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[elvendoll]

i've written a couple of almost-entries over the last week and lost them during reboots. c'est la vie.

this weekend was spent at my parents' house, and as such, had its ups and downs.
first of all, i had a rough time getting both there and back - overshooting exits, going the wrong way, etc, as if i haven't been doing this drive for 7 years now! (well, the drive back wasn't from home, and it was on an unlit road in heavy fog, but still). i'm in the office nearly 700 miles later.

my mom really missed me - i think this had been the longest i'd gone between visits since abi was born. on the other hand, my mother totally doesn't remember that before she was born, i only visited about twice a year over around 3 years.

seeing abi included a bit of a sting this weekend. on Friday morning, she came downstairs and plopped into my bed for a hug hello, Friday evening, she let me try and put her to bed* and when i was leaving, she gave me a kiss goodbye. but, when debbie and i were tousling her around on Sunday, when i grabbed her and debbie sat back a little, she told me she was scared of me. i think it's really great that she was able to calmly vocalize that in the middle of tickling and wrestling, but it made me rather sad.

debbie opened up to me a bit this weekend, which was really good. she's at that age where stuff she can't talk about to real adults is coming up, and i'm really glad she has started letting me in. and, i got some proof that we're related - when explaining why she wants a boyfriend, she said "well, i really like to snuggle, and it's just different when it's with your boyfriend"

i inadvertently came out about sol3 and i being poly to my stepdad's cousin. she took a moment to collect her thoughts and said 'you know, when we're used to doing something a certain way and then are shown someone doing it differently, it's easy to see all the flaws in how they're doing it. but, if it makes you happy...'. of course, she also told me she's glad she's not my mother : )

i also had a good night out in the city with nymphochka and some of her friends - it made me really resentful of living in boston, where not only do the bars close early, they just don't have the same amount of life to them.

and i sent off a badly written paper to my professor. it would've taken about 40 minutes to an hour to make it better, and i just didn't feel up to it. i'm kinda curious to see what i'll get.
somehow, before the 30th, i need to do about 60 pages worth of reading and the lectures. and i have plans tomorrow night, something(s) i want to do Wednesday night and i won't be doing homework in texas. the 'good news' is that at the beginning of the semester, the professor said that if we need to skimp on something, to do the lectures and skip the reading - and her lectures are fairly short.

by December 5th, i should be done with this class. next will be seeing if i can get the bulk of the psych class work done by mid-january, in which case i'll take an easy online class in the spring. but damn, what wouldn't i give for a few weeks of pleasure reading!

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[kittypie.livejournal.com]

are you going to the 'rents house for thanksgiving? if so, say hi to them for me :)

xo