Cremes

Well, I’ll give you a few guesses as to what I’ve been up to lately, and the first two don’t count.

I really wish that I had more to talk about in these things, but seriously, I’ve got nothin’. I should probably refrain from writing when I have nothing to talk about, but I feel obligated to keep everyone up to date on the boringness of my academic career. Although I do have something somewhat encouraging to say. I am very glad that I decided to become a history major. I’m overwhelmed with school work, yes… BUT! The work itself isn’t what is overwhelming. Just the sheer amount of it, and that is probably because of these distance courses. I have my Spanish exam on Friday, and then it’ll just be Maritime History II to worry about until October 21st (and if I don’t finish it by then, worrying won’t save me).

But yeah, the point of this blog is to say that despite being crazy overburdened with schoolwork, I’m glad that I’m not in music anymore, despite the fact that I would be doing less work, so-to-speak. I would have had a normal amount of classes, but the work would be waaay beyond my level, plus I would have been fighting to get my grade 4 in piano. So, this work is something that I can do as long as I time-manage. And I’ve been doing a far amount of that, totally giving up my weekends for the greater good of school. But at least there’s no worrying about me! I’m gonna be fine!

I woke up this morning feeling fully rested and ready to start the day: beautiful sunshine streaming in through my windows and just having that Saturday morning free feeling. Of course, all the things that I have to get done are indoor things. Which really sucks.

It makes me think about how awesome Saturday mornings were in Texas. We usually slept in, and I would go wake up Mike from the couch around 10 or so, and then we would hang out for a bit, before showering and stuff, then there was often breakfast cooking downstairs. After that we’d head out to the bank or shopping, usually being out most of the day. Often there was Mexican food to be had. There’s just something about Saturdays that were so good. At night we’d usually kick back at home and maybe watch movies or play some video games. So nice and relaxing.

My Saturday today is looking like maybe escaping only long enough to take a walk. I have sooo much work to do. I didn’t get everything done that I wanted to last night. I barely made a dent in my homework actually. Bah. I can’t wait to finish these distance courses.

Last night and this morning, Alley was acting very strange, all curled into a ball, sleeping under my desk. Not out visiting when people were over, and even flinching when I pet her. When she did move, she was hobbling. I was pretty worried when this was still going on this morning, and I called the vet. Well apparently some kitties get reactions to certain shots, and mine is one of them. (One in 100 they said, what are the chances?) So she got another shot to alleviate the pain, and now she’s sleeping it off under my desk again, but at least now she’s stretched out and not breathing so heavily. He said that by late afternoon she should be back to her old self. :D

Today was somewhat eventful. I took Alley (my adorable cat) to the vet this morning, for a checkup and a couple shots. She has her rabies shot now, so she can travel over the border at will. I hope anyways. I had to take a taxi down because Alley is not a fun traveller and besides she is heavy when she’s in the carrier and trying to get out. I found out that they do indeed give out kitty sedatives, so that will be a welcome thing next time I have to bring her home to Yarmouth. But yeah, clean bill of health for her (and best of all — no fleas!) and boy was she happy to get back to the apartment! She hates travelling and strange places where people poke sharp things at you (who can blame her), so she was happily running around the apartment upon arrival. She even took a little nap with me, so I know she still loves me! :D

Not really any farther on anything. School, wedding, blah. I managed to complete one assignment over the weekend, and work on a bunch of others. Sometimes it feels like all I do is homework or school reading, but yet it doesn’t seem to go anywhere. I’ll feel better once I have my Spanish course finished, something out of the way that I won’t need to worry about. I haven’t received my mark (or GRADE you rotten Americans) yet for the last exam I wrote (or TOOK :P), and I’m kinda getting antsy to get that back.

Tonight, I’m heading out with my roommate and our neighbors for cheapo spaghetti night at Joe’s downtown, so that should be fun, we’re going out around 8pm. Still no idea when mom’s car is going to be fixed, it’s still up here in King’s County somewhere, kicking around and rueing the day that it hit that unfortunate (albeit obese) raccoon. So I guess I’ll post again when I get an update on something. Stay cool!

Well, I guess the wedding plans are getting shifted around a little bit. Originally, the plan was to go to the States, get married legally then return to NS for June 3rd and have the ceremony. But the chances that we could get my travel permit in the time that we have seem rather slim.

Now it seems it could go three ways. We could get married in the States then wait until my travel permit came in, which would pretty much mean that we have the wedding in August or September to allow time for it all to happen, but I don’t really like that plan because we would have been married for a few months already and probably wouldn’t care about the ceremony anymore.

Option #2 involves moving the entire wedding down to Texas. This is problematic more for everybody else than for me. Obvious travel costs are taken into consideration. Of course, it makes it easier for those in and around Texas, but generally everybody tends to have more expendable cash than Nova Scotians. So to lessen the cash problem, the wedding could be moved to September, when ticket prices go down. However, this poses a few more problems.. One being that I don’t really want to wait that long, and then there’s that whole deal about Mike taking time off a new job. We wouldn’t be able to go on our honeymoon right away most likely, which would rather suck, because I know we’re both looking forward to it, wherever it may be. Technically option #1 would have this problem as well.

Lastly, and this is what my dad suggested last night, is that we have the fake wedding here, then fly down to the States with Visa in tow, and get married down there, then jet off to the honeymoon. Of course, it raises its own issues, one of them being that I have no time right now to plan this wedding.

So while we mull over the options and decide which is best, I’ve been looking at invitations. I was going to day a little trip up to the city and check out what they had up there, but I’m definitely going to wait until there is no hurricane warning. I have a few catalogues and some samples heading my way, including one I really like, and it’s still affordable. Of course, we still need to finalize the guest list. So many things to do, so little time.

… you have to force yourself to have some downtime that lasts longer than it takes to eat a meal.

I’m finding myself with free time right now, and absolutely nothing recreational sounds like fun. On top of that, I find myself feeling bored without schoolwork. But on Tuesdays and Thursdays I have so little time between classes that I can’t get enough of a time block to make studying worthwhile. Who wants to study for 30 minutes? Might as well catch up on my internet reading (ie, Blogs and webcomics) and do some socializing by msn. It’s also a good time to catch up on any mini-assignments that I didn’t have time to finish on Wednesday but I’m in the clear for today.

It just seems funny that when you are constantly in the habit of being productive, suddenly lazying around watching movies and playing games seems not as fun as accomplishing things. That doesn’t make me more motivated to clean out my bedroom however. Which it desperately needs.

I guess “fun” wouldn’t be the right word to describe doing homework. But the good feeling I get once I tick off the last thing on my to-do list and go to bed worry free is great. It’s definitely keeping the stress levels down. But all work and no play makes Meags a dull girl, so I have to take time outs for myself, to read, relax, watch a movie, etc. Procrastinating used to be something I did before schoolwork, and I’m sure I’ll slip into that behaviour again maybe later this or next semester. But for now, it’s a kill or be killed situation. I’ve got 8 classes on the go, a final coming up, 2 massive research papers to go (and then another final) and heaven knows what for actual class in the near future. Frig, I have a test next Tuesday! So if I don’t stay on top of things now when it’s imperative not to fall behind, I could be in a really sad state.

So with that in mind, I’m going to chill out for the next 45 minutes then run off to class, but I’m taking my GameBoy with me!

It’s been a busy time. I’m still working on finishing up my summer courses, but I am further ahead than I was on Thursday! I have one exam down, only one more assignment left in Spanish plus the last test and final exam, and two more assignments completed for the 4th (and final) class. Of course, I also had to do my homework for the rest of my classes that began last Wednesday. It appears to be mostly reading, mini assignments, and essays. I’m taking two intro courses which is wonderful, and so far my third year courses seem to be okay. I think I’m going to adore my American history course, the prof is so young and excited about the material it just makes me excited too! He’s also kinda easy on the eyes, but I’ll forget about that detail for Mike’s sake. As long as I stay on top of the readings and get a head start on my essays, then I should be okay. And next semester will feel like a breeze in comparison!

I still have to finish that Athabasca course as well. That one I can buy an extension for, so it’s ok. And I’ll probably do that soon, because I believe that I’m supposed to have my course material finished by November. I feel silly wasting money the way that I have in recent months, but that is coming to an end. Any major expense I’m going to think more carefully on from now on. Speaking of expense, I had to cancel my Amazon order for my school books. They were taking so long to get here! It’s probably going to cost me twice as much to buy them in the bookstore, but considering I have an assignment due Tuesday using the book that I don’t have as of yet, I’m kind of stuck. I can’t not do my homework until October just to save money, sadly. Hopefully I’ll get that bursary.

And yeah. So I’m out of news. Not that I had a lot of news to begin with, but I’m fresh out now. I suppose that I’ll go check out my class syllabuses (syllabii?) and see if I can keep myself busy for a few hours before I get to bed!

Once again, I have no idea what to type about, but feel compelled to say something. I have so many things going on these days and absolutely no time to relax, or even clean out this bedroom. Between studying and hanging out with our new neighbors, it seems like the day is over before it’s even started. Just too much going on at once around here. I’d also like to get rid of this keyboard. Not the computer one, that one is attached to my laptop and getting rid of it wouldn’t serve much purpose. The musical one, however, I feel somewhat stupid every time I look at it. I can’t believe I spent 900$ on it and then switched my major. I could have used that money for rent, but nooo, I had to buy a keyboard with it. All major expenditures are going to have to cease for awhile. I wish I had waited. I’m going to try and sell it, but I don’t know if it’ll sell or not. Sigh. I just have too many things to worry about that I wish I didn’t have to. Sometimes I wish I could just be like I was a few years ago, having loads of free time to do what I pleased, having the normal 5 credits a semester and all of that. I’m hoping that in the end it will all be worth it.

Everything is back to normal, it seems. My mom and I hit a raccoon on the way to Wolfville on Friday night, and now her car’s in the shop so she had to stay here an extra night. She’s on her way to the airport to pick up a rental right now, my aunt is driving her. It was fun, though. I ended up getting a cell phone that works in Canada so that’s cool. It’s a family plan with my mom’s phone, so we can call each other and stuff. It was an interesting couple of days, but I managed to get quite a bit of work done. The next few days are going to be really busy. I have to help out at the welcome centre for 4 hours tomorrow and the next day, but other than that I’m all about the studying. And the movie watching of course. I have some organizing and cleaning to get to as well. So I don’t think I’ll be online a whole lot, and I’ll be on my cell and stuff. So hopefully I’ll be around in a couple of weeks, but I’m really under the gun to finish these classes and stuff. There will be partying once I finish them!!!

More later!