Salmonamanwich's Blog

My spider/sunburst crochet bag. Completely handcrafted by me. :D 

This set of 6 week classes is nearly done! Just a test tomorrow morning and one more ethics class at noon. Then I'm going to visit Kate for the long weekend. Brad, Jessi and I will leave Friday morning, I'll drop them off at Brad's house on the way down, then I'll have 3 days to rest, relax, hike, sightsee, bug Olin, hang out with Kate, etc, until I have to head back up to start another class on Wednesday. It'll be a good break. I'm even more anxious to leave for Oregon though. 45 more days... a month and a half. *sigh* I miss John. Otherwise, it's hot, smoky, and all around not too exciting here. I've been spending most of my time, other than when I'm in class or studying, crocheting. I finished my crochet bag. I'll take a picture of it and post it soon. And I've started on an afghan. It's made of hexagons that are individually made and then sewn together. I've got 2 hexagons done and am not entirely sure how many I'll need yet though. I need to decide on a color design and how big I really want it before I'll know for sure. But it's a good start seeing as I started just yesterday. Well, that's about all for now I guess. I'm going to go back to crocheting and avoiding the use of heat-inducing energy. Good evening all!

Well, I still have to turn in the paper tomorrow, but it's written, I read it out loud to myself and it seemed to flow well and make some sort of sense at least. I'll probably read it over again tomorrow just to make sure I'm not delirious, seeing as it is well after midnight already. The presentation for Ethics went well too, on Tuesday. Remind me to never volunteer to research a topic relating to pornography, sex crimes, or anything related. It's not fun. Some of the stories are simply horrific! Anyways, not thinking about that... That's over though, my paper is now basically over. Tomorrow I have class, then a test that I haven't studied for, but I'm going to get a C in that class regardless of how I do on the test, so I really don't care. I'll study a little during my first class anyways. Then Ethics class after the test, then I'm done with classes for the week! And better yet, there's only one week of these classes left!!! Yippee! Then, for a long 4th of July weekend I'm hoping to drive down to visit Kate and the Kenai with a/some friend(s). Not sure on the details there yet, but let me know if you're interested in going along. Then I'll have another class to start, Natural History of Alaska, and a distance class to work on. Then, in approximately 51 days, I'll be in Oregon! :D I will be sooooo happy to see John again. And my family.

Anyways, just a quick update on my life. I'm going to see if there's any chance of my falling asleep before I have to get up at 7 a.m. to start a new day. Ugh, 5 hours, and I really don't feel sleepy right now. This week hasn't been kind to me in terms of getting enough sleep. I have yet to get more than 7 hours, heck, 6 would be nice. Oh well. The week is nearly done, at least the "work" parts of it. And there's lots of dancing this weekend, so I'll survive. :D

Goodnight all!

1:00 a.m. - Finally get to bed, but as tired as I was, I wasn't entirely falling asleep.

1:45ish a.m. - The phone rang. It was a slightly anxious sounding Brad who said Jessi needed to be taken to the hospital. I toss some clothes on and go get my car. When I get to Brad's room, he is attempting to keep her conscious and breathing.

2:00ish a.m. - We make it to the emergency room at the hospital with no mishaps. She's rushed in right away and Brad goes with her. I go park the car and head to the waiting room to wait.

5:00ish a.m. - Well, been waiting for about 3 hours. Brad came out once to update me that they were running tests and x-rays and such to figure out the problem. In the meantime, I've been reading magazines, watching people, and thinking. Made it through 3 magazines so far. And about a dozen or so people have come through. A woman with an apparently terrible headache. A woman with a very young baby. A husband with an imminently expectant wife. A young man/boy in handcuffs with a police officer whom I happen to know from school. A few others with unapparent symptoms. The thinking mostly had to do with keeping myself awake, through reading and walking around the room. The rest of it though seemed to dwell on that beautiful little baby and the expectant mother. The second I saw the baby, I had a sudden desire to cradle it. And when the expectant mother came in, I found myself putting myself in her shoes and imagining what it must be like. Damn my internal clock trying to tell me I should be wanting to have a child. Fortunately my brain is quick to remind me that I would like to do so many things before I bring kids into the picture, not to mention I'd need to decide to settle down with a guy first. There are so many things I want to do, career wise and traveling wise. And despite the fact I love John deeply, I'm not ready to say he's for sure the right guy. Besides of course the part where he's in Oregon now and intends to be for awhile, and I have no intention of leaving Alaska too soon, since I have to finish school up here in December and then go back to Anchorage to take my full-time position with KPMG.

5:15 a.m. - Anyways, Jessi and Brad broke my reverie by coming out with Jessi laughing quite merrily. She was very, very happy on her pain killers and it was time to take them home.

5:30 a.m. - We arrive back here and I head straight to bed. It didn't take long for me to fall asleep this time.

9:30 a.m. - John sent me a message which I immediately replied to by calling him back. Hm, thought I had had only 3 hours of sleep, apparently I can't add after such little sleep though, cause that's a lot closer to 4, but regardless, it wasn't much sleep. Of course after talking to him for nearly an hour though, I'm fairly awake.

11:00 a.m. - Now I'm debating whether to go back to bed for a little while, or to just get a shower and go on with my day. Hm... no, I'm going back to bed. It would be suicide for me to stay up. At least an hour or two more of sleep will be good for me. So, back to bed I go, goodnight all!

Creamer's field... birds only please! 

Double rainbow in a thunderstorm... I wasn't quick enough to catch the lightning with my camera though. 

Bored... that's what I am right now. I feel like there are 500 things I ought to be doing right now, and I don't feel like doing any of them, but I do want to do something. But most people I know that are generally close enough to be of much assistance in such a situation are either at class, at dance practice, or simply unavailable in some way. I also feel like I shouldn't need a person around to keep me from getting bored. I spent the afternoon alternately reading and napping. For some reason I haven't been sleeping so well the last couple nights. So the napping was definitely good. And the book is good too, so that's not a problem. But I still feel like there should be something much more interesting that I could be doing. Of course I should make myself some dinner, but as lunch was rather late (after my noon to 2 o'clock class) and fairly large, I'm not very hungry yet. I do have a little homework to do sometime before Monday, but I'm lacking the desire to do that, naturally. I could sit and watch a movie and crochet, but that sounds roughly as entertaining as reading... i.e. fun, but it doesn't involve people. :P Ah, just remembered, I need to do my laundry. I suppose I'll get that started and then find something random to do. Hope I didn't bore you all to tears w/my blase remarks about being bored. Must be due to reading too much about Marvin, the depressed android. Good evening all!