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Now would be the portion of the entertainment when our heroin contemplates throwing herself off the balcony railings. That’s right, ladies and gentlemen, it’s crunch time.
This the time of the school year when I lack motivation even more than I normally do (school wise), and that’s saying a lot. I hate the last weeks of classes, so many assignments due, stress over finals. I have three papers due next week; a 10,00 word essay, a 12 page essay and a (blessedly short) 6 page essay.
And I’ll admit that I’m a little concerned. Because at the moment, even while I’m trying to find quotations from articles and string together a sentence that is just the perfect length while giving enough information to sound like it’s leading somewhere but not giving away so much information that I don’t need to write another sentence to explain – because if I can’t find reason to write that second sentence, I don’t know how the hell I’m going to make it to the end of 10,000 words or 15 pages.
Sometimes I wish I could just go to sleep the day after Hallowe’en and wake up a few days before Christmas, just in time for turkey and family.
Hallowe’en was yesterday and today I’m just beat. The party was fun, but familiar. It was like our everyday hang outs, but in some one else’s basement. And costumes.
The highlight of my Hallowe’en was certainly the time spent with my maid of honour and one of my bride’s maids and my mom, trying on wedding dresses. The giggles, the oohs, the aahhs (they both looked fantastic in EVERYTHING they tried on while I kept getting smooshed into dresses that were 6 sizes too small). I am still in love with the top of one dress and desperately hoping I can find a seamstress who can turn mom’s old dress into what I really want. But I am also aware that whatever my dress looks like, knowing it was made from my mom’s will be delightful!!
Tonight, I’m staying in, watching silly movies and hitting the hay pretty damn early. For all you partying it up tonight, play safe!
The winds of change are blowing in, and I’m not talking about world powers, local leaders of any other election type stuff.
I’m talking about the deep, deep need for change that I feel every year at this time. Hallowe’en has somehow come to represent the time in my life when I seek change. I have lost count of the number of men I have broken up with in the days leading up to All Hallows’ Eve. Or the jobs that I have quit.Or the ridiculous haircuts I’ve said yes to.
This Hallowe’en I will not be dumping my fiance. Turns out he’s a keeper! I will not be quitting my job. Turns out I’ve found something that I’m pretty good at and, surprise, I actually enjoy it!
At the moment, that leaves my hair. Recently I asked my lovely friend Loxy what I should do – stick with my original plan of growing my hair out, therefore ensuring I have many options for the wedding day hairstyle or just jumping and getting the haircut I’ve been day dreaming about. In her infinite wisdom, Loxy said I should just get a trim for now and hope that that would cure my new hair needs.
Now it’s my own damn fault for not getting that well advised trim. And because I didn’t get the trim, now I don’t want just a little change, I want big. I want to cut and dye it. I think my mood has been influenced by the fall colours, because I’ve got a craving for red hair.
But as I really don’t want to look like an idiot (or like a stranger) at my wedding, I’ll hold off for now.
And speaking of weddings, I’ve found a problem that I think will continue to pop up. An old friend of mine who I used to work with was in town this week, and as I wasn’t going to be able to get together with her for a nice long visit, she popped into the store last night during my shift. She was asking me general wedding planning questions; how big, venue, bla bla bla. Then she asked if we had picked a date. I said yes and gave it to her. Then she surprised me by pulling out her day timer and writing it down, saying “Now I won’t double book myself”.
Huh? Apparently by me telling her the date, she thought this meant she was invited. Not the case! So I’ve decided that from now on, when people ask me when it is, how bit it will be, all that lovely stuff, I’m going to lie. I’m going to say “I don’t know”. I don’t know when it is. I don’t know how big it will be, but rather small, I’d believe.
]I’m not sure how I feel about WordPress yet, but I’m already more impressed with it than I was with Uber. Although I am sad to leave my old blog behind, I do find it to be something my Globalization prof would be interested in – the US economy affecting the blogging world.
As this is the first post, I thought I’d start with some of my favorite things these days.
My Head in Front of Your Head – Best Friends Forever
It’s one of the cutest songs I’ve heard in.. well, ever!
Did I mention I’m getting married? In about, oh 363 days. This is a website I like to check out when I’m feeling totally uninspired.
Hard to describe, but it’s funny and different. It doesn’t get updated as much as I’d like, but it makes me giggle.
My favorite graphic novel would currently be ‘Y the Last Man‘, which I’ve heard they may make into a movie. For Halloween, Mr.Circus Crowd and I will be going as two characters, Yorick and Hero (Okay, it might be a little wierd, because they’re brother and sister and Hero has cut off one of her breasts. Okay, so it might be really wierd, but it will be fun!).
And in the interest of, well, me , here is another of my favorite things.
Now if you’ll all excuse me, I’m going to go off and try to get some homework done.
Happy Sundaying!
