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giveamouse) wrote2010-08-20 10:45 pm
giveamouse) wrote2010-08-20 10:45 pm
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There really is no good reason that I haven't written in a long time. Oh, well.
I start classes again next week. I'm taking coursework that will be a prerequisite for any graduate work I'd want to do in speech pathology, but it's really quite basic stuff. I feel a little silly taking some of it, because I already know about half the material that will be taught. I'll just need to deal with the busywork, but this hasn't put much of a damper on my enthusiasm for going back to school. I really miss it, a lot.
I haven't been reading as much fiction in the past couple months. Lots of non-fiction, though. I've been doing some volunteering for a non-profit in town that has lately started to seem like a complete waste of everyone's time and energy, which is disappointing.
I've even had a couple job interviews for software-development-related jobs which have also been disappointing. One because it looked like I'd be likely to lose money rather than make any (long, useless story), and the other because the guy who was "hiring" got a deer-in-the-headlights look when I asked him if he had any funding sources.
But if I'm in a rather bad mood right now, it's because I got a new pillow recently that seems reasonably comfortable, but I've been sleeping progressively worse and worse since then. At this point, I'm exhausted, I've had a bad headache the entire time I'm awake, I'm annoyed and irritable, and I'm going back to my old pillow. The new one is going back where it came from, tomorrow.
Why do pillows have to be so thick? A thick pillow puts my neck at an angle that makes me feel like my breathing is restricted. What I want is a little neck support, and to keep my head from flopping side to side - I've come to prefer lying on my back when I sleep. I'm getting pretty close to trying to make myself a pillow in order to learn some sewing...
I start classes again next week. I'm taking coursework that will be a prerequisite for any graduate work I'd want to do in speech pathology, but it's really quite basic stuff. I feel a little silly taking some of it, because I already know about half the material that will be taught. I'll just need to deal with the busywork, but this hasn't put much of a damper on my enthusiasm for going back to school. I really miss it, a lot.
I haven't been reading as much fiction in the past couple months. Lots of non-fiction, though. I've been doing some volunteering for a non-profit in town that has lately started to seem like a complete waste of everyone's time and energy, which is disappointing.
I've even had a couple job interviews for software-development-related jobs which have also been disappointing. One because it looked like I'd be likely to lose money rather than make any (long, useless story), and the other because the guy who was "hiring" got a deer-in-the-headlights look when I asked him if he had any funding sources.
But if I'm in a rather bad mood right now, it's because I got a new pillow recently that seems reasonably comfortable, but I've been sleeping progressively worse and worse since then. At this point, I'm exhausted, I've had a bad headache the entire time I'm awake, I'm annoyed and irritable, and I'm going back to my old pillow. The new one is going back where it came from, tomorrow.
Why do pillows have to be so thick? A thick pillow puts my neck at an angle that makes me feel like my breathing is restricted. What I want is a little neck support, and to keep my head from flopping side to side - I've come to prefer lying on my back when I sleep. I'm getting pretty close to trying to make myself a pillow in order to learn some sewing...