Quoth the Raven

SJ 8-4-05

Did some relatively minor things on the mud, removing Easter references. Changed food item to a pixie-kabob (fry you dust flinging locust!). All the goblins in town became April Fools (hehe). The trainer is now Ruprecht from Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (I just think Steve Martin is too damn hilarious jabbing a corked fork into an eye patch), somehow it seemed funny at the time. Gotten some interested parties asking about joining Crusaders so I set them to quest and role... we shall see who fulfills the requirements and who doesn't. I am waiting on members to fill the clan shop with equipment (everything else is done anyway) just to give them some ownership in what they would like in there. Clan has been empty pretty much before now anyway.

School started at the beginning of this week, and I am completely dragging in motivation on every front. I spent two weeks fighting with administration to get my iteration records declared (tracking the classes I have had, what got transferred, what was tested out of, what was given credit for from my previous degrees in the same school, etc.) without much luck and much frustration. I ended up losing my patience with the advisors. Excuse me for wanting to know where I stand, and what credits I need when I schedule. I don't trust someone else to do it for me in this circumstance, been burned by that business entirely too much already.

My birthday was on Sunday. It felt kinda eerie in its relation to the Pope's death. I was all caught up in watching that and being engrossed by the emotion and loss of that that I pretty much was ambivalent abou the whole birthday anyways. My uncle called from Florida, and my cousin (who shares my birthday) got to banter at each other for a good hour plus, like we always do. My brother didn't remember til today that I had had a birthday, which is fairly funny to me. (pats his brother on the head) I swear he's gonna be the one that loses his memory before me, and I have a four year head start. Mom got me a pair of snow boots to replace my old pair which suffered a terrible accident this last winter and had to be put down. (weeps for his ill fitting 9-year-old snow boots) Comfort me damnit!

To all the ToD mudders, it's the alien's birthday on April 10th! Make sure you give Ahri plenty of spanks, just round up the whacks by twenty to be safe about the age thing.

We Spring children rule (Kali, Ahri, me, etc), you other seasonal children just suck badly. Just admit it!

I was up to the wee hours of the AM doing my taxes to get it out of the way. Spent three hours doing law research to get ahead in one class by four weeks. Contemplating doing the same for a computer class to get ahead, but like I said earlier, i'm not terribly motivated.

Work work work. Had to deal with the people at work too, because its contract renewal time (school board grants yearly contracts only), so I had to deal with that funness. There is also a creditation of programs inspection going on, so all the records are out being cleaned up and calculated for the State. shudder

I am poor poor poor. My checking account is swooning with vapours. College books cost as much as freaking veal and just don't brown as well when you throw them on the barby. I feel so gyped.

I am fighting the urge to procure a drawing pad for my computer. I really want one BAD. I love to draw, and I'd really like to draw directly in the graphics programs. Bleh. Too expensive, and I'd rather save the money for an emergency (which are always inevitable) or buy something for someone else anyway.

Mother had her biopsy today for skin patch to check for cancer return. Will have to wait a few weeks for results (twitch). On top of scraping layers of skin off her chin, they also used liquid nitrogen on a part of her ear to remove another "questionable" issue. LIQUID NITROGEN!