An update, nothing much more.......
So, the HFS here at the UW decided to devote a week to "thank the residents" and whatnot, and (technically we got them last night Sunday, but "officially speaking") Monday we received a little gift from HFS, which could have been a variety of things, including tickets to the Mariner's next home game (I think it was versus Los Angeles), invitations to a variety of things including dessert night and (probably cheap) massages and some other things of which I can't remember. I didn't really care for much of any of the options, and decided the "free gift" option would probably make me happiest. And, lo and behold, I got the free gift option, which turned out to be......
....a whole $6 on my University debit account.
Uh.....Woo? *twirls finger in air*
Six dollars will pay for 3 loads of laundry, both washing and drying, but....I doubt I'll have 3 loads of laundry to do before the year's out. But it's not quite enough to buy a whole meal out on the Ave/UVillage. Oh well. There'll be a barbecue on Friday with lots of free food, henna-tattooing, two inflatable toys, spinning art, and a lot of other stuff, so it's not like I'm "omg, I got so gypped and how dare they!" etc. etc. Kinda not all that important in the grand scheme of things.
Tuesday sign-ups are going up for free trips to one of 3 options: Gameworks, the Aquarium, and the Zoo. I've already been to the Aquarium, though I don't remember it very well, so it's not the top of my choices. I suppose you can call me a gamer, though I like to stick to my RPGs (particularly the Final Fantasy series), so Gameworks might hold some appeal to me, but I don't want to sign up only to wind up being the sole source of estrogen among a sea of overly-exuberant testosterone. Plus, I don't want to get the question of how "hardcore" of a gamer I am and get scoffed at for my selection of gaming; I'm comfortable with my fanaticism of FFVII/X, thank you very much. So, if I wanted to try my hand at one of the three, I'd want to go to the Zoo, but it'd be kinda boring to go by myself. So, I'm thinking I'm going to not sign up for it, and go to the Street Fair happening on the Ave this weekend. It sounds a hell of a lot more fun, plus it'll help me explore the Ave more. It goes from ~41st block all the way up to 47th. I hope it's a grand time.
Two Saturdays ago, I was supposed to go to the Seattle Asian Art Museum at 11 A.M. for a site visit or whatnot. I woke up, looked at the clock, said, "To hell with that," and went back to sleep. I figured, I'd go ahead and catch the tour on Sunday. Sunday rolled around, and though I did jack-squat to be productive, I did not go, even when my site visit presentation was that coming Friday. I told myself I'd go Wednesday, come hell or high water, and I did manage to get on the bus. Did I manage to get *off* the bus at the right time? No, not quite. Went from being in University District to Capitol Hill all the way to Downtown Seattle. So, didn't go to the SAAM so much that day. Thursday I actually asked the bus driver to let me know when the stop closest to the SAAM came up, he did, and I managed to make my way to the museum at long last.
The view from the front of the museum was incredible. Clear blue sky with the Space Needle completely free of the usual Seattleite skyscrapers, and there was this big donut-artsy thing where, if you got the right angle, you would catch the saucer of the Needle in the center. I kicked myself for not bringing my camera. Plus, there were a lot of houses of which I absolutely LOVED the architecture; though, I'm pretty sure the owners would have frowned a bit at the thought of me taking a picture of their property, though it wouldn't have been for commercial use.
The museum was kinda....lackluster. Sterile. There was way too much white/gray on the walls, the exhibits were well enough but not exactly "Wow, how impressive, oh god I'm gonna stand here for hours on end in amazement." Plus, the gift shop (which is someplace I always have to go to in all touristy places) was a bit disappointing. There were a few too many books on art (and this coming from a book-fanatic, is kind of a bad sign) in the shop and what weren't books were pretty damn expensive or geared toward children--really young, easily-amused children.
I selected my room for next year, which is in Hansee Hall, the one I believe I spoke of earlier. I'm happy I got into Hansee, and whatever room I get is fine with me, but I kinda hope I got a room with a window seat, since those are the largest. There's a room-change date coming up, and I think I might use that time to go back, look and see if there is a diagram of Hansee hall, and see where my room places me. If I see what I suspect is a window-seat room open (highly doubtful, unless everyone who got into Hansee were uninitiated to the secret) I'll change. Here's hoping.
I bought Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency on Saturday, and I believe I finished it sometime Monday/Tuesday; not terribly certain. And good gracious, if I thought J.K. Rowling made me confused with all her subtle hints and mysteries, Douglas Adams put me on spin cycle and didn't let me out until the very very very end of the book, upon which I still had to go to Wikipedia in order to understand a few of the things he did in it. I found myself a little sad that a 3rd Dirk Gently book wasn't written, and I haven't even read the 2nd book. I'm going to peruse Salmon of Doubt once more and read the D.G. segments to take what little enjoyment I can get.
I'm ready for this school year to be over. I'm not too sure how I feel about summer break, but next year will definitely be better since I'm going to have an actual track to arrange my schedule around. I'm not too sure I'm going to like taking 20 credits, especially since I have to pay extra tuition for 2 credits (18 is the maximum number of credits a person can take without getting overcharged, which I absolutely hate since pretty much the majority of classes I have to take are 5 credits, which means 3 classes and maybe an oddball one if I want to stay within 18). The advisor I went to in order to discuss how I was supposed to overload on credits was worried about me (and I would suppose for the general student population) taking 20 credits, since it's supposedly a lot of work beyond what college students typically want to try their hand at. I think, though, if I can survive AP Biology, AP Calculus, AP U.S. Government, AP English Lit, 3rd Year Spanish (which was advanced for my high school, which usually only offered 2 years), 2nd year Accounting, and one whole trimester of Physics with the absolute worst teacher in the entire school in my senior year of high school, then I can handle 2 writing classes, 2nd Year Korean, and a Western Religions survey class with some writing in it which is a requirement for my minor. At least, my AP Bio teacher said my courseload was more than a typical college student's, so hypothetically Autumn 2007 should be easier than senior year '05.
(Yeah. Hypothetically. Meaning it's gonna bite me in the ass and I'll be sad I ever took 20 credits. *sigh*)
I might be completely sick and tired of writing come December, but if I get into the Creative Writing option, then it'll all be worth it. I don't know if maybe mentioning my senior year schedule might have put the advisor at ease about me taking 20 credits, but I didn't and it's water under the troll now, or whatever the cliche is.
I want to study abroad, and I've been toying with the idea a lot, but financially-speaking I really, really can't do it. I'd have to take out a student-loan, probably from a private source, and I don't honestly believe I'd ever pay it back before I crawled into my grave--if I even got the loan. I'm fairly certain I'd need a co-signer, and I don't know if my mother's credit is good enough. Even if it is, she'd never sign it. My best bet would probably be to study abroad during the schoolyear, when my financial aid would at least probably cover most of the costs, rather than me having to pay out-of-pocket for the experience. But if hell ever did freeze over and I got the money to go abroad, I'd want courses that were relevant and helpful to my major, which with English (and hopefully creative writing??) is to go someplace of historical importance to writers and learn about that sort of thing, maybe even be given a class in which I could write freely. But from most of the programs I've researched from the English department, it's a lot of "Art history" and architecture courses. Um....not quite what I'm looking for. I believe that there is a study abroad specifically for Creative Writing....but it's in the summer, I think. If it were in Spring quarter, I'd crunch numbers and see if it's worth me talking to my mother about, but...I dunno. I just don't know.
Kim (a very good friend and not-quite-blood-related cousin of mine) is coming down from Bellingham to spend Memorial Day weekend with me. I'm gonna show her around campus, since she hasn't been here before, and she's going to introduce me to Pho from one of the many Pho places that exist on the Ave (I'm thinking Brothers Than Pho, which I've heard is a great place, but if you are in the UW-area and have been to the place, lemme know if what I have heard is right!)
Not much more to update. I may have something later if/when I go to the Street Fair, or if I decide to go to the Barnes & Noble in Downtown Seattle rather than the UVillage one I always go to (maybe I should make it a goal in life to purchase something at every B&N store in the U.S.) and see what they have. Maybe I'll carry my laptop along with me and be one of those poor and starving writers people always see in bookstores and cafes. Hehehe.
"The problem with the valley was this. The Monk currently believed that the valley and everything in the valley and around it, including the Monk itself and the Monk's horse, was a uniform shade of pale pink.....
So what of this horse, then, that actually held opinions, and was skeptical about things? Unusual behavior for a horse, wasn't it? An unusual horse perhaps?
No. Although it was certainly a handsome and well-built example of its species, it was none the less a perfectly ordinary horse, such as convergent evolution has produced....They have always understood a great deal more than they let on. It is difficult to be sat on all day, every day, by some other creature, without forming an opinion about them.
On the other hand, it is perfectly possible to sit all day, every day, on top of another creature and not have the slightest thought about them whatsoever."
[Sergeant Gilks says] "I suppose you can't shed any light on a horse discovered in a bathroom as well? That seemed to have an air of you about it."
"I cannot," said Dirk, "as yet. Though it interests me strangely."
"I should think it bloody did. It would have interested you strangely if you'd had to get the bloody thing down a bloody winding staircase at one o'clock in the morning as well. What the hell are you doing here?" said Sergeant Gilks wearily. --Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams
....a whole $6 on my University debit account.
Uh.....Woo? *twirls finger in air*
Six dollars will pay for 3 loads of laundry, both washing and drying, but....I doubt I'll have 3 loads of laundry to do before the year's out. But it's not quite enough to buy a whole meal out on the Ave/UVillage. Oh well. There'll be a barbecue on Friday with lots of free food, henna-tattooing, two inflatable toys, spinning art, and a lot of other stuff, so it's not like I'm "omg, I got so gypped and how dare they!" etc. etc. Kinda not all that important in the grand scheme of things.
Tuesday sign-ups are going up for free trips to one of 3 options: Gameworks, the Aquarium, and the Zoo. I've already been to the Aquarium, though I don't remember it very well, so it's not the top of my choices. I suppose you can call me a gamer, though I like to stick to my RPGs (particularly the Final Fantasy series), so Gameworks might hold some appeal to me, but I don't want to sign up only to wind up being the sole source of estrogen among a sea of overly-exuberant testosterone. Plus, I don't want to get the question of how "hardcore" of a gamer I am and get scoffed at for my selection of gaming; I'm comfortable with my fanaticism of FFVII/X, thank you very much. So, if I wanted to try my hand at one of the three, I'd want to go to the Zoo, but it'd be kinda boring to go by myself. So, I'm thinking I'm going to not sign up for it, and go to the Street Fair happening on the Ave this weekend. It sounds a hell of a lot more fun, plus it'll help me explore the Ave more. It goes from ~41st block all the way up to 47th. I hope it's a grand time.
Two Saturdays ago, I was supposed to go to the Seattle Asian Art Museum at 11 A.M. for a site visit or whatnot. I woke up, looked at the clock, said, "To hell with that," and went back to sleep. I figured, I'd go ahead and catch the tour on Sunday. Sunday rolled around, and though I did jack-squat to be productive, I did not go, even when my site visit presentation was that coming Friday. I told myself I'd go Wednesday, come hell or high water, and I did manage to get on the bus. Did I manage to get *off* the bus at the right time? No, not quite. Went from being in University District to Capitol Hill all the way to Downtown Seattle. So, didn't go to the SAAM so much that day. Thursday I actually asked the bus driver to let me know when the stop closest to the SAAM came up, he did, and I managed to make my way to the museum at long last.
The view from the front of the museum was incredible. Clear blue sky with the Space Needle completely free of the usual Seattleite skyscrapers, and there was this big donut-artsy thing where, if you got the right angle, you would catch the saucer of the Needle in the center. I kicked myself for not bringing my camera. Plus, there were a lot of houses of which I absolutely LOVED the architecture; though, I'm pretty sure the owners would have frowned a bit at the thought of me taking a picture of their property, though it wouldn't have been for commercial use.
The museum was kinda....lackluster. Sterile. There was way too much white/gray on the walls, the exhibits were well enough but not exactly "Wow, how impressive, oh god I'm gonna stand here for hours on end in amazement." Plus, the gift shop (which is someplace I always have to go to in all touristy places) was a bit disappointing. There were a few too many books on art (and this coming from a book-fanatic, is kind of a bad sign) in the shop and what weren't books were pretty damn expensive or geared toward children--really young, easily-amused children.
I selected my room for next year, which is in Hansee Hall, the one I believe I spoke of earlier. I'm happy I got into Hansee, and whatever room I get is fine with me, but I kinda hope I got a room with a window seat, since those are the largest. There's a room-change date coming up, and I think I might use that time to go back, look and see if there is a diagram of Hansee hall, and see where my room places me. If I see what I suspect is a window-seat room open (highly doubtful, unless everyone who got into Hansee were uninitiated to the secret) I'll change. Here's hoping.
I bought Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency on Saturday, and I believe I finished it sometime Monday/Tuesday; not terribly certain. And good gracious, if I thought J.K. Rowling made me confused with all her subtle hints and mysteries, Douglas Adams put me on spin cycle and didn't let me out until the very very very end of the book, upon which I still had to go to Wikipedia in order to understand a few of the things he did in it. I found myself a little sad that a 3rd Dirk Gently book wasn't written, and I haven't even read the 2nd book. I'm going to peruse Salmon of Doubt once more and read the D.G. segments to take what little enjoyment I can get.
I'm ready for this school year to be over. I'm not too sure how I feel about summer break, but next year will definitely be better since I'm going to have an actual track to arrange my schedule around. I'm not too sure I'm going to like taking 20 credits, especially since I have to pay extra tuition for 2 credits (18 is the maximum number of credits a person can take without getting overcharged, which I absolutely hate since pretty much the majority of classes I have to take are 5 credits, which means 3 classes and maybe an oddball one if I want to stay within 18). The advisor I went to in order to discuss how I was supposed to overload on credits was worried about me (and I would suppose for the general student population) taking 20 credits, since it's supposedly a lot of work beyond what college students typically want to try their hand at. I think, though, if I can survive AP Biology, AP Calculus, AP U.S. Government, AP English Lit, 3rd Year Spanish (which was advanced for my high school, which usually only offered 2 years), 2nd year Accounting, and one whole trimester of Physics with the absolute worst teacher in the entire school in my senior year of high school, then I can handle 2 writing classes, 2nd Year Korean, and a Western Religions survey class with some writing in it which is a requirement for my minor. At least, my AP Bio teacher said my courseload was more than a typical college student's, so hypothetically Autumn 2007 should be easier than senior year '05.
(Yeah. Hypothetically. Meaning it's gonna bite me in the ass and I'll be sad I ever took 20 credits. *sigh*)
I might be completely sick and tired of writing come December, but if I get into the Creative Writing option, then it'll all be worth it. I don't know if maybe mentioning my senior year schedule might have put the advisor at ease about me taking 20 credits, but I didn't and it's water under the troll now, or whatever the cliche is.
I want to study abroad, and I've been toying with the idea a lot, but financially-speaking I really, really can't do it. I'd have to take out a student-loan, probably from a private source, and I don't honestly believe I'd ever pay it back before I crawled into my grave--if I even got the loan. I'm fairly certain I'd need a co-signer, and I don't know if my mother's credit is good enough. Even if it is, she'd never sign it. My best bet would probably be to study abroad during the schoolyear, when my financial aid would at least probably cover most of the costs, rather than me having to pay out-of-pocket for the experience. But if hell ever did freeze over and I got the money to go abroad, I'd want courses that were relevant and helpful to my major, which with English (and hopefully creative writing??) is to go someplace of historical importance to writers and learn about that sort of thing, maybe even be given a class in which I could write freely. But from most of the programs I've researched from the English department, it's a lot of "Art history" and architecture courses. Um....not quite what I'm looking for. I believe that there is a study abroad specifically for Creative Writing....but it's in the summer, I think. If it were in Spring quarter, I'd crunch numbers and see if it's worth me talking to my mother about, but...I dunno. I just don't know.
Kim (a very good friend and not-quite-blood-related cousin of mine) is coming down from Bellingham to spend Memorial Day weekend with me. I'm gonna show her around campus, since she hasn't been here before, and she's going to introduce me to Pho from one of the many Pho places that exist on the Ave (I'm thinking Brothers Than Pho, which I've heard is a great place, but if you are in the UW-area and have been to the place, lemme know if what I have heard is right!)
Not much more to update. I may have something later if/when I go to the Street Fair, or if I decide to go to the Barnes & Noble in Downtown Seattle rather than the UVillage one I always go to (maybe I should make it a goal in life to purchase something at every B&N store in the U.S.) and see what they have. Maybe I'll carry my laptop along with me and be one of those poor and starving writers people always see in bookstores and cafes. Hehehe.
"The problem with the valley was this. The Monk currently believed that the valley and everything in the valley and around it, including the Monk itself and the Monk's horse, was a uniform shade of pale pink.....
So what of this horse, then, that actually held opinions, and was skeptical about things? Unusual behavior for a horse, wasn't it? An unusual horse perhaps?
No. Although it was certainly a handsome and well-built example of its species, it was none the less a perfectly ordinary horse, such as convergent evolution has produced....They have always understood a great deal more than they let on. It is difficult to be sat on all day, every day, by some other creature, without forming an opinion about them.
On the other hand, it is perfectly possible to sit all day, every day, on top of another creature and not have the slightest thought about them whatsoever."
[Sergeant Gilks says] "I suppose you can't shed any light on a horse discovered in a bathroom as well? That seemed to have an air of you about it."
"I cannot," said Dirk, "as yet. Though it interests me strangely."
"I should think it bloody did. It would have interested you strangely if you'd had to get the bloody thing down a bloody winding staircase at one o'clock in the morning as well. What the hell are you doing here?" said Sergeant Gilks wearily. --Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams