It’s been a long, hellish week. I’m so emotionally zapped from everything (see previous entries as needed). I need to chill. So I did nothing when I got home from work today, except mess around online and return the Griffin iTrip I bought at Target. I used it at work for a couple of days. I returned it because I needed the money for my car. I was short like .36 cents (I told you I was poor!!). The iTrip cost like $40 bones.

Anyways, I wouldn’t recommend it.

Pros: small.

Cons: didn’t match with my black iPod, kinda hard to work the buttons to go the way you want them to, and it works off the battery of your iPod. I dunno abt. you, but I have a tendency to change the song if I don’t like it at that moment. So after about 8 hours of continuous usage, plus shuffling and my constantly changing the song, it got v. close to draining the internal battery.

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So anyway, I decided to start planning my classes for fall term this year. And over the course of 2 hours or so, I figured out something v. cool. If I take 5 classes this upcoming fall term ‘07, then 4 in spring ‘08, and then another 5 in fall ‘08, I’ll be done with school. I will be the proud owner of a Bachelor of Arts degree in English.

Yeah, I know I was going on and on abt. switching to History awhile back, but I figure I’m more than halfway to an English one, why stop? Life is tough, and I’m not going to quit because it’s hard. I’ve given up on a lot of things because they were too “hard.” I don’t want my degree to be the one thing I gave up on, even though I’m technically not. I’m doing something as trivial as changing majors.

Besides, it’s a Fire Pig year. I don’t wanna tempt the Fates.

Can you believe it? 1.5 more years!! I keep double checking my calculations, and they’re not wrong.

They gave me an official degree audit when I started last fall (since I transferred in an Associate’s), and I filled in the blanks with all the classes I’ve taken thus far, and the classes I wanna take. It includes the ones that transferred, plus accounting for all the requirements from the school for a bachelor’s.

And here I thought I was years behind!

*Snoopy dance*

I haven’t registered for fall yet, but I plan on taking Writing About Literature (required for major), Pop Culture in 20th Century United States (elective), Literature of the American West (required for major), Principals of Management and Organizational Behaviour (required for minor), and Bible as Literature (required for major).

But I’m gonna be flexible for the final semesters.

The classes I want to take for my major haven’t been offered since I’ve started (Women & Literature, The Victorian Period, & Gender and Sexual Identity in Literature). I had to choose between taking Bible as Lit or Fundamentals of Business Writing this fall, and I chose the Bible as Lit. So altogether, that’s 4.

The electives I’m not worried abt. so much, since 2 of them are lower division business courses (Accounting and Business Law), and the other 2 are upper division history (since no other elective offers upper division courses that appeal to me). Frankly, I don’t care what UD history I take, I know I’m gonna love ‘em. :)

Plus I still have to take the Community-Based Learning Capstone. It’s a senior project, at least that’s what I was told.

I’m gonna have the biggest party when I graduate. You don’t even KNOW.

?: “How close are you to your degree if you’re in university? If you can’t answer that, why did you decide not to go to university?“