My plan for the four days I had off from school for the holidays entailed working, writing papers, and maybe eating and napping. However...

The school kicks us out of the dorms for Thanksgiving break (all FOUR days of it? Why?!!) and so I was counting on using my mom's internet to accomplish all of the school work I had to do. My mother decided that we dont really need internet, since my sister bootlegs wireless for her laptop from the local coffee house next door, and so disconected it. Of course, my sis was out of town-- with her laptop-- the whole break. So, no internet for me. Thank was ok, I just used some of the books I had brought. I even hand wrote a few posts for later, just to stay creative. However, because I got behing on the papers, I didnt have time to sleep last night. Because I didnt sleep, I wasnt able to devote any time to the Christmas Tree decorating contest that the library (aka, me only) is working on. Realizing that I needed glitter and ribbon, and had neither, I drove the two blocks to the craft store and spent $3.16. Keep that number in mind... $3.16, less than freaking five bucks, and yet that was the most expensive glitter I ever bought in my life.

It has been cold, wet, and rainy for the last three days. The roads are terrible, and on the way back to the library-- TWO BLOCKS!!!-- I hydroplaned while trying to brake. Rammed right into the car in front of me. My air bag deployed, spraining my thumb and giving me a really AWEsome bruise all over my forearm. I have liability, so the other girl I hit will be covered, by my car only cost me $1000, so I am either going to have to learn to drive stick, or fix my car with a sledgehammer and a saw. Ask me if I'm joking, or if this is the first time I have fixed a car this way. Go ahead... ask. So, yeah, very expensive freakin glitter.

The police refused to come, since there was no injury and they were busy with other accidents. Yay, big city living. We exchanged information, and since my car wasnt able to be moved, my boyfriend came and got me. I flew back to the library, did a few more decorations, then went out to dinner with my boyfriend, as neither of us had eaten that day and it was by this point 8:00. He dropped my back off at the library at 9:00, and I finished getting everything ready for the contest... just in time to have the theatre close. SO i have to get up tomorrow morning early to put the crap on the tree, so I dont get disqualified. So, I went to set the alarm on my cell phone... and realized my cell phone was gone. It had fallen out in my boyfriend's car while I was sleeping as he drove. He will give me a wake up call tomorrow morning on his way to class.

I should be writing two papers tonight, but I havent slept in two days, so I am going to have to do it tomorrow... at some point. I will post... eventually. Right now, i am going to go take a coma, and pray for just one nice thing to happen this week. With my luck, I'll either get AIDS or get fired. Ugh.

*end rant*

Wow. x_x


Well, I certainly hope you -don't- get AIDs... and hope everything else gets better. I know saying that won't -make- it better, but I throw some love and care in your direction and hide behind a bullet proof wall. o_o I probably would have went apeshit and blew something up if I had that kind of Holiday.

Rose,

First, I'm so sorry you've had a difficult week. Remember that life tends to balance out, so good things are bound to happen soon, by law of averages if nothing else!

Second, I'd like to share a story that was in the news here last week, and gave me reason to be thankful that, overall, life hasn't been too terrible to me.

Thanksgiving was a miserable day - snowy and sleety, windy, very cold. The land outside the Rochester metropolitan area is mostly farmland. Towns are few and far between, and the wind gets up to nasty speeds that blow snow over the roads in winter and make driving, even with four-wheel drive, hazardous. On Thanksgiving afternoon, a young man driving alone to his parents' house for dinner slid on the icy roads and rammed into a ditch. He wasn't hurt, but his car was irrevocably stuck. Not wanting to disturb his family by calling them on his cell phone (he had one with him), he walked half a mile to a nearby farm and asked to borrow the farmer's tractor to pull his car out of the ditch. The farmer was a trusting soul; he gave the kid the keys, asked him to leave the tractor in the driveway with the keys in it when he was done, and went back to his interrupted Thanksgiving meal.

The kid drove the tractor back to the ditch, hooked it up to his car, and stepped on a half-buried downed power line that had been lying there for a week, neglected. He was electrocuted, and the farmer found his body a few hours later, when he came out to discover the whereabouts of his tractor.

What a cold, lonely, unsuspecting way to die on Thanksgiving, with one's family waiting and wondering.

Everyone, please stay warm and safe.

Just checking in. How are you feeling today, Rosalita?

You see, this is the sort of stuff I miss when you're never on AIM Rose. Oh well, I want things to be better for you. Learning how to drive stick can't be that hard, after all I managed it in a passable fashion in a 30 minute lesson. Of course, if the weather's that terrible, learning to drive stick in the might not be the brightest idea.

Just hang in there, I'm sure you'll make it, and better than I will this semester. I have some serious bad stuff to reap academically. Basically I'm looking at whether certain classes are offered at the community college so that I can take them there to replace bad grades here. British Lit should be universal, yes?

Howdy friends!!!

I know I have been quite absent recently, but life has been uber crazy here!

After all of the aforementioned mess, I was attacked by a mastiff, and due to the allergic reation I had to the rabies vaccine (you can imagine how funny my father thought that was... He has been calling me his "little possum" since!) I managed to get through a hellish week of writing papers, and now am kicking it back and skating through finals. (Yes, compared to the papers I had to write last week, finals seem EASY)

I'm gonno play catch up, figure out whats goin' on... I really want to kick off my Art Hall Master, but I am not sure where to play it, and I already have an apprentice kicking around in my head... Not sure about her speciality yet, but she is invading my mind slowly...

Also, any more flitt eggs sitting in limbo? Gha, I should probably look around the site first...

LOL, Stephen, I am likewise taking a Brit Lit, spanning everything from Beowulf and The Wife's Lament up through Swift and Equiano. Too much...

Other than the flitter eggs given out from the raffle, not yet. =) I might have some for sale at the gather though. Obviously only characters who would actually have money would be allowed to get them. (So no to candidates, and Weyrlings won't have enough to buy them.)

Well, you can write up the posts and put them in miscellaneous until I feel a need to actually make a separate board for them.


Other than that, the only thing going on is a raid to apprehend Thyra goods and Weyrling lessons.