So, er... hi!
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wilde_stallynAlright, so somehow I've managed to be even more silent and anti-social this fall than I usually am, both on lj and in real life. I don't really have an explanation, except that I'm just really bad at this people thing. I am trying to work on it though (Yay, for therapy! :p).
It's been an... interesting term. I had a bit of a nervous breakdown midway through October, dropped three of the four classes I was taking this term, and decided to start the University thing basically from the beginning again and try to switch into Sciences. I had been struggling to finish my BA since last fall because my parents wanted me too, and well, they are paying for it, but I finally realized that it wasn't going to work. I had been having increasing trouble writing papers basically since the end of second year. I was having anxiety attacks just thinking about writing a paper, so I would avoid thinking about it until it was late, which created more anxiety, etc. As it stands I have not actually finished a paper since June 2005. By this October it had reached the point where if I didn't make some major changes I was going to fail out of school, and beyond that, I was depressed and miserable and hated everything I was doing. So I'm going into Sciences, like I probably should have done from the beginning. I have no idea what I want to do as a career, or what I'm going to do with a BSc (probably in math) when I'm done, but in the meantime, at least I'll be doing something I like and am good at.
So for the last month or so, I've been concentrating on the one class I didn't drop this term, Scenic Painting, working (I basically had a job at the gift shop in the Museum of Anthropology thrown at me in September. It's a really good job when your not bored to tears, I just wasn't expecting it at the time.), sleeping/not sleeping at weird times, watching the Discovery channel, and obsessively doing 184 piece "crazy" puzzles at jigzone.com. I've discovered that I'm actually a pretty good painter when someone actually explains techniques to me, unlike in high school when paint mostly just frustrated me (I love Mr. Gibson, but he didn't actually teach much.). I'll post the pictures of my projects once the prof send me the last one. I also learned that Lucy Lawless has a show about women warriors on the Discovery channel at 5am. Take from that what you will.
As you may have heard global warming took it's revenge on the Pacific Northwest last week in the form of a buttload of snow. Mostly this just made everyone drive like idiots and made work really painfully slow, but it also looked pretty cool in some places because it was wet and stuck to everything, so I bring you Scenes from the UBC Endowment Lands, Wednesday, Nov. 28:
Since I don't have any exams this term, and with the way scheduling worked out at work, I'm coming home early, rather than over Christmas. So I'll be in Winnipeg tomorrow night, until the 20th. What's everyone there's schedules like the next couple of weeks?
It's been an... interesting term. I had a bit of a nervous breakdown midway through October, dropped three of the four classes I was taking this term, and decided to start the University thing basically from the beginning again and try to switch into Sciences. I had been struggling to finish my BA since last fall because my parents wanted me too, and well, they are paying for it, but I finally realized that it wasn't going to work. I had been having increasing trouble writing papers basically since the end of second year. I was having anxiety attacks just thinking about writing a paper, so I would avoid thinking about it until it was late, which created more anxiety, etc. As it stands I have not actually finished a paper since June 2005. By this October it had reached the point where if I didn't make some major changes I was going to fail out of school, and beyond that, I was depressed and miserable and hated everything I was doing. So I'm going into Sciences, like I probably should have done from the beginning. I have no idea what I want to do as a career, or what I'm going to do with a BSc (probably in math) when I'm done, but in the meantime, at least I'll be doing something I like and am good at.
So for the last month or so, I've been concentrating on the one class I didn't drop this term, Scenic Painting, working (I basically had a job at the gift shop in the Museum of Anthropology thrown at me in September. It's a really good job when your not bored to tears, I just wasn't expecting it at the time.), sleeping/not sleeping at weird times, watching the Discovery channel, and obsessively doing 184 piece "crazy" puzzles at jigzone.com. I've discovered that I'm actually a pretty good painter when someone actually explains techniques to me, unlike in high school when paint mostly just frustrated me (I love Mr. Gibson, but he didn't actually teach much.). I'll post the pictures of my projects once the prof send me the last one. I also learned that Lucy Lawless has a show about women warriors on the Discovery channel at 5am. Take from that what you will.
As you may have heard global warming took it's revenge on the Pacific Northwest last week in the form of a buttload of snow. Mostly this just made everyone drive like idiots and made work really painfully slow, but it also looked pretty cool in some places because it was wet and stuck to everything, so I bring you Scenes from the UBC Endowment Lands, Wednesday, Nov. 28:
Since I don't have any exams this term, and with the way scheduling worked out at work, I'm coming home early, rather than over Christmas. So I'll be in Winnipeg tomorrow night, until the 20th. What's everyone there's schedules like the next couple of weeks?
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Hooray!
Date: 2006-12-04 10:31 pm (UTC)That Lucy Lawless thing was like a six-episode mini-series a few years ago, I dunno if the project was continued/expanded.
I hope you know that you are loved.
Re: Hooray!
Date: 2006-12-05 10:10 am (UTC)I've only seen two episodes of the Lucy Lawless thing so far, so they're probably just replaying them to fill the early morning hours.
*hugs*
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Date: 2006-12-04 11:31 pm (UTC)As far as I can tell, I'm off weekends and nights. Exciting, sadly this also means I have to get up hideously early. But yay for seeing you!
*hugs*
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Date: 2006-12-05 10:25 am (UTC)If Skai hasn't sent me the last pic before I see you, I can show you what I have on cd. It's not really all that exciting. Mostly just painting a wood pallet to look like other surfaces (stone, brick, marble, we even painted the wood to look like wood). The last one was actually a picture though.
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Date: 2006-12-05 03:38 am (UTC)She has a show at 5am... I'll have to check it out (I also sleep at weird hours).
Forced school is one of the worst situations there are, at last I see it as this. Science is good and math is a good science too.
I have exams till the 18th (on which I'll end up at paliminos after my exam that day since my friend is dragging me). Other than that I am fine to hang out for short bits of time here and there inbetween studying. Send an email if anything is happening.
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Date: 2006-12-05 06:59 pm (UTC)I totally understand what you mean about school. I've recently decided that I don't care anymore, and I know it's affecting my work, so I'm going to finish out the year, and then run off to do something else. (It gets a bit fuzzzy as to *what* else)
I have no evenings, except for Saturdays and Sundays. Other than that, and a few exams that I probably should study for, I'm pretty much free until the 17th. After that, I'm in vegas (I loves my Grandpa :p)