Hi, my name is Vivien, and I'm a Milliways-oholic

[young_tmriddle]

I am in awe of all of you people. I'll have you know that I did the following yesterday night to enjoy your (prolific) briliiance:
- Forgot to eat dinner on class break
- Paid absolutely no attention to an important lecture that just went on and on and on
- Made a classmate and fellow teacher ask me what on earth I was doing on the computer (and there is really no way of explaining it in any way that doesn't make you sound like you're off your nut)
- Broke speed limits like a crazy woman on the drive home
- Ignored my poor husband for hours (but he watches baseball intently all summer, so not having much guilt there :P)
- Continued to forget to eat dinner
- Plotted how to weasel out of a weekly girl's night (I'm coming pirate_jack and I just may trade the mocking for the laptop ;)
- Wondered just how much of my sanity will be left after a while of this
- Woke up really early cos I was starving from the whole forgetting to eat thing.

Ah, the sacrifices we make for that which we love ;) And I do want to publicly say to iopenthings that you are incredibly fun and very talented and you so surprised me with Door last night, and that all makes writing Tom that much more interesting and pleasurable.

But I loff you all! And I love being an irresponsible adult! Huzzah!

Comments

[aj_crawley]

I am so with you on the 'forgetting to eat' thing.

*stomach rumbles woefully*

[dramaturgca.livejournal.com]

I skipped dinner too...

[clumsy_auror]

Oh, good God, I cannot imagine how I will pull this off once classes start again. I'm already nervous because I can't stay up horribly late tonight, because I've got a meeting at my new year-long internship site tomorrow. VERY IMPORTANT. But...but...what if there's fallout from last night? says my damnable brain.

I didn't eat dinner till ten-thirty, either. Wah. *reminds self to have big lunch today*

[young_tmriddle]

I know, I will also mourn the end of summer... I imagine we'll figure out something. Let's see, working full time, going to grad school at night... WAH!!!!!!

We'll figure it out. And we still have few weeks to play.

[clumsy_auror]

We'll have to schedule "Milliways Nights" in advance to make sure we're all there at the same time.

This is starting to feel like spring term of senior year, when I almost refused to take a really cool class because it met at the same time as West Wing... :)

And just out of curiosity, what are you studying?

[vivien]

Scheduling is going t be key, I think.

Hee, I am a preschool teacher - I've taught PreK or K for 11 years, and I'm studying Information and Learning Technologies emphasis on adult education to try out corporate training, implementing web based learning, that kind of stuff.

And no I don't corrupt my kidlets with my essential evilness ;) *rolls eyes and giggles*

Although we did have a great pirate day this year where we pretty much went around saying "Yar!" and "Shiver me timbers!" the whole time. That was a good day ;)

However one fun pirate day does not make up for the fact that I make peanuts and deal with Super Stress from several different fronts on a minute by minute basis, so I'm looking for something different to do.

[young_tmriddle]

And I do actually spell and use grammar correctly in real life. Um, most of the time.

[clumsy_auror]

(meh, grammar, schmammar. :))

Wow, I have so much respect for early childhood educators. I like working with smaller kids the best. For the last year, my day job has been giving museum tours, and some of my favorites are the 5 and 6 year olds who have no inhibitions and therefore ask really great questions.

But a change of pace is always nice, too. Good for you for getting out there and doing something different and exciting. :)

[young_tmriddle]

Ooh, you work at a museum? That sounds like lots of fun!

[clumsy_auror]

It is, I absolutely love it. It's a medical history museum, housed in a nineteenth century pathology lab on the grounds of a former mental hospital. Sounds creepy, I know, but it's got four intact laboratories, an autopsy room, and gorgeous antique woodwork. And a vast collection of brains in jars. Kids just love it. :)

I'm going to school to get my masters in Public History and Museum Studies, so the job is class time for me. It's a good gig.

[young_tmriddle]

Hee, it doesn't sound creepy at all - and that just shows you why we all play together so well at Milliways, I think ;) Yeah, I'm a big history buff, as well.

[clumsy_auror]

Yay for history nerds!

You should check out the museum, if you ever happen to be in Indianapolis. Very much worth it.

[dramaturgca.livejournal.com]

Yay History Nerds!

[clumsy_auror]

:) We are a large and unwieldy group. Someday we shall rule the universe, and make everyone read our obscure theories!

[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

Hear hear!

(Wonder how many different periods and locations of history we have represented at Milliways? I know the classicists are here in force... I do the Middle Ages in England...)

[clumsy_auror]

My senior thesis was on the Puritans and astrology, so, seventeenth century New England. And yeah, the classicists are making me drag out my old Norton anthologies, trying desperately to remember who's who... :)