A dream within a dream...

Life is cruel

Sun, 04 Aug 2019 03:56:02 GMT

I volunteer at a zoo--I've talked about this before--and two more animals passed away recently.

(I say two more because we recently lost an opossum about two weeks ago, and just today I heard about a tarantula we had had passed away--due to old age--and a collared peccary passed away quite unexpectedly.)

And the new year had started off bad as well--we had lost Kevin Bacon the pot bellied pig (also unexpectedly--he was young), the two prairie dogs, one mule deer--like 2019 is just a bad year at the zoo so far.

It also really doesn't help that opossums have such a short lifespan--at least 3/4 years in captivity (that's how long they live for) and I'm constantly thinking, 'Why can't they have a longer lifespan?' because I just love the ones at the zoo so much.

This upcoming week will be the last week for the youth summer camp and I'm really, quite frankly, sad about that because I was getting used to talking about fencing five days a week. I'm going to miss that. Hopefully I'll work at the summer camp next year--it's just for this summer one of the people the coach always went to for the summer camp was busy, and I guess someone else was occupied, so my and my co-worker were both working at the summer camp for the first time. It was a good experience, basically, to teach kids how to fence and I wouldn't mind working again next summer if my coach offered me the opportunity.

Speaking of summer, I'll be going camping August 11th--it's somewhere close by in the mountains, so hopefully it'll be cooler than the other place I originally was going to camp at. I just need to get away and spend some time in nature and breath in fresh mountain air. Hopefully it won't be too hot.

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Fri, 02 Aug 2019 23:29:31 GMT

I rewatched Inception recently at the Red Cross when I was donating platelets and guess who's mildly obsessed with the film again?

I was so obsessed with it back in 2010/2011 and I wrote all this fanfiction and made all these icons and wallpaper and fanmixes and it's kind of nice to be obsessed with it again.

Although I really do miss the Inception land comm over on LJ (and land comms in general--I liked land comms--they challenged my creativity).

But anyway, basically it's nice to be obsessed with the movie again. Hopefully I'll be able to write some things or make some icons or do something creative with my obsession.

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So...

Thu, 06 Apr 2017 15:07:24 GMT

still alive. I know I don't post all that often.

Anyway, I'm just trying out the whole crossposting thing between Dreamwidth and Livejournal. (Honestly, the only reason why I use LJ more is because I have more icon space there and I would have to pay to get icon space at Dreamwidth--I just like my icons!)

If anyone wants to friend me on Dreamwidth, feel free to do so.

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Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:44:38 GMT

So...despite not wanting anything done to my teeth at all after having gone through the childhood trauma of teeth getting pulled and having braces, I decided to just go ahead and called for an appointment to get my wisdom teeth removed (because one does sort of bother me. Not pain-wise, but food gets stuck and yeah, IDK, it just annoys me more than anything).

Unfortunately, that weekend is a. when the Can't Stop the Serenity event is going on on Saturday in Irvine, b. I have class on Monday (and I start school on the 23rd), c. IDK about a movie event that Saturday at my friend's house. We'll probably have one.

And I really want to go to see Serenity. Because it's fun. But I don't want to get my wisdom teeth removed next month because the last Friday of October is Halloween weekend and damn it I'm dressing up that weekend.

The whole the oral surgeon guy comes in the last Friday of every month is really a lose-lose situation. If I wait for December, then January 3 is when the new quarter starts, and either way I'll always have school on Monday after the last Friday of every month.

Am I slightly crazy? Yes. Yes, I am. But I think I can manage.

(Besides Serenity, I read they're also showing Dr. Horrible. Yay!)(Reason for my going, mainly.)

Except now I'm like extremely nervous to the point where I'm just wanting to cancel. 'Screw it all, I'm keeping my wisdom teeth' mentality. But if the one tooth continues to annoy me then it'll always annoy me and I hate having food get stuck in that tooth so it's coming out to save me from further annoyance. Bring it on! I can handle pain! (I'll probably regret typing this in the future.)

And sure, I coulda had it done over the summer, but what's past is past. Unfortunately. And if worst comes to worst, I'll miss the Can't Stop the Serenity (o_o). Which I don't want to do but I want the teeth extraction to be done and over with and not to have to worry about it in the future so...

at least Monday is a short day for me. Yay.

(still nervous. And worried. And mostly scared. Doesn't help Little Shop of Horrors is coming in the mail soon from Netflix. Thank you, self, you're just freaking yourself out even more over dentists.)

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Tue, 07 Sep 2010 16:17:20 GMT

So LJ's acting all slow and I figured I'd give this journal a go by updating it (don't know about cross-posting just yet. IDK).

Unfortunately, I have nothing to say.

Which, you know, sort of undermines my intention of this post.

It's cloudy outside. Looks like it's going to rain. And it's slightly chilly. It's weird. All summer we've only had short spurts of days when it was hot and the rest of the time it was sort of cool. I love when the weather doesn't act like it normally should.

Hmm... :/ I have nothing else to say.

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