Possible Tattoos

Probably one of the first things I am going to do when I finally manage to get a job is get a new tattoo. After that, I am probably going to get several more. Here is a list of some of the ideas I have. I will almost certainly get at least some of these; others I will probably later decide were stupid and be glad I didn't get them.

1. The quote from Bold Native "animals are not property, they are not ours to use. They are an end unto themselves. Their freedom is beautiful and their slavery is a horror."

2. A quote from a Giving Tree Band song "She held tight to what she thought was right and loose to what she knew was best."

3.  Stained glass tears. This is a reference to a Dar Williams song. The line is "She says you've know her deepest fears cause she's shown you a box of stained glass tears."

4. The Last Unicorn tattoo I mentioned before.

5. The protection tattoo form Supernatural.

6. A farmed animal themed half-sleeve.

7. A sonic screwdriver (10th Doctor era).

8. A monarch caterpillar.

9. A fruit bat.

10. "No power in the verse can stop me"

I'm sure I will come up with others.

Productivity

So I actually had a semi-productive day today. I wrote two pages on one of my school papers. I cleaned my nasty-ass carpets (which meant first fixing the belt on the vacuum cleaner. That was a bit of an ordeal), I cut and dyed my hair, I did laundry and best of all I watched two episodes each of Merlin, Doctor Who and Supernatural. That's right, that counts as productive for me.

Fun?

Very soon the semester is going to be over. This signifies two things 1- I am going to be very relieved. 2- I am going to be very bored. Obviously, I am going to have to find a job. Whether I get the police job or not, I have to get some kind of job or I'm not going to be able to eat, but I also need to have something to do with my time. You know what would be really great? If sometime over the summer I could manage to actually find something that I enjoy doing. Maybe some sort of social activity? Something fun? I don't even think I understand the concept of fun anymore; in fact, I'm not sure I ever did. There was a time when I thought I was having fun, but in retrospect it seems kind of awful.

The Most Useless Premonition Ever

I get Deja Vu all the time, I would say at least once a week or so. Every time I do, instead of feeling like "I think I've done this before." I usually feel like "I think I dreamed about this." This is weird for two reasons 1- I almost never remember my dreams, so thinking that I remember dreaming about anything is kind of dumb. 2- It pretty much always happens when I'm doing something ridiculously mundane. So my next thought after "I think I dreamed about this." is usually "Wow, that must have been a really boring dream." Also, I'm usually doing things that I do all the time so, even if I did dream about it, I may very well have just been dreaming about the last time I did whatever it was. Anyway, something slightly different, but no more helpful, happened this morning. I was brushing my teeth and I got that "I dreamed about this" feeling. Then I thought "Wow, I dreamed about brushing my teeth! Fascinating!" Then, I remembered the rest of the dream though; I was brushing my teeth and my mouth started bleeding profusely. About thirty seconds after I remembered the rest of the dream, I accidentally jabbed myself in the gums with my toothbrush. This is not unusual, I do this all the time. What was a bit unusual was the rather remarkable amount of blood. I tried to spit out some toothpaste and spit out a whole mouthful of blood instead. My dream still exaggerated a bit, but not that much. Of course, the most logical explanation here is that I was so distracted by the thought of my creepy dream that I wasn't paying attention to what I was doing, not that I get premonitions of absurdly boring events, but that wouldn't make a very good topic for a post.

It looked kind of like this. 

Unicorns

I know I've mentioned this before, and I think it's a fairly common occurrence, but it's really weird how there are always these random recurring themes showing up in my life. Lately, I've been seeing a lot of unicorns. Yeah, I know kind of goofy. Anyway there was an episode of Merlin about them, then one of the people I follow on Pinterest pinned a really cool, very realistic, picture of one, then today they were talking about them on the episode of Buffy I was watching and of course there was that episode of Supernatural that I mentioned a few posts back. Well, I think this time it might be the universe taunting me. Ever since that Supernatural episode, I keep thinking about the idea of comparing significant others or "soul mates" or whatever to unicorns. I find it pretty appropriate, especially for someone as far from the norm as myself. They are these wonderful, beautiful, magical creatures who you imagine would make everything in your life alright, but alas they are pure fantasy.

Also, I think I might get a tattoo of her someday. This movie was a huge part of my childhood and, after re-watching it recently, may have had a larger impact on me than I realized at the time. 

An Internal Thermometer for External Temperatures?

It's remarkable how much easier it is for me to get up and get going in the mornings when it's nice outside. It doesn't make sense because most of the time, even if I have my window open, I can't really tell what the temperature is like outside when I wake up. Somehow my body just knows which days it is going to have to deal with miserable weather and which days it will actually be halfway comfortable.

An Interesting Development

Well, it looks like maybe the police department hasn't counted me out after all. A friend just told me that she was talking to a couple of officers and they mentioned something about how the new "vegan chick" is going to have a hard time when they all start telling hunting stories. While I'm certainly not thrilled about the idea of having to listen to a bunch of hunting stories, I'm pretty excited to hear that they seem to think I have a good chance of getting the job. Also, I don't know if they realize this but I've lived in West Virginia my whole life. I've heard my fair share of hunting stories.