NEW JOB for me, working a couple of evenings a week for a few hours in my school's Math-Computer Lab which is also a math-tutoring center. I look forward to when we start to really get into the semester because it means there will be more people coming in during the evenings for help than there are right now! Also for the job, I'm learning a computer program called Maple which is actually a lot like learning a programming language that then enables you to graph without a calculator, especially three dimensional graphs and graphs for Differential Equations. To do this, I'm going to have to stay ahead of my Calc 3 class slightly so that I can help with Maple questions. It's nice to feel like I have a reason to stay really really on top of my math homework this semester, since I was bad about it last fall.

Unfortunately, my job at the framing shop is pretty much on hiatus right now, since they haven't been getting enough business in since before Christmas to actually provide me with any hours. I'm starting to get irritated about it, but I'll live. There's a possibility that the school bookstore might need some temp help between classes some days... I'm just feeling incredibly guilty that the little income that I had coming in that I was putting in for my portion of the rent has been drastically reduced (like down to zero) since my ankle injury back before Christmas. My only releif has been in the form of money that I received for Christmas, and then money that I received for my birthday a little less than a month later.

On the subject of my foot, I am finally starting physical therapy next week after my follow-up visit with the doc yesterday. I'm still limping around and having to wear a brace (and the ice and snow that's still on the ground makes me nervous as hell). Most of my problem now is that in the time since sustaining the injury, my achilles tendon has shrunk and my right foot no longer bends back as far as the left foot. Neither of my feet bent back very far to begin with, so now my right foot won't even make a complete ninety-degree angle when I flex it, no matter how hard I try. I can't even pull just my toes back very far. So hopefully the PT will get that back for me, and will strengthen my ankles so I won't hurt myself like this again.

AAaaaaaand I almost forgot, my application for UMBC was received and paid for back on the 26th, and I've arranged for my FAFSA and former transcripts to be sent in, so now I'm just playing the waiting game until they get back to me. I'm really excited and kinda impatient, but I'll get over it soon enough. I ought to know by March, latest, what the decision is. And now I have to get back to my Dynamics homework, because it is frustrating and kicking my ass and it's due on Monday.






Things that have been suggested, requested, or that I've started and not finished for various reasons (in no particular order):

Einstein portrait- (in the works and for my own shameful personal gratification )

Sesshomaru- for >:F

KRONK baking Christmas cookies omfg cute- lolol for XD

Yzma kissing an equally aged man under Mistletoe LOL- at request of and LOL I'm picturing Kronk seeing it and being like.... yeeeeeeeech

Crow Totem- XD personal gratification and suggestion of Amber

Meyers-Briggs personalities in abstract- personal gratification and suggestion of Amber

RobinLee prancing, because she's cute and she does that LOL

for a political cartoon involving the Elephant and Donkey that represent the two major American political parties

RDOX for