Update?
Update.
So hay lj. S'been a long time, I think.
I've got this increasingly problematic insomnia going on, which is increasingly problematic both because of the sleep debt that I'm building up and the fact that I haven't been able to nap at school with my babies lately during their nap time because I'm busy trying to get them all to actually fall asleep. I'm thinking that maybe if I type my thoughts in here until I can't type anymore, I'll actually get to sleep sometime soon since my brain won't have anything left in it to bounce around and keep me awake.
From re-reading bits and pieces of the past two years in here, it makes me think that it's pretty crazy that since I started lj forever ago, I had two girlfriends that started up lj and then more or less ended them. Though I guess that's to be expected, since no one really uses lj anymore, but there is a pretty big décalage between their two débuts.
I guess I'll just write out what I want to do, since I always have sort of used this as a planner, though it was always more day-to-day (or month-to-month) than the planning that I'm trying to work out in my head as of late.
I really want to move to Canada with Ceilidh.
There; I said it.
I am honest to goodness, head over heels liking her in all of the best ways and am completely myself and completely not crazy with her, and we just both work together so well, and it's hands down the best relationship that I've ever had. And I'd like to see where it goes. Especially without the crazy stress of Smith life... she's kind of going crazy lately with thesis stuff, and seeing her once or twice a week, though always lovely and fun, is not exactly conducive to real one-on-one time. But we do know that we'd live well together, and we are able to communicate effectively in 4 different languages, and it's just wonderful all over.
So. My plan is that I'm going to keep working with the babies until June or so. Maybe until August, but I guess we'll see when my end date will be for that as I see how long I want to do this for. Then, I'm going to move to Halifax to start the Deaf Studies certificate program at Nova Scotia Community College. I may have to take ASL 2 at HCC before heading over to Canada, but the beauty of getting an education there is that I will be legal in Canada for a year, which buys us some more time to figure out how we'll legally make our relationship work, if we both want to work it out past then. The other neat thing is that they have an accelerated summer program for ASL 1 and 2, though that means that I'd have to spend hella more money to live there and figure shit out. But Ceilidh will already be there, and that means that I may have a place to stay, but the international student prices are more than double the Canadian price. =(
We have not worked this out logistically yet, mostly because it is a year away and also she is super busy. But in my mind, I'm going to work a lot and save up so much money, since I won't be allowed to work in Canada, which means that Ceilidh will be in Halifax from January on, and we'll have 6 or more months apart while I'm working here. Which could be fine, but I think it may be kind of awful, especially since that would mean that we'll have been together for over a year by the time I'm in Halifax, but we'll have only been in the same place for 5 months of those more than 17 months. But I guess love overcomes all, dunnit?
We'll see how it goes. I really am so happy with what we've got now.
As far as everything else goes, my friends are lovely, I'm keeping so busy, and work is nice, too. My weekends are full up for pretty much the rest of the year, which is nice, but so crazy! Off to Colorado this weekend, splitting between home and a frisbee tournament after that, then home again for a wedding, here for babysitting, DC for Deaf film festival, and probably more things that I've forgotten. Not to mention Thanksgiving and Christmas!
Oh, I have to come up with a neat costume for Halloween for the school parade. I was thinking of just buying a shit ton of red felt and going as Elmo, but I might also just wear one of my prom dresses and go as a princess or something. =P
Alright. It's time. I gotta get to bed. Let's see if it actually works this time.
Oh, also, Ceilidh's been doing lots of chalkings because she's all over making art and she literally will schedule time into her day to make cute chalk drawings, and I'm pretty sure one of my friends captured one of the drawings and put it on facebook. =PPP
So hay lj. S'been a long time, I think.
I've got this increasingly problematic insomnia going on, which is increasingly problematic both because of the sleep debt that I'm building up and the fact that I haven't been able to nap at school with my babies lately during their nap time because I'm busy trying to get them all to actually fall asleep. I'm thinking that maybe if I type my thoughts in here until I can't type anymore, I'll actually get to sleep sometime soon since my brain won't have anything left in it to bounce around and keep me awake.
From re-reading bits and pieces of the past two years in here, it makes me think that it's pretty crazy that since I started lj forever ago, I had two girlfriends that started up lj and then more or less ended them. Though I guess that's to be expected, since no one really uses lj anymore, but there is a pretty big décalage between their two débuts.
I guess I'll just write out what I want to do, since I always have sort of used this as a planner, though it was always more day-to-day (or month-to-month) than the planning that I'm trying to work out in my head as of late.
I really want to move to Canada with Ceilidh.
There; I said it.
I am honest to goodness, head over heels liking her in all of the best ways and am completely myself and completely not crazy with her, and we just both work together so well, and it's hands down the best relationship that I've ever had. And I'd like to see where it goes. Especially without the crazy stress of Smith life... she's kind of going crazy lately with thesis stuff, and seeing her once or twice a week, though always lovely and fun, is not exactly conducive to real one-on-one time. But we do know that we'd live well together, and we are able to communicate effectively in 4 different languages, and it's just wonderful all over.
So. My plan is that I'm going to keep working with the babies until June or so. Maybe until August, but I guess we'll see when my end date will be for that as I see how long I want to do this for. Then, I'm going to move to Halifax to start the Deaf Studies certificate program at Nova Scotia Community College. I may have to take ASL 2 at HCC before heading over to Canada, but the beauty of getting an education there is that I will be legal in Canada for a year, which buys us some more time to figure out how we'll legally make our relationship work, if we both want to work it out past then. The other neat thing is that they have an accelerated summer program for ASL 1 and 2, though that means that I'd have to spend hella more money to live there and figure shit out. But Ceilidh will already be there, and that means that I may have a place to stay, but the international student prices are more than double the Canadian price. =(
We have not worked this out logistically yet, mostly because it is a year away and also she is super busy. But in my mind, I'm going to work a lot and save up so much money, since I won't be allowed to work in Canada, which means that Ceilidh will be in Halifax from January on, and we'll have 6 or more months apart while I'm working here. Which could be fine, but I think it may be kind of awful, especially since that would mean that we'll have been together for over a year by the time I'm in Halifax, but we'll have only been in the same place for 5 months of those more than 17 months. But I guess love overcomes all, dunnit?
We'll see how it goes. I really am so happy with what we've got now.
As far as everything else goes, my friends are lovely, I'm keeping so busy, and work is nice, too. My weekends are full up for pretty much the rest of the year, which is nice, but so crazy! Off to Colorado this weekend, splitting between home and a frisbee tournament after that, then home again for a wedding, here for babysitting, DC for Deaf film festival, and probably more things that I've forgotten. Not to mention Thanksgiving and Christmas!
Oh, I have to come up with a neat costume for Halloween for the school parade. I was thinking of just buying a shit ton of red felt and going as Elmo, but I might also just wear one of my prom dresses and go as a princess or something. =P
Alright. It's time. I gotta get to bed. Let's see if it actually works this time.
Oh, also, Ceilidh's been doing lots of chalkings because she's all over making art and she literally will schedule time into her day to make cute chalk drawings, and I'm pretty sure one of my friends captured one of the drawings and put it on facebook. =PPP