fuck 'sc
it happens every year, so i'm not exactly sure why i'm bitching about it. but of course, the damn fucking university of southern california raised tuition again. at least this year, i won't have to pay the ridiculous student health insurance fee. i just have to remember to send in the waiver form and the proof of having private insurance.
as far as classes are concerned... i got back my master's seminar class the day after i accidentally dropped it. i wanted to take this international education (elective) class, but for some reason, i can't get the d-clearance for it. i called the office twice and still nothing. hopefully they won't drop the class cuz right now, there's only two people in that class. i think chances are slim that the department will keep it, but we'll see. if they still have the class (which meets tomorrow), i'll definitely go and check it out.
i got a part time job at the VA hospital in westwood. i'll be taking over for tiffany, who's leaving at the end of the week. with all the bureaucracy and red tape at the VA, i'm not going to officially be working for the feds until sometime next month. although the job is in west la, which means a bitch of a commute, i do get to work on an MRI machine at UCLA. so it's something cool i can put on my resume. we had a scanning session on saturday, which was really interesting. of course, tiffany told me that it would be from 11-1pm, but we didn't leave until 4:30pm.
here's my tentative schedule for school: master's seminar, community college, and fieldwork. the fieldwork isn't so much a class, but rather you work somewhere within the realm of postsecondary administration and student affairs and write a paper on your experiences. so i have this paying gig lined up, but it's not for certain, and the lady never emailed me back. if that doesn't work out, i'll need to go find some volunteer work, which sucks since it probably won't pay anything. so it definitely looks like it'll be a pretty busy semester.
my car window is jacked again. this happened when i went to dinner on wednesday (korean bbq, and that's a picture of jay) and the valet lowered my window all the way down. normally, when that happens, i take it to marco's autobody shop to get it (or them, depending on the windows) fixed. marco's is great since they never charged me for fixing the window. however, i've done this so many times now that they know who i am. and it's really rather annoying that i can't lower my windows all the way down, which i love, especially when it's summertime. so i've decided to get the damn thing fixed right, which means shelling out $240 to get different parts for both windows. the only solace is that marco's will install the new parts in for free. FREE!
last tuesday, deidra found a dead opossum in the backyard and woke me up to get rid of it. i'm not sure what happened, but i ended up continuing to sleep. i really hate when she wakes me up to do something that can wait. okay, looking for an escaped hamster, i can understand. but to dispose of a dead (DEAD!) corpse, that's not right. and it wasn't even rotting or anything. next time, leave a note.
our tomato plant is finally bearing fruit. we ate our first tomato on saturday, and it was pretty delicious. my dad told me to naturally fertilize it, but i don't think that's going to be happening since i'm planning to eat the damn things. we do throw wellington's old bedding (with his little poopies) on the tomato plant in hopes of giving it some nutrients.
today has been a good, somewhat productive day. i couldn't get motivated the past few days. today, i got the laundry done, went shopping for more ingredients for dumplings, and did the hoovering. now the only thing for me to do (well... the only thing left that i set out to do this weekend) is to clean the computer room before school starts. it's not especially messy, but it's definitely going to take some time.
so, should i make dumplings tonight? or should i not bother and just make sandwiches instead?
as far as classes are concerned... i got back my master's seminar class the day after i accidentally dropped it. i wanted to take this international education (elective) class, but for some reason, i can't get the d-clearance for it. i called the office twice and still nothing. hopefully they won't drop the class cuz right now, there's only two people in that class. i think chances are slim that the department will keep it, but we'll see. if they still have the class (which meets tomorrow), i'll definitely go and check it out.
i got a part time job at the VA hospital in westwood. i'll be taking over for tiffany, who's leaving at the end of the week. with all the bureaucracy and red tape at the VA, i'm not going to officially be working for the feds until sometime next month. although the job is in west la, which means a bitch of a commute, i do get to work on an MRI machine at UCLA. so it's something cool i can put on my resume. we had a scanning session on saturday, which was really interesting. of course, tiffany told me that it would be from 11-1pm, but we didn't leave until 4:30pm.
here's my tentative schedule for school: master's seminar, community college, and fieldwork. the fieldwork isn't so much a class, but rather you work somewhere within the realm of postsecondary administration and student affairs and write a paper on your experiences. so i have this paying gig lined up, but it's not for certain, and the lady never emailed me back. if that doesn't work out, i'll need to go find some volunteer work, which sucks since it probably won't pay anything. so it definitely looks like it'll be a pretty busy semester.
my car window is jacked again. this happened when i went to dinner on wednesday (korean bbq, and that's a picture of jay) and the valet lowered my window all the way down. normally, when that happens, i take it to marco's autobody shop to get it (or them, depending on the windows) fixed. marco's is great since they never charged me for fixing the window. however, i've done this so many times now that they know who i am. and it's really rather annoying that i can't lower my windows all the way down, which i love, especially when it's summertime. so i've decided to get the damn thing fixed right, which means shelling out $240 to get different parts for both windows. the only solace is that marco's will install the new parts in for free. FREE!
last tuesday, deidra found a dead opossum in the backyard and woke me up to get rid of it. i'm not sure what happened, but i ended up continuing to sleep. i really hate when she wakes me up to do something that can wait. okay, looking for an escaped hamster, i can understand. but to dispose of a dead (DEAD!) corpse, that's not right. and it wasn't even rotting or anything. next time, leave a note.our tomato plant is finally bearing fruit. we ate our first tomato on saturday, and it was pretty delicious. my dad told me to naturally fertilize it, but i don't think that's going to be happening since i'm planning to eat the damn things. we do throw wellington's old bedding (with his little poopies) on the tomato plant in hopes of giving it some nutrients.
today has been a good, somewhat productive day. i couldn't get motivated the past few days. today, i got the laundry done, went shopping for more ingredients for dumplings, and did the hoovering. now the only thing for me to do (well... the only thing left that i set out to do this weekend) is to clean the computer room before school starts. it's not especially messy, but it's definitely going to take some time.
so, should i make dumplings tonight? or should i not bother and just make sandwiches instead?
1 Comments:
haha naturally fertilize it? I'll remember to pee on it next time I'm in LA.
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