Gramma's stuff

So, yeah, my grandmother isn't doing so well, and my parents wanted to know what stuff of hers I might want, as it was looking like some stuff was going to be divvied up. So I asked for a pair of nice earrings to be set aside for me, to possibly someday be set into engagement or wedding rings. I meant this as a "someday" and a "just-in-case" sort of thing. My mom, of course, turns around and sends an email to my aunt which included, "She would like to be considered for a pair of earrings perhaps. She would like two matching stones (of any kind) that she and Josh could have incorporated into a pair of wedding rings."

Doh! I think sometimes people hear what they want to hear. Or something. I meant "this might happen someday." Someday could be soon, but it wont necessarily be soon or at all. I don't want pressure here, and I don't like the idea of my dad's entire side of the family thinking I am engaged when I am not.

Apartment hunting

So I found a really nice apartment complex that was more or less just what I was looking for, but in all the times I've called them up in the last month, they haven't told me until today that they actually don't do 3 month leases unless they have a lot of apartments open, and they don't. Grrr... I guess that means I need to start looking around again.

Time to relax

First Shakespeare performance today. So far as I could tell, it went well. I've had so little confidence in a play when it comes time to perform as I did today. This whole, put a play together in 5 weeks thing is pretty strange to me. I told my parents not to try to come because I was angry at the part I got and didn't even like the play, but now I wish I hadn't. I've never been in a play before and not had my parents around. It feels weird.

Now it's time for me to relax for a bit. I talked to Haskell about turning in my lab writeup late, since I really couldn't do a good writeup by tomorrow at 5pm, and it's fine. So yeah, I actually do get to relax tonight, which is really, really nice. Unfortuantely I don't get to relax with Josh for a while because he's at a choir rehearsal, but I'll get to see him later tonight.

Sorry to everyone I've snapped at recently; I've been kind of uptight and tense lately.

I have a non-trivial amount of work left this semester, which makes me sad. However, I have 2 weeks to do it in, so it should really end up being that much to do.

Remaining work:

Quantum - Final (I want to study a lot for this)

Optics Lab - 1 writeup and final

Music - Project (which I think I'll work on tonight because it counts as vaguely relaxing) and concert report (which should take 5 minutes to write and I'm going to Josh's concert anyway)

Shakespeare - 1 more play (assuming the weather isn't completely awful)

Fiction Writing - 1 more reading assignment and class and a portfolio to contain 9 more pages of fiction (or however much more it takes to make the current subplot to my Amber story "self contained") and a revision of something (probably my first story)

Research - Write up what I've done this semester, do some runs, make some graphs. It would be appropriate for me to spend about 6-10 hours on this, but I'll probably spend somewhat less.