Weekly post of week!

[rax]

Weekly post of week is early this week because my call with Ruth is postponed and my brain is not in Productive Kitty land --- yet doing this counts as a tasklist item. That's right Internet, you are on my tasklist. ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

• I caught them all. Well, I caught all 493 pokemon available in the generation IV games, anyway, which leaves me basically done with SoulSilver. (I haven't caught Mewtwo yet, but I got traded one by someone who did, and I don't like Mewtwo anyway? I guess I should catch mine so that I can trade one of them away for a shiny or something.) I got to only needing 20 last night and said... to hell with this, and did a bunch of trades on pokewifi, and finished the last two this morning before leaving for class. It's sort of anticlimactic, but I'm glad I did it. I definitely won't do it with every game or maybe every generation, but I plan to keep up a stable so I can breed myself fun things for Gen V...
• I still have that LeafGreen nuzlocke run, my Pearl game, and Japanese White for when I want to play more Pokemon. ...so I still don't need to buy any more video games! That's good. :) Not sure which one I want to work on most seriously next...
• I had a makeup class today, so I went to school and back in reasonably close to full goth catgirl regalia. I really enjoy the way a non-revealing catgirl costume, worn without anxiety, and eye contact both attracts and repels people's gaze. My favorites are the people who completely take it in stride and tell me I've got it going on, and the ones who look, and then look away, and then look, and then look away, and try unsuccessfully to hide that they are staring. I am glad I don't attract that kind of attention every day any more, but it's nice to have a way to do it, and a moderately socially supported time (halloween!) to do so. Of course, I don't intend to go to any parties, because I have work to do. But I do plan to wear cat ears all weekend BECAUSE I CAN.
• How hard would it be to find a place to stay at Further Confusion at this point? I hate sanity and enjoy mad travel plans.
• Was without power for most of Tuesday, which led to a bunch of hilarious misadventures involving Oolong not being able to fly to Boston and Rik still having to leave on what was apparently the only flight leaving the airport on time all day. Still, this meant he got to see Of Montreal and Janelle Monae the next evening, so I am OK with this. :)
• Definitely four people coming in for Catgirl Goth Rave from well out of town --- with another dozen people considering it fairly seriously. December 18th, San Francisco. You know you want to!
• Got my first couple of grades back on papers so far this semester --- both As. Arguably, I am writing home about this despite its being nothing to write home about, since it's grad school, and you're supposed to get As on everything or you are sort of screwing up. Still, when you don't get grades on anything until the last week of October, it's nice for the comments on the papers you get back to end with "Great work!" and "Excellent job." I know intellectually that I can write at a graduate level, because I already did it for three years, but lately I've been trying to draft bits of a final paper and it's coming out feeling terrible, and it's nice to have someone highlight all the things in an essay I did well and say "this is really good!" While UMB was problematic in a bunch of ways, they were very good at positive feedback.
• Also yes, it is October and I am working on my final papers.
• Also also, it is October and it is a damn good thing that the NBA's rules for which games you can't watch online (in short: any of the ones you would want to see if you don't have a television, which is the main reason I would want the service) are so restrictive, or I would purchase their service, and drop out of grad school. Well, I didn't drop out of grad school last time I had cable, but I did find myself suddenly spending hours just watching television, and I so do not have time for that. ...on the other hand it's free until November 3rd. And so far this game is an embarrassment. Enough that I think it's time to do more readings instead.

Comments

[identityfail.livejournal.com]

"that kind of attention"

Is it weird that I want that? Like, I don't know, it's just never something I've gotten, really ever as far as I've noticed / been able to tell. I just often feel very Not Normal, like, not in a *bad* way just in an experiential way and I want that to be visible you know? Or something like that. I dunno. I don't really know how to make that happen or have that experience. I'm sure it'd suck if that was like my daily/unavoidable existence, but still.

[rax.livejournal.com]

You could get crazy facial piercings. :) I totally get what you mean, and it's a lot of the reason I have the hair and glasses I do; I used to be basically permanently marked as freak, and at some point I just started looking normal (or at least nerd-normal) and I was like... the other freaks on the train don't nod and smile back anymore. Ugh. So I started dying my hair and wearing crazy goth boots and then they would look at me again, without my getting too much of the "oh my god look at that person" gaze. For the little bit that I like on a regular basis, I'm very fond of my cat hat.

[postrodent.livejournal.com]

Congratulations on the A's! I'm not _surprised_ exactly, but I'm still happy and proud for you. I hope you figure out something to reward yourself with.

<3!

[rax.livejournal.com]

More reading! <3

[davidglasser.livejournal.com]

I have read this four times and I still can't figure out if you are taking classes in makeup (thus being in catgirl mode) or just a class that was making up for something else, and you were in catgirl mode because it's near Halloween?

[rax.livejournal.com]

It was a gender studies class making up for a class that was cancelled on Monday, sorry.

[weirdquark]

I still can't figure out if you are taking classes in makeup (thus being in catgirl mode) or just a class that was making up for something else

Yeah I kept reading it and parsing it the first way and then thinking that that doesn't make any sense and that it must be the second.

[crschmidt.livejournal.com]

Out of curiousity... what basketball games do you want to watch? (The idea that you want to watch any sit slightly odd in my head. ;)) I'm often curious if my stalwart support for teams that I loved before I came to Boston is because of the reasonably strong cultural sports identity tied to Chicago, or if this is a normal thing. (Another possibility: Boston's lack of strong cultural attachment to non-baseball sports, though that doesn't explain my still-somewhat strong attachment to the Cubs.)

[rax.livejournal.com]

Generally I want to watch Boston games (which I can get some of here, but not the nationally televised ones, that is, the ones against teams that are considered contenders), games for the local team (which will all be blocked out), and playoff games (which will all be blocked out after maybe the first round).

Boston has a huge cultural attachment to non-baseball sports, but it's not one that transfers over to people who move here, and (huge generalization ahoy!) nerds like baseball because it is made of numbers. :) I grew up with basketball --- my side job from like 10-16 was running basketball scoreboards, keeping track of stats, announcing games, and so on, and while I have token approval of other Boston teams, basketball's the only sport I really care about.