Return to the blogosphere

Holy cow, its really been over a month since I last updated? I guess I've just been too busy to update? Well, no thats a lie. Busy yeah, but I've just been too lazy.

A lot has certainly gone on over this last month. I guess I should provide some closure to the cliff-hanger that was my last entry: I got my school money issue taken care of. Grants were cut, and I took out another loan, but I got to keep this quarters grants. And I'll still get about $60 a quarter after tuition, which is enough for maybe 2 textbooks! I'm just rolling in the dough. I'm also single again, which is alright. It was nice being in a relationship, but it was under pretty ridiculous circumstances, and in any case breaking up wasn't much of a surprise.

Biggest relief: Finals are over! I didn't put as much off till the very end like I have in previous quarters, but I was far less comfortable with the material I had, which made finals week just as stressful and crammed as usual when it didn't have to be.

11/7

Today has been an unbelievably exhausting day. I've been up since 4:30 AM, already worked 5 1/2 hours, 3 classes, statistics and a midterm essay to work on, and 4 more hours tonight training tonight. I don't think i'll make it home any sooner than 1 AM. All for the promise of $.50 - $1.00 more an hour no dispatcher has gotten yet, and may in fact be an outright lie (The cake [IE: pay raise] is a lie!)

Over summer I accepted the Financial Aid awarded to me with the intention of having moved out by now (and my Aid budgeted accordingly). However, since i'm still at home (moving out was a kinda unrealistic goal), they've retooled my awards and now I aparently owe back around 1,800 in Grants? Weak! With any luck they'll accept my appeal and at least let me keep this quarters grants(a good chance), if not all of it outright (unlikely). In any case, my savings has been totally shot because of this. Pretty lame

I'd like to take this time to give my wholehearted approval of this getting healthy/running bend everyone is on now. I'm totally on board, except by "board" I literally mean "surfboard." I'm digging the surfing and swimming at the gym thing a lot, but I'd like to get back into some actual running (not just cross-trainers and bike machines); I'm sure my stupid knee is up for the "high-impact" stuff by now.

*EDIT* On second look, I don't think the graphic is really appropriate. That arrow should be falling steeply downwards. Whatever!

Midterms

One down, three to go. I'm currently studying the history and underlying concepts behind international peacekeeping for a midterm tomorrow. This pounding headache I have isn't helping me concentrate.

The two bottles of Widmer I drank earlier aren't helping either.

My first midterm (US Foreign policy/Regional Security) went better than expected. The exam consisted of 4 questions, each split into two parts. However, the parts were not topically or conceptually related in any way, so there were effectively 8 questions. In any case, I was completely unprepared for two parts (one covered a guest speaker in a lecture I didn't even attend), and two were rushed answers during the last 10 minutes, Somehow I pulled a (post-curve) B+. Whatever, I won't question it!

Political Inquiry (Poli 30): No midterm yet, just assignments

International Terrorism (Poli 142O): Take home essay(s) distributed next Friday.

In other news, we have a new teller who just started training at the branch this week. Apparently they intend to make her the new dedicated Drive-up teller, thank god. Working the Teller line I actually enjoy, but after this past year as primarily drive-up I was seriously about to quit. Who knows, maybe I still will. Try working just one job for a while.

Should I sport the Fidel at campus tomorrow? Who knows.

#1

Hey, I guess I have a blog now (its about time)!

I'm not too terribly sure how this thing is going to work out, and to be honest I don't have a very good track record when it comes to these things at first, save my Space. But I suppose I'll figure it out as I go along. Should be interesting!

More to come...