summer
new things in my life:
the house!
the env 3!
housemates!
james taylor's new moon shine album!! i could have just burnt it from my parents but i want my own.
my job...
the house is pretty awesome, i love it. our room is a HUGE mess right now, but it's hard to go from an entire 2 bedroom apartment to one bedroom in a house. still trying to figure out where everything is supposed to go. i've been meaning to plant seeds but there's been so much rain, and today it's sunny but we're just supposed to get rain for the next few days. i'm waiting for a stretch of clear days, and hopefully that won't come too late in the summer to plant.
one of our housemates (bieu) is just supposed to be here for the summer because scotty, the permanent housemate, is home for the summer and she doesn't come back till the beginning of september. bieu is supposed to be her sub-letter. he's been looking for a job and has apparently been disowned by his parents, but none of us are sure if he's just being dramatic and exaggerating about that (he's the type). he hasn't found a job yet, and he keeps mentioning a check that he's waiting on- since may 31. mark and i paid his portion of the first month's rent because he wasn't here before the landlord left the day we moved in. he wrote us a check to pay us back, and that check bounced because he supposedly wrote it from the wrong account. our account got overdrawn because we weren't expecting his check to bounce. luckily there were no fees (that we know of yet). he wrote us a new check and we deposited it last night, so hopefully that goes through. i'm wary of it though, because we brought up the bills that are due soon and he said he can't pay any of them because he doesn't have a job yet. he said he's been talking to a friend who might let him move in with him, and we said he needs to seriously think about that. but it's not like we're going to let him move out without 1) making sure that check went through and 2) having him pay us for his portion of the bills from when he was here. he was always home, so he used more electricity than any of us, no doubt, and he definitely took advantage of the internet connection. we're not letting him just leave without paying, so he has to figure that out. it's a stressful situation, and now we have to split all the bills for the rest of the summer 5 ways instead of 6. it's still cheaper than apartment or campus living, but it sucks.
my job SUCKS. this is what i do: financial aid papers come in, and my job is to prep them for scanning by removing the staples and paperclips, putting them in the right order according to what type of forms they are, and making sure that the student's ID number is on every single page. the other day i had to put the same ID number on 112 pages. it literally took me 45 minutes. when i'm not removing staples from packets of paper, i am scanning in new and old documents. it's so very mundane and painfully boring. i've been getting some bad headaches from it. my most recent bout of painful headaches has been from neglecting to pick up my thyroid medication for a couple of days, though. it pays okay, i guess, but it's not full time. at the same time, i couldn't handle this job if it were full time because it just sucks that bad. i need to babysit or something to supplement my income. i make WAY more money working at the camp, but i really don't want to go back there, and i'm sooo happy living down here.
mark and i are debating getting a kitten. there are obviously pros and cons, so we'll see what happens.
i worked a bar mitzvah on saturday, it was pretty awesome. we got paid $70 for 7 hours, and we were responsible for setting and cleaning up as well as making sure that the food in the buffet line was full. it was pretty good, and we got to take home a ton of free food afterward. free food is always nice.
anyway, back to cleaning. i stayed home today because of my excruciating and self-induced headache, and i've been cleaning the house. next is the room, or what i can manage of it.
the house!
the env 3!
housemates!
james taylor's new moon shine album!! i could have just burnt it from my parents but i want my own.
my job...
the house is pretty awesome, i love it. our room is a HUGE mess right now, but it's hard to go from an entire 2 bedroom apartment to one bedroom in a house. still trying to figure out where everything is supposed to go. i've been meaning to plant seeds but there's been so much rain, and today it's sunny but we're just supposed to get rain for the next few days. i'm waiting for a stretch of clear days, and hopefully that won't come too late in the summer to plant.
one of our housemates (bieu) is just supposed to be here for the summer because scotty, the permanent housemate, is home for the summer and she doesn't come back till the beginning of september. bieu is supposed to be her sub-letter. he's been looking for a job and has apparently been disowned by his parents, but none of us are sure if he's just being dramatic and exaggerating about that (he's the type). he hasn't found a job yet, and he keeps mentioning a check that he's waiting on- since may 31. mark and i paid his portion of the first month's rent because he wasn't here before the landlord left the day we moved in. he wrote us a check to pay us back, and that check bounced because he supposedly wrote it from the wrong account. our account got overdrawn because we weren't expecting his check to bounce. luckily there were no fees (that we know of yet). he wrote us a new check and we deposited it last night, so hopefully that goes through. i'm wary of it though, because we brought up the bills that are due soon and he said he can't pay any of them because he doesn't have a job yet. he said he's been talking to a friend who might let him move in with him, and we said he needs to seriously think about that. but it's not like we're going to let him move out without 1) making sure that check went through and 2) having him pay us for his portion of the bills from when he was here. he was always home, so he used more electricity than any of us, no doubt, and he definitely took advantage of the internet connection. we're not letting him just leave without paying, so he has to figure that out. it's a stressful situation, and now we have to split all the bills for the rest of the summer 5 ways instead of 6. it's still cheaper than apartment or campus living, but it sucks.
my job SUCKS. this is what i do: financial aid papers come in, and my job is to prep them for scanning by removing the staples and paperclips, putting them in the right order according to what type of forms they are, and making sure that the student's ID number is on every single page. the other day i had to put the same ID number on 112 pages. it literally took me 45 minutes. when i'm not removing staples from packets of paper, i am scanning in new and old documents. it's so very mundane and painfully boring. i've been getting some bad headaches from it. my most recent bout of painful headaches has been from neglecting to pick up my thyroid medication for a couple of days, though. it pays okay, i guess, but it's not full time. at the same time, i couldn't handle this job if it were full time because it just sucks that bad. i need to babysit or something to supplement my income. i make WAY more money working at the camp, but i really don't want to go back there, and i'm sooo happy living down here.
mark and i are debating getting a kitten. there are obviously pros and cons, so we'll see what happens.
i worked a bar mitzvah on saturday, it was pretty awesome. we got paid $70 for 7 hours, and we were responsible for setting and cleaning up as well as making sure that the food in the buffet line was full. it was pretty good, and we got to take home a ton of free food afterward. free food is always nice.
anyway, back to cleaning. i stayed home today because of my excruciating and self-induced headache, and i've been cleaning the house. next is the room, or what i can manage of it.