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so apparently my pattern here is to update like once a season. and i always say when i update that im gonna do better and update more but my life is pretty boring now so ill just give you the basics.
work is work. it sucks royally but its better than rams head... although in all honestly thats really not saying much. i cut back from 5 shifts a week to 4 but im making $11/hr. the main issue is my schedule. i cant get a set schedule to save my life and im working some graveyards, some ams and some pms - which when combined with my school schedule leave my sleep ALL messed up and me in one sorry state. but it could be worse. the graveyards sound horrific but they leave me plenty of free time to do homework and still get paid, which is something new and certainly wonderful. my overall big boss, kathy our gm, is in a nutshell useless. we all hate her. she talks too much and gets nothing done. for 6 weeks she told me that she couldnt guarantee me a schedule during the fall... and thats completely UNacceptable. i cannot work tuesday or thursday with my classes and shed refuse to tell me this was ok. it came so far that i almost quit at several points. so ive basically just given up on her and deal with her asst gm damien or the regional gm chad. they get things done and have very little problems doing so.
school is also school. and it also sucks royally. largely in part because of the hour drive each way. although the 5 classes certainly do not help. im taking intro to pr, basic pr writing, comm theory, intro to marketing and art appreciation. basically im killing myself now in hopes that i can get out of there in 3 semesters... or at the VERY least have the easiest senior year ever - maybe with a 2nd internship or job. my schedule is monday 1215-130; tuesday 8-915, 145-3 and 630-9; and thursday 8-915, 145-3, 315-430, and 630-9. so im stuck up there for 13 hours tuesday and thursday. which in all technical terms just blows. but it gives me time to do my massive quantities of homework. and they are massive. especially from that first week because all of the professors taught chapter 1 on the first day and expected you to do chapter 1 as almost catch up and then chapter 2 for the next week. that was a BIG ouch. and the food on campus is atrocious and it majorly sucks to not have a place to lie down and relax during a 4.5 hour break. but im making some new friends... which arent exactly my kinda people. but then again i shouldnt really have a definition of 'my kinda people' because (a) thats pretty narrow minded of me and (b) those who i thought were didnt really work out too well for me in the past. so well see how that goes. one girl came from accc with me and i know at least 1 person in 4 of my 5 classes now. were sorta forming a group but only time will tell if thats good or not. its a bit difficult when the 4 of us are all in one spot because as of know in the beginning phases the conversations are mostly just about classes and none of us have the same classes together and its confusing. hopefully itll work out.
nick is just fantastic. i dont think i can sing his praises any better than i did in my last entry over 3 months ago so i dont think im gonna even bother trying. im head over heels in love and feel like the luckiest girl in the world. he and my dad go golfing about once a week - which is a HUGE sign for my father because he wouldnt bother wasting the time if he didnt like him. i think dad finds it nice after 20 years of being overwhelmed by girlie-ness and whatnot to have a guy to talk sports and shop and cars and whatnot with. theyre cute together. and i love it. nicks even beginning to finally relax and truly enjoy himself with my family... which is such a good sign since he is my #1 family now. he even spent an extremely overwhelming weekend at the grandparents with me for their 60th wedding anniversary (sidenote: 60 years of marriage!! how freaking adorable!!) in which nana drove me insane and i know he drove her crazy too. they like him and basically we act married now even though my left hand fourth finger is still remarkably bare and my last name still has 5 letters rather than 4. but its cozy and comfortable and relaxing and just basically wonderful. were working on getting a puppy now to complete our little family unit. and we just got through some rather rough patches with our neighbors. which actually made us closer as a couple and i know how pathetically old that sounds but its true. i got lucky and our families both like us - although they'll never like each other so the longer we can put off that meeting the better it is for everyone.
again... all in all life is good. work is work and school is school and nick is the love of my life. im a very lucky girl. hows everyone else making out in their newly earned postgrad days?