bellchronicles

Goodness. This month I've:

- applied for a tourist visa to Canada (the drama of which most of you have been spared. Still waiting for the results...);

- turned in the last of the extra-curricular activity certificates I needed to (the thought of which has been terrorizing me since 2008);

- completed the internship I've been working at for 15 months (I could have stayed on longer but I decided not to);

- delivered my monograph on House & its portrayals of disability (at 12,000+ words);

- was paid for the first time to translate from French to English (with a lot of hand-holding/cheat-sheeting from zulu & E.).

:)

December and January will be (relative) vacation time for me. (Still have to teach a few hours a week and I've at least one text to edit, but that is little!) I mean. February too will be vacation and I'll be visiting my love :#), but the next two months will be here in Floripa.

What I plan to do... will be different from what I actually do. *laughs!* But my Big Dreams are:

- draw!
- write scripts for comics & world-plan for a very long story!
- visit nature-places in Floripa (R. says he'll go with me :D :DD)
- clean my room!
- play video games??? (<-- i am suddenly in the mood...!)
- other????

Somedays it feels like I am getting nowhere at all, but November has brought many long-term projects to fruition. Lots of big things paying off at the same time, some of them from over three years! I am grateful and satisified. ♥

End of Sunday and all, and I'm still pretty tired. My weeks are packed! I will have to find energy & strength for next week, but I will, somehow! For now I'd like to remember some good things from the past week, because even if I'm regularly tired, life has been good~.

1. The presentation I was really about on Friday was received with much clapping. My prof spoke highly of it, and several of my peers told me "good job"! after.

1a. Since the presentation was on my TCC, I can use the powerpoint slide prototype (which I took hours preparing) when I present on it again, as I will inevitably have to.

1b. Best of all, I fielded all the questions and comments well! Many people wanted to argue against me but, heh, online imbroglios have trained me in defending my opinion. Though, heh, the subject of my TCC is House & Disability and even if I haven't managed to get in much research yet, I've given it much more thought than anyone else there. I know the usual "but....!" counter-arguments.

2. I got a real hard kick in the ass that's made me question my approach to online discussions. A post on this may or may not be upcoming.

3. I spent a whole lot of Sunday chatting up zulu and only stopped because she had to go to sleep. I wanna talk to her mooaaaar.

4. alwaysright is getting back on track! zulu and I were, uh, a bit ~distracted~, so we went a while without tagging, but we're getting back in the swing of things. Foreman/Amber, man. Foreman/Amber. ♥

5. FNL is good, yay! \o/ I've just started 4.07.

6. James Patterson is still one of the best purchases I ever made. ♥

7. I'm very proud of my student Mr. U's progress in English. :)