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Well, it has been a long time since I have updated. I could come up pretty easily with an excuse for it, but I do not have the right to do that anymore. I know I should be on more, and responding to what others say, I just have not been, and I feel like a pretty lousy friend because of it. All I will say is that old habits die hard...
I guess the biggest thing I should put here is that I most likely will be spending the year from September 2007 to May 2008 in England. I officially applied today, and I am already on the mailing list, and I have emailed the lady in charge of the program, who I have to meet with. As long as I can pay for the trip, which may mean private loans for the down payments, the odds are in my favor for spending a full academic year in Birmingham. (Though I do have long weekends and a few breaks to travel on.) I will be discussing what courses I can take with the lady in charge, because it will be difficult to fit in classes that help me, but I think I may manage to have enough that count. One class that I really want to get into is Advanced Writing: Arts and Letters, because it is required for me to graduate here. The problem is it has a prerequisite of 60 credits. I will only have 50 credits by the time the trip leaves. Hopefully, they will waive that and let me into the class. (For those who do not know the system, they figure the average student has 15 credits a semester, so that would be a third year class. Hopefully, I can take it at the start of my second.) This could be a really fun and exciting year for me, and I get a foreign studies minor for this, which never hurts.
*She chuckles* Lately, I have been finding out how much work 19 credits really is. I always seem to have homework to do, and I know I should still devote more time to studying. Next semester, I will have 19 credits as well, because I need to get as much done as I can while I am able to. Besides, I then have a full year of classes that are more liberal education, and so not as technically challenging. Getting a double major in Chemistry and Computer Science takes a lot of work. But it will be worth it in the end, at least I hope it will be.
Other then that, I guess I should mention that I have been watching a lot of older animated movies over the last few weeks. I fell in love with All Dogs Go to Heaven again, which was one of my favorite movies when I was growing up. I also watched Watership Down, The Rescuers, The Rescuers down under, The Land Before Time (The original, which is by far the best, though I wish they used the unhappy ending they originally created for it,) The Wild, Over the Hedge, The Fantastic Adventures of Unico (I first saw the second movie when I was very young, and now I have seen the first. It is really hard to find, and in another few years, I think it will become lost save for the few of us who love it,) and of course, The Lion King. Most of those movies were classics, though a few were new. And as always, I was either crying, or almost crying, during half of them at at least one point.
I really should get back into the habit of using AIM and YIM again. I stopped for a few days because I needed a break, and that break turned out to be a bit more extended than I would have liked. I feel so bad about myself most of the time when I am in conversations, as I feel like I am wasting everyones time, which I usually am.
And as always, my email address is always open. That is one thing I always try to keep up with, as the 3000+ emails I have sent since late 2002 show.
I guess the biggest thing I should put here is that I most likely will be spending the year from September 2007 to May 2008 in England. I officially applied today, and I am already on the mailing list, and I have emailed the lady in charge of the program, who I have to meet with. As long as I can pay for the trip, which may mean private loans for the down payments, the odds are in my favor for spending a full academic year in Birmingham. (Though I do have long weekends and a few breaks to travel on.) I will be discussing what courses I can take with the lady in charge, because it will be difficult to fit in classes that help me, but I think I may manage to have enough that count. One class that I really want to get into is Advanced Writing: Arts and Letters, because it is required for me to graduate here. The problem is it has a prerequisite of 60 credits. I will only have 50 credits by the time the trip leaves. Hopefully, they will waive that and let me into the class. (For those who do not know the system, they figure the average student has 15 credits a semester, so that would be a third year class. Hopefully, I can take it at the start of my second.) This could be a really fun and exciting year for me, and I get a foreign studies minor for this, which never hurts.
*She chuckles* Lately, I have been finding out how much work 19 credits really is. I always seem to have homework to do, and I know I should still devote more time to studying. Next semester, I will have 19 credits as well, because I need to get as much done as I can while I am able to. Besides, I then have a full year of classes that are more liberal education, and so not as technically challenging. Getting a double major in Chemistry and Computer Science takes a lot of work. But it will be worth it in the end, at least I hope it will be.
Other then that, I guess I should mention that I have been watching a lot of older animated movies over the last few weeks. I fell in love with All Dogs Go to Heaven again, which was one of my favorite movies when I was growing up. I also watched Watership Down, The Rescuers, The Rescuers down under, The Land Before Time (The original, which is by far the best, though I wish they used the unhappy ending they originally created for it,) The Wild, Over the Hedge, The Fantastic Adventures of Unico (I first saw the second movie when I was very young, and now I have seen the first. It is really hard to find, and in another few years, I think it will become lost save for the few of us who love it,) and of course, The Lion King. Most of those movies were classics, though a few were new. And as always, I was either crying, or almost crying, during half of them at at least one point.
I really should get back into the habit of using AIM and YIM again. I stopped for a few days because I needed a break, and that break turned out to be a bit more extended than I would have liked. I feel so bad about myself most of the time when I am in conversations, as I feel like I am wasting everyones time, which I usually am.
And as always, my email address is always open. That is one thing I always try to keep up with, as the 3000+ emails I have sent since late 2002 show.