O Hai LJ
Most of my mini-updates have been going to Twitter and Facebook, so it's about time I settle in for a proper update here.
Summer ended amenably enough, with three-odd weeks off school. David was in the Netherlands so Hilary did a lot of nothing around the house and went to Cape Cod for a week with her parents, which was beautiful and amazing. Pictures can be found on Facebook.
School started up the beginning of this month and with it came a lot of crap I don't feel like dealing with but have to.
First, owing to a paperwork problem and an asshole ex-employer (who barely employed me for 8 hours and only paid me for 4 of them) my unemployment is now completely messed up, so now I am not getting paid AND I owe all the money I got since January. I am waiting for a hearing to serve ex-employer their ass on a platter. Assuming they even send anyone to the hearing. And you best believe I have a lawyer lined up. Expensive for my budget, but very affordable for a lawyer and the peace of mind that I'm going to win is worth the hit to the bank account.
Shortly after that I got a letter in the mail from Drexel, where I had recently applied for admission to their ACE (accelerated career entry) program in Nursing. I was supremely confident that I was going to be accepted, so when one tiny enveloped showed up in the mail I was confused. When it turned out to be a rejection letter I was gutted. I cried, I admit it. It's not so much that I was pinning all my hopes on getting it, but more that my plan was so carefully crafted around getting in that to watch my whole timeline come crashing down and being cast back into uncertainty was just too much.
I was briefly tempted to quit school, but that was a stupid idea and didn't last beyond a heart-to-heart with my mom.
A few days later I called the admissions office and spoke to a VERY nice woman who told me that my science grades we strong and I'd be a perfect candidate, but that my GPA wasn't quite high enough for admission. They were still pulling a lot of credits off of my last abysmal semester at Penn State. All I need to do is rock this fall semester, bring my cumulative GPA over 3.0 and I'm in. Maybe not in for the spring, but in for the next open cohort.
So, that's something.
Wednesday night we had a really wonderful dinner out with a bunch of people for Hilary's birthday. We went to P.F. Cheng's and gorged ourselves on 4 courses and then came back here, had cake and played Beatles Rock Band for a few hours. Everyone had a good time (I hope!) and for the first time in a long time I really felt CONNECTED to other people, like we were friends instead of strangers. It's a nice feeling to enjoy hanging out with people instead of being stressed out by it. I hope that it continues.
Now I am fully mired in school work. Online I have Nutrition, Ethics and Developmental Psych, while also having Microbiology on campus 2 days a week. I am still trying to sort out my schedule for making sure I turn in all my online work on time -- apparently weeks now start on Wednesday, sometimes, for some assignments. o.O Ok, whatever, I can use a calendar. It's just weird.
Aaaaaand... That's about it, really. I wish I could say I was working on something literary or crafty or... anything but right now it's just school and friends and not a heck of a lot else.
Summer ended amenably enough, with three-odd weeks off school. David was in the Netherlands so Hilary did a lot of nothing around the house and went to Cape Cod for a week with her parents, which was beautiful and amazing. Pictures can be found on Facebook.
School started up the beginning of this month and with it came a lot of crap I don't feel like dealing with but have to.
First, owing to a paperwork problem and an asshole ex-employer (who barely employed me for 8 hours and only paid me for 4 of them) my unemployment is now completely messed up, so now I am not getting paid AND I owe all the money I got since January. I am waiting for a hearing to serve ex-employer their ass on a platter. Assuming they even send anyone to the hearing. And you best believe I have a lawyer lined up. Expensive for my budget, but very affordable for a lawyer and the peace of mind that I'm going to win is worth the hit to the bank account.
Shortly after that I got a letter in the mail from Drexel, where I had recently applied for admission to their ACE (accelerated career entry) program in Nursing. I was supremely confident that I was going to be accepted, so when one tiny enveloped showed up in the mail I was confused. When it turned out to be a rejection letter I was gutted. I cried, I admit it. It's not so much that I was pinning all my hopes on getting it, but more that my plan was so carefully crafted around getting in that to watch my whole timeline come crashing down and being cast back into uncertainty was just too much.
I was briefly tempted to quit school, but that was a stupid idea and didn't last beyond a heart-to-heart with my mom.
A few days later I called the admissions office and spoke to a VERY nice woman who told me that my science grades we strong and I'd be a perfect candidate, but that my GPA wasn't quite high enough for admission. They were still pulling a lot of credits off of my last abysmal semester at Penn State. All I need to do is rock this fall semester, bring my cumulative GPA over 3.0 and I'm in. Maybe not in for the spring, but in for the next open cohort.
So, that's something.
Wednesday night we had a really wonderful dinner out with a bunch of people for Hilary's birthday. We went to P.F. Cheng's and gorged ourselves on 4 courses and then came back here, had cake and played Beatles Rock Band for a few hours. Everyone had a good time (I hope!) and for the first time in a long time I really felt CONNECTED to other people, like we were friends instead of strangers. It's a nice feeling to enjoy hanging out with people instead of being stressed out by it. I hope that it continues.
Now I am fully mired in school work. Online I have Nutrition, Ethics and Developmental Psych, while also having Microbiology on campus 2 days a week. I am still trying to sort out my schedule for making sure I turn in all my online work on time -- apparently weeks now start on Wednesday, sometimes, for some assignments. o.O Ok, whatever, I can use a calendar. It's just weird.
Aaaaaand... That's about it, really. I wish I could say I was working on something literary or crafty or... anything but right now it's just school and friends and not a heck of a lot else.