Just decided this week that I'm going to Polycamp this year with the kids.  Just went last year for the day, and had a great time.  This year, will be staying one night, which is plenty with Penny and Sar along.



Details here if you're still on the fence or curious.

Yesterday, I registered and enrolled in Psych 200, Lifespan Development.  It's one of four prerequisite psych classes I need to take to apply to the Art Therapy program at Antioch or the Master's in Counseling programs at either Antioch or Argosy.  (Both have rolling admissions, so as soon as I finish the classes I'll be able to apply).



Also yesterday, I had two job interviews.  One in the Department of Medicinal Chemistry and one in the School of Social Work.  Seems like the Medicinal Chemistry job would be the least stress, but they both have things to offer about them.  Would welcome an offer from either, although would face the Social Work job with more trepidation than the other.  The Med Chem job seems laid back.  The other is a program coordinator/assistant to director position in a program that is funded half by UW and half by DSHS/state of Washington.  So there would be not one, but two, bureaucracies to manage.  But the program director is a woman who seems to have a good sense of humor and compassion.



Last weekend, I finished leveling the concrete floor and filling in the nail holes of the room at Karen & James' house (where I am going to move at the end of August).  Got to the point of actually buying the paint for the floor.  It's a color I call "Mystical Purpose", but its real name is "Mystical Purple."  You can look it up on the Behr website, but I found a close-looking sample on another site:





I'm pleased with it.  The walls are stark white & I only have $$ to do the floor right now, but as time goes on I may--oh I dunno--tile a bright yellow border at the bottom of the wall or buy a thousand plants or something.  The thing I'm going to miss the most about my current bedroom is the purple wall, so it will be nice to have a purple floor to make up for it. 



I want to downsize quite a bit...get rid of at least 2/3 of what I currently own.  I want a more spare, simpler physical environment.  Moving is a great opportunity to de-junk, although I don't really have that much junk.  But I'm going to keep only what I really love, keep only those clothes I look forward to wearing and plan to wear at least 10 more times in the next year.  I'm going to keep the books I go back to over and over again, and the books I work out of and a few of the books I haven't read yet --that's still probably 200 books, but everything else is going.  I'm getting rid of my beading supplies and my art supplies -- well, they'll be absorbed into Karen's craft supplies since she has a lot of those things.



So all in all, things are moving along & going ok.  Hope you are all well. 



Love and light,



Virginia

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It's hot here this weekend, but not terribly insufferably hot.  Best moment today (one of them):  laying down covered by a wet t-shirt and napping for three hours.  Have been meditating this week and notice that it's much easier here, where I don't wake up with kids clamoring for attention right away.  Andrew and I are in year two of our relationship & starting to be more real with each other and less all Bouncy in the Rose Petals Glowy Goodness (although there still seems to be plenty of that too, thank God).  (Thank you).  But we do have moments when we wear on each other, and I'm very grateful that we're both at a point in our lives where we both know that people just do that once in awhile.  He really is the rockin'est boyfriend EVAR. 



And that's the news from breklor's apartment, where all the women are hot, all the men are hot, and there really aren't any children, but if they were here, they'd be hot too.