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Thursday, September 08, 2005

I'm feeling much better

having made it through a slew of academic standards, gone on a hunt for naked women (someone asked me to find a particular reproduction of the Venus of Willendorf), and tracked down no less than three wayward addresses--all in a day's work at my second job. I love public broadcasting. :)

So now I'm thinking about going to Kroger for a couple of things and then home. I had thought about going to a thing tonight at the Eagle Creek Library on breaking into magazine writing, but I think I'll skip this one. Later in the month a writer's group meets, though, and I'd like to do that, especially as the library is almost within a stone's throw of my apartment.

I think I may go to a service at the Unitarian Church. I was a member for years and years but took a break for awhile. Now they have two services, one of which I can make and still go to the game when I resume that. It means getting up and going somewhere by 9 am on a weekend, though, so we'll see. Also, next Sunday the chorus I used to sing with SisterSound, is starting back with rehearsals and I'm going to go and see what they're up to. I had half a dozen things wrong with me when I was singing before, including asthma I didn't know about, so now I'm looking forward to singing with my full range of breath. I'm a first soprano, and they always need us high girls for some reason. Anyway, it was great fun before, and this is a good time to see how it is now.

What else have I been up to? Hmmm.... I put in for a part-time job with the Lexington Public Library, not at the one by my house but the next nearest one, over in a neighbourhood I spend a lot of time in. I also put in a part-time application to Joseph-Beth Booksellers on the chance that one of these days they'd hire me, despite the fact I'm not thin like most of their female staff. I also put in applications at the Kentucky Historical Society (especially happy with one, for a cataloguer/archivist, since those are two areas I specialised in during school). So the job hunt is still on.

I'm beginning to think that one of the reasons I've been so unhappy lately hasn't been so much who I'm with but rather that all of my energy was centred around someone else and I wasn't doing anything just for me. So, I'm trying to build in a few activities that will help fill this time of the great experiment but also focus on things I can continue with when the month is up. I also start back in therapy as of the 14th, so I'm trying to work on myself from several angles.

Generally I'm having a pretty decent life right now. I tend to blog when I'm down or when things just suck; I realise that's pretty negative and unfair. But no, I'm pretty happy, a little lonely, but hanging in there. D has a lot on her plate right now, so we don't get to talk that much although I've gone over to her house recently when I really needed to talk and she was there for me, and of course she's a phone call away, although with the baby I try not to call too late.

I'm rambling, aren't I? Well, I think it's time to head home. Yesterday I went straight from the blood centre to bed because I felt washed out; tonight I still have some energy, so I may do some errands and a little reading. I wish I had Internet access at home because I really would like to just surf in the gathering-rather-than-hunting way, but I don't so unless I go to the library, hunting it is. And with the library, there's a time limit, so there's no just 'channel surfing' like I used to. Oh, well, it also means I'm not really wasting time that could be spent doing something constructive, right? But there's nothing like surfing the weirdness of the web at 3am, what can I say? I don't really watch much TV, but I do like to just flip through websites and learn what I can. It seems more interactive, anyway. I'm hoping I can get connected using my increased hours at the station, since I'll be doing better financially. But for now, I'm just working on the basics, so we'll see closer to the end of the month how things are going.

That's all for now. Ta.

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