The Devil's Rose's blog

2008-05-09 7:56 p.m.

Short Update

I have a cold, apparently - I was hoping it was just allergies, but because it isn't it means I get to stay home from work and write in my blog instead.

Everyone say "yay".

Or not.

Let's see...

I got my paperwork about housing and stuff for the University of Sussex this week. Took me a few hours to go through all of it, and there's more coming next month. It's amazing how much paperwork there is for me to do, but I'm not really complaining. It's all just steps closer to getting to go. ^^

I was doing grade-point voodoo as well. I'd been doing it wrong all along, hence my regular panic sessions about getting bad grades and being withdrawn from my program; I finally figured out how to average my GPA correctly, though, and am relieved to say that as long as I pass every class, it looks like I should be okay. I can't even begin to tell you what a load that takes off of my shoulders.

Amazingly, it's also got me even more motivated to do well, despite the fact that you'd think that knowing I only had to do the bare minimum would do otherwise.

I'm just an odd bird, I suppose.

There was an English guy staying at the bed and breakfast that I work in earlier this week, and he and I ended up talking for several hours both nights that he stayed there. He was kind of cute - he had a vague resemblance to Anthony Rapp, who played Mark in the Original Broadway Cast of RENT - and a lot of fun to talk to. Very funny and polite. I didn't realize that my friendly interest in people could be taken as flirty - or that he was flirting back - until he gave me his email and suggested that when I get to the UK we go for coffee or something.

^^ !!!

I've never had any guy who wasn't a total creepy-old-man type make an overture like that before. Talk about a total ego boost.

We had a meeting a week or two ago about going abroad, too, and since then I've just been so ready to finish up this quarter and get out of here. I can't wait to go to England, and I really can't believe this is actually happening for me.

Let's see...what else?

I bought a new tarot deck. Several, actually. I found a few whose art just really worked for me, so I now have a total of 6 decks.

My favorite will always be my Welsh Mythology tarot, but I've now got ones with astrology, art nouveau, Rennaissance, Druid, and fairytale themes. They're fabulous. I have problems with each deck, but I'm able to deal with them just because I know the cards so well by this point. I've been reading with them since I was a child, so I should certainly hope that I'd know them well by now, haha.

It's funny...I thought I had more to write than I do. Oh, well.

I'll go ponder for a bit and then come back. Loves. Back | Older | Current | Next