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I’m heading back to school today and I’m getting my stuff ready to go and I’m simultaneously going to miss my family but also I’m actually excited for my new dorm.

My roommate and I each have our own bedroom in this one, with a main room that has a “kitchenette” and a bathroom with a tub/shower and two sinks. And there’s a separate kitchen sink, with a disposal! Instead of just one sink in our shared room like our previous room.

And there’s counter space so we can use the hot pot there instead of cooking on the floor right by the bathroom door because that’s the only outlet the plug could reach.

And it has a microwave in the room. My freshman dorm did but the one I was in the past two years only had a microwave in the downstairs kitchen. Also we get a full-sized fridge! And that also means a bigger freezer than our micro fridge had. So I can have ice cream. Or taquitos. Or whatever else goes in a freezer. There isn’t a stove or oven in the room but those are available in the community kitchen so that’s fine. But if we do cook down there, we’ll now have room for leftovers. Basically, food options have expanded greatly.

And the TV and video game stuff can be in the main room instead of my small TV we had under our beds (which were raised so we had space to sit underneath). We can actually invite guests over and have a place for them to sit.

I’m just really excited about it and it’s nice to have something to look forward to when heading back to the school year.

Career/school stuff

I’ve been looking into job opportunities and their requirements and it’s looking like I’m gonna need a masters degree. I don’t want to have to isolate myself from my friends and family for months at a time because of a job. But if I’m going to find good opportunities I have to look at more than just the surrounding area, and I’ll probably end up having to move to another state at some point. Two months at school without a trip home I can handle. But that’s only a 3 ½ hour drive from home. There’s so much cool stuff further north, but the school year conveniently falls right around winter. I’m from Texas. I can hardly handle extended periods of 40 degree weather. I don’t know if I could stand ten tons of snow and sunset at 5 pm. I need green space. Winter down here can be bummer enough as it is.

But any cool studies I find I’ll probably have to travel for them. A lot of universities I’ve found interesting are in California or the Northeast. It’s just stressful because reading about what different programs offer to students and what kinds of things certain jobs do is exciting because I keep finding things and thinking they legitimately sound like an enjoyable job, but at the same time I know I’ll have to give up a lot of other things for it. And I don’t want to be alone again.

piraticoctopus:

I just bought Goat Simulator as an impulse buy

Okay so I went through the whole PayPal thing last night when I was trying to buy it and I thought it gave me the whole “purchase complete” thing after I finished but now it’s showing me I haven’t bought anything. I don’t want to pay for it a second time if it DID actually go through and something weird happened. What’s up with this and what am I supposed to do? Did I screw up?

Also I found a stash of my Nancy Drew games in my room at the beginning of summer but of course Haunted Carousel and Ghost Dogs of Moon Lake were not part of the ones I found because those are the ones I wanted to play.

My dreams are never well-lit. It’s rarely actually night time, but the sky is always kinda dusky so it’s not bright out. Kinda like it’s in one of the twilight realms from Twilight Princess. Often times the sky is a warmer color. Like yesterday my dream was during the afternoon/early evening but we kept having to turn lamps on because it was too dark inside the house to see well. But it’s never so dark I can’t see at all. It’s weird.