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Also, I will not be not seeing my family for four months; they will be coming back to Auburn to get the stuff we couldn't fit in the U-Haul and the PODS (yes, we filled two gigantic fucking storage units with our stuff and still had left over) in a month and my father said they'd probably come to visit every month, so that will be nice.
So by the time I got to Schenectady, I was half an hour late and my lateness forced Brian to cancel dinner plans, which I feel kind of guilty for, but not too guilty because it was my parents' fault I was late. And we showed up for Rifftrax Live not too long after they opened the theater, but it was still packed and we had to sit very close to the front... so on top of my back hurting from general moving stress, my neck hurt from looking up, and my whole face hurt from LAUGHING SO MUCH because it was hilarious. I was right about being 200% less stressed now, being in good company and seeing hilarious things turned my whole mood around. I was close to tears when I got here at 6:30, now I am content.
One very funny thing which happened today: we only had one cat carrier, but two cats, so my mother's friend Sandy said we could borrow one of her cat carriers. Julia and I drove over while I held Butcher on my lap, and she brough us out the carrier and then said "Wait, let me get you a bud for the trip. You have a bowl?" I was like "uh yes?" and then she came back out with a very nice nug of weed in a prescription bottle. I had no idea Sandy smoked, she's my mother's CHURCH friend. Julia and I were stunned and amused.
So yes. Now I am here, and my rats are here, and we have plans for the next few days including going to a county fair tomorrow night, hanging out with April's brother on Friday, a concert at Tanglewood on Saturday, and I'm going to see if they would like to go to a nice restaurant on Sunday because I can afford to take them someplace nice and I'd like to thank them for putting me up for the week. And at some point we will fit in many episodes of Doctor Who, because Brian is taking it upon himself to educate me about the Doctors prior to Nine, and I will watch April's scratchy old VHS copies of Space Cases, and there will be drinking Scrabble.
And now I am very tired because I didn't get to sleep until after 4 and my mother woke me up at 8:30 and I am planning on sleeping as long as I feel like tomorrow morning, since Brian and April will be at work all day. And when I do wake up I will start doing my thesis research, but for now: just sleep. Lots of sleep. Lovely wonderful sleep.
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Upon thinking, this was stupid.
I was browsing ficlets for BBC Sherlock and saw you made a podfic and it was definitely you and holy bawls it turns out I haven't dreamed you up this whole time *grin*
Anyways, this is Perchie, and I wanted to pop in and say 'hi' and 'holy shit am I happy to see you're doing fandom-y things and being creative and still being all-around wonderful'.
I'm a little afraid that it's been so long that you won't remember me, or that, you know, I sound like a stranger, or worse, a strange idiot because enough time has passed that we both could have gone in completely different directions and become completely different people... but here goes anyway.
Um, I should probably just stop this right about now, before I'm tempted to say things that make me sound ex-girlfriend-still-pining kind of creepy. I will say though, no matter what it sounds like, that I've always loved you and never forgotten... I've just been a horrible person.
*coughyoulookgoodcough*
Alright, officially, done with saying things that might make you feel wierd.
I'm happy you seem to be doing really good and are still having fun with interbutts and and... and I'm just happy to see you.
Have a good one! No, a great one! *awkward over*
I got my bachelor's in art, and spent the last semester of my 'college career' in Scotland. It was amazing, and I grew leaps and bounds into myself, for such a short period of time abroad. I wish I could do it again, because I was still too far in my shell to take advantage of everything... been stuck in the good ol' midwest since then, and it sucks.
As for the art degree, all it's ever gotten me are the replied phrases from nearly everyone I talk to:
"Well why don't you be an art teacher?" or "LOLOLOLOLOLOL" >_<
Took some time to figure out what I want from religion, and am firmly entrenched in being a somewhat-practicing general heathen. Christ, that doesn't say anything, does it?
I believe that there are cosmic influences in our lives to varying degrees, and I choose to acknowledge them as the Lady and Lord. However, the two abstractions are really one being, with feminine dominance... I don't follow any specific teachings, and while I feel compelled to go to group meetings in the area, I've heard that most of the people are fairly old women who are stodgy in their beliefs. I'm really more of a, "I'm gonna go meditate over here-- no, no, that's cool, I don't need to wave a knife around to pray" kind of person. Also, I did try to go once and they fucking hide where their meetings are and never found them -_-+
Um... pretty much am broke, working temp jobs, slowing losing the ability to communicate with others because I've been working a factory job too long and have literally been going STUPID. Still living at home, despairing of never being self-sufficient enough to leave.
I'm going back to school this fall to pursue a biology bachelor's, in the vain hope it might get me a stable job and/or the promise of money some day. I would like to get a concentration in food science, since nutrition research is a small obsession with me, but I would have to go to the capital for that and might not be able to handle all those loans.
I still want to make comics, but I'm too sensible to throw my all into it... I need some steady income, and freelance ain't it. I'm also not good enough to make a living off of it. Maybe in time I would be, but growing older has made me unable not to be practical.
I've been with my boyfriend for two and a half years now, and he's been an amazing influence on my confidence and my insanity. He's healed a lot of old wounds from childhood, and pretty much just from being a goof-ball and a great person. In a lot of ways, we're more of best friends than lovers, and while I would never cheat on him I do feel myself more and more drawn into the desire to find myself a sexy lady, and at the very least flirt shamelessly. Perhaps its just boredom with my life in general.
I don't like labels, but they can be helpful, and I am most comfortable with the term 'queer' (a la DAR!) as my subconscious leaning is towards women but in the end it's the person I want and the body doesn't matter.
I am bored nearly all the time, thus, I am boring, and it hurts. I have given up sugar (and thus, booze --most of the time) and in the job search stopped smoking delicious things. It's been about 9 months now, that I am almost always sober (UGH). I am sorely tempted to break that fast tonight, as I'm going back to school soon and fuck if they care what I do.
Let's see... I think that's about all I can think of right now. Oh, one last thing. I am seriously considering looking around my area for sub/Dom peoples. For a while there, I didn't feel the pull towards it, and assumed maybe I was growing out of it. Turns out, no, I'm just cyclical, and I think about it nearly all the time. Dave says I'm a Switch, and that sounds right to me, but at this point I want so badly to sink my teeth into someone and shape their world... I'm discussing the possibility of my 'going out to play with others' with the bf, as he's about as vanilla as I think you can get so I'll not ask anything of him, but I have no idea how it will all play out...
I went to college in Plattsburgh in 2003, dropped out in 2005, went again and dropped out in 2007, went back in Auburn in 2009 and got my associate's in humanities in 2010, and got accepted to Wells College to finish off my bachelor's degree in Psychology, which is what I'm doing now. The semester starts next Wednesday and I have to write my thesis this semester, which is kind of scary, but I think it will be okay because I'm really interested in the topic (the expression of creativity in bipolar individuals and whether that is affected by medication) and there is a lot of research backing up a link between creativity and bipolar, so I should have a lot to work with.
The reason I'm so interested in it is because I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder when I was 18, and I really do think my creativity has been differently affected by the different meds I've been on since then. Of course, this might just be me clutching at straws trying to pretend I'm not just losing creativity naturally. xD
I have been a fairly steady agnostic since high school, although I have a better idea of what I mean by that now that I've taken a course on Science and Religion. I don't believe in God like traditional religions, but I do believe there is a higher power, I do believe in the soul, I'm just not sure what happens to the soul after someone dies. Mostly I believe in science. Although I still read tarot cards.
I haven't had a real job since 2007, and even then I was just working as a secretary for my parents, but I do have a work-study job at Wells which is basically just more secretary work. I am good at office stuff. I want to eventually become a social worker, but you really need a master's degree to make a decent salary doing that, so I have a lot more school ahead of me. I have to do my internship over winter break if I want to graduate on time, which I do because I can't afford another semester at Wells.
I have been living with my parents except for a year from the middle of 2007 to toward the end of 2008 when I got an apartment with my best friend. It ended... very badly. I was super depressed by the time my parents came to get me, but I'm doing a lot better now, I haven't had a major depressive episode since 2008. My family just moved, literally just, we left Auburn on Wednesday and now they are in New Bedford, MA, which is where I will be living when I graduate from college.
I have a girlfriend, we have been together since April. I usually call myself bisexual, but pansexual is probably more accurate because I have been attracted to trans people too. I am actually the secretary for the Wells equivalent of gay-straight alliance, which is called SAGA, which is where Shane and I met. We do awesome things like have drag shows. Last year was the first time we did a drag show and it was a fantastic success, so this time I might actually perform if I can find a nice enough suit to wear.
The only way I keep myself from getting bored is by watching a lot of TV and movies and reading a LOT of fanfiction. It's really a bad habit, I spend at least a half an hour every day reading fanfic. I don't write it much any more, I've mostly switched to writing original fiction (which is still mostly shameless pornography), but I do make podfics-- which is how you found me! I love doing podfics. People seem to really like my reading voice, and I have a lot of fun making them.
I drink infrequently, smoke pot as often as I can afford to (a couple of times a week at most, unless I'm on vacation with friends and then I do it a couple of times a day), and occasionally do other drugs as the opportunity presents itself. I also take Xanax, but sometimes it's for panic attacks and sometimes it's recreationally. xD I know I'm going to have to stop doing most of these things once I start looking for a respectable job, so I'm enjoying myself while I can.
And I don't know a whole lot about Dom/sub stuff, but if you are looking for people around you into the scene and you haven't heard about this site yet, you should absolutely check out FetLife.com. You can find local kinksters, see about events taking place in your area, and maybe find someone to play with. I signed up on a whim last year and it's been an interesting place to spend a few hours looking around!