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Class got canceled XD
Jul. 27th, 2010 02:19 pmI came home, because I wasn't going back to work. Haha, I can see myself ditching work on Tuesdays in the fall. I'm gonna have to get out of that. Gave the school my tuition voucher, so aside from the monthly payments, I am done with tuition.
Finals next week, eeep. Speech Monday. I'm kinda nervous. Prof. Lucca liked my outline, though, so I think I'm okay. I have to make my PowerPoint or make copies of the Career Satisfaction Chart to show/hand out to my classmates. It's going to be so funny seeing everyone again; we haven't seen each other since the first day, and a good few people didn't even come in (and saw Prof. Lucca earlier) because of conflicts.
My scalp is itchy, I'm broke, and I need to get my hair retwisted. :\ I'm going to have to pull money from savings again to get my hair done. Really I could've done it today, but I was hot and didn't feel like it. Too bad I didn't do it yesterday... it was a nice day. I left work early under the "not feeling well" excuse, though. It was more a matter of everyone wearing their stupid caps (they didn't take them off by this morning, sadly) and the internet at work failing spectacularly, so I couldn't even do research for my art history paper. Nothing was working right, and I had absolutely nothing to do, and I hadn't gotten enough sleep the night before, so I left at 2pm. And I got back here and slept for most of the afternoon. That meant I stayed up until midnight last night (was not helped by Craig coming in so we could watch Smoking Gun), but yay, early arrival home.
I think I'm going to kill my credit card. I'm trying to pay it down, and every time I start making progress, someone needs it for something, like gas when we go to the house, and that drops me back.
Talked to Dad. Was initially an "I forgot my cell" call, but went into a bunch of stuff. (We do that. A lot. It'll be like, "Okay, I'm getting off the phone now," and we'll end up talking for another ten minutes.) He thinks I need to stay with the state since I've got years in, but get out of the city, because "once you get out of the city, people tend not to have a dick shoved up their ass." Maybe that's what I need, a change of scenery?
He also told me I need to forget about art right now, which... no. Maybe I can find something practical to do with it, take Beginning Photography, see if it grabs me (I do want to take it, but scheduling issues are screwing me up--it's like a 4 1/2-hour class!), or become a teacher or something... but no. Besides working with animals, art's the only thing I can see myself doing right now. Everyone's always telling me what I can and can't or should and shouldn't do, and I've backed down on everything. (That was another subject of conversation: I told Dad that if I had ignored Mom back in my senior year in high school, I'd probably be in a different place right now. I started a "real job" too young, I think. And now Mom relies on me for income, so I can't just leave.) I won't back down on this.
The only other thing, if neither of those things, would be something with computers. I'd likely end up as an Implementation Specialist if I stayed with the state. If I do, I will NOT stay with OCFS. That will not happen. They're continuously hiring ISs, so I wouldn't have trouble finding a job. I just don't know if I'd like it. Several coworkers have asked me if I applied for it (there's this online "test" where you report how much skill you have in certain fields), and I said I haven't, and they basically told me I could get it and learn as I go.
Anyway, don't care. I'm home, I have research to do, and I'm hungry.
Finals next week, eeep. Speech Monday. I'm kinda nervous. Prof. Lucca liked my outline, though, so I think I'm okay. I have to make my PowerPoint or make copies of the Career Satisfaction Chart to show/hand out to my classmates. It's going to be so funny seeing everyone again; we haven't seen each other since the first day, and a good few people didn't even come in (and saw Prof. Lucca earlier) because of conflicts.
My scalp is itchy, I'm broke, and I need to get my hair retwisted. :\ I'm going to have to pull money from savings again to get my hair done. Really I could've done it today, but I was hot and didn't feel like it. Too bad I didn't do it yesterday... it was a nice day. I left work early under the "not feeling well" excuse, though. It was more a matter of everyone wearing their stupid caps (they didn't take them off by this morning, sadly) and the internet at work failing spectacularly, so I couldn't even do research for my art history paper. Nothing was working right, and I had absolutely nothing to do, and I hadn't gotten enough sleep the night before, so I left at 2pm. And I got back here and slept for most of the afternoon. That meant I stayed up until midnight last night (was not helped by Craig coming in so we could watch Smoking Gun), but yay, early arrival home.
I think I'm going to kill my credit card. I'm trying to pay it down, and every time I start making progress, someone needs it for something, like gas when we go to the house, and that drops me back.
Talked to Dad. Was initially an "I forgot my cell" call, but went into a bunch of stuff. (We do that. A lot. It'll be like, "Okay, I'm getting off the phone now," and we'll end up talking for another ten minutes.) He thinks I need to stay with the state since I've got years in, but get out of the city, because "once you get out of the city, people tend not to have a dick shoved up their ass." Maybe that's what I need, a change of scenery?
He also told me I need to forget about art right now, which... no. Maybe I can find something practical to do with it, take Beginning Photography, see if it grabs me (I do want to take it, but scheduling issues are screwing me up--it's like a 4 1/2-hour class!), or become a teacher or something... but no. Besides working with animals, art's the only thing I can see myself doing right now. Everyone's always telling me what I can and can't or should and shouldn't do, and I've backed down on everything. (That was another subject of conversation: I told Dad that if I had ignored Mom back in my senior year in high school, I'd probably be in a different place right now. I started a "real job" too young, I think. And now Mom relies on me for income, so I can't just leave.) I won't back down on this.
The only other thing, if neither of those things, would be something with computers. I'd likely end up as an Implementation Specialist if I stayed with the state. If I do, I will NOT stay with OCFS. That will not happen. They're continuously hiring ISs, so I wouldn't have trouble finding a job. I just don't know if I'd like it. Several coworkers have asked me if I applied for it (there's this online "test" where you report how much skill you have in certain fields), and I said I haven't, and they basically told me I could get it and learn as I go.
Anyway, don't care. I'm home, I have research to do, and I'm hungry.
