Day Sixty-One: Wipers

So sleepy. I'm spending today resting up so I can spend tomorrow grading.

Day Sixty: Seeds

This was taken in a peaceful moment before another busy, social day got started. I went to Dallas to go shopping with Cory and some of his friends. After shopping we had Thai food and then a bit of a break before Cory and I went out with one of my friends from out of town, my brother, and a whole gang of people my brother brought along to dinner.

Today and tomorrow will be much more sedate, thankfully. Hopefully that will give me a chance to rest and fight off the sickness I can feel approaching.

Day Fifty-Nine: Wishbone

Another busy day. Breakfast with Cory, followed by a trip home to feed the kitties, then back to Dallas and out to Mesquite to meet some new people. Then all the way back to Arlington spend the evening with Kim and Sandi. It was a fun day, but I am going to need a break from social activities soon.

Day Fifty-Eight: Old Favorites

For Thanksgiving it was either a picture of my shoe or a picture of me looking sad. It turned out to be a good day, but it didn't start off too well. The plans I had with my brother fell through, I didn't hear back from some people I tried to connect with, and I had a mild hangover from the previous night out. But then I went out to Cory's family's house, where I not only got to meet his family but had some yummy pie and played games for a little while. And then after the family thing, Cory and I had a private music-listening party. He played me Tool's Lateralus and I played him The Mountain Goats' The Sunset Tree. It eventually did turn into a pretty darn good day.

Day Fifty-Seven: The Luckiest

Despite still feeling sad about the breakup with Stephen and despite feeling kind of swamped by school, I am very happy these days. I feel downright lucky, in fact. Not only do I have a collection of wonderful friends (even if they are hard to keep up with sometimes) and a job that I truly love doing (most of the time), but I am really happy with recent developments in my personal life.

Day Fifty-Six: Tilt

For those of you who have been following my kitty's progress over the last few days, I got to bring her home today. She's still not eating on her own, so I have to forcefeed her and give her medicines for a while, but at least she's home. In fact, she's sitting on me right now. :-)

Day Fifty-Five: Abandoned

Cory and I went exploring in my neighborhood and found this abandoned house. We only went in a couple of rooms because the others were dark and I was afraid, but it was pretty cool. The floor was covered in trash, glasses, leaves, dirt, and even a couple of folders full of choral music.

Day FIfty-Four: Dock

I went geocaching with Cory, Scott, and Lisa. This was near one site that turned out to be really creepy.

Day Fifty-Three: Mr. Butt Snuffer

I found this lovely ashtray while exploring my neighborhood. I just love "Mr. Butt Snuffer." So charming.

Day Fifty-Two: Cornered

Today's was a blind shot snapped between running errands, doing laundry, visiting Sophie at the vet, baking (pumpkin muffins with chocolate chips!) and getting far too little sleep. I intend to try for a better one tomorrow.

Day Fifty-One: November Train

It was such a busy day. I very nearly forgot to take a photo at all, but fortunately I got bored waiting for the train to pass and then remembered that I had my camera with me.

Day Fifty: IV

My poor Sophie is still at the vet, taking IV fluids and medicine. She has hepatic lipidosis and needs to start eating, but she hadn't been when I went to visit her today and I couldn't get her to eat anything, either. If she doesn't start eating by tomorrow, she may need a feeding tube in her stomach, which will cost a lot of money. If my pet insurance won't cover it (and I'm not sure yet if it will), I don't know how I'll be able to afford it.

My poor kitty.

Day Forty-Nine: Thistle

This is an experiment in layering textures. I've seen a lot of really great stuff using this technique, but this is the first time I've really tried it. This texture (Chaotic Soul) is from ghostbones' collection of free textures on flickr.

Day Forty-Eight: Drafting

I'm working on a paper on Paolo Bacigalupi's story The People of Sand and Slag. This is a part of my notes.

Day Forty-Seven: Mr. Smiley

Here is another example of the cheery graffiti around UTA's campus. It doesn't exactly reflect my mood today, but it's something I've been meaning to photograph for the last few days, so I figured I'd go ahead and do it before someone scrubbed it away.