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Listening to: Utada Hikaru - "One Last Kiss" Drinking: Sen cha from Fava Tea Mood: Mellow-ish. Waking up Working on: Adding Crew 11 to the ISS Wall interactive in Atlantis Reading: Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern (audiobook). About to pick up Matilda by Roald Dahl. Remember when Livejournal used to have the tags at the end where you could add what you were listening to and what your mood was? Mine had little blue kitty icons that went with your mood and were very cute. I miss them. I particularly remember the 'productive' one, where the cat hat glasses on and was tapping on a keyboard. There was also one where it was snoozing and had little 'zzz's above its head. On a different note, I had never heard this song by Utada Hikaru before (well, apparently I had because I had already "liked" it on Pandora, but I don't remember it), but I really like it. I'm actually repeating it again. It gives old school Utada vibes but apparently came out ...

Weird dreams

I've been having a lot of trouble sleeping this week. Between a host of unrelaxing dreams, difficulties falling asleep, and difficulties staying asleep, I feel utterly exhausted during the daytime. Yesterday, I had so many odd dreams. In one of them, Skylar was a fluffy black cat like Sammie and I asked Brian at what age do children turn from cats into children, and he and Michelle made fun of me for thinking children were cats, even though she clearly was. He passed her over to me to hold at one point, but Skylar squirmed out of my grip right away, and I was confused how I was supposed to hold cat - children. I had a more concerning dream about Roto. In the dream, Trevor from KSC work, the gal that freelanced with us once at Roto who used to work there, and I had been hired on as freelancers to write had pitch two ideas for some kind of show. In the dream, the timeline aligned with this past weekend when I have been asked to guest lecture at UCF for their show writing...

One loan down, car to go

The check isn't in yet, but I used the extra income from my Timbo earnings to pay off the rest of my Dr. Seuss loan. It was just shy of $1,200. I had to pay that loan off first because the contract delaying the interest wears off on January 15th. Any more money I make from Timbo is going to go towards my car loan, which is currently at $6,600. I'd feel really good if I can get it down to $3,000, but I'll take $4,000. If I can get it down to $3,000, then I would feel comfortable dipping into my savings to finish off the rest. On top of that, I was able to purchase a new pole with the money from Killer Carnival and Amanda, which was $400. So the extra income has helped me quite a bit. I also want to get a pass to SeaWorld, but that's going to have to come from my bank account, which is why I'm waiting for a good deal. Hopefully, some additional freelance jobs help me pay off the rest of my car loan, too, and pad my savings. My goal is to get up to $80,000 at April. ...

Timbo Animation Test

It's the end of the year and I'm running on fumes. I haven't gotten sufficient sleep in 2 weeks (the opportunities I had were ruined by Kerri's dumb untrained dog, who, thankfully, is gone tonight), and work's been so busy, I haven't been able to take breaks like I'm used to. I haven't seen the NASA gym since last week Tuesday, and it had been a while before that, too. To add to my plate, Stephen Strosin suddenly reached out again on Monday and asked if we could catch up for 30 minutes to go over the Animation Test script I wrote, as well as the edits to the first episode. Since it was only for 30 minutes, I assumed that meant he had seen everything and it was fine; but that was definitely not the case. I apparently missed every mark on the Animation Test, and he was incredibly disappointed. I wrote it like an animation test should be, but he wanted a trailer that included a lot of dialogue, singing, interaction, etc. He was already on the fence if tryi...

Back to pole

I went to my first pole class last Tuesday for the second time since I moved to Florida. So that's twice in 2 years. Online, it said it was a control class meant to slow down moves and make them look pretty, suited for levels two and up. By their definition, level two just meant that you could invert; so I figured I would be more than fine, even if I had some reconditioning to do. The instructor (his name was Icarus) introduced himself right away and informed me that the class was misrepresented online, and it was more of a level 3/4 class, advanced. He said we'd be starting with Ayeshas, and I panicked. I told him I COULD do Ayesha... YEARS ago, but I had no idea if I could still do them NOW. And I didn't know that I felt comfortable going straight into them at my first class back at pole in 2 years. It seemed incredibly dangerous and irresponsible. He asked me if I could at least do an extended butterfly and brass monkey, and I said I'm certain I could do those. Whet...

A hawk in the park

There's a hawk in the Cypress Grove Park that's been popping back and forth for the last hour. Sometimes he's on the post be the bridge, sometimes he's on the ground, poking for bugs or lizards. Then he'll pop over to the post in front of me for a little bit, then hang in the tree for a while. He's a fascinating little guy. Clearly, I'm not the only one who thinks so because some millennials just came over and spooked him with their camera and imposing presence.