elanya

Well, kind of. I was up until two, and woke up around 11:30. On the other hand, I managed to read A Clash of Kings in two days. It is almost 1000 pages of book! Now I *really* wish I had A Storm of Swords :p I think I will really for truly see about walking out to the game store today, partly because it is right beside the used book store, and maybe I will luck out. Thre is one more text book that I need to buy, as well, and I may go to the university bookstore to pick it up. Or I might wait until tomorrow, since I have to go to campus anyway. I was going to try picking it up used, but it is a new edition and it isn't cheaper *enough* to make it worthwhile.

Tomorrow wehave a meeting for graduate students, and I might be doing some sort of excting(?) Sewing stuff with tsiankiio, who wants to make SCA garb. However, I think she looks forward to sewing about as much as my sister, so we'll see how things go ;)

In other news, I accepted a rather dubious telemarketing offer this morning. In exchange for free airline tickets anywhere in the country, and to a number of select destinations outside of the country, I try a 1-800 voicemail service for a week. I search and search for the catch, but of course it doesn't come until the end: the minimum hotel stay, which conveniently the 'supervisor' can't tell me the required duration of. Ahh well. It may be something I can use at some point this year for a conference, or to visit someone Far, like Mary, or I may be out 20$. We'll see within 5-10 days, I supose.

Now I need to get dressed, and maybe have more to eat than a yogurt.

Edit: I may rethink this 'going out' thing. It is supposed to be 95F/35C out today, and that's not including any humidity... and there is *always* humidity :/

Well, the gaming store is about a 15-20 min walk from my house at a leisurely pace. I think it is actually closer to walk there from here than to Eller, which, depending on how things go this term, could be a dangerous thing -_- However, due to the fact that it is a gaming store, it is not open on Mondays until 5:30. The used bookstore only has game of thrones and Clash of Kings, no Storm of Swordss. I may try mny luck with Amazon marketplace.

So, although That only meets one if my outing goals, I managed to find out and do a whole slew of other useful things! first off, on my way out there, suring this 10-15 min walk down a mostly side-walked street, even, I passed numerous fooderies, mostly fstfood but not all, no less than three pharmacies, two laundromats (one probably about 5 min away - good to know if anything happens to my own machines), a small possibly mexican grocery store, at least two dollar stores, and some other useful; services. I also realized/remembered that the gaming store is right across from a food lion! So yes, I now live within Reasonable Walking Distance of a *real* grocery store. It's got decent enough selection and good specials, so the onlything I am probably not going to want to buh there is frozen stuff and fish, but only because it's been *so* hot lately. I mayke an experimental purchase at some point to see how well frozen stuff survives on the walk bvack to mine. If it isn't too bad, well, I could just pack carefully ;) Anyway, I feel good because this all conspires to make me much less dependant for food on other peopler. Hooray! aAnd cool stuff!

there is also a sceond hand clothign store on the way. i found their prices a bit high, but they were having a sale, so I bught some stuff anyway. I got a brown quilted cotton vest and a long brown linen(!) skirt, a long, skinny silk scarf with small fall-couloured flowers. I also got somethign for hazel which I really hopes fits her. It is Absolutely Gorgeous, and very her... If anything, the waist will be too big and the bust too small, but I'll send it anyway, because if she can wear it at all, it is so awesome that I think she'll wear it anyway. In fact, I will find a box for it now :) I alsp bought Cute Shoes (tm). I'm not sure if I should blame Hazel or Dina, buit someone clearlly, *someone* has been making sacrifices and praying to the god of womanly shoe-shopping to open my eyes. In my defense, they were less than 5$. They are mottled orange and red, with a flat toe and chunky square heels, ~4". Maybe I ought to take a picture for photograophic proof, because I am unlikely to atually wear them much.

Now, i am going to do the changes to my PHD proposal that steve suggested, and see about ordering transcripts from Sheffield, and maybe UNB. Ithink I will go *back* out the the gaming store later, when it is actually open, and time the trip properly this time.

I also got a broom, some candles of various sizes, a blanket, a mop bucket, some assorted produce (baby red taters and fresh beans!), hummus, freezer bags, cling wrap, and some vanilla, wooh! Now I can make cookies :)

Well, I re-wrote my proposal and sent it back to Steve for comments. I'm going to talk to Carl tomorrow about setting up a meeting to talk about this stuff,. maybe get references, etc. I will also e-mail Dr. Ewen, possibly tonight. I have also ordered 5 sealed copies of my transcript from UNB, and sent myself the URL to get the thing to get copies of my transcript from Sheffield. i think that's all of them ¬_¬.

I also need to kick myself in the bum, because I forgot about the University of Bristol! There is also a guy there who has the right interests, etc. Plus it is cheaper tuition, and probably lower CoL than London, but still a Maritime port. So I will e-mail him tonight too. I haven't decided who I would approach from Boston. Maybe I should be really balls-y and e-mail Mary Beaudry. What do you think? :o I'km not even sure Boston would be a really good place for me.... I just don't know! That's one of the things I want to talk to Dr. E about. I wonder if I should also talk to Dr. Babits. Hmmm.... I'm just not sure how helpful that would be.

Edit: EEEEK! I just e-mailed Mary Beaudry and the Bristol guy! :o *runs away and hides her head in the sand*