walkies with strangers

Gah... turns out that Dr. Kim had already signed my OPT thing and hadn't told me; I found it in my mailbox today. I keep forgetting I have a mailbox!! I went to join a raid, and then went to the International Student Services only to find out the guy I usually go to to handle my stuff is out, so I said, "pass this sheet to anybody, I'm in the system."

I had a rice bowl from the new sushi/poke bowl place in the cafeteria--one base with two proteins, and I picked grilled meat and shrimp tempura as my proteins. It was okay, but I'm not sure the shrimp was worth the money at all. I'll try the chicken or the salmon next time.

Then I got some tea and worked on a new short story in the grad lounge for a while.

The plot for this was hard to do, for some reason. I had a concept in my head but the execution was a little hard. But it was slow going to work in a plot? Anyway, it turned out to be a kind of romance.

Around 4pm I cycled down to the baseball field to join some folks in catching Magikarp and did that until I got cold and hungry.

I'd taken a sleeping pill the night before in order to sleep at 11pm instead of horrific AM, but still woke up suuuuuper late. Last night because I decided to finally get back to my story I slept at 4am. Gah. But it's done? And I broke out my heater too, so getting out of bed was WAY easier. I did wake up at around 9am so maybe I'm underslept but I'm mostly feeling OK.

I'm going to cycle around campus tonight catching Pokemon since it's the double XP event right now. Am hoping to get past the next level by the end of the event.

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Somehow ended up going two back-to-back legendary raids, evolving in between as I walked from Point A to Point B. I read the book I'm supposed to review some more leaving my Gotcha going, and then when I got sick of that, I went cycling around campus spinning stops. Ran into Dr. Kim and walked with him for a bit. Told him I was playing Pokemon Go and he was like "is there a way we can make our department a pokestop" and I was like "WELL IF YOU MUST ASK LOL"

I decided then that I would attempt to use up all my Great Balls and Ultra balls, saving room for more regular Pokeballs, since the Gotcha, like the Plus, only uses the regular ones. Then once that was accomplished, I'd cycle around campus with incense and a lucky egg leaving the Gotcha on auto-catch and auto-spin, which should keep me going for the whole half hour.

I really want to buy some cute Pokemon Go stuff, and found team earrings and keyrings and charms! Trying to decide which one I prefer. It'd be fun to have something to wear out to raids. I think I'll go with the earrings, but sometimes, I just want like a hoodie? Gah.

One thing I really like are those long-sleeved shirts or sweaters with thumbholes! I bought a shirt from the campus bookstore like that last month, and I really like it a lot. I might try getting another one.

For craft projects, this week, since my roommate's gone, I'll make a bunch of coin purses from the fabrics I've got leftover. I've printed out some Pokeball stencils, and it'd be fun to make coin purses in the shape of Pokeballs! I might make it a full day's thing too. It almost makes me wish I wasn't leaving for LosCon this weekend and staying home to sew instead.

Since apparently starting a business is a legit way of staying in the country, I think I'll look into possibly selling some crafts and really thinking hard about using up all this fabric. I've been thinking about making more slingbags, pouches and skirts with pockets, maybe even pinafores with pockets. The idea is to keep the fabric I have moving, because I am... rather tired of carting around the same pieces of fabric for years. There are pieces I've been meaning to use for years now, such as the beautiful emerald taffeta, which I THINK I meant to use to make a gown (it's like 15 yards, bought in Value Village) or a jacket. But my skills are still nowhere near that capability. Which, well, whatever. It's Value Village fabric so I really need to learn how to take some risks rather than hoard stuff. If anything, it'd make a lovely pocketed skirt. Maybe two or them, that I could sell. We'll see how I feel about it! At the very least, all this scrap fabric I keep picking up in JoAnn's could become bags on their own.