So we continue to continue . . .

[kiya]

Yay, people at games night were willing to play cards with me. Yay yay. staralshain and I won the game of Hand and Foot due to a certain Red Three Invasion, but it was a damn near thing at the end of it. Then played Quiddler and lost, placing last of six, but had what was widely acclaimed as the best final hand. ('Quetzal Days').

Talked to keshwyn about food assembly for the WIP. Kelp! I should have thought of kelp.

I am moderately gratified that my tendency to rattle around uncloseted contributed in at least a small way to someone else being able to come out about the same thing and get an "Oh, yeah, that's something I know about" response. And I'm not even terribly good at being out as plural.

Not going south this weekend after all; teinedreugan's sister largely unavailable, and as a fair fragment of the purpose of the trip was sister-seekage, that sort of undermines the plans. On the bright side, perhaps when we reschedule to will be a time Dad's in town.

In other news: For various reasons, the prospect of actually getting the proper application to college done was hitting my overload-unfeasable buttons. I'm probably being oversensitive on this front, but given that a significant contributor to me dropping out in the first place was a catastrophic stress breakdown freshman year, I don't feel like pushing it too far and setting myself back another seven years. So I'm considering applying to the local community college, which is a mile away, offers a fair amount of online classes, will be a lot lower stress, and costs a wicked lot less. I expect to be getting email from them in the next couple of days.

Still need to write the Training Baby post. Add to 'list of posts I need to write' one currently filed under tentative title of Washing the Wound. This mostly reminder to me.

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[rainfallsautumn.livejournal.com]

I'm a big community college advocate. I did an associates at a CC and took Arabic 101 there on a whim two years ago, and had a much better experience with both than I did with the university where I did my bachelor's. For one thing, they are a lot friendlier to adult students and don't expect grown professionals to jump through a bunch of hoops just to feel l33t. Depending on what you're studying, you also may be more likely to have professors who actually work in the field instead of simply teaching for a living-- which may not be an advantage in the humanities, but is rather nice in criminal justice. The head of the Syracuse Crime Lab kicked the ass of Mr. Criminal Theory. ;)

As for the closets, I'm happy to say you were right about that one. I shut up and still get swatted, there's no sense in it. Better they leave my life quickly than make a decade-long attachment and then brush me off like a fly. Not that I'm bitter about that, or anything.

[rainfallsautumn.livejournal.com]

associate's.

*mumbles about it being late*

[kiya]

Unfortunately, I don't think my CC has Arabic. At least, in the fall courses I only saw Spanish and French, but I was mostly skimming. I wouldn't mind learning Arabic (though my language priorities at the moment are Polish and Yoruba).

They sent me an autoresponder email saying that a counsellor would email me in the next few days to talk over what I'm looking for, which should be useful; I don't know what I'm doing. ;) I do still want to aim at BU because they have the degree program stuff I'm wanting (and Yoruba!), but I don't know what will get me there. And while I could faff about just taking random classes for an indefinite period of time, that's probably ineffectual. ;)