The First Full Month Behind Me
I'm exhausted. These last few weeks have picked up in intensity. For the most part I'm doing pretty good on the school front and I'm keeping ahead of business that I need to. I feel good about that, at least there are a few things. And it sounds like I have a job in the works at Walmart down in Omaha. That reminds me, I'll take a quick break from this and do the things I was asked to do so that I can get hired. Now that I've got one more thing behind me, back to my ruminations. It seems like I've been jumping from task to task with nary a break. I'm having trouble keeping it all organized. I think I've done almost everything, but there's always that nagging feeling that I haven't done something. I think I have a minor touch of OCD and becoming a pharmacist is only going to feed that.
There have been some rough patches to this week too. I had eagerly sought to be elected as chapter delegate for Creighton only to loose yesterday. I take some minor consolation in that it was a close election, but its frustrating. Every time I make an attempt at something its blocked and I have mentioned my lack of success in any election where I am not the only candidate (which really isn't an election). My faith in the process has already been tepid at best and now its become even more pessimistic. I knew I wasn't going to win, but I tried to put my fatalism aside and make it happen. I had signed on to go to the Kappa Psi event the last weekend of fall break, now I'm having a little buyer's remorse. Even if I could back out, I wouldn't though, that's not the kind of person I am, or at least the good side of me which, for all the conflict is at least still the dominant influence in what I do.
After more than a month of enduring my laptops quirky personality (frequent incidents of the so-called "blue screen of death"), I decided to get it taken care of. On some misguided advice, I went to the IT people for the campus at large. I dislike making any overtly negative comments, but I swear a brick might have been more helpful. They didn't even list me in the right department, my comment about where I really belong got my computer transfered to the IT department specific for the School of Pharmacy and Health Professions. They were at least able to give me a computer to use in the interim and seem to have quite a bit more saavy, so that's got me feeling better about the whole situation. I'm glad its getting done, with three tests next week, the last thing I need is a laptop that might quit mid exam like it did with the first med chem one. I DO NOT want that happening again. Sitting there twiddling my thumbs while I waited for my computer to reboot for 15 minutes was not a good feeling and I have no desire to repeat it, particularly when it may make the difference in my grade. Thankfully, that was not the case with this one.
I could write more, but I'm tired at the moment. I think I'll go rest for a little while. I've got a lot to do before I make my first trip to Rapid City in two and a half years.
There have been some rough patches to this week too. I had eagerly sought to be elected as chapter delegate for Creighton only to loose yesterday. I take some minor consolation in that it was a close election, but its frustrating. Every time I make an attempt at something its blocked and I have mentioned my lack of success in any election where I am not the only candidate (which really isn't an election). My faith in the process has already been tepid at best and now its become even more pessimistic. I knew I wasn't going to win, but I tried to put my fatalism aside and make it happen. I had signed on to go to the Kappa Psi event the last weekend of fall break, now I'm having a little buyer's remorse. Even if I could back out, I wouldn't though, that's not the kind of person I am, or at least the good side of me which, for all the conflict is at least still the dominant influence in what I do.
After more than a month of enduring my laptops quirky personality (frequent incidents of the so-called "blue screen of death"), I decided to get it taken care of. On some misguided advice, I went to the IT people for the campus at large. I dislike making any overtly negative comments, but I swear a brick might have been more helpful. They didn't even list me in the right department, my comment about where I really belong got my computer transfered to the IT department specific for the School of Pharmacy and Health Professions. They were at least able to give me a computer to use in the interim and seem to have quite a bit more saavy, so that's got me feeling better about the whole situation. I'm glad its getting done, with three tests next week, the last thing I need is a laptop that might quit mid exam like it did with the first med chem one. I DO NOT want that happening again. Sitting there twiddling my thumbs while I waited for my computer to reboot for 15 minutes was not a good feeling and I have no desire to repeat it, particularly when it may make the difference in my grade. Thankfully, that was not the case with this one.
I could write more, but I'm tired at the moment. I think I'll go rest for a little while. I've got a lot to do before I make my first trip to Rapid City in two and a half years.