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so.... long time no post huh. It's not even like I've been too busy. I feel like when I'm drowning in work and school it makes me more likely to come in and write a quick post because I'm desperate for the break. I've been less busy the past couple weeks & I've been really wrapped up into spending my spare time reading and working on dnd stuff. We're getting closer and closer to finishing up strahd! But some of the stuff I've been writing down I think is going to be longer than I was initially thinking.

dnd stuff )

Other updates....
The other morning I was woken up as usual by Fennec being an annoying little creep bc it's almost breakfast time. She often find like hair or dust on the ground to eat to be obnoxious or a couple of times has chewed on those little clear straps on dresses, all to try and get my out of bed to feed her. I always take what I can off of her but she rarely is actually eating anything. That morning though I saw something hanging out of her mouth so I jumped out of bed & of course she bolted. I had to chase her down, grab & drag her across the floor, & rip this thing out of her mouth. It was a thick ponytail holder!!! I have no idea where she found it even. I just tidied up the part of my room she was in & I didn't see if over there. Freaked me out so bad, I'm glad I caught her before she swallowed it. She's been fine since, her usual self.

Been working on my prey costume, my first real endeavor into sewing clothing panels even though I'm not working from scratch or anything. So far it's coming out ok! I just have to actually dedicate the time to it. May will be here before I know it.

We started watching twin peaks & we're completely obsessed with it. We devoured season 1 in like 4 days because we were just so absorbed in the story. We read that the second half of season 2 isn't very good there & we've just hit episode 12 or 13.... and man.... they were right. It's still not bad, it's just not very good either. Shout out to Bob Iger for that one.

Class is still...... eh for me. I have issue with some of the stuff she does. Like during class time we follow along with notes she makes & sprinkled within are little mini exercises we do. We're always behind schedule so she just says to do the mini exercise on our own time.... but then she never follows up with the answers to them. I don't know what's the point of doing them if we don't actually get told the answers??
I missed both classes last week which does suck. I skipped the one just because I wanted to take my freebie but then on Thursday i had cramps and was struck with a period poop right when it was time to leave. So I missed my freakin bus and the next bus didn't come and by the time the next one came I would've been 30+ mins late so I just went home. I feel bad missing even though I'm sure I didn't miss anything lol and even when I do go I just work on other stuff while I'm there.
I have to take a summer course this year as a prereq to finish the rest of my degree. The only thing is that the class I need is undergrad and is outside of my discipline so I need a permission number. However to request a permission number from the dept I need permission from the class instructor to take the class. I emailed him twice (the first time back on Feb 2) and gotten no response. so I emailed the dept head last week & haven't gotten a response. Wtf do I have to do to get permission to take this class I NEED to take??? WHY do I need permission anyway? God's sake it's a required class so I have to take it, end of? It has me so irritated.

That's it! That's basically everything that's been going on. Writing an update was the first thing on my list today, this time change has me on a big delay. I'm taking tomorrow off though so I'll have time then to do stuff too. Woo!
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I finished the main construction of the blanket!



I don't know that I accomplished the 70's vibe I was exactly going for, the light blue and grey I think throw that off a good bit, but still overall I do really like the whole thing, so that's good enough for me. It is also, of course, already covered in cat hair.

Working on the border today & I'll update one more time when it's done. Next up, kitchen curtains!

A girl at work, Abby, walked through the office the other day & when I complimented her shirt she said she made it! We got to talking about crafting & sewing (our student worker Chris was also saying he's becoming a one man crochet hat factory) and she let me borrow this very beginner friendly clothes sewing book to study from! Super exciting, I'm ready to learn. Clothes is something I've been wanting to do for a while so I can escape the agony of having to shop, I can just make stuff I like, that fits, and is cute. After some trial and error.

Today, some chores, some studying, some dnd prep, and video games. Lots to cram into one little Sunday.
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After finals week writing 30 pages between two papers since thanksgiving & catching up on all the work I had to neglect to do that I'm in like, hell I think. It's so frustrating bc i got a job at a university for the tuition discount it offers & before covid I used to get decent backup coverage anytime I was out, but since then the whole university has been devastatingly short staffed & we can't keep people in my 2 departments like, at all, so I basically get no coverage whatsoever. I took Monday off to stay home & write and I came back to over 100 emails somehow. It's taken me all week to catch up and I'm still not even 100% caught up.

Naturally instead of working on it right now I'm here, writing this. But after three straight days of working at breakneck speed the entire day with hardly a break, I'm just too tired and burnt out to keep up that pace. I'm doing my best to get through it all but man.... this sucks.

Next week we have 4 days before our winter break & I want to get through as much as I can before then so I can be nicely caught up. Even if I can just leave my inbox in the single digits I'd be happy....

enough complaining. Last year we went to Fan Expo in Philly with a bunch of friends & we're looking to go again next year in May. Last year I dressed as The Guide from What we do in the Shadows & a friend dressed as Nadja. My sister dressed as uncle fester and it was so funny omg. I also did horror Alice from the Madness Returns game & we did a casual day of animal crossing inspired outfits.

Planning for May, I'm going to put together a Prey 2017 Morgan Yu costume. I bought a red jumpsuit the other day & soon I can start sewing & making additions to it to turn it into what I want. Hopefully! We're gonna do a Nerdy Prudes Must Die musical day where I'm gonna be grace chastity (I was going to do richie before we realized dressing as an awkward anime fan would not be an obvious costume at a convention). I really wanted to do a summer outfit Macready from The Thing lmao but the look isn't complete without the giant hat & I don't have giant hat money. I think the third costume instead is gonna be cheap Stranger Things Vecna morph suit wearing a Scoops uniform. It's something we joked about last year but it would be so funny I have to actually do it.

Costume images under here
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I was going to make a long post of crochet pattern dumps of patterns I want to make like I did with the quilting ones, but I realized I generally save the patterns as a PDF on my desktop anyway. Might share the lineup of next in lines though just for fun. I bought my first clothing pattern this weekend I wanna try out which I've never done before.

Also got to chatting with my family. We used to go all out for a halloween party every year with themes, hand crafted decorations, food all made by us, costumes all out and everything. We haven't since covid, first bc of covid obviously but since then bc we've just been too lazy to go that hard. On top of wanting to avoid the conflicts caused by not inviting specific family members we don't want to see.

We still might not do the full party next year, but we do want to go full theme on the decorations outside though so I gotta start planning like.... now. I gotta make a full ass enoch from otgw for a maypole outside. I know how I'm gonna do it in theory I just... have to make sure it'll work.

I have 2-3 weeks of the semester left & I'm goin NUTS. Two papers to write I'm trudging through, a presentation this week and another one next week. Thankfully next week's isn't actually graded, just a sharing of the info we've found, but I've been so caught up on this week's (which is graded) I've barely looked at it. I took a vacation day this week tho so I can just not think about work for a full day & get stuff done. I was at my parents' this weekend for the holiday & it's so hard to work there on school stuff

I have dnd tomorrow (as a player, with the dingbats) which I'm looking forward to a lot as a brief break away from all the work I've been swallowed up in. I have hardly played any video games since idk September? I wanna CHILL. I think the dnd game I've been running might be my next sort of storage update here, a recap of our progress & plot so far & some of my thoughts & plans.....

anyway thank god i have enough cbd gummies to last me until winter break

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