Trouble Is Everywhere

I'm just popping my head up a bit to share some good news, in chronological rather than order of importance.

1) The Student Loan issue has been "solved" in that I now owe thousands of dollars to family and not to a collection agency that will randomly have my bank account frozen. We've also ending our banking relationship with the previous bank. Not because they froze my bank account on the 30th of the month. That bit I disagree with but understand. No, because I called them up to have them take money out of my account to apply to the loan, they took the money out of my account electronically and then froze my account for 10 days to see whether or not the money would clear. This was not what was discussed over the phone, and it makes no sense because the money was taken from my account before they froze it again. So, you know. I bank elsewhere now, and most of Don's investments have been moved as well. (The only things not moved are long-term investments that are locked in for another year, but those will go as well.)

2) Don's vocal cords are getting better! He saw the doctor, and this is what he says: "Whet he thinks is happening is that the nerves have come back but the ones that tell the cord to close and the ones that tell it to open are all firing at once. This is resulting in the chord mostly staying rigid which is why its worlds better but not 100% of pre surgery. The nerves might sort them out a bit more so that the chord starts to move a little more but the important thing is that its not going to get weaker." I know I've mentioned this before but having actual medical doctors say "yes, it's getting better, no, it's not a fluke, and it won't get worse" has been a huge weight off his mind.

3) My PhD apps are almost ready to go. I've got two more days for my UofA transcripts to arrive, but all of my letters of reference are packed and ready to go, as is my writing sample, CV, various bits of paperwork, thesis proposal, statement of intent, etc etc etc. The post office tells me I can have it shipped Priority Next Day AM if I get to the post office before 4pm Thursday. (The technical deadline for both universities is January 15th. [The last one is January 31st.] January 15th is a Saturday. *sigh*)

So, yay for me. Things are coming along nicely. Chapter 2 is doing really well. My sleep is a bit screwed up (I stayed up too late last night and thus couldn't get myself out of bed this morning to hit the Leg Library), but generally things are Good. My wee laptop is totally a goner, but I'm taking advantage of the university's computers. (Right now that's irritating me because there are many students here who have confused "quiet conversation" with "Make a lot of noise" but I just need to wait them out.) I'm a bit lonely (I misssssss youuuuu) but I've been working and reading a lot, so I guess that's good.

♥

So, yesterday on my way out the door I noticed the landlord had put a notice above the mailbox, indicating that there were going to be testing the firealarms on Monday, all day, and also they may need access to people's apartments. I guess that counts as 48 hours notice.
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In more pleasant news, I hope to get out to the Legislative Library tomorrow because they have things I want in the treasure room. They don't let me in the treasure room because they are horrible mean people, but they will bring me things from there. Then they hand me pretty pretty white gloves and let me touch things. (Or maybe not this time - I think I actually just need access to Hansard, which is in pretty bound books in the building across the street, and they make me sit in a small room with poor lighting while I go through things.)

Oh, since I am apparently randomly babbling at 4:30 in the morning.

( Check out this gift Don got for his birthday last year )

This not-getting-enough-sleep thing has gotten really tedious.

Last night I couldn't sleep so I stayed up until 8:45 a.m. reading about missing people and mysterious murders and uncaptured serial killers on Wikipedia, as one does.

(LJ-folks, if you were reading this on DW, you would see my awesome icons. For some reason I have 5 or 6 that are just coffee icons. Coffee coffee coffee.)

So! karenhealey is doing her now-annual 24 hour YA Readathon to raise monies for a charity, which got me to think: This year, I may be able to participate in the 24 hour blogathon. Which I've been trying to participate in since the second year it went down, but have never been able to.

If I were to go through with it, I'd want to support the Abilities Foundation, which is a Halifax-based charity that provides wheelchairs to low-income families in Nova Scotia. Full Confession: They provide Don's wheelchair and pay for any repairs it needs when it's not broken by AirCanada.

But I was toying around with what I would dooooo for 24 hours of blogging. And I was talking to meloukhia (which always leads to Bad) and ...

Well, I could do a 24-hour RPG online.

Or I could do a 24-hour RPG off-line, although I am not in the RPG community here the way I was in Edmonton when I had the idea the first time.

Or I could do 24 hours of reading & reviewing history books.

Or I could do vlogs about stuff (haven't you ever wanted to *watch* my flailing about dead people?) but I image upload problems.

At one point I thought it would be fun to do a 24 hour trip and update with just photos from wherever I was, but the night photos probably would just be [this space intentionally left black].

I dunno. I suppose it could be fun to take a bunch of photos of places around Halifax and do 24 hours of Halifax History Blogging about them.

Thoughts? Talking me out of it?