So, I checked out my Degree Progress Report, saw that I only have 16 more credits to fill until I can graduate. So I could graduate at the end of this school year, this coming May.

Awesome.

To be honest, I'm still trying to figure out what I want to do after, and if I graduate in May, grad school applications are due in January. And I don't know if I want to do that to myself, balance work and sixteen credits. And the job is not negotiable, so...

So many things to think about. I'm gonna just watch myself some Easy A with my boyfriend and bury my head in the sand for a while.

So, been watching Supernatural. I'm really excited about the upcoming season. It looks like they're pulling out all the good stuff. Though if it had ended last season, well... That wouldn't have been the worst thing ever.

I work at an auto body shop now. I only lasted a month at the Cracker Barrel. That shit was balls. Really love the new job now.

School is good. Feels like it's a secondary or even tertiary thing in my life, now, with all the other stuff going on. I just hope I can get out by the end of this year, so...

I feel like I have abused ellipsis in this post.

I wanna see you when the break of day is dawning.
You gotta go, you gotta go,
It's all right.

But I wanna see you in the, see you in the,
Light of the morning, yea!

So, someone please buy me Band of Skulls' album, kthxbai. I first heard their song, Light of the Morning, during a freaking car commercial, and I made Phillip rewind on the TiVo so I could Shazam it. Pathetic? Perhaps.

Uhm. I wrote some J2 AU that I'll be posting soon. Probably tonight. I'm having my boyfriend beta it. That might be weird.

Moved into an apartment. With my boyfriend, his brother, and their friend Thomas. Yes, I am the only girl in an apartment with three boys.

And. Uhm. OH! Have a job. At Cracker Barrel. Fuck yea. :/

BYE!

OH MY GOD!

OH MY GOD! OHMYGODOHMYGODOHMYGOD. OH MY FUCKING GOD. OH MY GOD.

HOLY FUCKING HOLY MOTHERFUCKING SHIT. OH MY GOD. OH MY GOD.

JESUS H CHRIST.

OH MY GOD.

OH-MY-FUCKING-GOD.

*explodes*

So I went through and retagged all of my entries.

All of them.

I went from having 326 tags to 29.

In other news, I'm feeling a lot better, having sweated out my fever last night, and my big bang is coming along nicely, which is consuming my life, so I am sorry for my poor flisting.

Also, is it sick and wrong that I miss Nik, like, too much of the time? I think it is.

So, I'm getting worried I'm not going to finish my big bang.

Remember when I said I had ten thousand words? I was reading the wrong column in my word count box. I'm a fucking idiot, but yea. Turns out I five thousand. I suppose that IS one fourth. But you know...

I'm super sick, and on my period. My body fucking hates me. And now I can swallow, but my back aches like a mother. Oh well. I'm using the time I don't want to move to work on my Big Bang. It still is writing itself, though, so that's good.

OK. Bye.

So, I fucked up. Again.

I just plain forgot. Monday was a weird day. I got home from Easter super late, my phone didn't wake me up in time, and once I'd missed two classes, I figured, meh. So I went a played World of Warcraft at the library until my boyfriend showed up and I went to my hair appointment.

So, I wanted to take Arabic next semester, but they canceled my section, for God knows what reason (I'm sure it was low enrollment so they consolidated it into one class, but you know), and now I can't take it. I'm so fucking pissed. I was looking forward to that more than Chinese or graduating. God dammit. >(

Went to Nik's Kung Fu class tonight, and kicked his ass afterward. He's just not aggressive enough, no matter his training. But anyway.

I'll be around.

Ok. Officially. The new plan is that I post every alternate Saturday/Sunday.

I got a comment asking about how my college, NAU, really is. As I was replying, I realized I had started a rant, and there was some stuff that I really needed to get off my chest about the situation. So I decided to make a post.

As far as how NAU actually is. I'll be honest, the situation here isn't ideal. For some reason totally unknown to logic or morals, the Arizona State legislature keeps enacting tax cuts while we're in a fiscal crisis. Obviously, someone's bull is getting gored, and that someone is health care and education. NAU has had about 40% of our budget cut, and if Prop 200(?!... maybe. It's a one cent sales tax to save the programs getting gutted) doesn't pass, everybody's tuition takes a hike, including people on the Finish in Four plan (a four year tuition freeze from the time you're accepted, which is what I'm on). Also, new this year, we're in a housing crisis. Don't panic: YOU WILL get housing. You're a freshman, and you get dedicated dorms. The rest of us are put into a lottery if we don't decide to stay where we are, and we may be out in the cold. There aren't enough dormitories for everyone who wants to stay on campus, so your sophomore year you might want to be open to off campus options.

There's also the small bit where the school is spending money in ways most of us don't find acceptable, like building a new recreation center when the windows in the languages building don't close, but apparently some unknown student body voted for it.

So, I'm not trying to scare you off, but I want you to know the situation you're getting into. NAU and the Flagstaff area has a lot of good things going for it, but you can't ignore the really dire situation the state of Arizona has put its education system in. I'm obviously voting 'yes' on the one cent sales tax, but traditionally measures like this don't garner a lot of support here (my high school had to shut off the air conditioning in AUGUST because voters in my town shot down the override. Yea, it was painful) but I'm only here for another year. I don't know how bad it's going to get, and I don't know how the school is going to deal. Hagar (the president) is a fiscally minded individual, which, ok, but some of the measures he's taking are killing the education aspect. They'll spend money (a negligable amount, but still) to put stickers in all our dorm rooms reminding us to turn out the lights, but the central campus union stays lit up like a Christmas tree all night long.

So. That's what it's like here. I know I mentioned it in my last post, but I still vote Hofstra, and if you've got the chance, you should really try and make it work with them. Because to be honest, that degree is probably going to be worth a lot more in the long run.

Happy Easter, everyone.

So after I posted up on Wednesday I took my phone and went down to Nik's to open it and activate it (I think he was more excited than I was about getting it). So I end up getting in a HUGE fight with his roommate Skylor, about Harvard. Nik's brother, Toby, might get into Harvard, which, hello, awesome. But apparently Sky is the ONE PERSON ON THE PLANET who thinks this is a bad thing. He's all, "Toby shouldn't abandon his family and a degree from NAU is just as good as a degree from Harvard."

So I was like, uhm, no.

Que a MASSIVE ten minute fight with Sky about this, where I feel like I handled myself really well. Like, I know I can be a belligerent asshole when I fight with people, but literally, this time, I was as calm and as reasonable as anything, and Sky was like, foaming at the fucking mouth. You know how it ended? I told Sky he was right. Not even about the original argument. He's all, "You can't tell me not to judge people when you do it all the time!" and I was all, "You're right." And he dropped it. Like a hot fucking potato.

Because I'm a woman.

Like, I don't think he does it on purpose. I don't think he looks at me and goes, 'She's dumber than me because she's a woman.' or 'She'll never be as successful or be worth as much as me because of her ovaries.' I absolutely know he doesn't think like that. He's not an asshole. But he cannot handle a woman talking back to him. Like, this isn't the first fight like this we've gotten into, and he fights like this with his girlfriend (who's supersweet) all the time. We don't do something exactly like he wants or we don't agree with him (in a 'you're wrong' way. Not like, I think Chinese is better than Mexican) and he gets all fucking hot under the collar. And he'd never do it to Nik. Because he's not a woman.

And, sorry, but I'm not going to take that shit.

So, I left. Came home. And started on my BIG BANG (See, there's a point to telling you this)! And I finished off ten thousand words in one night. This story is WRITING ITSELF. It's so nice. I'm excited. :D

PS Sorry this is a day late. I seriously started writing it last night, but then my ride home (came home for Easter) came to get me, and then it was one am.

So, I fucked up in week one.

Like, I missed Sunday, because I think I was playing Mass Effect 2, and then I missed Monday to post about how I'd missed Sunday. I think maybe I need to do alternating Saturday/Sunday posting. Four days in a row obviously defeats me. Maybe I'll post fic or something on one of the days. Which WOULD be good, except for the fact that I need to finish my big bang and am NOWHERE NEAR starting.

In plus news, my NEW PHONE comes today. It's an HTC Droid. I'm getting it because my old one crapped out and I haven't been able to make or receive calls for two weeks. I would have been fine with a regular phone, but Phillip was like, oh, bt-dubs, get a Droid. And I was like, what? And he was like, yea. I'll pay the bill if you pay for the phone. And I can now, with the free moneyz I got from OBAMA for being a po person. Also apparently illiterate.

I need to stop hanging out with Nik and Skylor. I'm spending far to much time with them to be good for my health or my GPA. Also, so. Nik was going to meet me for breakfast this morning, at "between 9:30 and 9:45". So I got there at 9:28. Because... uhm... I don't know. So I was there waiting, and at 9:33 I started panicking. What if he forgot about me?! What if he forgot we were going to have breakfast together?! What if he's already in there?! So I texted him; got no reply. Then I remember he said that his phone doesn't get reception in the union. So of course, he was already there, had forgotten about

OMG OMG OMG OMG MY PHONE JUST GOT HERE I'VE GOT TO GET IT BE RIGHT BACK

me, and left me waiting in front of the union for him. Luckily, part of me was still thinking rationally, so I hung around and lo and behold, at 9:36 he comes around the corner all, "Hey, sup?" And I kind of went, "I thought you forgot about me." And he teased me mercilessly about this. THE POINT IS: Since when do I act like a girl, really? How fucked up is that shit. I need to punch him or something to balance it out. :/

OK. Need to leave some for Friday. BYE!