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I feel bad that I still have to think to choose between: "Over 100 Miles [to Travel for the Holidays]" and "I've been disowned".

Things are going well here. I just got the old bookshelf from the guest room at Foster, and we're slowly filling up the truck. I'm not sure where some stuff is, so I'm a little afraid of opening a couple boxes, but I know where Borges, my yarrow stalks, and my Zamenhof portrait are, so I'm confident it'll all resolve smoothly. I'm thinking I might have to ditch some stuff on Shalini, because it would be weird having it all in once place again.

We're going to be trucking out of town in a couple hours, so expect a wave of photos.

Oh, and new boardgame! I got Tri-ominos. Which I think has really crummy game-mechanics, but nifty pieces. Maybe I'll come up with some alternative rules soon.

I'm not sure what's going on, but I've been feeling really scattered recently. I want to chase after so many things that I'm forgetting that I need to be building up survival skills. These aren't the tie your shoes, walk on the sidewalk, don't eat the yellow snow kind of survival skills. I think I need to start seriously considering where my university education can take me, because so far I've been wandering along doing what is pleasurable, what I am good at.

The problem is I'm doing marvelously well with the easy stuff. I am okay with the math, which is probably the most useful, and the basic philosophy stuff. But why am I pursuing philo. it isn't going to get me anywhere. I've been angsting out, battling with myself since I would like to be studying linguistics, but with the amount of negative encouragement / reenforcement I've received from language learning, I'm afraid to approach the subject. I'm not sure I should know where to go, or what to do, but I've been feeling an increasing inward pressure to know.

I would like to start exploring what the university can do for me, how I can get them to work for me, and ideally pay for me. Next-next year I'd like them to send me abroad some time.