So, haven't posted in a while. Mostly because I've been crazy busy. My research is finally moving, so I'm spending more time at work. Plus I'm taking some time off next week to go home to Kansas, so I have to make up the hours for that. Then the political scene is heating up. So in the evening, if I'm not watching a debate on tv, I'm at a meeting, or volunteering at the Grijalva office. Then when I am watching TV, I've been beading like mad, because inspiration has finally come back to me. So. Yeah, I've been a little busier than usual lately.

THEN, part of the reason that I am going home to Kansas next week is because there is going to be a big reunion for my fraternity at homecoming, and I'm planning to go. A small group of us have been emailing back and forth lately, getting caught up a little before the reunion, and someone decided to share pictures. Well I sent them to my work page, which has my engagement photo on it, and a few of them followed the link to my personal page, and then to my beading page. Now suddenly I've got friends placing turtle orders, talking about placing orders for Christmas presents, and one friend even talking about seeing if he can get an order for my pieces at a store he sometimes does work for! Now, all of this is unbelievably wonderful, but AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!

::takes deep breath::

Two weeks ago I was bored out of my skull. I wasn't getting much done at work, I wasn't beading, I was slacking off in my activism/political spheres. Now I'm busy every waking moment! When it rains, it pours!

I'm enjoying it so far, but I'm also very glad that I already have a vacation planned for next week. And there's work that I can do during that vacation, or I can choose not to. So if things get crazy, I've got a release valve...

Have to go. Must stain gel.

dalbino83 is running some charity auctions on Ebay, selling Mount Holyoke College memorabilia and a few beaded necklaces. The beneficiary is the Jolene Fund, which provides loans "to women students at Mt. Holyoke College who have lost support from their families for coming out as lesbians or bisexuals or for other similar circumstances involving sexual orientation." Links to the auctions and to more information about the fund can be found here. And just so you know, the last time I checked, all three of the beaded pieces were severely undervalued. You should go check them out. And guess which one I bid on. ;)