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So, in a fit of organisation, I’ve signed up for University, I’ve finished my university paperwork, for my fundings, bursaries ‘etc’, and I’ve enrolled in all eight classes I wanted to take. There *is* a ninth that I need to speak to the Uni about, and find out when I’d be expected to pay for it, before I enroll in it, but so far I’m all set.
I’m on the core 200 course (writing, rewriting and showcasing), 201 (poetry) and 202 (prose), along with two psych courses that I need to do to enroll in forrensic psych next year (which is also where the third ‘missing’ one comes in. Had I planned it better, I might have done one of the courses last year, but that didn’t actually occur to me till later.

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Finishing zombie stories, inputting notes and fragments that I’ve found and tidying up a present for my ‘faithful’ readers.
I can’t publish the zombie stories in public, cause they’re for anthologies, but if anyone wants to volunteer to beta read, I might be able to accommodate that (and thank you in advance!).

Tonight I’ll be on WOW, doing a Sunken Temple run, cause I’ll need it after the Zombie/horror stories I’ll have finished up.

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I was skimming some of my news feeds, and caught this post on the NYtimes.

I think what really riled me was that she said …”"It all just came out of me,” she explained, acknowledging her hopes, as she had in the posting, that perhaps she deserves a book deal.”

So let me get this straight. Because she’s a bit neurotic, and can say some rude or degoritory things in public about her family - has four kids, and intimated that she, or they, or all of them have ADHD, she deserves a book deal?

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Kushie is…Kushie basically.

We’ve had her for close to 12 weeks, I think. We got her on the 21st of June, and ever since then, we’ve had one vet visit after another. We’ve had her microchipped, and she’s had more antibiotics than I have in the lst year just since moving in with us. She’s almost at the end of her steroid dose, and we have, at last, managed to get her vaccinated, much to her ‘disgust’. Well partially.

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So I’ve spent the whole morning, when I should have been writing my zombie stories, chasing the Child support agency to find out what in the hell they’re playing at.

Long story incredibly short - we’ve been having to phone the CSA several times a month to get the payments the ex is sending them, found and sent on to me. This came to a head last month when they said they take 21 working days (that’s a month, more or less) to clear payments if they have an incorrect reference number. So July’s payment was going to be 21 working days too, cause we couldn’t get the reference number changed on the account before then. And guess what?

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Yesterday morning I got one of those ‘rude awakenings’. It’s been a slow week, the kids are home, and the cat is wheezy (she might have cat athsma - she might have an allergy to dust of all things - which is really bad in our house cause it’s constantly dusty - no matter how often I dust. So next cunning plan is to get rid of as much of the clutter as possible, so that if I need to dust, every day, I can without it taking me hours.

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I was going to post this on semiskimmed, but it’s worth saying on my personal blog more than anything else.
I’ve always hated editing for one reason. I really don’t trust my gut when rejecting pieces any more - and I’ve always thought that since sitting my poetry course, though I can pin down exactly what I feel is wrong with a piece.

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Well, I’m back to battling with the CSA again. They are ‘losing’ payments from the ex, and worse than that, they’re refusing to do anything about it. Last month they held the payment for 21 days (they claim this is the length of time it takes to ‘clear’ through thier system) and this month they are claiming that he hasn’t paid at all. (’this month’ being July). He’s further claiming that there’s been a problem with August’s payments, so things are fairly tight around here at the moment. And I’ve still got school uniforms to buy.

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Kidlets are home - and I’ve seen several movies this week - so if you’re really not into mild (or not so mild) spoilers, I’d really skip this post. Herein lies reviews of Wall-E, The Dark Knight and Mama Mia.

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entertainiment, movies, op ed, reviews, viewing

For one - I really need to start asking people for more proof.
Of things in general.
For two. I’m going to see John Barrowman at the Festival in Cheltenham. I’ve recently discovered the person(s) I’ve been exchanging emails with, over the course of the last year aren’t who they claim they are (like an hour ago) - my beloved managed to talk me into looking at the ‘better’ side of it (i.e I’ve had thier hosting company look into thier site, terminate thier account, send information to the people they were inpersonating, which means, though I’m being a bitch, I’m protecting other people), and will be writing articles about this, because - y’know, if I had a tattoo that says ‘naieve’ I’d feel much better, cause I’d be labelled that way.
I’m actually fairly numb to be honest. That’s a year that I’ve wasted on getting to know people, that they claimed to be someone they are not. It’s *kinda* the story of the internet, but this has really put me through the wringer.

*spoilers*

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This last week we’ve chilled, we’ve cleaned, we’ve played Sins of a Solar Empire. I really miss the kids, but they’re having a blast. They’ve been to Loudon Castle, Leith Water World, and are going to the zoo and doing lots of fun stuff with thier dad. The smallest is behaving fairly well - which is great.
So we’ve got some great stuff lined up for the rest of the week.

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I’ve spent the last two of the last five days commuting - introducing the cat to family members (she was kinda funny when we spent time with Gregor dog (a border terrier) cause she fuzzed up and growled but didn’t actually do anything. Mom likes her, Dave’s dad likes her - everyone likes her.

We dropped the kids off - we spent time with lots of freinds - we spent more time with lots of freinds (waves to everyone!) went to a great meal, a brilliant show (Otis Lee Crenshaw) and spent time just chilling. The drive home was surprisingly easy - Kushie only yowled cause her mat in her cage was wet and slept most of the way back.

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I’m currently sitting on my Mom’s couch - my other half and our cat is at his dad’s (cause my stepdad is allergic, and cause I’ve still got the kids till tomorrow evening) thinking about the last time I was here on my own.

It was before my tattoo (which came up in conversation today too), it was before my other half, but only just. And my world slid about eight inches sidewards weekend.
A lot of good came out of it, but I spent a lot of the drive up thinking about what I’ve done in the last 12 years. Most of it, not good, or at the very least, unremarkable.

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