I bought Belugaria not knowing what it was, and although I was kind of weirded out at first, now I kind of like it. It makes me feel somewhat more badass than usual - looks a little punk.

I kind of love this photo.

A little house of my own on about 90 acres in the Alberta prairies. I will have a yellow kitchen and a mural in the bedroom and a studio for arts and crafts and a wall that is all bookshelves and a root cellar and a big garden and some cows and goats and alpaca and chickens and two dogs and some cats.

I will start my own publishing house just to publish this book.

I'm in one of the most general fields: my MA is in English. I'd like to get into publishing, so as soon as I get a job I'm going to start taking courses towards a publishing certificate, network, start some projects of my own, hopefully find some cool part-time internships. So I'm looking for a job that will keep me…

That sounds very familiar. I wish I could afford to do internships, but right now I really need to make some money.

I love living alone!

I thought that getting my Master's degree would somehow increase my job prospects. I thought that the market wasn't as bad in Canada as it is in the States (maybe it's not). I thought someone would at least want to interview. But no luck yet. :(

Ahhhhahahahaha! Love it.

The book Enduring Love by Ian McEwan is also excellent.

I've been cursed with a sensitivity to "like" in speech. I notice it everywhere, and it drives me nuts; when it's really bad, all I can hear are the "likes" and I completely miss the point of the sentence. It's even worse written.

Any collagers (collagists? collage-makers?) out there? I've started cutting out images (mostly from National Geographic) for a somewhat large piece that I'm planning (on the back of my homemade jewelry-making bench), but I'm having a hard time figuring out how I'm going to fit it all together.

I didn't. I'm making myself wait until I have a job and am not living off of savings. Hopefully that will be soon!

The Amazon shipping is free for me after I spend $25, so that's not a problem (maybe it's because I'm using Amazon.ca?). But I haven't ordered the books yet. They're in my wish list, so I might buy them as a 'yay!' gift to myself when I get a job (I just graduated and started looking).

I really can't afford to go through with it, but I have $150 worth of graphic novels in my Amazon cart right now. But I get ten things for that amount of money! So much fun to be had! I don't know.

I made a chain mail bracelet today! So much fun. I've been taking a jewelry-making course, but it ends next week and I don't feel comfortable soldering on my own quite yet, so I'm thinking of buying a jump ringer and getting really good at chain mail over the next couple months until the fall season of courses starts.

I hate waiting to hear back about formatting approval for my thesis so that I can submit the final copies and graduate already and now I'm getting quite anxious because the withdrawal deadline is tomorrow and if I'm not done by then I have to pay $1300 in fees for half of the spring/summer session for nothing unless I…

I still have a sliver of hope, but I'm planning for a one-person house.

I have that fear too. I live alone and there are a lot of private stairs up to my apartment. Then the shower is so slippery sometimes. I hardly ever have visitors. No one would miss me for days.

I've been there too. I dropped out of the first grad program I was in, and lived with my parents for a while after that. It gets better! (ha). I hope.