elanya

So, I have been both really busy and really not busy.

I am still unemployed, but have lots of things to fill me time! Part of which is working on getting a job stuff - I'd been practicing stuff for the oral French test I need to take as part of the application weeding process for a government job. The test was supposed to be Wednesday, but it has been reschedule and I don't know to when. They'll let me know. I've also been looking at other jobs - I need to do up a course syllabus/prep a course to teach for one of them, though it hasn't actually been posted yet and I'm not sure when it will be.


I've also been working on some worldbuilding stuff for a campaign my friend Kennesaw is starting up that is super cool. It is a pseudo Colonial America setting (with a heavy fantasy dressing - different religion, general roles are reversed so that women are he ones in power and men without, more European-analogue nations having a presence in the new world, plus fantasy races) plus Lovecraft. I've been working on on fleshing out one of the local elven powers, who are loosely based on the Iroquois confederacy. It's a world that is pretty much right up my alley and I'm looking forward to playing! He's actually run two one shots in it for Webercon, and I'm just keeping the character I played in those (an elven ranger form the group I've been fleshing out) instead of making a new one since I liked him so much. Curtana is doing the same, playing my half elven half-sister.

This weekend was another busy one as well - o Friday I went to a renfaire - The Royal Medieval Faire in Kitchener. It was.... well I'm spoiled y Texas ;) It was quite nice, despite the weather. There was a Viking group (Torvik) there doing fighting demos, which was pretty fun, specially as I was wearing my Viking garb. They had a living history group there as well, but they were, with the exception of one guy, not very engaging and mostly seemed interested in hanging out with each other. I had some friends there who were performing with a pirate troupe, and we watched them and then the birds of prey group who performed after them, and those were cool.

That night, Curtana and her so came down so that they could a: go to the Harvest Festival and Powwow at the museum with me the next day, and then take me back to Windsor with them for the next week! The Powwow was neat - I'd been to one before, agggggges ago, in high school or early university. Or maybe it was a cultural demo thing at school? Anyway - The day before it had been raining, but Sunday was gorgeous! There were lots of vendors selling First Nations crafts and food, and some really cool dancing demos and competitions, with some Inter Tribal songs for everyone to dance to (I did, because <3 all kinds of dancing, and the invitation was explicitly there, and it was cool to participate). There were also some demos and storytelling, and of course the museum and village to look through. There was a reenactor group there doing reenactions of First Nations life at the time of colonial contact, which was conceptually interesting, though I wound up talking to them more about that then the actual stuff they were reenacting! Some of them are local to London though. It might be something to think about getting involved with if there is something for me to do there, because I clearly don't have enough things going on in my life :p

Now I'm in Windsor! We brought Jola, but Maze is still in London, because the dog here is even more crazy cat-hating than Sierra. I'm staying for a week and a half or so, probably? Up to Curtana's birthday, at least. I am probably going to a talk on Detroit archaeology stuff on Saturday. Meanwhile, I have a ton of things to occupy myself with - knitting, writing, outlining, tag wrangling, tag modding, job applications, reading, syllabus writing, pokemon, wiki editing.... Plus socializing with my hosts and all that stuff. So I feel like I shouldn't be bored anytime in the near future ;p We'll see if this actually stops me from complaining at all ;p

In other news, I want new icons derived from my tattoos, and am too lazy to make them :p

to do - in rough order:

dinner
laundry
wrangling
newsletter?
job ap?
jukebox signup?
get dog
Writing?
tv?
sleep forever

I already cleaned the cat box, though the roomie was kind enough to take out the trash for me and check the mail. Better get started on that curry...

It feels like forever since I've had a chance to do more than a quick entry. My free time has *really* been cut back this term, and I'm really feeling it. Every time I hear that a game might be canceled I feel a secret relief. Not that i don't love my games (and you know I do), but because I have *that much* work to do. Despite Exia being canceled this week, for instance, I also had to bow out of watching an hour and a half movie with Jodie and cat last night on account of I hadn't had time to do my readings for class today. In the end they didn't take me as long as I'd feared - I was done by about 1:30 after starting at eight.... Of course that is partly because I was missing one of the books, so bah on that. But it meant I was able to get my lunch ready for today, go through my presentation for this morning, and finish painting my hall doors! This is an accomplishment because I've been trying to find time to do it since *Saturday*. It took me half an hour. yeah.

The other thing I've not been able to find time for is writing, and coming off the tails of another successful august_writing enterprise, this really bums me out. A lot. I need to polish up Cursed Wreck and see if I can't sell it, or something.... In the next two months. I also need to be working on grants and things that will be due soon, but I haven't even had a chance to look at them! bah! I think part of it is that I did pick to to a presentation in the second week of class, but really that hasn't taken up as much of my time as it could have, so I'm a little wary of what I will do when I start having other projects that, say, all come due at the same time.

Basically, this term is going to be an exercise in time management that may just drive me crazy. Bleh.

Maybe next week will be better -_- Now I need to get dressed and go print out some handouts...

...gah I was so harried last night I didn't read any of my webcomics :x