Cat's Nine Lives...
Apr. 4th, 2011 01:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mangacat201Hello dear Flisties...
Yes, I am in fact alive (and it does feel a little like I'm living about nine lives at the same time at the moment) and since there's not much fic posting going on, I've decided to use this journal as the blog it was supposed to be in the meantime. Don't fear, I won't turn it into a runtime diary, my live isn't THAT exciting, but I feel like some stuff has accumulated, and I just want to write about it so feel free to skim, read, comment, whatever.
University - well, as some of you know, I'm finishing my studies at Uni this year and it's proving to be just as hard as I expected it to be, but right now I'm really stretched thin to the point of just wanting it to be over, no matter what grade actually comes out at the end. That's quite a scary thought since this will be the results of the last five years of my life (totally doesn't feel that way) and my graduation into professional life and it should mean more to me, right? And it does, deep down under all the exhaustion where I tell myself to just put in a bit more, just pull the effort one more time but it's difficult to scrounge up the energy at this point. I guess anybody would get to that point sometime, while studying from one all important final exam to the next for a year now, but my studies used to be FUN as well as work and I would kind of like to leave uni with that feeling intact. Well, only two hours of oral exams with all in all twelve topics (which is complete bullshit didactically speaking but whatever) in three weeks and a sixty-page thesis paper to tackle in two months stand between me and freedom. There's light at the end of the tunnel.
America - despite the recent news about some pretty damn unbelievable politescapades in the States, I haven't given up on my plans for a lengthy stay in the sweet U S of A, but I won't have news on that matter until mid April the earliest (I count more on beginning May more like) so hold your thumbs that I'll be chosen to go, alright?
Singing - I have no idea whether I said that somewhere public, but I've been to a competition for young musicians this year. Against all expectations I managed to ace regionals with a first prize and get a ticket to the statewide competition which was O_O for this cat. State's was yesterday and if I'd sung like I did in warm up, I would have gone to nationals, but there's nerves and moments and it wasn't as good as I know I could have been (if I was in a room alone with my pianist and had no idea that the jury was listening and all *g*). It turned out to be a good second prize, which was entirely fair for what I delivered, so I'm proud for getting further than I've ever gone in the competition and that I made it among the eight best of my state in my age group and that I didn't have to hide from the others, so yes, I think it's a win.
Family - actually... no I'd rather not think about it. The more I think about it, the more time I waste on the problem and time is something I don't have in the slightest.
Writing - Well, the reason for being such a no show here aside from exams and all that RL shit is that I've registered for both![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
spn_j2_bigbang and Crossbigbang and I'm trying to get at least one challenge done in time for the deadline, so no posting till then. I have not forgotten however, the other fic that is waiting for my attention, so I'll be returning to Dark Knight's Heir and maybe some Versing when the worst shit has blown over. Wish me luck.
Over and out.
Cat
Yes, I am in fact alive (and it does feel a little like I'm living about nine lives at the same time at the moment) and since there's not much fic posting going on, I've decided to use this journal as the blog it was supposed to be in the meantime. Don't fear, I won't turn it into a runtime diary, my live isn't THAT exciting, but I feel like some stuff has accumulated, and I just want to write about it so feel free to skim, read, comment, whatever.
University - well, as some of you know, I'm finishing my studies at Uni this year and it's proving to be just as hard as I expected it to be, but right now I'm really stretched thin to the point of just wanting it to be over, no matter what grade actually comes out at the end. That's quite a scary thought since this will be the results of the last five years of my life (totally doesn't feel that way) and my graduation into professional life and it should mean more to me, right? And it does, deep down under all the exhaustion where I tell myself to just put in a bit more, just pull the effort one more time but it's difficult to scrounge up the energy at this point. I guess anybody would get to that point sometime, while studying from one all important final exam to the next for a year now, but my studies used to be FUN as well as work and I would kind of like to leave uni with that feeling intact. Well, only two hours of oral exams with all in all twelve topics (which is complete bullshit didactically speaking but whatever) in three weeks and a sixty-page thesis paper to tackle in two months stand between me and freedom. There's light at the end of the tunnel.
America - despite the recent news about some pretty damn unbelievable politescapades in the States, I haven't given up on my plans for a lengthy stay in the sweet U S of A, but I won't have news on that matter until mid April the earliest (I count more on beginning May more like) so hold your thumbs that I'll be chosen to go, alright?
Singing - I have no idea whether I said that somewhere public, but I've been to a competition for young musicians this year. Against all expectations I managed to ace regionals with a first prize and get a ticket to the statewide competition which was O_O for this cat. State's was yesterday and if I'd sung like I did in warm up, I would have gone to nationals, but there's nerves and moments and it wasn't as good as I know I could have been (if I was in a room alone with my pianist and had no idea that the jury was listening and all *g*). It turned out to be a good second prize, which was entirely fair for what I delivered, so I'm proud for getting further than I've ever gone in the competition and that I made it among the eight best of my state in my age group and that I didn't have to hide from the others, so yes, I think it's a win.
Family - actually... no I'd rather not think about it. The more I think about it, the more time I waste on the problem and time is something I don't have in the slightest.
Writing - Well, the reason for being such a no show here aside from exams and all that RL shit is that I've registered for both
spn_j2_bigbang and Crossbigbang and I'm trying to get at least one challenge done in time for the deadline, so no posting till then. I have not forgotten however, the other fic that is waiting for my attention, so I'll be returning to Dark Knight's Heir and maybe some Versing when the worst shit has blown over. Wish me luck.Over and out.
Cat