Today must be for writing…

Yeah…Okay…My Reading Response for Linguistics, which needed to be 700-900 words (approx. 2-3 pages)…It turned out to be 1,100 words and about 4 ½ pages…& I actually had to stop myself, because I could of kept going on. O.o
Seriously, and I know it’s due to particular topic, which is one I have very definite opinions on, so yeah…

A bit better explanation. The second part of the response was mostly concerning the second chapter of our second book (Wow, lots of seconds there), which talks about animals and human language. For me, it because whether animals had their own language, could learn/understand our language, etc.
Personally, I think most animals (aside from the retarded ones we have living here currently) are just as smart, if not smarter, than most humans (which yeah, anyone who knows me knows I’m not a fan of humans anyway).
It was kind of difficult to restrain myself…I had, what I consider, some good thoughts written down while I was taking notes…But I really didn’t want to get carried away with the writing. Seriously…I don’t need to be handing in a 10 page paper for a 3 page assignment. I am not an overachiever…[& Shikamaru says I’ve already done too much work. *laughs*]

Though, I am somewhat hopeful with this turn of events…If I can keep engaged in the subject (unlike the boredom I am currently suffering in American Lit.) perhaps these reading responses won’t be as troublesome as I was anticipating. That would be loverly.

Which yeah…American Lit. Lit.=Literature…It would be nice to get to some! As I stated previously, right now it’s like history. O.o & much like Raven (okay, EXACTLY like Raven), I hate having to sit and ‘learn’ history! There is a good reason History of Magic was her worst subject. *nods*

Mythology I’m feeling so-so about. I hate that it’s online, it’s harder for me to keep focused & really hate the whole forum thing…But the reading wasn’t as bad (even if, admittedly, it was slightly historical too), and I liked getting to read the Descent of Inanna. [Still not looking forward to reading The Odyssey. & I can’t spell it right without spell check either. *laughs*]

I’m fairly proud of myself currently tho, as far as school is going. I had all my reading done by Friday night. Even made myself read the last bit before turning messenger on, even though I knew Wasil was waiting for me. It was agonizing, trust me. *laughs*

I still have a couple of the activities in my French workbook I haven’t done, as it requires me to go to the website and when I was working on it the computer was shut off, and I just haven’t gotten back to it yet.

Aside from school…

I sometimes wish I had a ‘normal’ family. Granted, not my immediate family…I wouldn’t know what to do with ‘normal’ children or a ‘normal’ mother. But seriously…*shakes head* My cousin…Er…Step-cousin, as if not stated correctly it would just begin to sound really, really creepy…Yeah…Even I don’t have to words to describe this. O.o
This is the cousin I had a crush on when I was little, and I didn’t realize it at the time, but apparently he had a crush on me too…Suppose that explains our child-rock…*shrugs* [& it’s not like we were raised together or anything…He’s the son of one of the many wives of my one uncle. They always lived out of state and only came up to visit once in a while.] Anyway…Apparently I made a lot bigger impression on him than I realized. From the sounds of it, his marriage is about what I had with the Idiot…More of an arrangement than a marriage, where they really have nothing in common, aside from their daughter (who is 8), who he does not want to be parted from, as she is pretty much his life. So he is an unhappy creature, which yeah, I can relate to.
My problem is…& I don’t know if it’s because I’m a sympathetic understanding ear, that he is so deprived of ‘intelligent’ conversation, or he’s still caught up in thoughts from the past…But he’s apparently still, guess you would call it crushing, on me, majorly. O.o WTF? [I want normalcy! *cries*] To the point that while texting last night he said ‘I want u to be the one holding my hand when I am like 70 n dying?’  This after the night before we were sending messages back and forth on FaceBook & he asked that if he had a good job and could provide for me and my children if I would ever consider being with him! *beats head on wall*

*clings tightly to Wasil* All I want, all I need.
2 months & 2 days to go…& I will be getting ready to get on a plane, to get on another plane, and be in Missouri that evening.
They changed my flights a bit…I leave here earlier, and unfortunately, I leave earlier from there too.
He sent me a text yesterday out of the blue, a picture of him ‘sleeping’  with ‘muwahs…wish u were next to me.’ *smiles*

There is so nothing on regular television! Direct TV’s last day was Friday…But I’m dealing for the most part. Found a series I started watching on NetFlix, Sancutary…Granted I was only half paying attention, it still seemed pretty good for the two episodes I’ve watched…& it was more mentally stimulating than the whole first season of American Dad that I watched prior. There is also a show I’m going to check out that’s online…Though the name eludes me at the moment…I’ve got the page it’s on saved.

I also went in search of some new music the other night. & as soon as Sonja got home last night, I proceeded to use it to corrupt her even further. *laughs* I am now sitting with a list of songs she wants me to find and download for her. Some of them from the one I showed her the one song from (Miss Lucy had some Leeches by Emilie Autumn), and the one band (Abney Park) I told her about…& some from a band she found on her own (Alestorm) from looking up videos on YouTube about the two I told her about. & she ran off with my black goggles this morning. *laughs* I love her dearly she is so adorable.

& not to exclude Harley from the adorableness…He declared to be my little Goth this morning, as quite happy with the shirts I tossed at him and their combination. My black long sleeved shirt with all the skull & crossbones on it has shrank, and the sleeves are too short…But it’s got pink writing on the front that even as adorable as Harley is, I don’t think he could pull off in public. So I tossed that to him, in combination with his black T-shirt with the ribcage that has the game control in place of the heart (the one that when I got it for him he refused to wear because of the ribcage, so I ended up wearing it, then he decided to steal it back from me out of the blue)…So yeah…He’s a lovely sight today. *giggles* <br

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Other Critter related things…
They didn’t have school Friday…I wasn’t sure how things were going to be handled…Well apparently they were handled to the Critters satisfaction…They stayed Thursday night at the babysitter the Idiot uses for after school, and stayed their all day Friday during the day, then got picked up after the Idiot got out of work Friday.
Sonja also told me last night that the Hippo & her spawn are suppose to be moving out within the month, they already have a place. The Idiot has ‘sold’ the trailer, but plans on living there still for the next couple years, apparently with whomever the couple is he sold it to (he best keep paying the loan payment, & by all rights should of paid off some of it with whatever he got from selling the trailer)…Sonja said her hand Harley get to share a room with a dog…O.u Okay then…*shrugs* We shall see I suppose.
But yeah…Apparently Idiot & the Hippo are getting divorced. *shrugs* Only thing it means to me is that hopefully my Critters will be a bit more at ease on the days they have to go to his house…I know she was a major source of disturbance with them.

On the way home from picking them up last night Harley declared that he didn’t care if I married Wasil. O.o Sonja declared he’s like Reese and she can only handle him in small doses.
I told Harley that doesn’t really seem to be anything to be concerned about, as it’s not something that’s ever been brought up…& I told Sonja that yeah, there are moments when after a bit he can even get on my nerves. Seriously, I love the boy dearly, and I don’t want to think of my life without him in it…But he does have his moment where I’d like to strangle him…But in all honesty, you are going to get that from anyone at some point. My problem…He is sometimes too literal…& it can get obnoxious…But he’s him, and it’s part of who he is, and what makes him him, and despite it drives me crazy…It’s just how he is…& I wouldn’t have him any other way than who he is meant to be…Even if it drives me crazy.

Okay…Apparently it is a day for me to write…As this entry has now crossed over into being 4 pages…O.o For those of you who stuck with me…Good job! I’d give you a cookie but 1.) I still haven’t figured out how to do that via the internet & 2.) I don’t have any cookies anyway…Which sucks, cookies sound good.