A Gator ONCE more!
Ok well I know I said I was going to try to update this thing a little more often. I'm still lazy I guess. Anyway some things have changed since my last update. First and foremost I'm still a GATOR! It came with some strings attatched, but I think I can get everything taken care of. What happened was last week I decided to email the dean of my college to see if he could help me. I wasn't very hopeful, but I figured he was about the only one who I hadn't talked to and I figured I had nothing to lose. Within 15 minutes of me writing to him, he had sent me a reply which stated that he had forwarded my email to the head of the advising center. That didn't do much to help my hopes because that guy is the guy who denied my appeal. I figured at least now I had some clousure knowing I had talked to everyone I could. Later that evening I receieved an email from the head of the advising center. He said he had reexamined my case, and determined that I had a valid point in the fact that they had never placed the first hold and never had that first meeting with me. He also said that he was going to lift my hold, and that he would give me until the end of the summer to get my grades up and get back on track. If I do this, I can stay at UF but if I don't, I'm out of there.
This is what I wanted in the first place, a fair chance. He said I need to take 2 upper division history courses and pass each with a B or higher to remain at UF. Getting B's will not raise my GPA to the required level so I don't know if he just wants to see some improvement or if he messed up, but I'm keeping the email just in case I get B's and if he tries to kick me out again I'm going to show it to him. I'm going to shoot for A's obviously because I want to make a good impresssion and also A's will raise the GPA to the required level. I'm planning to take 1 class in summer A and 1 in summer B and devote my undivided attention to each class. I also plan to cut my hours back at work severely to help me accomplish this.
Speaking of work, I'm still at Lowe's and I still hate it. I had asked to step down from being head cashier a year ago when I first got into UF and they finally got around to letting me step down recently. They also cut my pay $1/hr. which I'm not happy about. On the surface it seems logical, lower job title, lower pay. However, I've been there going on 5 years now, and I'm the first person I've seen get their pay lowered for stepping down. Not to mention that when I was head cashier there were cashiers making more money than me. I've been underpaid this whole time. I've called corporate about it and they're supposed to be checking into it. I hope something favorable happens with this. I can't wait to graduate and start teaching. I won't be rich but it's gotta be better than retail. I definitely can't take much more of this job.
In my personal life, I'm getting married in novemeber in Port St.Lucie. It's approaching so fast. I'm excited. I'm looking forward to the rest of the life I'm going to build with Stefanie. It seems like yesterday I was a senior in high school with no clue what I was going to do in life and I had just met her. 7 years later we're getting married and starting a life together. It definitely doesn't seem like 7 years. I can tell it's going to be a good life.
In music news, I got the feedback from the billboard songwriting contest. They basically said that the song was OK but they didn't want to select it for their competition. I'm ok with it. I'm glad they didn't slam it. I want to go to Texas to record in my Uncle's studio. I was thinking of doing my next CD there, but lately I've been thinking of just re recording some of my existing songs there to get a better quality recording. I think this would help me to have a better press kit that I could send out to labels and such. It would be kind of like when I was going to do that cd for dishwater records and I had everyone vote on which songs they wanted on it. Only this time it would actually happen and would be on GM records. If anyone has any suggestions, let me know. A friend of mine at work wants to play drums with me and is setting up a practice space. I hope that we can get something together. That would be cool.
Well anyway I guess that's about all that's going on lately. Hope everyone is doing ok. Thanks for reading this if you did, and if you read this, drop me a line and let me know how you're doing. Also I'm addicted to The Office now and I got Stef addicted to it as well. Ok well that's it for now. Later,
Travis
P.S. I almost forgot, LIMP BIZKIT is back, get ready to have your faces rocked off again! Wes is back and LB is whole again. I'm so excited about this. They better play in Florida!
This is what I wanted in the first place, a fair chance. He said I need to take 2 upper division history courses and pass each with a B or higher to remain at UF. Getting B's will not raise my GPA to the required level so I don't know if he just wants to see some improvement or if he messed up, but I'm keeping the email just in case I get B's and if he tries to kick me out again I'm going to show it to him. I'm going to shoot for A's obviously because I want to make a good impresssion and also A's will raise the GPA to the required level. I'm planning to take 1 class in summer A and 1 in summer B and devote my undivided attention to each class. I also plan to cut my hours back at work severely to help me accomplish this.
Speaking of work, I'm still at Lowe's and I still hate it. I had asked to step down from being head cashier a year ago when I first got into UF and they finally got around to letting me step down recently. They also cut my pay $1/hr. which I'm not happy about. On the surface it seems logical, lower job title, lower pay. However, I've been there going on 5 years now, and I'm the first person I've seen get their pay lowered for stepping down. Not to mention that when I was head cashier there were cashiers making more money than me. I've been underpaid this whole time. I've called corporate about it and they're supposed to be checking into it. I hope something favorable happens with this. I can't wait to graduate and start teaching. I won't be rich but it's gotta be better than retail. I definitely can't take much more of this job.
In my personal life, I'm getting married in novemeber in Port St.Lucie. It's approaching so fast. I'm excited. I'm looking forward to the rest of the life I'm going to build with Stefanie. It seems like yesterday I was a senior in high school with no clue what I was going to do in life and I had just met her. 7 years later we're getting married and starting a life together. It definitely doesn't seem like 7 years. I can tell it's going to be a good life.
In music news, I got the feedback from the billboard songwriting contest. They basically said that the song was OK but they didn't want to select it for their competition. I'm ok with it. I'm glad they didn't slam it. I want to go to Texas to record in my Uncle's studio. I was thinking of doing my next CD there, but lately I've been thinking of just re recording some of my existing songs there to get a better quality recording. I think this would help me to have a better press kit that I could send out to labels and such. It would be kind of like when I was going to do that cd for dishwater records and I had everyone vote on which songs they wanted on it. Only this time it would actually happen and would be on GM records. If anyone has any suggestions, let me know. A friend of mine at work wants to play drums with me and is setting up a practice space. I hope that we can get something together. That would be cool.
Well anyway I guess that's about all that's going on lately. Hope everyone is doing ok. Thanks for reading this if you did, and if you read this, drop me a line and let me know how you're doing. Also I'm addicted to The Office now and I got Stef addicted to it as well. Ok well that's it for now. Later,
Travis
P.S. I almost forgot, LIMP BIZKIT is back, get ready to have your faces rocked off again! Wes is back and LB is whole again. I'm so excited about this. They better play in Florida!