status update

This week has been very, very hectic. It's essentially midterm week; I didn't have any midterms, but I do have a bunch of pre-Spring-Break papers due. And since this is the week of Sera's spring break as well, I had to prioritize. Socializing with Sera > schoolwork > sleep > fun. And tomorrow I'm going straight from class off on a road trip. I predict I will spend much of the time asleep. I further predict that I will have a lot of fun, and that when I come back I will collapse into a squashed-frog shape and not move for a few days. Then I go apartment-hunting, sigh.

I like my major. It provides for a balanced mix of the subjective, debate-focused class style and the information-transfer lecture-focused class style. Too much lecturing makes the brain freeze up, but at least for my neurobio class I never have homework. heh. And as much as I constantly bitch and moan about Japanese, there's this that can be said for it: I'm almost never bored in class.

Tonight I'm writing about frying rat brains.( TMI... )

Tomorrow I'm off to Vegas. Too bad I'm not 21 yet.


Livejournal mood seems to think I'm distressed. I'm not, really. I'm under a lot of stress right now, but that doesn't mean I'm miserable. I tend to post in LJ to vent my most unhappy feelings, but overall I really am happy. Something about the campus grounds is doing it for me. Last night I didn't sleep. I took a break from paper-writing at 6:15 and went to watch the sun come up over Gould. I've already seen plenty of sunrises during my high school years, but it's different to really watch one for its own sake instead of just out of the corner of your eye as you get off the bus.

A rising sun is different from a setting sun in ways I can't really explain.

omg teh trajedy

So it's the old story between two conflicting sins: laziness and greed.

Although I don't talk about it much, I've been fairly obsessive about worrying about money lately; I can always ask my parents for money if I need it, but I don't really like to, since I do technically have a job and do earn something. I know intellectually that I'm a student and not really expected to be a wage-earner, but it bothers me that I can't seem to save anything, that anything I earn seems to vanish before the pay period is up. Because of my schedule, though, I haven't been able to spend as many hours at the help desk as last year (although more than last semester, fortunately) so I've been looking all semester for some jobs to pick up for a little extra cash. I have a babysitting gig over the break, for instance, and I aimed for a job at the local cafe, although that didn't work out for reasons I *could* rant about but let's just say it fell through.

This morning my boss mentioned that they didn't really have anyone to cover the computer lab desk over spring break, and asked me if I was interested. Heck yes. Unfortunately, she added, there was someone else who could cover for the afternoon shifts; it was just the morning that she needs people.

*watches little winged pillow fluttering away* Sigh.