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What vacation....?
17/3/02 00:16Well. I can't say I wasn't productive. I got a lot of work done over break, summer-job and resume wise. Put resumes out to a bunch of different places, with cover letters and all.
And I did get some of my readings finished, and all of my written work was already done. Now I get to see if the books I requested for the Giant Paper of Doom are going to be at the Library on Monday so I can finish researching and start writing that puppy.
I had fun with friends - spent a couple of hours with Skye-Rebecca (to differentate her from Sharon-Rose's-Rebecca, aka Kitty, not Kitten), painting pictures and watching Star Wars fan films and generally joking about. She gave me a lot of Russian MP3s, which are fun. And I have no copyright qualms about them because there is no possible way to order the CDs over here, and I am not planning on going to Russia anytime soon.
I spent a couple of hours at Skye's sister's karate class because I was driving her there, where I found the differences and similarities in karate and tai chi to be absolutely fascinating. They kept doing this one movement that just barely wasn't fishes in eight.
I managed to (wonder of wonders!) set up something of a small webdesign business, as I have been meaning to do for quite a while, and actually gave my business card out to a few people. Ooh. More website on that coming soon.
I went and got a PHB for D&D. Yay! My birthday present to myself. I had a nice before-birthday dinner with my parents and my sister and my ten year old cousin, who was fine except for the following bit of conversation.
Cousin: Do you know what a hickey is?
My sister: looking dubious Yes....
Cousin: I can give myself one. Want to see? proceeds to demonstrate
My sister and myself break down in laughter
Me: That's kind of not the point...
From my parents, I got a beautiful necklace with a really nice-looking imitation topaz (I have always secretly really liked topazes, the beautiful color makes me think of blood and cinnamon) and amythest, and some books still on order from the store.
From my sister (in collaboration with my employer last summer, the dentist) I am getting a custom-made choker to hang all my charms from. This is simply too cool. I must scan in the drawing my sister made of me, and show it all to you at some point.
I didn't get to see as much of my sister as I'd hoped, but we did go out for the fabled Indian (not Thai) food. It was not too expensive, and was wonderful. If you don't count the last bite of potatoes whose spice exploded in my mouth and traveled up into my ear and down into my lower intestine with an insistent fire as I squealed and looked throughly undignified. And she still might come and visit over Easter or some other break-time.
The last night of vacation was fun - my best friend came over with the copy of Confessions of a Wicked Stepsister she'd taped off of the ABC made-for-tv movie earlier on in the week. It was great fun, speaking as someone who loves fairy tales and retellings thereof, as a writer, and as someone who finds themselves increasingly fascinated with Dutch painting in the 1600's and 1700's. I still haven't read the book, but if it's as wonderfully creative (and subversive and dark) as his other novel, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, I will want to.
You'll never catch them turning Wicked into the movie of the week, though...although it might be a good thing for Julie Taymor (the wonderfully twisted and unexpected genius behind the movie Titus and the Broadway adaptation of The Lion King) to work her magic on. Although, perhaps not...I am not sure that that book and those kinds of "themed" special effects should be put together.
And I did get some of my readings finished, and all of my written work was already done. Now I get to see if the books I requested for the Giant Paper of Doom are going to be at the Library on Monday so I can finish researching and start writing that puppy.
I had fun with friends - spent a couple of hours with Skye-Rebecca (to differentate her from Sharon-Rose's-Rebecca, aka Kitty, not Kitten), painting pictures and watching Star Wars fan films and generally joking about. She gave me a lot of Russian MP3s, which are fun. And I have no copyright qualms about them because there is no possible way to order the CDs over here, and I am not planning on going to Russia anytime soon.
I spent a couple of hours at Skye's sister's karate class because I was driving her there, where I found the differences and similarities in karate and tai chi to be absolutely fascinating. They kept doing this one movement that just barely wasn't fishes in eight.
I managed to (wonder of wonders!) set up something of a small webdesign business, as I have been meaning to do for quite a while, and actually gave my business card out to a few people. Ooh. More website on that coming soon.
I went and got a PHB for D&D. Yay! My birthday present to myself. I had a nice before-birthday dinner with my parents and my sister and my ten year old cousin, who was fine except for the following bit of conversation.
Cousin: Do you know what a hickey is?
My sister: looking dubious Yes....
Cousin: I can give myself one. Want to see? proceeds to demonstrate
My sister and myself break down in laughter
Me: That's kind of not the point...
From my parents, I got a beautiful necklace with a really nice-looking imitation topaz (I have always secretly really liked topazes, the beautiful color makes me think of blood and cinnamon) and amythest, and some books still on order from the store.
From my sister (in collaboration with my employer last summer, the dentist) I am getting a custom-made choker to hang all my charms from. This is simply too cool. I must scan in the drawing my sister made of me, and show it all to you at some point.
I didn't get to see as much of my sister as I'd hoped, but we did go out for the fabled Indian (not Thai) food. It was not too expensive, and was wonderful. If you don't count the last bite of potatoes whose spice exploded in my mouth and traveled up into my ear and down into my lower intestine with an insistent fire as I squealed and looked throughly undignified. And she still might come and visit over Easter or some other break-time.
The last night of vacation was fun - my best friend came over with the copy of Confessions of a Wicked Stepsister she'd taped off of the ABC made-for-tv movie earlier on in the week. It was great fun, speaking as someone who loves fairy tales and retellings thereof, as a writer, and as someone who finds themselves increasingly fascinated with Dutch painting in the 1600's and 1700's. I still haven't read the book, but if it's as wonderfully creative (and subversive and dark) as his other novel, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, I will want to.
You'll never catch them turning Wicked into the movie of the week, though...although it might be a good thing for Julie Taymor (the wonderfully twisted and unexpected genius behind the movie Titus and the Broadway adaptation of The Lion King) to work her magic on. Although, perhaps not...I am not sure that that book and those kinds of "themed" special effects should be put together.
