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So... to make up for the lengthy ramble of suck, here's a much more basic (and probably boring) entry.
I'm now doing RA training 2-3 times a week, which has taken up my half-days that I used to have... I still go to bed late, but now I'm waking up at 9:15am every day. So I am increasingly exhausted. W00t! It probably won't compare to the fall, though... once again I will manage to make sure all of my time is taken up by responsibilities. X_X I'll have 2 classes (I need to get A's in both in order to graduate with a 3.0 GPA), I'll continue working at the Math library and the RA position (which I should finish training for in the middle of the semester), and finally I might get to be a Peer Advisor for my psychology department (I'll be advising undergrad students on what classes to take, what professors are good, etc.)
The training is interesting... I have to read a few articles still on ADHD, but the girls in charge of the study have offered to put together a meeting with Professor Hinshaw (the head of the psych department, and the head of this ADHD project) where we can all gather around and discuss the readings. I really hope we get to do that, because I would love to talk to professor Hinshaw. He knows his shit, and I think he's really cool. His developmental psychopathology class was one of my favorites. Anyway, hopefully it would be good for grad school.
Speaking of grad school, I really REALLY need to get started on tackling the letters of recommendation. Apparently it's this huge ass process... (who knew??) The UCB career center website has an online system thingy for keeping hold of letters of rec... the downside, is that it costs money... lots of money. It's like $20 to activate an account, and then $100 per year to maintain it for UCB alumni. Bastards. Also, they recommend asking your professor a few months in advance before actually going through with all the paperwork. So I need to contact my seminar professor from the spring. Let's hope she remembers me and still likes me enough to write me a letter of rec. *crosses fingers* I should do that after I finish typing up this entry....
Some good news: I'm going to get compensation for splitting the ecology/maintenance position with Hannah this summer. As soon as I get the required safety training, I'll be getting $475, which means I won't have to pay the last summer payment. W00t! Credit card companies will be getting their damn money back. Greedy high interest bastards...
Also, speaking of money, Beryl's b-day is coming up at the end of August... what to do! I want to....
Give her a little lunch BBQ in the backyard, COMPLETE some comic/music video drawings for her, take her out to a nice seafood restaurant right near the water in San Francisco, giver her fruit roll-ups...
I have a list. *devious laughter*
I just hope I'll have money.
I've been watching L Word with Beryl for the past two weeks. We're both a bit overwhelmed. Everything was going okay for the first two seasons... and then season 3 totally started with random sucky crappiness. Our favorite couple had already broken up, and one of the girls turned into an obsessive crazy pill-popping lunatic. Not so cool. The writers of L Word have two bad habits: 1) They will take characters and give them a specific personality... and you think you know them... then within another 4-5 episodes, those characters are totally changed into something else. They don't explain the change, and it just... happens. It's not very believable. 2) These characters have a habit of 'ignoring' friends who have serious problems. You would think that all the other characters would take notice and try to interven/take care of the heartbroken pill-popping character. But no. They go around, awkwardly turning their head. I find it highly unrealistic. And if it is realistic, then I wouldn't want to have anything to do with people like that.
So, yeah... we're going to take a 'Leave of absence' from the L Word for a few days. Instead, I think Beryl and I are getting continuously depressed and stir-crazy that we have a month of summer left, and we haven't really gotten to enjoy it. So I'm going to try to make sure that we try harder with that. Just like I'm going to try to make sure that we get a decent night's sleep. No more staying up until 2am watching crappy lesbian TV shows. Then again, I've been saying this for two weeks.
Damn yo, I'm le tired...