Blogging at work = bad plan, BUT

This is so awesome!

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-CA-GayMarriage.html

Also, I can't believe how addicted I am to my computer. It's only been like one day without it and I'm going insane. INSANE.

So this is me using my crappy computer even though I shouldn't.

I think I have housing in Arizona...I'm sending out my lease agreement and guaranty stuff all tomorrow, so as long as I pass their background check (can't think why I wouldn't...) then all should be well.

Work crawls along. My supervisor is in England, and the place is kind of lost without her cause it's so short staffed to begin with. I've been mostly biding my time between unpacking/shelving journals, barcoding and repackaging microfilm (this is a party, let me tell you), and guiltily browsing the intarwebs in little stints. It's generally pretty good. I'm falling into the routine of it, which feels nice. I have given up on being able to get a second job at this point.

I mostly feel like I'm in a kind of doldrums, but a necessary one. I go to work everyday, and come home, do whatever administrative and bureaucratic necessities need doing (there is ALWAYS something), and fall exhausted into bed. It's kind of a dry existence, but in a way I almost prefer it to being in school if only because I feel better knowing that with each passing day I'm making money rather than squandering it on ridiculously priced classes.

Having such a mindless job lends itself to wandering thoughts, so I've come up with a vague plotline for a manga that I will probably never draw because I don't have the patience to do the historical research required to execute it well (not to mention that I lack the drawing talent). Still, it's nice to be a little inspired to doodle, and I have been playing around with a couple of mechanical colored pencils that I bought at a 5 and dime outside Central Square one morning when I got to work too early and it was too cold to wait outside the annex. They are green and silver, and I love them...I might post a few doodles up here if I can get my computer situation more stable and set up a scanner. Which probably won't happen, but it's a nice thought.

Different inspiration is found in old friends--I talked to Lynnea on the phone for like an hour yesterday, and it was both sad and wonderful to catch up with her...her life seems to be moving so fast, in stark contrast to how mine is trickling. She is such a busybee, fast-paced person in general. She's already in summer school so she can graduate from NEU a couple years early. It's pretty amazing. I hung up the phone wondering what will become of both of us, where we will both end up. Our lives are so similar yet so different. Both of us are leaving home to experience something fresh and I hope that I can manage as well as she does and make as many wonderful friends.

In general, if my computer were in a little less trouble, I think I could be contented with the way things are now. University looms tantilizingly on the horizon, but in the present I'm contented to bide my time. Drink lots of coffee, move lots of books, and wait.

EDIT: Also, I got my admissions decision from Tufts--declined, of course. Oddly enough, I also got a phonecall from UMass Amherst on the very same day, and I had not heard from either university in the months since I sent all my stuff in. UMass wants my highschool transcripts, even though they had previously said they didn't need them. I don't think I'm going to bother, since it costs like $3 to request transcripts from AHS and I know where I'm going next year anyway. So basically all my decisions are in--Tufts rejected me, *I* rejected UMass, and I got accepted at ASU, U of A, and University of New Mexico. Cool beans.