Like a Yo-Yo

Sometimes I'm up, sometimes I'm down. Oh, and sometimes I get stuck.

Right now, thanks to several things, I'm up, if tired. I had a long and tearful talk with my parents today (beginning with a wailed "I want to go home!"), and I figured out what the best things to do to get myself feeling okay again were. They ended up being: purchase more internet time, and treat what I spend as 'beer money', since I don't drink but budgeted for it at least a little bit. Have lunch. Walk down to Uni (I love my daily walks) and attend the Clubs and Activities Fair. More on that later. Go talk to the Arts office to figure out how to get at my schedule. Talk to Liz about my Union card, and just generally check in. Meet friends at the Fair. Find the Queer Union.

I did ALL of those, and more. I made friends with the Farrago kids - the student magazine - and was handed about 80 things by them and told to submit creative work to the creative writing anthology PLEEEEEAAASE. They also said I could write for them if I wanted to. I got a schedule for the queer stuff going on on campus from them too, since they share an office with the QU. I got on the mailing list for Friends of Unnatural Llamas (Monty Python club) and decided to go to Juggling Club with Victoria because I want to learn to spin poi without hitting myself in the head. Speaking of, I met up with Victoria, and we wandered around doing what we needed to (never mind neither of us needed to do the same thing in the same place, we both went) and talking. I like her a lot and I actually feel like I can talk to her about anything. Then, when we got tired, we sat down in the sun together and read our books (on my mum's advice, I brought a book so I could read in a public space instead of alone in my room). Then she went off to meet her roommate, I ran into my housemates and walked home.

When I got home, I made up my schedule and organized what I wanted to do. After dinner, I'll start looking through my Vignettes (short, creative non-fiction about people I meet) to see what I might be able to submit to Above Water, and maybe go read in the lounge. I'm really tired (despite doing not very much) so I'll probably go to bed early. Tomorrow there's a Winter Race (they feed us, so I'm going) and I plan to stop in and see Jenica, who is sick. This weekend my college has activities going on, so I'll be in on those.

THEN MONDAY MY CLASSES START YAAAAAAAAAAY. I'm taking Australian Indigenous Studies, Australia Now, From Mateship to Mardi Gras, and Short Fiction. I am really looking forward to starting up with those, because it will give structure to my life.

So right now? I'm doing fine.