ouch

I had big plans today.  Very big plans involving lifting things, mainly clothes, and transporting them to my local Goodwill store because there is just too much stuff in my apartment.  In a weird way I was looking forward to doing this.  It would mean being able to do laundry more quickly, not having a hamper that’s always overflowing with clothes that need to be washed, and, most importantly, being able to see the floor in my bedroom.

However, none of this is going to happen because I woke up this morning and my back hurt so badly I could barely even get out of bed.  I did manage to get out of my bed.  In fact, I managed to walk all the way to the living room to plant myself on the couch.  Then I manged to pull myself off the couch to walk all the way back to my room and climb back up onto the bed so I could lay on the heating pad.  And that’s how I’ve been ever since.  It’s a good thing I have the laptop, since there is only so much TV to watch on a Sunday morning.  Plus, it’s kind of a crappy rainy day so there’s not really anything better than laying around to do.

If only I could find the naproxen.  I would drug myself and feel much better.

just another day

While I wait for my (annoyingly slow) credit card page to load on another window, I thought I would write a little post about all the fun things I have planned to do today.

First, I need to go back to the bike store to get a bike rack for the Scion.  Even though my car has more space inside than it would appear to from the outside, it is still a tight fit to get the new bike in the car.  This makes getting places with the bike a tad difficult.  Plus, I’m always worried that something will happen to the car, the bike, or both.  After the bike shop, I am hopefully going to be getting the bike out of storage.  I know!  I’m so bad!  I just bought the bike and it has been in storage ever since!  In my defense, though (if there is one), I was out of state for a week after the bike was purchased and since there was a chance of bad weather, I didn’t want to leave the bike outside.  So, into the storage unit it went.  And, as previously mentioned, it is a pain in the arse to get the bike into the car, so until I had money (which I still don’t, hence the slowly loading credit card page) to get a bike rack for the car, it had to stay there.  I feel bad for my poor bike.  It deserves to be ridden.

After that, I need to call the dentist, the eye doctor and two other doctors to set up appointments.  It’s that time of year.  the time when the only thing in my schedule is work and not school.  This apparently makes it easier to schedule these types of appointments, although I’m not sure how.  I’m sure I won’t get these appointments finished until August.  Just in time for school to start again.

At some point, I need to either call or go to the advisor’s office on campus so I can talk to them about the possibility of me retaking my finance class from last semester (J, I know I told you that you talked me out of it, but it hurts me to look at that grade!).  I’m not sure they’ll actually allow me to do it since I did technically pass the class, but if they will, I’m all over it.

Then, at 3, it’s off to work for another fun-filled evening at the hospital!

I can’t wait.

financial “aid”

So, remember when I said I might have the occasional financial aid induced rant?  Well, the wait is over, because here it is!

It’s not really a huge rant, just something that is very annoying.  My school, IUPUI, has decided to switch from Sallie Mae to federally funded loans.  Basically, this means that all students who receive financial aid must sign a new Master Promissory Note.  The promissory note had something like 13 steps that needed to be completed before it was official.  The one that bothered me the most was that you needed to include two references who do not share an address with the student.  And one of them must be a parent or legal guardian.  Now, let’s think.  Most 18 year old students still live at home with at least one parent.  Usually both.  How are they going to put a parent or legal guardian on the MPN if they share the same address?  Makes no sense.  Then you have students who are in my situation (although I don’t know how many of them there are).  My situation includes my mom living with my sister and me since she is ill and hasn’t lived alone for a while.  So, the two people that I would put on my MPN BOTH live with me.  That made it very difficult to fill this stupid thing out.

I hate financial “aid”.

summer

I feel the need to continue writing this blog even though it’s summer and I’m not taking any classes.  My technical reason for not furthering my education this summer is that during the first session of summer classes at IUPUI I was going to be in Florida and would have had to miss a whole week of classes.  Which pretty much equals two or three weeks in ‘real time’ since the classes meet for three hours a day, two days a week.  While I wasn’t sure about my trip to Vienna when it came time to register for classes, it was an idea already and I was hoping to go, which would mean missing another week of classes during the second summer session.  See?  It was practical.  And money saving.  Maybe.

The real reason for not taking classes?  I NEED A BREAK!  I’m so burned out with school right now.  I need to be excited about it again, and I think that taking a few months off where I don’t have to think about it, AT ALL, will help me get back to being excited.  When I’m excited about school, I get very good grades.  My first semester back to school after a 7 year break?  A 3.9 GPA.  All the semesters since?  Not even a 3.5.  Need to do something about that.  And a break, even a short one, is the ticket.

So, since I’m not taking classes this summer, expect to see some non-school-related posts from me.  I might have the occasional financial aid induced rant, or a comment on the classes that I’m taking in the fall.  Or, most likely, a little bitching as the summer comes to an end, but other than that, this blog will mostly consist of all the fun things I plan to do this summer.

Like my upcoming trip to Vienna, for instance.  That’s right.  Vienna.  In Austria.  That’s in Europe.  I finally have a chance to use the passport I got last year!  Even though they probably won’t stamp it, it’s still cool that I get to use it.  I’ve been out of the country before, but never to Europe and I’m very excited about it!  I think I’m going to need a crash course in German.  Luckily my dad’s girlfriend is from Germany and can help me out with that.  I’m going to need to learn important phrases like, ‘Where’s the bathroom?’, ‘Check, please.’, and “May I have another beer?’.  Since I’ll be in Austria and rumor has it there is beer there.  Good beer.

So it’s T minus one month and 5 days till my trip.  I wish it was now!