer and I'd forgotten how for some reason iTunes will reorder and separate things by various artists. Its a pain as I like having my soundtracks in order. Also I have lots of random songs that people have given me and I don't recall them all, which makes things interesting.

I'm also rereading Tam Lin as between the various moves, my lovely paperback copy went missing and I bought a new one from Amazon. The cover image isn't as beautiful as the painting but its nice. Rereading is a joy as this is one of those books that truly imprinted on me. I first read it my junior year of high school when I had a horrible English teacher who did horrible things to my creative writing. We had block classes and I had her twice that year for creative writing and English, in both of them we spent most of our time writing essays for contests as they made her look good. It took me far too long after those classes before I actually started writing fiction again as she made me not look forward to writing. The two upsides were one of my oldest friends, the guy who introduced me to LARPing and was my first boyfriend was in the class, he was willing to argue with her and cause trouble, and she had a eclectic paperback collection. I picked up Tam Lin and it clicked for me, I think its partly to blame for my love of Classics and urban fantasy. One reason it worked for me was that I grew up on a small college campus so the setting felt quite familiar to me.

Now [livejournal.com profile] in_the_blue started a round of the icon meme and so my answers to that will go under the cut. I love any excuse to look at everyone's beautiful icons so please comment.

Comment on this post and let me know you want to participate. I will choose six userpics from your profile and you will explain what they mean and why you are using them. Post this along with your answers in your own journal so others can play along.

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