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| Saturday, November 14th, 2009 | | 9:44 pm |
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| | Saturday, October 10th, 2009 | | 8:06 pm |
| | Tuesday, October 6th, 2009 | | 11:12 pm |
Writer's Block: Concert mania
Flogging Molly. And, yes! I am so not a concert person, but to see Flogging Molly live, I would do just about anything! | | Monday, September 7th, 2009 | | 3:33 pm |
| | Wednesday, August 26th, 2009 | | 2:26 pm |
| | Tuesday, August 11th, 2009 | | 4:56 pm |
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| | Tuesday, August 4th, 2009 | | 11:08 pm |
Enjoying free time. Replying to old LJ comments! Looking forward to reading fic and catching up on Flist journals in the near future! | | Thursday, July 23rd, 2009 | | 1:24 pm |
So Much To Do . . .
It's finals season for summer classes here at UNM and I have *so* much to do: three papers due by the end of next week, one set of revisions, a pair of novels to finish reading, and a trip to plan. In actuality, I only have two papers due; I asked for extra credit, so I'm writing my third paper on Blade Runner. I like my class and I want to get the most I can out of it. I *know* I can get everything accomplished that I need to this week, I got more done with less time during midterms last semester. I'm planning on using the momentum of all those hours of required writing each day to finish two personal projects I've been working on: a 500-word essay and a short story. It's a lot to bite off all at once, but I'll feel so accomplished once I finish everything. I sort of tuned out the second part of the lecture today, began drafting a schedule for next week. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't a little bit panicked, but I'm also really looking forward to a week of business. I truly do not due well with free time. I have no idea how to manage it. In the long run, I feel better if I don't have any to worry about. The trip planning will probably be the most fun. I have three weeks to fill between terms and no shortage of places to go: Ohio, Pueblo, Tucson, two or three cities in Texas. I just have to do the legwork, talk to people, get the transportation figured out. Once I've finished everything for this week, I can use the inevitable burnout, plus the relaxation time on my trip to start laying the groundwork for fall semester. There are a lot of personal things I want to get accomplished this fall: I want to find a place to live off-campus for spring semester, apply for New Mexico residency, change my last name, get a job and another internship. I'm looking forward to rushing from one thing to another again. This lazy summer has been fun, but I haven't accomplished nearly as much as I did during the insanity of last semester; I had work, a full roster of classes, a relationship, and a busy, active social life. Relaxation has been nice, but I'm looking forward to the business of fall semester. | | Sunday, July 19th, 2009 | | 4:46 pm |
Writer's Block: Family Heirlooms
Names. I'm the third "Elizabeth Anne" in my family. My first and middle names I share with my mother and grandmother. I've thought for years about changing my last name to "Gunn," so I can share all three of their names. There are a bunch of "Annes" and "Anns" on both sides, lots of "Miltons" in my mother's family, and my Dad's middle name, Sylvester, has belonged to at least two or three of his ancestors. Although my Dad complains sometimes about there being so much similarity in given names, I kind of like the tradition. I'd like there to be an Elizabeth Anne the Fourth some day. I'm not sure if I plan on calling my very first daughter that, but at least one of my kids will have that name. And I've always thought "Noah Milton" had a nice ring to it, for a boy. | | Thursday, July 16th, 2009 | | 12:09 pm |
I Has A Southern Boy!!!! : ) (Or, the Strangely Epic Saga of My Love Life)
For a girl who had no love life a year and a half ago, things have definitely been . . . interesting . . . for me lately! I wonder why being taken is an aphrodisiac for every other guy in the universe? Since I started dating A.J., all the way back in February of '08, I really haven't lacked for offers. A.J. and I were on-and-off, but all told, we were together for over a year. For my first serious relationship, I don't think that's a bad track record. Aside from the unmitigated disaster with Andrew while A.J. and I were "off" for a summer there in '08, my love life has been definitely more than okay. First, while I was still dating A.J., there was the odd little interlude with James. He flirted with me off and on there for a semester, we hung out a bit. Nothing even close to cheating, just more-or-less innocent fun. Great guy, amazing chemistry, it would have been one doozy of a relationship if it had gone anywhere, but he had recently broken off a seven-or-eight year engagement and, yeah . . . I'm no one's rebound girl. There was some other odd flirting, the really random kiss with Big Mike when I went to visit him in Dallas, which was really more awkward then anything. Then A.J. and I decided to do an open relationship for a while, things with James cooled off, then summer happened, and now I'm single again. I actually really enjoy being single, I've never *needed* a relationship the way lots of people do, so I was really looking forward to a good six months on my own. But right at the beginning of my first class at UNM, I met Daniel and things have been anything *but* boring since. Daniel started flirting with me from day one, we've been more or less mutually interested all summer, but nothing major's happened except he's made me dinner and given me a bunch of small presents. *blush* At first, I wasn't sure if I liked him or not and I wasn't in a hurry to rush into another relationship right away, but I'm starting to warm up to the idea. He's a really nice kid, 19 years old, from North Carolina, and homeschooled, so he went to one or two community colleges for awhile before he started at UNM. He's been involved in ROTC for awhile, he's studying exercise science so he can be a personal trainer, and lately he's been working fourteen hour days at the cafeteria. And -- HE WATCHES SUPERNATURAL!!!! OMFG!!!!! : ) We have a decent amount in common, actually. And he's polite - an old-fashioned gentleman which I really like. Things have been fun, but a few days ago, I started getting really aggravated that he hadn't asked me out. I put a status up on facebook about how *none* of the guys I've been interested in have ever asked me out, I've *always* made the first move. I'd been talking to my friend Becca about it, about how much that annoyed me (generally, I consider myself pretty liberal about relationships and life in general, but I've been discovering lately that I do have an old-fashioned side) and I was ticked off because I could name three people off the top of my head that I knew were interested in me (a very odd experience, since I've always been a bit awkward and nerdy and never thought of myself as particularly attractive) and at least a couple of others I was curious about. I wound up getting positive responses from a couple of the different guys in question, which sort of threw me since I hadn't *really* been expecting anything. But nothing from Daniel. Granted, the boy only checks his facebook once in a blue moon, but still. Then, the other night, he randomly shows up at my door after we've already had one conversation that evening, and asks me if I want to see Harry Potter with him on Friday. Convenient, since I'd been thinking about asking him. I said yes, obviously. I've been walking around with a stupid smile on my face for the last twelve hours. I don't know whether this technically counts as a date, since he didn't specifically say the word, but c'mon . . . two people who obviously like each other alone in a movie theater in the summer? Let's get real here. So, that's been going on and I still have a couple of other offers from that facebook post. : ) I hope this meandering entry doesn't come across as conceited, since this kind of attention definitely isn't my usual M.O. It's kind of bewildering, actually, but I've decided to chillax and go along for the ride. It's been a fucking awesome summer so far, my best in years, and I think it's only gonna better. Keep your fingers crossed for me and say a prayer for my Friday night! I'm looking forward to it! Oh, and does anyone have any SPN fic they want to rec me? I could do with a nice, long read. *huggles flisty* peace out . . . | | Saturday, July 11th, 2009 | | 8:21 pm |
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| | Wednesday, July 8th, 2009 | | 3:09 pm |
| | Sunday, July 5th, 2009 | | 9:01 am |
Writer's Block: Listen to This
Probably nothing. I have next to no musical taste of my own. I owe almost my entire music collection to friends who have either given me stuff or forced me to listen to an album. As a result, I own a very eclectic collection of music: everything from Taylor Swift to traditional Irish bands to Nine Inch Nails to really bizarre, independent stuff that nobody's heard of. I'm terribly shy about my musical tastes, actually. The only thing I truly enjoy that I discovered on my own is my quite diverse collection of classic rock, but I'd imagine most of my friends have already heard of those songs. One of my new years resolutions, actually, was to expand my understanding of music which I definitely need to work on. In the next coming months, one of my projects is to drag myself to some shows here in town, see what I like, maybe develop a taste for some upcoming bands. | | Saturday, July 4th, 2009 | | 1:14 pm |
Writer's Block: Personal Freedom
High School. High School was, for me, a prison sentence. I think I hated almost every single second of my compulsory education except, possibly, the last two years I spent at boarding school. Even then, it's iffy. College is paradise in comparison. In college, I made my first As since elementary school, found the first group of friends I could really count on, and quit for a semester when I got sick of it. Even the hell of CSF closing down and the constant fear throughout the two years prior about whether or not we would be able to stay open this semester, or the next one, or the one after that, was better than any of my time in high school. College works because you can leave any time you want. You're there only because you want to be. | | 1:05 pm |
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Writer's Block: Dog Day Afternoon
Maybe this is a redundant answer, but I really enjoy just being hot when it's hot. I genuinely love hot weather but I have a hard time letting myself just indulge in it. I try to get as much writing done in the summer as I can, so I'm usually inside a lot, but I should really let myself cut loose and just sunbathe once in awhile. I have very poor circulation, especially in my fingers and toes, so winters are usually pretty hard on me. When I *am* outside, I love blistering hot summer weather in all its forms: I love the dry heat of Wyoming and the humidity of Iowa that I remember from my boarding schools when stepping outdoors felt like a shower. I love working in the summers. Obviously, work isn't my favorite thing to do, but there's something really special about a day of hot labor in the scorching sun. (Maybe it's just how good it feels to finally stop?) I loved quitting time in the summer when I worked as a maid at the Best Western in Sheridan. There was a very unique satisfaction to the punch of the time clock at the end of the day. And that summer I worked my first job at The Pony Grill and Bar is inevitably seared into my memory: 113 degrees inside that kitchen, fajitas sizzling on the grill, cooks screaming, dishes coming out of the busted dishwasher at boiling temperature. I seared the feeling right out of my nerve endings that summer. I couldn't feel heat in my finger tips properly for a few months after that. I remember how much I loved stopping off at Java Moon for a hot latte after a hot day of work. And I enjoy sitting outside on the patio back home on summer nights, a warm cup of coffee in my hands, watching the heat lightening dance in the sky. Maybe I'm weird, but I don't think a whole lot about how to cool down in the summers. If I'm outside at all, I'm usually focused on soaking up as much heat when I can, where I can. : ) |
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