Working, Learning, Writing and Painting

Hey Mina. That’s what I’ve been doing for the past few days. Not so much the painting though. I go to school all through the week and on the weekends I work. I try to write what I can when I can in the time in between. I had to squeeze the next chapter of my X-men: Evolution fic out of me the other day. It came out nicely though.

And the painting. Well the A-frame—where Thomas used to live—is in a bad way. There’s a back room where he used to have his computer and mixing boards and such. His friends took markers and drew, doodled, and wrote all over the wall. So when Dad said he needed help painting, I helped out. I did the base coat for the whole room, but it still needs a second coat badly.

The working, though it’s gonna kill me this week, will be better after that. This week I work Saturday 2-9, Sunday 10-5:30, Monday 5:30-9:30, and Thursday 5-9. But I talked to Jeremy—the Manager who does the schedules and God knows what else—about the arthritic in my knees and the fact that I have endometriosis takes a lot out of me and he said he wouldn’t work me more than five hours any more. Though five hours can do it for me too. Oh well. I’ll take what I can get. Jeremy’s such a sweet heart though. His wife’s pregnant too. He’s very happy about that, along with everyone else who knows him. Though some of us joke that it’s a sign of the times.

School’s actually going pretty good. I had taken that terrible Speech test that I thought I totally bombed—and would’ve really—but then Mr. Rogers said that everyone did so bad that he’d decided to make the highest score the maximum points. The test was worth 72 points and the highest score was 57. So I was thinking I did terrible and all, and how I would have to do really good to pull up the grade. When he gave me my test I was astonished to find that I’d made the 57. I also aced my last Vocabulary test, and my English test too. So I’m doing pretty good, whether I knew it or not.

I’ve started making more Dollz again. It was like tonight, I just jumped on and made five different dollz for no reason. I only intended to make two, three at the most. I guess its cause if I don’t then I’ll just end up staring at the computer screen since Twin-san isn’t on. With her gone, the internet isn’t half as much fun. I keep repeating to myself that I’m very happy for her, because if I don’t I wind up getting angry and sad. Angry since she doesn’t have any time for me and sad that I don’t have her luck. But I sent her an e-mail...a rather depressing one really...and hopefully that’ll open up the lines of communication again. I really miss her so much, but I’m trying to remember to be happy that she’s happy. Things between us will get better...eventually. She’s working at Wal-Mart now, and that’s good with Christmas around the corner.

Oh well, I’ve blabbed enough I guess. A new X-men: Evolution is on tomorrow, and that’s good. I checked ahead and a rerun is on next week. I hope they’re not running out of episodes already. Oh well, I guess I’ll just have to wait and see. I’ll write in here later Mina. That’s all she wrote.

MM