busyWelcome to the Palindrome Year of the Horse. I can only hope this year will be a dramatic improvement over last year.
I'm moving into the next stage of preparations for my entry into Higher Education: filling out forms, promissory notes, physicals and vaccinations. Since I'll be going into the Food Service and Hospitality Industries, and because of New York State law, I'll need to get poked with a needle for several vaccinations. Currently I'm waiting the 48 hours for the PPD (tuburculosis antibodies test) and hoping this second time is a charm... the first time I took this test (with the rest of my physical) my skin reacted but not in a way that a Positive Result would, causing much confusion by the 3 doctors and 2 nurses that looked at it. So we waited a couple of weeks and will try it again (if it results in a positive, I'll have to get a chest X-Ray to prove I don't have tuburculosis itself, just had been exposed to someone with it somewhere). And, or course, my sleep cycle is so screwy I'm going to try going to bed early tonight and start forcefully resetting my internal clock to match what my school schedule will be like.
Meanwhile, there's a convention on the last weekend of this month and I just got my plane tickets for it today. Now if I can get any art ready for it, I'd be in great shape. Alas, since I'm only about half-way through doing the Katmandu pencils and lettering, the prospect of new prints for Further Conrfusion looks bleak. If nothing else, I'll have the one speically-made T-Shrt I'm putting into the Charity Auction, buttons, and my usual conbook commissions to do, so I'm not completely out of the water.
Yesterday (New Years Day), my housemate Tokaneke had her greek tradition done for Video Night: a New Year's Bread, which is lightly sweet and contains a coin in it. The person who has the coin in their slice of bread receives good luck. Surprise, I actually got it! Hope this is a good omen of things to come. :3
