Feeling :  determined  Listening :  Lost Ones - Lauryn Hill  Reading :  Ranma 1/2 #24

As you can see, new theme: Have a Myooz Christmas.

I’m avoiding doing my final papers in Literature of the American West and Writing About Literature. I know what I’m going to write about. I just don’t know how to start ‘em. It’s always been like that. Either I can’t start or end a piece. I’m trying to work on it, but I tend to rattle on and on. Or a blank page stares at me all day. They’re not due until next Tuesday, and I don’t have to go to those classes tomorrow, but still. I should get something done to feel productive. Hence the reason I’m blogging, rofl. And last night, instead of getting started, I worked on themes for this site. I hate being a procrastinator, no matter how sweet it feels to do nothing and then rest afterwards.

Xmas-wise, I’ve pretty much got everyone’s gifts. I only need the gifts for my two brothers who are visiting in a couple of weeks, and for my cousin who was miffed when I posted on MySpace about Xmas gifts and didn’t mention her in my list! rofl. I got my dad, my brother and his family in Georgia, my mom, my sister, my two nieces, my BFFs in Cali, one of my former co-workers.

I hit a parked car the other day (don’t ask). I’m embarrassed to even be typing that. It was my first semi-serious accident too, so I felt more the fool when it happened. You know how when you’re driving around a parking lot, trying to find a good parking spot, and you see one, and you react and try to get your car in the space? That’s what happened to me. A place I found that specializes in bumpers gave me an estimate that was “too much” according to my dad. I have to get even more estimates, and I don’t even know where to start. I’ve never been in an accident before. But I bet their estimates will be the same. So I have to save my money for that.

I applied for a position in the computer lab at school. So I’ll be working 2 jobs: 1 full-time and 1 part-time, as well as being a full-time student. I’m insane. But I really need the extra money. It won’t be much but it’ll be just enough to get me through.

I bought “Motown - A Journey Through Hitsville USA (iTunes Version)” by Boyz II Men and “Slanted Eyes, Slanted Hearts” by The Slants the other day through iTunes. They’re both so much fun: one nostalgic, and one that sounds like New Order meets Depeche Mode. And because the Killers were influenced by New Order, you know I love anyone who has that same sound! Plus I’ve been obsessively listening to “Last Christmas” by Wham! too. And “Don’t Shoot Me Santa” by the Killers is the serious - but failing because it’s so damn funny - Xmas song I’ve heard in a long time.

I’ve read all the Ranma 1/2 mangas at the library that they had. But they’re missing the last 10, so I think I will start investing in them if I get the other job. A lot of the copies from the library had ripped out pages. I’m like, “What did I miss??” I hate that. How can you deface a book like that and not pay the price? That bugs me.

All right, well I better eat something, and feed my dogs.

?: “What do you do when you procrastinate?”

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.

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?“