Ramblerambleramble...
Hmm, so everyone knows how much I love it when my computer breaks, don't you? Because really. I do love it SO VERY, VERY MUCH. Wtf.
School and life are fine around here. Betsy is LEAVING this weekend and I have to work two days, but Matt (not KaLee?) is coming home and that will be a sweet time. Probably lots of really crunk parties and dangerous activities... or maybe just some hard-core moving watching. With ice cream. Or something. Oh my God, they have the caramel apple shakes back at Steak 'n' Shake! I'm so excited.
I had a test in Psychology today that well pretty well. Of course, the first twenty questions were over the one subject I was a little fuzzy on, but whatever. I knew some of them. Astronomy was also cool today -- I'm glad because it was such a good choice of classes to take to get my science credit for basics. It's actually interesting and we get to look at the stuff in the planetarium usually at least once a week. Plus, everything's just been pretty easy. Oh lord, though, there's this one girl who bothers me. I mean, she's nice and really friendly, but I worked with her and this other girl in a group today on a lab, and, first of all, she wasn't getting it, and, second of all, she kept trying to explain wrong things to me and she kept saying "therefore." I was like, "Therefore, shut up because you don't know what you're talking about! Stop saying therefore! When you say it anywhere other than in an essay, you sound pretentious, and it sounds especially silly coming from you now because you're just spouting crap!"
Whoa, I'm a bitch. But seriously! Stop with the "therefores!"
Also, I still have no major. I know, I know, it's hardly important that I have one right now in my first semester of school, but it would be really nice to have SOME sort of direction. Nothing that I consider ever seems to really work out. I don't really want to be a librarian anymore because if I work in a public library I get paid shit, and if I work in a school, I have to get my teaching certificate and intern for a year (though, I suppose, if I was interning with a librarian it would be fine, but I'm pretty sure that I'd have to major in something like English, do my internship with an English teacher, and then apply for a librarian position with no experience in the library whatsoever). So, awesome. Right now I'm thinking about doing something with editing, but my sister seems to think that's not really a great idea because it's a pretty popular field and it would be pretty competitive (all this coming from someone who is becoming a teacher, but whatever). Plus, she said that I'd probably have to start looking for some kind of internship for that right away, which I suppose would be fine, except that all sounds to me like someone working at a newspaper, which is not what I want to do. I'd really rather work at a publishing company for books (though I suppose some magazines wouldn't be awful either -- ones that people actually read for the articles -- articles that have some sort of level of intelligence, not "101 ways he wants you to touch him" or whatever). Plus, another thing wrong with editing is that the most opportunities are in big cities like Chicago and New York, which I suppose would be fine but I'm just not sure yet. And I don't think you make a ton of money. Something like $35,000 to start, which I guess is about the same as a teacher, isn't it? So it's not awful, really. Actually, scratch that. The money is not really a drawback to the profession.
LORD, I ramble. The point is this: someone give me some direction! I am a crazy woman here.
No more talking. Maybe I'll go read...
School and life are fine around here. Betsy is LEAVING this weekend and I have to work two days, but Matt (not KaLee?) is coming home and that will be a sweet time. Probably lots of really crunk parties and dangerous activities... or maybe just some hard-core moving watching. With ice cream. Or something. Oh my God, they have the caramel apple shakes back at Steak 'n' Shake! I'm so excited.
I had a test in Psychology today that well pretty well. Of course, the first twenty questions were over the one subject I was a little fuzzy on, but whatever. I knew some of them. Astronomy was also cool today -- I'm glad because it was such a good choice of classes to take to get my science credit for basics. It's actually interesting and we get to look at the stuff in the planetarium usually at least once a week. Plus, everything's just been pretty easy. Oh lord, though, there's this one girl who bothers me. I mean, she's nice and really friendly, but I worked with her and this other girl in a group today on a lab, and, first of all, she wasn't getting it, and, second of all, she kept trying to explain wrong things to me and she kept saying "therefore." I was like, "Therefore, shut up because you don't know what you're talking about! Stop saying therefore! When you say it anywhere other than in an essay, you sound pretentious, and it sounds especially silly coming from you now because you're just spouting crap!"
Whoa, I'm a bitch. But seriously! Stop with the "therefores!"
Also, I still have no major. I know, I know, it's hardly important that I have one right now in my first semester of school, but it would be really nice to have SOME sort of direction. Nothing that I consider ever seems to really work out. I don't really want to be a librarian anymore because if I work in a public library I get paid shit, and if I work in a school, I have to get my teaching certificate and intern for a year (though, I suppose, if I was interning with a librarian it would be fine, but I'm pretty sure that I'd have to major in something like English, do my internship with an English teacher, and then apply for a librarian position with no experience in the library whatsoever). So, awesome. Right now I'm thinking about doing something with editing, but my sister seems to think that's not really a great idea because it's a pretty popular field and it would be pretty competitive (all this coming from someone who is becoming a teacher, but whatever). Plus, she said that I'd probably have to start looking for some kind of internship for that right away, which I suppose would be fine, except that all sounds to me like someone working at a newspaper, which is not what I want to do. I'd really rather work at a publishing company for books (though I suppose some magazines wouldn't be awful either -- ones that people actually read for the articles -- articles that have some sort of level of intelligence, not "101 ways he wants you to touch him" or whatever). Plus, another thing wrong with editing is that the most opportunities are in big cities like Chicago and New York, which I suppose would be fine but I'm just not sure yet. And I don't think you make a ton of money. Something like $35,000 to start, which I guess is about the same as a teacher, isn't it? So it's not awful, really. Actually, scratch that. The money is not really a drawback to the profession.
LORD, I ramble. The point is this: someone give me some direction! I am a crazy woman here.
No more talking. Maybe I'll go read...