Welp, I'm giving
Spark another try. I deleted my old, abandoned account and started a new one. If any of you are on there and want to
prod/encourage me keep me company, please let me know; I could use company to keep me active there. New name is Talesia, because even though I deleted the Ashfae account it won't let me reuse the name.
Doing a quiet weekend. Had a weird fever thing on Friday; not a major one, more like a headcold gone strange. Went away as I slept, though. Spent yesterday playing video games and mucking about with old writing and generally being quiet. I've spent the past week being pretty antisocial after the crazed nonstop people of the trip, which was necessary and good, but I'm now pretty bored of it. I want a board game party, but we don't have a free weekend until the second week of December. If I hold a Christmas game party thing then, anyone interested/free to come? =)
But the usual holiday season things are beginning to pile up. I'm already getting psyched for them, especially as they involve a lot of singing. =) Next weekend is the concert for the Dick Vet choir, into which I've suddenly been drafted to sing second soprano in the Ceremony of Carols (yay!); I know it backwards and forwards and love it and haven't sung it for years, so this is pleasing. Fond memories associated with it, of the BYC choir, in which
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averygoodun and my cousin James and I were the lone second sopranos, and managed to outsing the firsts and the altos even though those parts had four times as many singers as we did. Bwahahah. Second sopranos forever!
It's going to be Chris' first time conducting an entire concert, too. Rah for Chris.
My brother
borbor_chan is coming to visit for Thanksgiving, which is totally made of awesome. I can't wait to see him, my brother rocks. Chris will be drowning in the Sound-Thought conference that weekend, so alas there won't be much of him, but there should still be lots of fun. All the Edinburgh Christmas things start that weekend too, and I'm very much looking forward to them. But my main goal is to get
borbor_chan to play Brutal Legend, because oh fuck it's hilarious.
I'll be taking a poetry workshop for a few months starting January. Yay!
I haven't gotten confirmation from Aber about whether my temporary withdrawal has been accepted, because the temporary secretary (the main one left a month ago, and is much missed) has been ill. Boo.
( Silly meme: am I a nerd, geek, or dork? )
Books on tape are the best thing ever. So long as they're unabridged. Also radio shows and podcasts. I
love podcasts. That is all.
Money is a problem. Heigh ho. But I've got extra work shelving for the next few weeks, which I hope will help. Unfortunately part of the price of the recent trip was that half of it was unpaid vacation leave time, so my paycheck for October and November both are reduced. I still feel this is more than fair, because I'm still awed by how much more paid holiday time is given to workers in the UK, and because I know it was a nuisance for me to be gone for so long. But money is always a problem. Sigh. Sometimes I wish I were less scrupulous about asking parental types for help, but I just
hate doing that. It's not about whether they can or whether they mind, it's about my dislike about not being able to support myself, and then some. Bah.
Actually money-wise we're usually okay (skint, but okay), the main reason we're stuck at the moment is because I started Christmas shopping early, because every year I mail things to the States and do it all the first or second week of December in a crunch, and this year I'm determined to get the Stateside stuff out with plenty of time. Also while I'm good at budgeting and being frugal normally, at Christmas it all goes out the window because I
love finding things to make people smile and giving them to them (relative pronoun fail!). It's important to me. *sheepish* So, so worth it though.
It was a tumultuous trip emotionally. Lots of conflicted thoughts about babies (gaaaah everyone is having babies!) and moving (don't even go there). The first was actually overall very helpful for me, if surreal at the time. The latter...well, the situation remains the same really. I'm torn about where I want to live. I have an ideal scenario which is exceedingly unlikely, though even that scenario involves sacrifices of numerous sorts. But it's all moot. What will happen is that Chris and I will apply for jobs, see where we can get them (if we can), and decide based on that. And that is a later thing, so there's no point fretting about it now.
I have mental checklists of pros and cons for the US vs the UK, but it's apples and oranges, you can't really compare them. Each has strengths and weaknesses, and each has things the other simply cannot provide. Heigh ho. I was like that even before I immigrated, I always want to live everywhere.
But it was a wonderful trip overall. Maybe I'll just post pictures, rather than try to write it all up, because there's too much to say.
Celebrating Halloween? Was AWESOME. Exactly what I wanted, between the wonderful pumpkin carving party and "Trick-or-Can"ing. My only regret is that despite the best intentions I completely failed to do a corn maze. But it was terrific to get Halloween for once. =)
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