{"id":250,"date":"2009-10-22T03:10:51","date_gmt":"2009-10-22T03:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.notuboc.com\/?p=250"},"modified":"2009-10-22T03:10:51","modified_gmt":"2009-10-22T03:10:51","slug":"fact-145-hippo-birdies-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notuboc.com\/?p=250","title":{"rendered":"FACT 145 &#8211; hippo birdies to me~"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>an update on my year&#8217;s goals, since i recently finished one of them, and am half-way done with The Big One. (^_^)  college &#8211; anthropology 421.08, native american studies something. | actually turning out not to be a horribly boring class. we get a lot of films, a lot of speakers, even some field trips, so that should be cool! on the fail plan though, there is a 20 page paper and a 15 minute presentation due the first week of december. really, NaNo should be a valid excuse from doing class work. (^^;) i guess i should just stop complaining and be happy that something finally worked itself out so i could graduate this quarter. YAY!!!  bills (nearly finished!!!) &#8211; discovercard | aka rape lady nouveau. TOTALLY DONE! zombiejesus i&#8217;m so happy about this. i now have no car payment AND no credit cards! (!!) i was joking the other day i should go out and get a credit card now. but i won&#8217;t, mostly because i&#8217;ve still got: &#8211; tuition payments (ouch) | well, some headway has been made, but it&#8217;s still not pretty. at least i don&#8217;t have any other bills clogging up my wallet! (yay!)  crafts &#8211; replica of the national treasure 2 president&#8217;s book for my fav customer in the UK | ok, seriously, how long has this thing been on my Working On It list? like a year? six months or something? anyway, i am still shaving leather, it&#8217;s just taking forever, coz a) i&#8217;m slow, and b) i&#8217;m using a paint scraper instead of a real paring knife, but WHATEVER. i found some buttons the other day that were totally perfect, so i&#8217;m happy about that&#8230; &#8211; vendor&#8217;s license | still on the back burner, planning for january. &#8211; blank books due in oct\/nov | my etsy bookbinding team is having a halloween contest, and my entry is now up (shameless plug: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.etsy.com\/view_listing.php?listing_id=32926384\">dr jekyll and mr hyde<\/a> ! ). it&#8217;s my first try at making a slipcover for a book, and i think it turned out pretty well. i also shipped my book for the etsy journals project (i&#8217;d shameless plug here, too, but i seriously can&#8217;t remember the url&#8230; bad me.). i also also have yet to make and ship my book for the etsybooks fall book swap. i have not one single idea even what i&#8217;m making for that, let alone when or how i will ever finish it. so yeah, it&#8217;s gonna be writing writing and bookbinding for me this november. sleep? what? i think i&#8217;ve heard of that, but i&#8217;m not really familiar with what it actually is.  yeah.  in other news,  <a class='serendipity_image_link' href='\/uploads\/screenshots\/hippobirdies.png'><!-- s9ymdb:144 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"110\" height=\"64\" style=\"border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;\" src=\"\/uploads\/screenshots\/hippobirdies.serendipityThumb.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>  that&#8217;s right, it&#8217;s my birthday~ or at least it was on this past thursday! yay for me! seriously, i can hardly believe i survived another year. just think of all the times i could have murdered someone this year. i could have been killed in self defence! or maybe caught and thrown in prison! or even (gasp!) prevented from bookbinding! (oh noes! the horror!) &#8230; okay, seriously, 27 sucked, let&#8217;s make 28 less sucky, mkay? .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>an update on my year&#8217;s goals, since i recently finished one of them, and am half-way done with The Big One. 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