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| Time: | 1:12 am. |
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It's been well over two months since I've even bothered to update this thing. And I sometimes wonder what the point is anymore. Ever since I've come home from school, it's been a plague of filling out job applications and resumes, getting calls and having interviews, then getting calls back to learn that I just wasn't good enough to make the cut. I kind of wish that I would have made my emergency post college fund a little bit bigger, because after next month, the money is going to be completely gone. I've been trying to keep my car payment, insurance, and cell phone up, along with my credit card that I'm being forced to use since I don't have the cash for anything. Ebay is pretty much failure city right now, due to this shitty economy that we have. My sales are some of the lowest they have been in a while, but I'm determined to keep up with it, and not give up. I know sooner or later things are going to pick back up, and my sales will be just like they always were.
Having my hobbies and my boyfriend are really the only two things keeping me sane at the moment. But the sad thing is, I still feel so lethargic about everything. I'm always tired because I have no means of really getting out anywhere since I'm broke. At least when I was at school, I was still getting a paycheck every two weeks to be able to keep up with my bills. I was also able to control what I ate. Being at home, I'm at the mercy of my mother and whatever she wants to get for food. And it seems that almost every night, we go out to eat. And nine times out of ten, it's some shitty ass fast food. But trying to convince her that this is not the best food choice for diabetics is hard. Having to control my own blood sugar makes me keep track of what I am eating a whole lot more. But every night it's the same thing. Hometown Buffet, McDonald's, Burger King, Sonic, Swensons, Friendly's, Friday's, Steak and Shake, Eadie's, Philly Connection. Some of the worst damn choices of restaurants, but because we have no real food in the house, we can't cook anything.
We just got a new grill today, so I'm hoping that will deter her from wanting to go out to eat all the time. It will at least give us the chance to be able to control what the hell we are eating a little bit more.
Also, the lack of organization in this house drives me insane. When I moved back, Stephen and I went through and cleaned out the garage and the carport area. Just to give us some room. It was a shock to see just how much shit that we got rid of. But then, we realized that we have the rest of the house to go to even get into a position of organization. The kitchen is a mess, and we can't even use the table anymore because there is so much stuff on it. The piles of books and magazines in our living room is insane. The attic is a mess because there is a mix of so much stuff that we really didn't need to save up there. And our computer room barely has enough room to walk in. Boxes and boxes of stuff towering in the room. The basement is the worst by far. My mother, being the packrat that she is, has managed to collect hundreds and hundreds of products that have never been used. Shampoo, conditioner, rubber gloves by the thousands, and a myriad of other things. Because we haven't been able to get to the food storage area of the basement, we've had cans of angry pineapple actually burst out of the cans. Cans of soup that expired in 1994, boxes of cereal from 1999. Stuff that very obviously needs to be thrown away, but has been neglected and ignored. It's not like I'm living in a house filled with filth. It's just terribly unorganized and there is so much stuff in the damn house, that it's hard to move around and remember where things are.
My mother said she wants to start getting rid of stuff, but she's been saying this for the past two months since I came home, and nothing has happened.
My job hunt is still going on. I'm really hoping to find something soon. I can't deal with being unemployed for much longer.
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Tuesday, March 24th, 2009
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| Time: | 12:30 am. |
| Mood: |  aggravated. |
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Keeping up with this silly journal has been the last thing on my mind in the last few weeks. Realizing at this point that I'm now unemployed...and it's killing me. Mind you it hasn't even been a week at this point. I've been actively applying for jobs and so far, had no luck. Somehow I feel like I'm asking for a mountain here by wanting my weekends off work. I don't feel it's too much to ask, especially seeing how long I worked in retail and always got fucked over by my weekends. I want to still be able to judge and play Pokemon with my friends, so I need that time off to be able to concentrate and keep my sanity. I really don't want to be stuck making minimum wage either, but at this point, I may not have a choice. Every place around here is looking for someone who has multiple years of experience. I have experience in a few things, but none of it is what most of these places are looking for. Fortunately I have a little but of money put aside to at least last me for the next month. But it's not going to be there forever. Ugh.
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Monday, February 16th, 2009
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Hooray for never having money. I swear, trying to support myself off the meager income I'm making at school is starting to break me. Who just got paid on Friday and now has 24.00 left to her name until next payday because she had to make a car payment and buy groceries? Yeah, it's getting to the point where I can't afford anything anymore.
I just wish my Ebay sales would speed up a little bit. I never realized how much I missed that extra 500 bucks a month until now.
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Thursday, January 1st, 2009
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2009 has finally started, and it's probably time for me to take a look and reflect back through some of the things that happened to me (both good and bad) throughout the duration of the year. There have been a lot of bad things that have happened, and there are times I think that more of the bad things overshadow the good things that happened to me during the year. I got a "new" car in January, and it's one that's actually lasted for me so far. But I've had bad things happen to a good car. Between the muffler falling off and jamming a hole in my rear bumper, and the windshield getting cracked by a rock from a semi truck, I've just had bad luck with the car. Anything nice I get ends up being that way. However, the car has been reliable for me, so I shouldn't complain.
Not graduating in 2008. I was supposed to, and then things happened, that ended up costing me another 14,000 dollars to add to my loan costs. SO now I'm going to get out of school with over 35,000 in loans.
Jobs. 2008 was the year of strange job happenings. Between almost losing my job as an RA for doing something that had nothing to do with being an RA, to getting fired from Hot Topic over something so insanely stupid, 2008 was not my year for jobs. HT was giving me shit for hours, and I knew the blankets would at least give me some money for the holidays. And damn was I right. Glad to see that someone there trusted me enough to start an investigation on me. Fuckers. To see that I was worth only 20 bucks to that company. That's just sad.
I've had terrible luck with pretty much everything in my life. This has been one of the worst years in my life as far as things with money and whatnot goes.I'm beginning to think that things are just going to keep getting worse before they get better.
I'm hoping that maybe this year will go better for me, but at the rate things went for me in 2008, they probably will be just as bad for me. Do I want to start a list of goals? It seems I always forget about them within a couple of weeks, and then they just become pieces of news I type and have no intention of following. I'm going to make a list of things to do just for the hell of it, and see just how far I get with the list.
-The terribly obvious "I need to lose weight" goal. I say this every year, and I never follow through with it. I end up losing a few pounds, and then end up gaining all of it back within a few weeks. I'd love to be able to lose 40 pounds this year. At least a number like that seems easier to reach than other numbers. But when do I start? Do I work with the goal of one of the forums that I'm on and work towards playing 100 hours of DDR before I graduate? I could do something like that, but will I actually stick with it? Something will probably come up and I will fuck it up.
-Getting my car paid off. I'm almost down to 3000 on my car exactly. I want to get it paid off this year. I need to be able to make enough money to be able to do it. But that goes right with my next couple of goals.
-Get my credit card paid off. I started to use my card only because I needed to pick up a few things that were direly important to me, and cost me money that I didn't have. I ended up spending just over a grand on the card, and I need to try and get that paid off as fast as I can.
-Jobs. I graduate in three months. The question is, will the job market be good enough for me to actually be able to have something and be able to remain involved in the hobbies that I enjoy? Having my weekends off would be great, but I know not a lot of jobs do that though.
WHat else is there? If I make the list too long, I'm not going to follow it.
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Thursday, December 11th, 2008
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Saturday, November 15th, 2008
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| Time: | 2:25 am. |
| Mood: |  worried. |
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It will be so nice when I'm able to see again. Not being able to see with these old ass contacts is really starting to get the best of me. I'm hoping that they are in when I come home for break. I don't want to keep waiting around for them to come in. For as much as I spent on them, you'd think they'd be just a little more timely. It's kind of funny how every time I start to get myself out of debt, some fucking expense comes up and smacks me in the back of the head. I'm trying so hard to get a savings account built up, and things like this happen. It's damn frustrating, because I really don't know how I'm going to get things paid off. Hell, I don't even know what I want to do as far as a job goes when I graduate. The time before I get out of here is moving ever closer, and I feel like it needs to slow down so I can have some time to think.
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Monday, November 10th, 2008
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This is one of those that I really have to think about. I don't have an order for them, as I could never be that picky with my music:
1. Silent Shout-The Knife
2. Boards Of Canada-Music Has the Right to Children
3. Elliott-Song in the Air
4. The Faint-Danse Macabre
5. Kill Hannah-For Never and Ever
6. Home Video-No Certain Night or Morning
7. Yuzo Koshiro-Shinobi 3 OST
8. Coheed and Cambria-In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3
9. Of Montreal-Hissing Fauna, You are the Destroyer
10. Pink Floyd-Dark Side of the Moon
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Sunday, November 9th, 2008
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I've concluded that I'm just doomed to have bad luck for the rest of my goddamned life. I was thinking that things were going well for me until the weekend hit. I got out of class Wednesday afternoon really early, so I wanted to surprise Stephen by meeting him at the Arby's in Green for league. I back into a parking spot so I see when he pulls in. My muffler looks like it's been slowly lowering, but it's been fine since I bought the car. Apparently, as I'm backing up, the tip of the muffler hits the curb, and the muffler falls straight off. I didn't hear it, but I go to pull forward a little bit, and hear a scrape. I wait to get out of the car until Stephen shows up to see the damage, and see what I'll have to do to get home. My muffler somehow managed to do a vertical twist, and the muffler pipe rammed itself into the back of my bumper, and made a nice hole in it, causing an easy 300 dollars worth of damage to the body of my car. The muffler rusted clean off. So I get an appointment scheduled at Meineke and get a new muffler, which costs me 150.00 of money I DON'T have. Fantastic start to the weekend.
I get my eyes examined on Thursday because I'm desperate for new contacts. I can't see very well, because I knew my eyes were getting worse. I was right. My vision has gotten so bad, that the vendors don't typically carry the prescription I wear. I have to now get both of my lenses custom made. When I got them last year, I paid 128 for my toric lens, and 60 for the other lens. Well, my new toric has skyrocketed to 207 dollars for ONE lens, and the other one is up to 130. Yes, I now pay over 300 dollars for a single pair of contact lenses. I needed glasses really badly too. Anyone who sees the ones I wear now, would laugh. The lenses are super thick, and have not been replaced since before 2003. My frames are falling apart. I haven't had the money to replace them, so I finally got a new pair. -1700 in one eye, and -1400 in the other. My vision sucks. A LOT. I managed to get a discount with AAA on the glasses, so I got those for 150. Overall, I dropped 460+ on a new pair of contacts and glasses.
It's like, when I think I'm finally starting to get ahead, things get worse. Oh yeah, and they closed my Chase checking account also, because my balance was at 0 for too long. I use my checking to put money in my savings account, so I've been keeping the account active. But I like the fact that they didn't tell me this. And of course, I can't get a new account opened until I come home for winter break. Fuck.
Are things going to start improving sometime soon? My luck fails. I didn't even want to use the credit card I ended up using, but I'm desperate to be able to see again, and the card is for emergencies. Both my car, and contacts were truly emergencies that needed tending. Maybe it will just be safer for me to sit in a corner for a while and not come out. Bad things can't happen if you aren't doing anything, right?
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Friday, October 24th, 2008
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| Time: | 2:27 am. |
| Mood: | depressed. | | Music: | The Weakerthans-One Great City!. |
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I think it's safe to now say that I hate not having health insurance. I want to get new contact lenses, and the last time I bought them, I shelled out nearly 200 bucks for the contacts alone. I could use glasses too, as the pair I have is well over 10 years old, and the frames are starting to give out, not to mention the lenses are 6 years old and way out of date. I called around to places in Athens today, just to see if I could get something cheap. 150 is the cheapest in this poor ass town. That's insane, and it gets higher if you're being fit for a Toric lens. And of course, having the shitty vision that I do, I wear a Toric in one eye. I just didn't want to have to keep waiting until I go home in a couple weeks and get them ordered. Fortunately, my eye doctor at home knows my financial situation, and does my eye exams for free, but I'm still looking at almost 200 for one pair of lenses. It's insane, but my contacts have slowly been getting blurrier over the last couple of weeks.
Buying an enzyme kit tomorrow and seeing if that will make them a little more tolerable for the next couple of weeks. I'd love to be able to see clearly again. If I still had health insurance, I'd only have to pay 20 percent of that 200 bucks. Then I'd be able to afford the glasses. But at this point, I can barely afford the contact lenses.
I just want to get Lasik done. But that's another thing i don't have the money for. Because the procedure would take longer because of my vision, it would cost more. The cost is based on just how bad your vision is. And after my surgery, my vision got worse. Everything got worse. I can't focus clearly on things. Straight lines aren't straight to me. My distance vision is gone, which sucks when someone is waving at me from a distance and I can't even see who the fuck it is. My night vision has to be the worst though. I used to have really good night vision. But now, seeing street signs at night is nearly impossible. I just wish I had that back. It's what I miss the most. I'm too young to not be able to see in the dark properly. Hell, I'm too young to have already had a retinal detachment in both eyes. My doctor even said that to me the first time I came in for surgery. And when I came back the second time, he said I was a freak of nature, and no one should have that happen to them twice.
It's one of those luck things I guess. If I didn't have bad luck, then I wouldn't have any luck at all. Overall, Stephen is really the only good thing that has happened to me recently. I have bad luck with cars, school, work, hobbies, my weight, and just about every other thing you can think of. I find out I need 18 credits to graduate, rather than 12. Awesome, so taking 12 credits this quarter was a fucking dumb idea, but no one told me there was anything wrong on my DARS. Ugh. Wednesdays are going to kick my ass next quarter, because I have 4 classes that day.
I'm going to bed before I depress myself even more.
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Tuesday, October 21st, 2008
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It would be so much better if he were here with me right now. How just being away from each other can make you miss someone.
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Monday, October 20th, 2008
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| Time: | 12:44 am. |
| Music: | Sonique-Feels so good. |
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Why does time always become the enemy for me on a weekend when we're together? It seemed like he had just gotten into town, and then, the next thing I know.....Sunday was knocking at my door. We stuck around here for the most part, and went to Parkersburg on Saturday, just as a change of pace. We ended up getting lost on the way to the mall, because it's been at least 4 years since I've been there last time. After randomly driving around, we finally found it. We ended up getting dinner at Red Lobster, since Shrimpfest is going on, and I was really in the mood for some seafood. Stephen bought me a puzzle for Sweetest Day. I have a fire dragon puzzle at home that I did years ago, and I've been looking for the matching ice dragon one. The mall happened to have it, so he picked it up for me.
Also, after waiting for nearly a damn month, my promise ring finally came in the mail. Stephen and I each bought each other a ring to signify our relationship. We aren't ready to get engaged or anything yet, which seems to be the trend amongst almost everyone we know. We've been together for a Year and almost 4 months...to us, that's not long enough for the two of us to take it to the next stage. I've just seen way too many of my friends getting married and engaged lately, and I think it's not the smartest idea. They aren't in relationships that long to truly get to know the person they are with. To me, you have to really know who you're with. I feel I know Stephen very well, but I still want more time with him. We feel it's going to benefit the relationship more in the future anyhow.
I've been trying to get myself in better shape. DDR has really been helping me out. I'm playing it at least every other day for an hour, and sometimes every day. Depends really on the amount of time I have with classes and whatnot. I have a test in Psych on Wednesday over 4 chapters of material. Unfortunately, I haven't been to the last three classes, so I have to go through and get everything I need out of the book for me to prepare for it. I'm gonna try and spend a nice chunk of the day on Tuesday getting ready for it. It seems like the tests are a bit easier after the first one, and now he's giving us what exactly we need to know for the test. So as long as I go to class tomorrow, I'll be okay. I'm getting worried about my Tier 3 class though. I don't normally go to the class because the material covered is pretty much common sense. We have a group project that we need to get done, and apparently, none of us really go to the class. Well, we emailed around and were supposed to have a group meeting on Weds, since class was canceled. Oh yeah, only one other girl in my group showed up. Our presentation is worth a giant chunk of our grade, and the thing has to be an hour long. We need to have some sort of preparation for it, but no one seems to be doing anything.
Week seven of the quarter. Finally. I wish these last couple weeks would fly. I just want to go home for Winter Break. So I can work, make money, and be with Stephen. It's too hard for the two of us to be apart.
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Friday, October 10th, 2008
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Can someone explain to me how being frugal with money means driving a Honda? I just got done reading an article on the economy, and how Americans are starting to save money more and spend less. One of the things they mentioned was about a man who "shops with coupons, drives a Honda, and saves money." This is not the first time I've seen Hondas used as the car example for frugality. I just don't get it. Hondas aren't cheap cars at all. They are one of the few cars that keep their value and don't depreciate over the years like most other cars do. They make people who buy Hondas seem like cheap asses, but I think it makes us smart consumers. I bought a car that is going to last me for many years. Simple as that.
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Tuesday, October 7th, 2008
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I'm beginning to learn that honesty in life can get you no where sometimes. Realizing that honesty can only make me second best, and I'll never be able to rise to become number one with honesty. It's sad that people have to cheat and be shifty in a damn card game to win. I play with the hand that is dealt to me, and I deal with it. I don't cheat. I don't have to. I feel I have enough skill as a player to be able to play the hand dealt to me, and attempt to make the best out of it. Spirit of the game is supposed to be one of the biggest things that makes the game. But when people act shifty and happen to be able to not have a single bad hand dealt to them...I don't know. I try and figure out how people are able to do this and not get caught. But maybe that's just me. I can't see it, so of course, I can't catch it and stop it. But others mention the shiftyness, and make me want to look for it.
2 Battle Roads over the weekend. 3rd place and 2nd place. Makes me conclude that I will never be better than 2nd. Every event I've made top cut....I get donked in top 2. No matter what.
I guess I miss the honesty I used to remember the game having. Certain players you have to watch, just because they can't get past the fact that "it's a game." Because there are prizes at stake, they have to make a huge stink over it. Perhaps more people should learn to play without cheating. The game would be better as a whole if that happened.
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Wednesday, October 1st, 2008
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It's a new month. And for me, that always means building a list of goals to follow and hopefully be able to accomplish. October's list looks a little something like this:
-Lose 10 pounds. I managed to lose 6 last month. And that was with a very minimal amount of change. I believe that just a little bit of work can get me to the 10 pound goal when I need to. I got a new metal DDR mat, and a USB cable, so I don't really have much of an excuse to not do this.
-Savings up to 600 dollars. I have 500 in there now. I've been pushing very hard on this one. I'm pushing for 1000 by graduation, so I think I'm very well off on this goal.
-Do well in psych. This class is much harder than I figured it would be, and it's really pushing me. I have a test Monday, and I'm hoping to do well on it. I've studied two of the four chapters already, so I'm about halfway done with that. I know I won't study much when I'm with Stephen, so I'm pushing to work when I can.
I should probably get to bed soon. I want a real night's sleep.
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Thursday, September 25th, 2008
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Out of all the damn keygen codes out there, why does someone on the same network as me have to have the same microsoft office code? When one of us is on, it kicks the other off. So in order to use it, I have to unplug my internet. Which is lame.
You know what, stress really damn sucks, you know? After having to spend all that money on a new windshield, I've been a bit in the red for a good duration of the month. And with my online sales being less than spectacular, I just don't have quite as much to work with. And it sucks because I'd like to have more. I'm trying to keep up with my savings and my car as well, which is working. At the same time, I just don't want to short myself anywhere with money.
I have to take the car in tomorrow for a tire rotation and balance, because the damn thing has been shaking like a motherfucker on the highway for no reason. And it could be because I haven't had this done since I got the car. Stupid Athens quick change doesn't do anything with tires, and that's where I always get my oil changed.
I still can't get over how difficult it is to get along without Stephen being around. I think it was easier last year because I actually had some friends down here. Now, that nearly all of my friends have graduated, I spend a lot of time alone in my room trying to figure out things to do to keep myself occupied when I'm not in class. My workload isn't terrible, but I keep leaving things until the last minute, exactly what I promised myself I WOULDN'T do. I have a paper due on Monday and I just started it tonight. Funny thing is, I've had all the information for it since 3 weeks ago, but I just didn't feel like writing it. Hell, I didn't feel like it tonight, but managed to get 3 pages of it written tonight. I know I can get it done tomorrow if I want to, but I may just wait until Friday to get it done. But the fact that we're already 3 weeks into the quarter just boggles me. Midterms are already going to be coming up for us VERY soon. I still need to schedule an appointment with my advisor to get graduation shit set up for next quarter.
I'm actually more scared to think about graduation at this point. Because I know the economy is complete crap at the moment, and I fear finding a job is going to be terribly difficult. Or at least finding a job that I like. At this point, I want to have enough free time with a full time job to still be able to judge and play Pokemon on the weekends. So something that is Monday through Friday will be the most ideal step for me. I need to start looking soon, but to start, I need to get a USB adapter for my external hard drive so I can pull my resume off of it. If I start submitting for jobs in November, I think that gives me enough of a head start to enter the field in March. I'd like to stick with Hot Topic, but I know that I won't get hours, and to me, 5-7 hours a week is almost as bad as not having a job at all, so I'd rather not get stuck in that route. When I was home on breaks, that was all fine an dandy, but I'll have a lot more to start thinking about when I move home. Loans will come up and bite me in the ass faster than I realize, and I don't want to be unprepared for those. I've got the savings account started for a reason, and of course this is the year that Stephen wants to travel. I have to watch hotel and airfare costs if we really decide to go to California for worlds this year.
Thinking about my near future really stresses me out. I just want to get my car paid off first, and worry about the rest later.
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Friday, September 19th, 2008
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Either I'm getting really old, or I just grew up way too damn fast. I'm sitting here waiting to get my oil changed, and there are two girls sitting here talking about how they have a party to go to, and how drunk they are going to get. Apparently they work at either a bar or a restaurant, and they are now talking about how much the two of them get in tips. Times like this make me so glad that I'm not a regular female. I could never imagine talking about getting drunk every single night while I'm down here. I've been here for almost a month already, and I actually haven't had a single thing to drink since I showed up. Ugh, frustration at its finest.
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Thursday, September 18th, 2008
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| Time: | 2:46 am. |
| Mood: |  determined. | | Music: | Spill Canvas. |
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I finally began the kickstart of getting my ass down to size. After realizing how much the scale is scaring me every day when I see it...I realized that something HAS to be done. Ideally, I want to get down to 220, but I know that's going to take a really long time for me to actually lose that much weight. People are probably reading this and wondering how in the name of anything could I possibly weigh that much? The scale doesn't lie. I have a long road ahead of me, and I know I need to be able to do it. DDR was something that helped me out a lot back when I was a freshman in college. I was able to lose about 15 pounds playing it for a few hours a week. I'm shooting for an hour 3 days a week to start, and we'll see how that goes. This combined with eating well has to get me down. Since the beginning of the month, I have lost 4 pounds. Which isn't much, I know, but it's certainly a start. After trying to go to Biolife to donate 4 times and being turned away for high pulse, I realized that this is getting serious. My blood pressure was higher than I've ever seen it. I don't want to have problems when I get older. I want to nip this in the bud now.
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Tuesday, September 16th, 2008
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| Time: | 2:25 am. |
| Mood: | aggravated. | | Music: | Aloha. |
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Sometimes I think that there is a black cloud that just follows me around, and when things start to go well for me, they fall apart quickly. My weekend would have gone well if I didn't have to shell out 200+ dollars on a new windshield. Figures that on my way home Wednesday night, a semi kicks up a rock that hits my window and cracks the shit out of it. It was not something that could be repaired without replacing the whole window. Of course, I didn't have much time to call around since I had to get it done, but it could have probably been cheaper if I had more time to make calls. And then I get back down here last night, and because of the wind, the power is out in half of Athens. So when I try and go grocery shopping, I can't, because Kroger has no power. I go back to my parking lot, and find out that someone is parked in my assigned spot. I call the church office and leave a message and come back to get my car today. The damn car is still there. So I call the church back up again and let them know. They call me back a little while later and let me know that they put a tow notice on the car so the driver has 24 hours to move the car. As of 7pm, it was still there. To make matters worse, my Iron was low again today, and I couldn't donate plasma. Figures when I could really use the money, I can't even get it. I'll try again Wednesday, but who knows if it will be up again by then. So then I make the mistake of going grocery shopping at 4:30 in the afternoon. I've concluded that I hate being in a public place like a grocery store by myself. People are so stupid when they are trying to maneuver carts around. There's this family that I swear kept following me up and down the aisles. Mother, father, and 3 kids. 2 kids are in the cart, and the little girl is loose. I'm in the aisle where the bread is, and as they walk by, the girl screams "DADDY! WHEAT BREAD!" They are going in the opposite direction I'm in, but that are going up and down the same aisles I am. So of course, I have to hear this girl in every aisle, or hear the parents bitching about how expensive everything is. I end up over in frozen foods, and the family comes back. The little girl starts saying "The moo moo juice is calling." over and over again. And she starts to get louder, and then starts to moo. I just wanted to get my sanity back after that trip. I NEVER want my kids to be annoying like that. I wish things would just start to get a little bit better. They've been shitty for much too long.
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Monday, September 8th, 2008
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Classes started up today. It seems like this quarter is going to be a bit so so. My teachers seem to be okay, at least the ones I've had class with in person. My Philosophy teacher might very well think he's above everyone else because he graduated with a Phd from Harvard. Oh great. Makes us feel like idiots on day one.
And then there are my residents. I'm about ready to stab all of them. When you try and ask me what alcohol smells like, after the whole mod reeks of it....that's sad right there. Just because I'm an RA doesn't mean that I'm a moron. Apparently that's one of the biggest myths that freshmen believe in. Honestly, I'd love to know who it is that teaches people these things. And then there was last night. Now, i normally don't care too much about noise at night, but goddamn, it's 1:00 am, you're drunk (all 7 of you), 2 of you have guitars and are playing them, and all of you are singing David Bowie. Are you freaking kidding me? And then when I tell you to cut the noise, you say you're going to go outside. Ugh. I've never had such a defiant group of freshmen before. I'm really hoping that some of them will learn to listen to me. I'm very glad that I came off as a hardass at the first meeting, because they do know that I'm not there to let them walk all over me. If I start out this way, and ease out later on in the year, perhaps that will give me the line of respect that I should get. I don't want them to kiss my ass, but I'd like them to listen to me when I ask them to do something. I just want people to respect university policy, that's it, which includes quiet hours as well. It's not hard to ask for.
I just hope to have a good school year.
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