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life update
Sep. 22nd, 2011 09:02 pmSchool's been on for couple weeks now. It's been going ok, i guess. I'm pretty used to riding up and back and there's only been one bad day. I'm not too happy about having to get up at 8:15 most mornings, particularly since the class i'm usually getting up for is mechanics, which is basically high school physics, but oh well.
Other classes have been going pretty good. Calculus is going to be work but it's not such a bad kind of work. I'm not overly fond of math, but i am good at it and it's nice to stretch those mental muscles occasionally, i guess. Also my calc teacher is awesome and wears cool hats and writes on the windows in whiteboard during tutorial class. Chemistry is going to be a much less fun kind of work. Lots of number crunching and ridiculously abstract stuff. I'll have to genuinely try in that one, particularly since the class itself is scheduled 1-2:15 after i've already had two morning classes including calc, and my brain gets worn out on me and tries to zone out >.> Women's lit is at the same timeslot, but it's a seminar class and half the time it's my only class of the day (the other half i have a chem lab) so it barely counts as work, really.
My main complaint thus far is that between school and work at safeway i haven't had a single day off where i didn't have to head up to the area where school and work are, and honestly i feel like it's starting to wear on me a bit. if it keeps going like this, i may have to ask for fewer hours, or saturdays off or something. I'm not sure they have my availabity quite correct anyway and they've really been piling on the hours, so if i do have to revise my availability i might actually do that <.< then they could still give me the 3:15-10 shifts when i'm up there for school anyway, and i'd have a definite day off. On the other hand, that'd mean more spending 7:15am-10pm up there, which is not a whole lot of fun either, so i dunno. <.< I actually do have this coming sunday off, though i'm working some on saturday. they did call me in for a awful lot of extra hours last week though... we'll just have to see how it goes. I have to admit i'm feeling a bit bleh right now so that's colouring the whole situation >.> in a better mood i'd probably be a lot more optimistic about things.
I think i'm definitely actually for real finished my little binge of reading half the WoD books now. Going to try to focus on writing projects, both for their own sake and cause i think i'll feel a lot better about hanging around home after school if i have something productive to work on! I really need to finish Cremation, but i've built up a TREMENDOUS amount of 'not working on it' momentum by now x.x i'm doing some planning for new stories to try to get myself excited about the world again, and i might do some prewriting and stuff just to get back into the flow of producing lots of words again (that's part of why i'm doing this entry as well.) I've been feeling kinda drained when i get home from school recently, but i don't think it's exactly that i'm tired <.< more that i need to find something to get excited about.
Speaking of which i'm been thinking of getting a proper desktop computer to do games and things on. I figure i've probably earned in with all these extra hours and whatnot, and it'd be nice to have a machine that things would just run on and not have to worry about it chugging along and overheating. Also i could pass on my current laptop to my lil sis, which would be cool cause she's the only kid in our family without a decent computer.
I guess that's just about all for now. I'll maybe try to post soonish with some interesting bits of prewriting/worldbuilding for stories, maybe. We'll see how it goes.
Other classes have been going pretty good. Calculus is going to be work but it's not such a bad kind of work. I'm not overly fond of math, but i am good at it and it's nice to stretch those mental muscles occasionally, i guess. Also my calc teacher is awesome and wears cool hats and writes on the windows in whiteboard during tutorial class. Chemistry is going to be a much less fun kind of work. Lots of number crunching and ridiculously abstract stuff. I'll have to genuinely try in that one, particularly since the class itself is scheduled 1-2:15 after i've already had two morning classes including calc, and my brain gets worn out on me and tries to zone out >.> Women's lit is at the same timeslot, but it's a seminar class and half the time it's my only class of the day (the other half i have a chem lab) so it barely counts as work, really.
My main complaint thus far is that between school and work at safeway i haven't had a single day off where i didn't have to head up to the area where school and work are, and honestly i feel like it's starting to wear on me a bit. if it keeps going like this, i may have to ask for fewer hours, or saturdays off or something. I'm not sure they have my availabity quite correct anyway and they've really been piling on the hours, so if i do have to revise my availability i might actually do that <.< then they could still give me the 3:15-10 shifts when i'm up there for school anyway, and i'd have a definite day off. On the other hand, that'd mean more spending 7:15am-10pm up there, which is not a whole lot of fun either, so i dunno. <.< I actually do have this coming sunday off, though i'm working some on saturday. they did call me in for a awful lot of extra hours last week though... we'll just have to see how it goes. I have to admit i'm feeling a bit bleh right now so that's colouring the whole situation >.> in a better mood i'd probably be a lot more optimistic about things.
I think i'm definitely actually for real finished my little binge of reading half the WoD books now. Going to try to focus on writing projects, both for their own sake and cause i think i'll feel a lot better about hanging around home after school if i have something productive to work on! I really need to finish Cremation, but i've built up a TREMENDOUS amount of 'not working on it' momentum by now x.x i'm doing some planning for new stories to try to get myself excited about the world again, and i might do some prewriting and stuff just to get back into the flow of producing lots of words again (that's part of why i'm doing this entry as well.) I've been feeling kinda drained when i get home from school recently, but i don't think it's exactly that i'm tired <.< more that i need to find something to get excited about.
Speaking of which i'm been thinking of getting a proper desktop computer to do games and things on. I figure i've probably earned in with all these extra hours and whatnot, and it'd be nice to have a machine that things would just run on and not have to worry about it chugging along and overheating. Also i could pass on my current laptop to my lil sis, which would be cool cause she's the only kid in our family without a decent computer.
I guess that's just about all for now. I'll maybe try to post soonish with some interesting bits of prewriting/worldbuilding for stories, maybe. We'll see how it goes.
