Once, I can understand...

But TWICE?! And in one WEEK, no less!

I should back up. Earlier this week, my siblings and I went to the local Chinese all-you-can-eat buffet. At the end of our meal, I went to use the restroom.

In the restroom's handicapped stall was a very young girl. A girl who had either not locked the door on purpose, or had forgotten to lock it.

I went for the big stall, naturally, and the girl glared at me from the toilet, as if it was MY fault that I'd entered her (unlocked, with the door standing open) stall. I, of course apologised and closed the door as I backed away.

It should be noted that the door (still unlocked) stayed closed when I pulled it to. This indicates that the girl really HADN'T even bothered to try and close the door.

Any way, fast forward to tonight. At a different place entirely, I finished a meal and went to the bathroom.

In the handicapped stall, with the door ajar as if there was no one in it, there was a little old woman. Again, I was glared at. Again, I pulled the door shut. Again, it stayed.

It's one thing for it to have happened once, but twice? In the same WEEK??

I'm beginning to think I'm bathroom cursed. Maybe, from now on, I'll just hold it.


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Just Some Thoughts

Another post that isn't from my phone?! Be shocked. :P

I'm borrowing Lona's internet connection through her phone right now, to get my computer online for a few minutes. Then I shall return to playing old Sega Genesis games ON my laptop... Strangely enough, that's very relaxing, especially in this situation.

We're sitting in the Hospice, on death-watch for Nyx's grandmother. It's a really nice house/hospice. The room we're in reminds me a bit of my late aunt's dining room in her old house. There's a plug on every wall, and we can easily plug the computers IN...Only bad thing is that there's no wi-fi connection anywhere around that isn't secured AND very weak. So we're kind of passing the one phone with any actual connection around and using it in turn.

This place has a nice feeling to it. It's a relaxing atmosphere in this hospice. Which is good - I wouldn't have been able to spend as much time here as I have if it was disturbing. I did have a moment of mental "eep!" when two guys from a funeral service came by earlier for the former other inhabitant of the hospice. THEY did not feel nice.

The nurses that work here are nice.

Anyway, we're here, and we'll be here pretty much until it's over. So, everyone that reads this, please put in a good thought for Nyx's grandma... Let's hope she passes without pain.

That's it for now.

A post NOT from my phone? 0.0

That's right! This post is NOT from my phone. Though it still goes on my mobile blog, because I am very much NOT at home.

Nyx's grandmother is in a Hospice. As you all probably know, once you go into one of those places, you don't come out. Lona and I are here to be moral support for her, but when it came time to go to the Hospice itself, she chose to go alone. I can't say I blame her, and I'm proud of her for choosing to go at all.

I know that there can be a lot of regret attached to a person's passing, especially someone like a family member. I don't know that I'd have the strength to do what Nyx is doing right now.

I just felt the need to make a post about this.

Argh!

So, I woke up in a bad mood today. I don't know why. I feel like I didn't get enough sleep, even though I know I slept for exactly 8 hours.

On top of that, Kata made my favorite thing that he makes for dinner tonight, beef strouganough (or however you spell it), and even though I had a perfectly reasonable serving, I'm still uncomfortably hungry. I had two cookies for dessert (almond cookies, nom). Still not enough.

Nyxie, Lona and I headed out then to Claudia's class to sit with her and make sure she didn't have to drive in the dark home. I was sitting, reading, trying to finish my book so we can go back to the library tomorrow, when I was hit by SERIOUS intestinal pain. I was afraid to stand up. I told myself that when it passed, I'd run to the restroom of the Borders bookstore we were in.

The pain passed enough for me to get up and run for the bathroom, only to find that BOTH of Borders' restrooms were flooded and therefore out of order.

Now, of course, the pain started again. I left the bookstore and walked to the Starbucks next door. They had only one bathroom, and it was occupied. I left the Starbucks and walked what felt like miles, between the heat and my body forcing me to hold very still every few steps, until I finally made it to a Denny's with a gloriously UNoccupied restroom.

And now, feeling physically much better, I'm about to head back to Border's. The walk back promises to be much easier than the walk over.

I think that's it for this edition of Dire Wolf Tracks. But, dang it, I'm still hungry!


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I have nothing else to do.

Therefore, I ramble in a blog.

I'm sitting in a Borders coffee shop, guarding Lona's coffee and listening to a snooty woman talk about how rich her husband is and how she could never be poor, and how she's been off of exercising for 3 months because she pulled her hamstring and just got back to working out today. She's disgusted, you see, because in those three months, she gained a whole 6 pounds. ~gasp!~

Maybe it's the fact that I'm already in a bad mood from my tummy being blah since last night (and I'm talking a tummy that can't decide between pained, hungry, or nauseated), but she was really getting on my nerves.

Oh well, Lona and Nyxie are back now. So I might expand on it later.
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A Week Of Change

Still doing job hunting. No real bites, so far. But I'm confident that I'll find something soon.

In the mean time, I gotta get used to a much busier lifestyle. I'm now thinking that I'll keep whatever job I get, through the next couple of semesters. I've also decided to go ahead and get my AA in Anthropology before I move to UCLA for the Palentology program. So that's a decision made.

Other potentially life-changing decisions have also been made recently. There will be more on that in the next few days.
Anyway, they are back now and I'm not bored anymore, so I'm closing this journal down.
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Another one bites the dust.

Only 2 days to go and this semester is over. That's good and bad news, as I found out today that, at least for next semester, Glass Blowing has been discontinued due to budget cuts. I'm sad about that because I know my brother really wanted to take it, and it'll bum him out.

On the other paw, I'm excited because our class mural (a picture of Wolverine from X-Men, cut up into many different pieces and each piece done in charcoal by a different student) came out absolutely awesome!

Our teacher is gonna enter it into next year's Student Art Show under the class project category. I'm gonna watch close to see if it gets in.

In other news, I forgot the combination to my downstairs art locker that held my empty Art Bin. Not only that, but I lost the reminder paper I'd had. So, unless I can get security to help me out in the next two days, I can kiss my unused Art Bin goodbye.

Anyone in the Santa Ana, CA area with a large set of bolt cutters that's willing to help a puppy out?

That's it for now!


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In Class

Waiting desperately to get my final and get out of here. I hope he doesn't talk a lot before he gives it to us. I anticipate a B in this class. Shouldn't be too bad.

Sitting in a Barnes & Noble...

Sitting in a Bookstore is always kind of depressing. I never have the money to just GET all of the books that I want.

And, on top of that, everything seems to come in series! There are almost no stand alone books, anymore. I found a cute book today and was reading it for awhile. If it had been a stand-alone, I probably would've gotten it. I thought it WAS a stand-alone... Until I took a good look at the back of the book. In small print: "Be sure to catch the next of Waggit's adventures..."

I stared at it for a moment, then sighed and put the book down. Because, if I'm gonna read a series, I'm gonna read the whole thing at once. That's why I'm waiting for all six of the Warriors: The Power Of Three series to be out in paperback before I read any of them.

All of this has just brought one reality into harsh relief for me.

I really need to get a library card again.

That's it for now. I'm heading off to my Vista final, now. More tracks to come.
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Luminary

So, I was playing Luminary tonight to pass time before bed (posting from my phone because I'm getting ready for bed), and randomly, on the last Cursed Talasco I killed before my Stinky Hotpot ran out, I got a Legendary Ginseng.

And for those of you who don't know what I'm talking about... You knew I was a gamer geek when you started watching me. That's all for now.
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Second Post! Also A Test...

OK! If I've done this right, I've set up my new mobile blog at Blogger to post to my LiveJournal, too! For those of you who are on Blogger and want to follow both at the same TIME, my Blogger address is here: Dire Wolf Tracks: Tygerwolfe's Mobile Blog

That's it for now! Expect more posts than just Twitters from me for awhile. :)

First Post!

OK! So at my sisters urging (Trinitylast & Nyx Goldstone), I created this blog for when I'm out and about, and Twitter's 140 Character limit just isn't enough!

I'd originally intended my first post to be about how bored I was in class. Unfortunately, that didn't happen. :P By the time I'd gotten the blog set up, I was out of class and home, so I finished on my computer.

Which I'm happy about, because I was able to make my own header image, which I like very much.

Anyway, this is gonna be the place I leave tracks when I'm out and about. For other places you can find me, please check out my website: http://tygersden.xtreemhost.com/ . That's all for now!