Swooping In

Just to give you all a quick update, as I realized I hadn't even visited LJ in a few days ...

We had another drumming session on Sunday with many good insights for me, but I'm left with only more questions.

Still looking for a job, and also went to the UW Anthropology department to talk to the Advisor there, Diane Guerra, and we had a lovely chat and I felt completely mystified by the classes. Why didn't anyone explain to me when I was 17 what Anthropology might entail? The classes are everything I've ever wanted all rolled into a nice, neat major and minor combo. If I go, I'll be packing quite a bit of both into my last 90 credits, but I doubt I'd complain too loudly if, by chance, I missed out on a few electives outside my field--there's always the extension college and the libraries for that.

Got my King County library card with damashita yesterday, so now Mom and I can use the rosettastone.com program for free (after I get that set up), and afterwards went with V. to the Tweetery, where for the first time in my life, I got to not only pet a bird for quite some time, but have it perch on my fingers and walk up my arm while I stroked it. I couldn't get comfortable with Beamer (the little makike--sp?) hanging upside on me, but I felt overjoyed to not have all the birds chirping like mad to move away from me.

At their house, I enjoyed having a cat and a puppy vying for my attention, and both ended up in my lap for pettin's before I left there to get Ana.

I'm still trying to figure out how I could possibly manage caring for a child, holding down some form of employment, and getting full scholarships and financial aid for college, but I've got close to a year to fully work out all the details, as I don't intend to enroll until Fall 2006. I was flattered by Diane's insistence that I should keep applying for jobs at the UW so I could get free credits (she met me at North when I worked for Jeffrey, so she's seen me in my professional environment). She said she wants me to keep in touch, and she'll help me however she can to get me speaking to the right people; as it is I have a list of three faculty members at the UW whom she urged me to contact--one is their Linguist, and the other two specialize in reproduction, childbirth, gender issues, et al--and a few examples of the classes I'd be urged to take when I enroll. *swoon* It seems so far off, and yet I'm extremely excited and feeling pressed for time to get my life in order to make it happen.

So ... job. Just need a job. I'm determined to have something--at the very least a good interview lined up--by the end of the week.

Oh! I never did mention it here, but perse's birthday was May 13th, along with scootercomputer's, and she's insisted I come down to Oakland to celebrate with her at her part on the 28th. She's purchased me tickets, and I'll be heading down to Oakland on the morning of the 28th, and flying back in the early afternoon on Sunday the 29th. I have absolutely NO idea what kind of costume I need to wear, as her theme is based on the Kushiel series, for which I have no frame of reference having never read the books and only glimpsed a few reviews on Amazon.com. So, any idea what I should be wearing? She's playing Phedre, the main character, so ... erm ... yeah. Clueless. Muse costume? Wood nymph? I know whatever it is, I need to bring my burgandy cloak, my golden mask, and my floggers.

And please, someone, take away my Harry Potter books for a while, they're distracting me from the MOUNDS (literally) of library books I have stacked up around the living and bedrooms!