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Day 942: Building Up
Oct. 22nd, 2010 10:22 pmOkay. A recap of the last few days, and the random things I've learnt:
1 - I'm not lazy as much as nervous, but I can work up to productivity. After the earlier days in the week featured a whole lot of me being useless, I built up to useful things. I got a new driver's license to reflect my current state residency status, and also a flu shot. Best of all, I got contact lenses again. Haven't worn them in a couple of years, and oh, it feels so good to remember that the world is bright and beautiful and doesn't have to be fuzzy around the edges. I got my application by motion mailed in, and I hung around the law school helping Catie and Angela draft a motion in limine for their trial practice class (and also got free food, including awesome fried cheesecake, which was fabulous). I got some other fancy things mailed off, and also applied for a cheap minimum wage job to tide me over until I can practice here.
2 - I love musicals and live theatre. I've said it many times before, but it bears repeating, because I do not have enough theatre in my life. My friend Ryan, who was a year ahead of me in law school and also my home teacher while we were both in law school, is going to be in a play where he is in Arizona. Not only does he write plays, but he acts in them too. Why is that boy not married? On Thursday night, instead of going bellydancing or to training, I went to see the West Side Story with Dan, Andrew, Ashley, Pearl, and Natalie from church. Angela and Catie had tickets for the same night (which is why Angela didn't go with Dan and the gang when one of their number fell through), so we girls went out to dinner beforehand (Old Chicago, tasty pizza rolls). The Broadway Revival version was partially bilingual, but I saw that film so many times as a kid I knew where I was going. The music was amazing, Tony was adorable, Action looked like Ian Durant (lol), and we had a great time. I love the energy that comes from a live performance (and I have decided that, sometime before I die, I must see Colin Morgan and Bradley James in live theatre...though not necessarily together onstage). After the show, we spotted the boy who played Tony leaving, and Catie went to get her picture taken with him. He was very sweet about it all.
3 - I love my senseis a whole lot. They're good guys. I saw Elder Sensei Raymond for the first time in forever, and it looks like he's lost weight, and he just had the second surgery on his shoulder, but it was like seeing a long-lost friend again. He was grateful for the postcards, although he did wind his wife up about getting mail from exotic locations from a strange person. (She needn't have worried, and honestly, I did address the cards "Sensei" for good measure.) Sensei Marr congratulated me on passing the bar, and Mr. Lemmons asked if I got hurt on Friday's class because apparently one of my Facebook status updates was worrisome (it was very sweet of him to be concerned, but when I checked back I realized that the status was chosen more because what Sensei Doss said had made me laugh than me actually getting hurt, even if my ribs did take a beating later in the week). Sensei Green was there for the first time in a long time, and it was so good to have him; afterwards we went to Wendy's like we do and he recounted all the awful things he and his brothers did when they were kids (some seriously ingenious stuff that will, most likely, work its way into stories I write).
4 - Hanging out with Angela is for the win. We hung out on Wednesday night - we cooked together, like we do, although she did most of the work, and we watched Criminal Minds, and we talked and had fun. She gave me a super awesome pretty bracelet (which I forgot at her house) made out of Amazonite, because it is the stone of sisterhood and I passed the bar and also we are combat sisters. We hung out Thursday, and we hung out today - at school, and also dancing, because she is going to dance with me on Monday at FHE once we get our choreography right - and we're going to hang out tomorrow because it's Merlin day, and...yeah. Awesome.
5 - One hour's time difference can be a lot at the end of a long day. Usually it's no big deal that Cody's one hour behind me, but for him midnight is my one a.m., so if he's studying late, by the time he sends me a hello text message I'm probably asleep. Call me pathetic, but I was sad that we didn't get to talk last night.
I still have to work on his birthday present and his Christmas present (one of the skeins of yarn for his Christmas present exploded and I nearly strained my wrist winding it into a ball), and I have a bunch of other presents to work on, but most importantly I have to find a job, and...yeah. Life is going good, though. Training days, no matter how they start, always end well.
1 - I'm not lazy as much as nervous, but I can work up to productivity. After the earlier days in the week featured a whole lot of me being useless, I built up to useful things. I got a new driver's license to reflect my current state residency status, and also a flu shot. Best of all, I got contact lenses again. Haven't worn them in a couple of years, and oh, it feels so good to remember that the world is bright and beautiful and doesn't have to be fuzzy around the edges. I got my application by motion mailed in, and I hung around the law school helping Catie and Angela draft a motion in limine for their trial practice class (and also got free food, including awesome fried cheesecake, which was fabulous). I got some other fancy things mailed off, and also applied for a cheap minimum wage job to tide me over until I can practice here.
2 - I love musicals and live theatre. I've said it many times before, but it bears repeating, because I do not have enough theatre in my life. My friend Ryan, who was a year ahead of me in law school and also my home teacher while we were both in law school, is going to be in a play where he is in Arizona. Not only does he write plays, but he acts in them too. Why is that boy not married? On Thursday night, instead of going bellydancing or to training, I went to see the West Side Story with Dan, Andrew, Ashley, Pearl, and Natalie from church. Angela and Catie had tickets for the same night (which is why Angela didn't go with Dan and the gang when one of their number fell through), so we girls went out to dinner beforehand (Old Chicago, tasty pizza rolls). The Broadway Revival version was partially bilingual, but I saw that film so many times as a kid I knew where I was going. The music was amazing, Tony was adorable, Action looked like Ian Durant (lol), and we had a great time. I love the energy that comes from a live performance (and I have decided that, sometime before I die, I must see Colin Morgan and Bradley James in live theatre...though not necessarily together onstage). After the show, we spotted the boy who played Tony leaving, and Catie went to get her picture taken with him. He was very sweet about it all.
3 - I love my senseis a whole lot. They're good guys. I saw Elder Sensei Raymond for the first time in forever, and it looks like he's lost weight, and he just had the second surgery on his shoulder, but it was like seeing a long-lost friend again. He was grateful for the postcards, although he did wind his wife up about getting mail from exotic locations from a strange person. (She needn't have worried, and honestly, I did address the cards "Sensei" for good measure.) Sensei Marr congratulated me on passing the bar, and Mr. Lemmons asked if I got hurt on Friday's class because apparently one of my Facebook status updates was worrisome (it was very sweet of him to be concerned, but when I checked back I realized that the status was chosen more because what Sensei Doss said had made me laugh than me actually getting hurt, even if my ribs did take a beating later in the week). Sensei Green was there for the first time in a long time, and it was so good to have him; afterwards we went to Wendy's like we do and he recounted all the awful things he and his brothers did when they were kids (some seriously ingenious stuff that will, most likely, work its way into stories I write).
4 - Hanging out with Angela is for the win. We hung out on Wednesday night - we cooked together, like we do, although she did most of the work, and we watched Criminal Minds, and we talked and had fun. She gave me a super awesome pretty bracelet (which I forgot at her house) made out of Amazonite, because it is the stone of sisterhood and I passed the bar and also we are combat sisters. We hung out Thursday, and we hung out today - at school, and also dancing, because she is going to dance with me on Monday at FHE once we get our choreography right - and we're going to hang out tomorrow because it's Merlin day, and...yeah. Awesome.
5 - One hour's time difference can be a lot at the end of a long day. Usually it's no big deal that Cody's one hour behind me, but for him midnight is my one a.m., so if he's studying late, by the time he sends me a hello text message I'm probably asleep. Call me pathetic, but I was sad that we didn't get to talk last night.
I still have to work on his birthday present and his Christmas present (one of the skeins of yarn for his Christmas present exploded and I nearly strained my wrist winding it into a ball), and I have a bunch of other presents to work on, but most importantly I have to find a job, and...yeah. Life is going good, though. Training days, no matter how they start, always end well.
