I’ve been working on a new web project that combines several things that I love.  I’ve started something akin to a photo log, but combining prose, verse, and photography into one visual medium.  I’ve called it Transfiguration.  Originally when I started making the site I had called the prototype site “Photoverse”, and built it on a Wordpress backbone.  But then I wanted to create a layout which would use PHP to generate a different background colour for each image, so I decided to create my own system.  I’m really pleased with the results!

I’ve been enjoying my time off from school, hanging out with my boyfriend, my friends, and my family, while working on web projects on the side. Next week I have to get my wisdom teeth pulled out (fun), so I’ll be out of commission for a while with chipmunk cheeks. The week after that, I’ll be starting up with my part time job again, which I’m looking forward to. I miss working!

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Happy Christmas Eve everyone!  It’s after midnight, so I’m allowed to say that already.

I’ve been working really hard the past few days.  I was able to get rehired where I worked in the summer for Christmas help.  After Christmas, I’ll be working inventory shifts rather than being a sales associate, helping to count every item in the store.  I’m looking forward to it!  My feet are tired from standing in high heels, but the money is worth it.  I have Christmas Eve, Christmas, and Boxing Day off, so I feel like I still have a vacation.

I’m dating Mark officially now~!  I feel ultra-happy-happy.  I was starting to feel really discouraged, but things are really turning around. ^_^

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I love when people come to the door and ask if my mother is home.  I’m the oldest girl living in the townhouse, so when salespeople visit and ask that, I can say “no” legitimately and send them on their way without feeling guilty at all.  Heeheehee.

I’m going back to Oshawa on Wednesday. I’m really really excited to be going home! This semester has been my most stressful, and I’m glad it will be over in two days. Two days with two essays left and an exam. My dad’s driving up after his midnight shift to come get me, and then plans to nap on my couch until he has the energy back to drive me home. He’s pretty dedicated coming to get me on the first available day! How sweet!

I want to…

• I want to visit with my family. I miss them so much!
• I want to spend time with my friends who I haven’t seen since reading week, or even longer. It’s been so long!
• I want to finish two to three essays in advance over the holiday break. I should be a better good student!
• I want to work on the unveiling of a new version of Magitek Designs, with 10 new layouts and tons of avatars by Christmas. It’s a goal of mine!
• I want to take more serious photographs.

But I suppose I should focus on getting these last two papers done so that I can study for my last exam tomorrow. I want to think positively!

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Coworkers brush past me on both sides. A woman walks towards me and her right arm is moving. The arm stops. Then the woman stops. It’s my turn to brush by someone else for a change. I walk by and our arms touch.

“Sir, I was waving to you.”

I stop and turn to look at her. She is a cloud of red and black. I can recognize her voice. She’s the assistant secretary. “Sorry, I broke my glasses this morning. My vision is terrible.”

I can’t tell if she smiles or frowns. I can only see about thirty centimetres in front of me clearly. She stands about one hundred and twenty centimetres away.

“Oh. The boss told me he is looking forward to your report. Well, see you at lunch,” she says.

I walk into the main room of the office. It is filled with evenly spaced cubicles. I count the rows and sit in the sixth seat in the third row. The boss arrives at eleven o’clock and asks for the daily report. I stand up and count the rows backwards to make sure that I place my report on the right desk. There are two boxes on the boss’s desk. One is marked ‘in’ and one is marked ‘out.’ The outbox has far less items than the inbox as usual.

At lunch, I sit at my desk and eat a sandwich. I don’t see the black and red blur. People don’t always take “see you” seriously.

At five o’clock, work is over. The black and red blur comes to the door and picks up the papers from the boss’s outbox. I wave to her from my desk but she doesn’t wave back. I don’t know if our eyes meet.

I put on an old pair of glasses when I get home. The prescription is out of date but it works well enough. The next day I walk to work at nine o’clock and begin the cycle again. I wave to the woman in the hallway and she waves back. She reminds me of what I have to do that day and says, “I’ll see you at lunch.”

I eat my sandwich at my desk during lunch break and look around the office. Everything is clear and crisp. I still can’t see the secretary and I wonder where she is.

I take off my glasses and let the world defocus.

My 10-12 page history essay was due back on Monday, but I’m so uninspired with it. I have some ideas in an outline, but I don’t have a thesis joining them. The research is going terribly.

I don’t know why I decided to choose history for my degree minor. I’m pretty terrible at it! History papers are so different from an English studies paper. I’ve actually cried several times when trying to pull this paper together because it seems so fruitless.

I’ve been thinking about spending an extra two months in North Bay in order to take an extra 3 credit history course, leaving me with one less to do later. I need to have 24 credits of history for my degree, and I just have to be enrolled in one history course each semester left in my career. But, if I stay for the spring session instead of going home to visit my family during that time, I could have full semester without taking a history class. History is always hardest for me…

I’m seriously thinking about it, but I think my parents will be sad that I want to exchange two months of vacation time where I could visit them in order to do just one class during spring session. I think it would be a great experience, because I’d only have nine hours of class each week, and for the remaining time, I could work full time on my sites and art and hopefully increase my income from the level it is now.

It just might be lonely. My roommate would be gone. =(

My scholastic work ethic is sometimes questionable. I’m a sucker for procrastination, easily distracted by personal projects, and waste time. I really did it this time. I decided to take art classes as my electives this year, one per semester. We have a sketchbook in which we’re supposed to complete two assignments per week. I was doing really well for the first few weeks, but I grew lazy. Each week I kept telling myself that I didn’t have time this week and would do them later. I accumulated four weeks of backlog.

It wouldn’t be too bad except that I’m an extremely slow artist. My teacher says if we are spending more than an hour on each assignment, we are spending too much time. She said we can stop after one hour if it happens. I’m too scared to do that because if I don’t finish it, it looks terrible and I’ll get a bad mark. Just because I spent an hour on something doesn’t mean that it would look like I spent an hour on it to a critic. Eek. I stayed up until 4am working on Friday, and I worked a fair bit on them Saturday afternoon. I did manage to finish all eight pieces, and a few of them I’m actually quite proud of. Yay!

The next two weeks are going to be fiendishly mean to me. There are so many essays to write and so many novels to read.

• History papers x 2
• Three English papers x 3
• Exams x 3
• Art Portfolio

I’m really happy that all of my exams are in class rather than during the exam schedule. I get to go home directly after my last class in December. I’m counting down the days!

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