General Update!
Since it's been a while since I posted proper, I figured I'd give a run-down of stuff that's been going on in my life, both fandom-related and real-life-related....I suppose it's fairly interesting. Maybe.
My job is going okay, I guess. For some reason my boss has decided that one of the selling points of the program is me, and has started really pitching as part of one of the best things around SRC that you get to go see "Butterfly Becky" (that's right, I sit at a desk for eight hours a day wearing antennae and enormous butterfly wings. Which I can't really move around in, as they get stuck on door handles and so forth. I keep knocking things over accidentally). The odd thing is that it seems to be working. I had a few kids recognize me when I was out at Panera yesterday, and I've got one little boy who brings me presents every now and then. The first things he got me were frog earrings, big ol' green plastic things that light up if you press a button, so now I'm considering getting my ears pierced so I can wear them. Besides, with hair as short as mine, dangly earrings might be a fun effect.
I also have....odd kids. The kids who really seem to develop a rapport with me are all truly weird. Dunno what that says about me. But I have one girl who asked me "Are you my friend?" and after I said "Yes, of course," she has since greeted me with "Hi, friend!!" every time she sees me, and even acted for a while like she thought she had special privileges. When I told her she had to wait her turn like all the other kids, she told me, "I have a question. Are you still my friend?". When I said yes, she replied, "Good. I was confused for a minute there."
The one that's even odder, however, is my favorite little boy from last year. He has some sort of learning support issue, I'm not sure what, and lately he's been absolutely fixated on me. I knew he'd be happy to see me back because we really got along, but things have gotten to the point where he's saying creepy romantic things, like calling me "precious" and stroking my arm and saying he likes coming to the library to see my "beautifulness" and asking if there are "times that we can be together". All this from the mouth of a kid who's just finished second grade. (He's also writing a book in which I am the lead role). If this keeps up I am telling his mommy, because while I'm sure he doesn't mean it the way it sounds, he's starting to freak me out, and that's a pity because I do honestly like him. Or I did before I became the One Ring to his Gollum.
In completely unrelated news to the library business, learning Tarot is going well! After discovering the images on the deck I bought last week didn't include everything the cards normally do, I went to Borders and bought a new deck, one that's essentially everything I wanted in a Tarot deck: the Rider-Smith-Waite illustrations, recolored to be a bit more attractive, pocket-sized with a cute little case. I love my deck muchly and look forward to getting better with it. I've been doing a "card of the day" thing, sometimes three cards a day if I have a question for the thing. I figure I'll do a full Celtic Cross spread once I feel ready/once a question comes up that requires that much detail. Until then I'm using one- and three-card spreads, mainly, but I'm going to start being more creative soon.
And fandom news! Like I wrote earlier, I'm watching Jeeves and Wooster and Firefly, both intermittently, with a smattering of Monk as well but the mysteries aren't quite up to snuff imo. I also fell hopelessly in love with a melodramatic little anime called Kannazuki no Miko, the first few episodes of which I saw years ago at a convention and, for some reason, they really left an impression on me so I finally saw the whole thing. I am not going to claim that this is a GOOD show, however. I know it is not. It is cliche and overdone and twisted and nonsensical and dark and sappy, but somehow it manages to come together really, really well, with a core cast of three leads that, despite being clearly modeled after popular anime stereotypes, manage to be incredibly sympathetic. It's also shoujo-ai, borderline yuri, and just basically a total guilty pleasure and I would love to watch it with people this coming year the way we watched Maburaho! last year.
That is all for now, I think. ^_^ Am looking forward to next semester like you have no idea, though. Odd, as I've only just gotten a chance to really move back into my room....
My job is going okay, I guess. For some reason my boss has decided that one of the selling points of the program is me, and has started really pitching as part of one of the best things around SRC that you get to go see "Butterfly Becky" (that's right, I sit at a desk for eight hours a day wearing antennae and enormous butterfly wings. Which I can't really move around in, as they get stuck on door handles and so forth. I keep knocking things over accidentally). The odd thing is that it seems to be working. I had a few kids recognize me when I was out at Panera yesterday, and I've got one little boy who brings me presents every now and then. The first things he got me were frog earrings, big ol' green plastic things that light up if you press a button, so now I'm considering getting my ears pierced so I can wear them. Besides, with hair as short as mine, dangly earrings might be a fun effect.
I also have....odd kids. The kids who really seem to develop a rapport with me are all truly weird. Dunno what that says about me. But I have one girl who asked me "Are you my friend?" and after I said "Yes, of course," she has since greeted me with "Hi, friend!!" every time she sees me, and even acted for a while like she thought she had special privileges. When I told her she had to wait her turn like all the other kids, she told me, "I have a question. Are you still my friend?". When I said yes, she replied, "Good. I was confused for a minute there."
The one that's even odder, however, is my favorite little boy from last year. He has some sort of learning support issue, I'm not sure what, and lately he's been absolutely fixated on me. I knew he'd be happy to see me back because we really got along, but things have gotten to the point where he's saying creepy romantic things, like calling me "precious" and stroking my arm and saying he likes coming to the library to see my "beautifulness" and asking if there are "times that we can be together". All this from the mouth of a kid who's just finished second grade. (He's also writing a book in which I am the lead role). If this keeps up I am telling his mommy, because while I'm sure he doesn't mean it the way it sounds, he's starting to freak me out, and that's a pity because I do honestly like him. Or I did before I became the One Ring to his Gollum.
In completely unrelated news to the library business, learning Tarot is going well! After discovering the images on the deck I bought last week didn't include everything the cards normally do, I went to Borders and bought a new deck, one that's essentially everything I wanted in a Tarot deck: the Rider-Smith-Waite illustrations, recolored to be a bit more attractive, pocket-sized with a cute little case. I love my deck muchly and look forward to getting better with it. I've been doing a "card of the day" thing, sometimes three cards a day if I have a question for the thing. I figure I'll do a full Celtic Cross spread once I feel ready/once a question comes up that requires that much detail. Until then I'm using one- and three-card spreads, mainly, but I'm going to start being more creative soon.
And fandom news! Like I wrote earlier, I'm watching Jeeves and Wooster and Firefly, both intermittently, with a smattering of Monk as well but the mysteries aren't quite up to snuff imo. I also fell hopelessly in love with a melodramatic little anime called Kannazuki no Miko, the first few episodes of which I saw years ago at a convention and, for some reason, they really left an impression on me so I finally saw the whole thing. I am not going to claim that this is a GOOD show, however. I know it is not. It is cliche and overdone and twisted and nonsensical and dark and sappy, but somehow it manages to come together really, really well, with a core cast of three leads that, despite being clearly modeled after popular anime stereotypes, manage to be incredibly sympathetic. It's also shoujo-ai, borderline yuri, and just basically a total guilty pleasure and I would love to watch it with people this coming year the way we watched Maburaho! last year.
That is all for now, I think. ^_^ Am looking forward to next semester like you have no idea, though. Odd, as I've only just gotten a chance to really move back into my room....