I wrote a downtime!

[tj_rowe]

I shall send it after larp on sunday, so I know how many points I have to play with and can delete as necessary. Someone remind me that it isn't sent yet.

There was SOCIAL yesterday! And lecture (singular, and I was late) and campus food (yuck, not doing that again), and then there were people I hadn't seen in ages and lots of new people, most of which appeared to be quite cool. And there was the paper copy of the player's guide, which contains pictures of ME! (squee)

I was going to go to some second year lectures today, but I got to home at 0100 (I wanted to be sure not to run into the hosemate's friends who where having dinner - I didn;t think I could deal with strangers at that ppoint), got off the phone with Steve at about 0220, and then stared at the walls and ceiling for ages and woke up at 0915. The first lecture was 0915. Blech.

Today is a thing of fail. I only actually got out of bed at about twelve, then ate a tin of beans, then read the internet until now-ish. I'm still in my PJs. Foolishness!

Also! I just had An Adventure. Well, not really, but still: discovering that the only pairs of tights I own and can find are the grey pair I took to the event just-in-case, and a brown pair which I like for usually, and knowing of the fact that convention is three days long and I like being warm, even in October (though my line may be different - my housemates keep making sad eyes at me when I say we can't have the heating on constantly, and I shower with the windows wide open so as not to steam up the room), I dragged out the broken drawer of my wardrobe, which at one point contained all my underwear-type things before I stopped putting stuff back into it , and rummaged in the drawer below and on the floor behind the shelf. I found things! Three more pairs of warm tights, two of which are black and one of which is grey, one of the black ones being the stupidly stretched ones which I only wear when I want to be comfy and shan't be walking or cycling anywhere. Also, I found my hugest bra, which is pretty and was sorely missed for a few 'OMG, my boobs are HUMONGOUS' days last week.

Yay, clothes! Especially warm clothes!

In other news, the housemates whose rooms are either side of mine cause smelliness upstairs. One smokes, the other burns incense. I keep the bathroom windows and door open to air it (lamenting that there isn't a hall window like in my old house), then they get cold and want to put the heating on for longer. *sigh*


I've been having some appointments with Disability Services, because I am crazy and tired and should makes sure that they know who I am and why I'm around before something goes wrong and I need them, and I don't understand most of what they're suggesting.

A friend of mine (who's dyslexic with ADHD), when I mentioned this, said 'Oh, they're the people that give confused people lots of forms to fill in!'

(There was also lots of 'Oh, was that you?' when I was talking to them. *facepalm*) They did bring up the thing of, given how I'm on a rolling let now, I could just go on the waiting list and move back onto campus, which would mean less of the 'I must make sure I have EVERYTHING I NEED' (which involves checking several times, and wandering around the entire house in a fog to make sure I haven't forgotten anything, until I am late, which happened yesterday and Monday), and being closer, and having a desk on campus (in my room, obvs), and being able to cook my gluten-free food for my lunch actually in between lectures (as well as 'RKC, give me breakfast!'). However, if I was on campus, then that would kinda squash the idea of getting a house with Steve. Not that I currently have enough spoons to organise that, anyway. Apparently in New Goodricke they have 'couple flats' as opposed to 'family accomodation' (which is in Heslington and pretty much requires you to have kids), too bad Langwith doesn't or that would totally solve the dilemma.

I was pretty 'bah, no point' when they brought up the whole recording device thing, but after my last lecture, I think I get the point - for when you drift off or blank what's being said, or lose time and suddenly have no idea what's going on.

One thing is: I'm no longer feeling vaguely guilty for being part time. Yes, actually, I do need it, and I wouldn't be able to cope with a full workload at the moment. That's the biggest helpful thing that I'm being given, is the reduced workload. Yes, I've spent six months basically resting, and so the knackardy feeling is probably going to stretch my stamina for a bit and then I'll be fine, rather than PEM, but I think there's going to be a fair amount of 'wait and see' this year to see how I cope and what effect various types of help have on me.



Any advice, comments or personal anecdotes on the whole campus vs off-campus thing? I know I'm supposed to be doing my thinking, but prompting on things to think on would be helpful.

Also: Good prep for NaNo? This entry is 915 words, not including this line.

Comments

[beast-the-yeti.livejournal.com]

New Goodricke is very, very out of the way. I would advise using the free campus bus to get to main campus if you end up there otherwise it's ten minutes walk just to get to Field Lane.

There are also no shops there yet and it is very noisy during the day because of builders and noisy during the night because of the howling wind.

[tamerterra.livejournal.com]

I think they're planning to move Langwith over to Hes East too, which, yeah, would result in a net loss circumstances wise (it's already a ten minute walk to Field Lane from Kimberlow). Actually, on the Sunday of convention I walked past one of the bus stops on the way and kinda looked around hopefully for a bus that would take me to Wentworth for free, then told myself that I was silly and kept walking.

Langwith Main or Nursing-Langwith would most likely be where I ended up if I did go to campus accomodation.