News!

I have some exciting bits of news. Some is really new, some is moderately new, but nothing is old!

I am going back to University in the fall, a thing which has all my in town friends blithely refraining from comment, mostly because I have yet to tell them, and nextly, or less mostly, or rather lessly because I hardly ever talk to any of them, let alone see them. They are not concerned.

Yeah.

But my family is pretty exstatic. My father is bending over backwards to help, which is a total change from the first time I went to University, when my mother paid for everything... actually its not, my father managed to swindle my mother out a huge chunck of money in divorce settlement, so its my mother again paying for school. Yikes. I had not thought of that. Anyway, my sisters are pretty cool with it, the one who fiddles is wanting to set up some sort of communal, shared co-op-ey farm thing in Iowa and wants me to join her, using all my plant knowledge (much of which I still have to gain mind you) and is down with me getting more classes under my belt, and a degree, to look official, before she hires me.

Hah.

And then we have the news about this girl over whom Im giggly, cute, and possesive. Otherwise know as my girlfriend. We have just about everything in common, well except for the daughter and the rats; I have neither. And the freakishness of that is so mind boggling, that it boggles the mind. I'll say something random, "Banjo's are soo hot," and she'll say, "Yeah! you wanna listen to this Irish-Bluegrass-Rock band that I know with this geeky banjo player who's really cool?" I made her listen to fiddle music while we sat there and crocheted, and she nodded her head and tapped her toes along with it. She knows all the words to all the songs from Songcatcher, the movie being not terribly worthwhile, but the sound track... oh baby. We like the same food, everything, we listen to similar music, almost everything, she plays board games, I play card games... gah I could keep enumerating things, and totally go bonkers and pass out from typing fatigue. We can keep it simple and say I like her alot.

Woot.

Then there's the bad news. I have no job, therefore am quite poor, and mostly lacking in the funds with which to travel to see my gorgeous girlfriend, who does live in Cham-bana, while I reside in Chitown. And its looks to me like I will not be jobbed until April, which gives me some time to get ahead in the few classes Im taking at Community College, but still!

Sigh.

Nothing much else, unless you count the fact I got in touch with my banjo teacher again after 2 years...