Some Kine of Wonderful

I am continuing to plug along at school. I will definitely need another semester to graduate and hope that my GPA is high enough by the end of this semester to get back into BYU for the fall. Life here is good, the weather has sadly gotten down to normal Florida winter temps and I am too cold! But that just means I have to wear pants when I go outside and can't sit for very long to dry by the pool. Poor me!

I am in limbo with a girl here, Melissa, who I enjoy spending time with. We are a lot alike which has it's pluses and minuses. She is two years older than me and pretty into her career here as a web-developer and communications associate director. It doesn't intimidate me that she is doing so well, but that I have a hard time trusting that I am worth her quitting for so I can finish/continue school. Not that we're even at that stage yet. Why RELATIONSHIPS! More like, why my crazy mind and perception of relationships.

I am enjoying spending time with my parents. They are both in varying stages of unwell, my dad just having suffered a tow surgery and in need of a knee replacement shortly, my mother also having knee problems that she would like to have invasively corrected though the doctor says not yet. I should be logging hours for a nursing degree with all the extra chores I am doing. I don't mind, appreciating the opportunity to serve. And they are so generous to me and my imposing on them. My grandma, who also lives here, is the most self-reliant of the bunch. She does her own laundry, makes most her own meals (odd eating times account for that) and watches her own tv. Having lived alone for the last 25+ years, she is used to a certain lifestyle. When the missionaries come to teach at our house, invariably the new one will be a little surprised when she wonders by to use the restroom, asking "who's that, is she a member?" Fully active, she stays more on top of Sunday school scripture reading than anyone else in the house. I love her.

I won the grant for SCOPE Art Fair-New York to create the opening booth Performance Project. The tichet booth inside the entrance to the fair is designated for a performance art that sets the tone for the whole rest of the fair. Ususally whimsical in nature, it is awarded to an individual or group who must then conceive of the project and create the work which is performed through the duration of the fair. Think of it like improve actors who lightly heckle you while you are trying to buy your tickets. Add some sort of bizzare premise and voila, the piece. I am quite excited and will be in New York the last week in February through the first week of March. Scope has really been good to me, bringing me down to Miami in December for the fair their as well. There I did administrative support work and assisted in that ticket/booth/performance piece. I also got a great tan. I won't be getting bronzed this time as the weather in the city is in the 20's. Darn.