http://xkcd.com/661/

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Got me a job interview on Wednesday! Well, more like a job chat, it doesnt seem to be at all formal. I might be working for the tea shop! Yay!

Im going to try volunteering for the library soon. I have to get the app done and sent in.

Im still grieving a little, but Im better. Im still torn--do I try to go home for the service or not? Money wise it seems really doable, but time wise... not so much. I didnt do homework at all today, so the next two days are going to have to be crammed full of it.


I need to start buying presents for the holidays so I can bring them home at thanksgiving. I have a good idea of what to get most people... I just have to do it now.

Oops, my M is calling me.

hugs!
~M

Requests aren't done, they will be popping up as we go, but honestly I do not need annnyymooreee! I was looking at the Wonder Women that I drew last year and started drawing her again, because she's pretty fun to draw, and surly Wonder Woman here came out. Don't settle for being a tits and tits heroine ladies, be yourself! Poor Nibbles.


Hey Montreal! I'm going to be at Expozine this weekend! You should come.

Store!

I learned this morning from creeping_dark that a friend of mine, ours really, from high school recently passed away.

This is more than a shock. Rio Wight was one of those people I'd check up on in 10 years or 20 years and he'd be out of this world with awesome stuff going on, maybe his own art studio, his own tranquil garden, something deep and meaningful. As creeping_dark said, he was going places.

I really got to know him through art classes at Berkeley High. We both got to be pretty good friends in AP art and other classes. He was so talented. It was a joy to watch him. To watch him work, to watch him design, build, take away. We talked a lot in that time. We ended up in the same corner a lot. We both did big sized projects, so we camped out near the gate where our stuff was kept when we werent there. The less we had to move it every day, the better. We talked a lot, and shared stories, and sometimes just spent time near each other, each absorbed in our work. It was meaningful to have someone there like that, who got what I was doing, or at least what I was trying to do. I hope it was meaningful to him as well.

He was always very philosophical, and "old soul" as the SFgate article says. I couldnt have said it better- he had that deep wisdom in him, and it was fascinating. He was so intelligent, so sharp and perceptive. He was one of those people who you'd expect to find on a mountain somewhere in 60 years, with a long white beard, just taking one look at someone and doling out everything that they needed to know in five words or less. I dont think he would actually ever have done that, but Im sure you know the type.

I seriously meant it that I was going to check up on him. He was one of those people who I lost contact with due to proximity, but I never forgot, and thought from time to time "I should look him up one of these days." Just to see where he's at. If we still have all that stuff in common. And now its too late.

This shouldnt be. He should still be here. He was too young, too talented, too smart, too going places.

Here's a link to the article I found at SFgate:
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/sfgate/obituary.aspx?n=rion-wight-rio&pid=135418247

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I made cookies!!! Im going to bring them into class tomorrow. One set is a peanut butter cookie, and the other is a vegan chocolate-chip oatmeal for those who're vegan and who dont like peanut butter. No one has a crazy-sensitive peanut allergy--I checked. In fact, no one has a pea nut allergy at all. YAY!

In other news, I signed up for my classes! I decided to go for all four until further notice. Im going to talk to an advisor on monday perhaps, or maybe one of my professors too and see what they think.

I also applied to the tea shop. I didnt put too much effort into it, so I dont know how well it will go over. I show absolutely NO experience working in a tea shop before, so we'll see. I also have to mention to them that I will be leaving Dec 20th for Germany and the like. I dont know if it'll be a good match, but it seems like a lot of fun. I dont know if Ill drop a class if I get the job--it seemed like it would be 10 hours or so per week. A little pocket money would be really fun. I'd probably spend it all on discounted tea stuff!

I made a whole bunch of earrings in the last couple days for my little sister for her birthday and then for christmas when Im not there. I'll be shopping for everyone's holiday presents so I can give them to the right people to hand out when the time comes. I've got my mom, step mom, father, little brothers, and little sister figured out. I still havent quite figured out what to get my step father (which is fairly normal), nor what to get my older brother and his Sweetie. I've got my Sweetling figured out, and his family... we'll see about everything else I guess. I need to shop for all that!

http://xkcd.com/660/

Ian and I are talking very seriously about moving to Melbourne after I've got my teaching credential. Australia's hard up for teachers, and everywhere is hard up for special ed. teachers specifically. It'd be expensive to live in the city, but only about as expensive as a moderate place in Berkeley.

I don't know how health care for non-citizens works there, but it has government standardized health care and, if you want something private, you can pay a little extra and get private health care and be able to keep your public one. Best of both worlds, plus much cheaper than the way America does it. If I'm paying taxes in Australia, I don't see why I wouldn't get the benefits of it. IMAN Australian Health Plans has a lot of information for temporary residents working in Australia.

Location, work, affordable living, plus being able to travel to Tasmania, Indonesia, New Zealand, Vietnam, and Thailand, plus others. Not doable for another two years or so, plus, if I decide to keep teaching special ed. for over five years and stay in Australia all that time, I'd have to figure out how to go back to school and take another year of studies. For a special ed. credential, you can study for one year, work, and within the next five years, take one last year and you're set for life.

Icing on the cake: Melbourne is listed as a "City of Literature" by UNESCO.

Tags: australia, moving, school, special ed, teaching, traveling
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