January the 29th and 30th: Chirst on a bike, it SNOWED
Wowza, I think that back home may have gotten more snow/ice than we did hear, but 7" to 9" isn't shabby at all! The snow started on Friday at 3:30 (which really annoyed me, it wasn't supposed to start until later so I thought that Olivia and I had time to go to Borders/the knitting store and get back before it got heavy), but by 3:45 it was kinda hard to see the mountains so we gave that up. Gah, times like these really make me wish I had a car since we could've been done a right when the snow was getting heavy, silly bus system where all the buses come at the same time....
But before that, found out in my photography class that I needed a full roll of good negatives for class to develop Monday. So I've been frantically shooting "parts" (our next assignment and we need two rolls of it) so that I can develop the roll Sunday. I think I can get it done in under and hour and it should be dry in another hour but I'm still annoyed at finding out so late. But I did hear something interesting in class. Different types of film are more forgiving than others (ie, how far you can deviate from the amount of light you should have on the shot and still have it show up) and my teacher mentioned one brand, T-Max, where you couldn't be more than half a stop off in either direction for it to really work. And I think that was the brand I had in the camera, plus the negatives that turned out looked pretty good, if that's all true then I feel pretty confident about myself.
In the afternoon I met with my adviser for my fall 2010 courses and I asked if she thought I could take 6 courses since I wanted to continue with Japanese but also had a lot of major courses to get through. She said that normally she would say I could do so (apparently the fact that I made not only the dean's list but the chancellor's list is impressive) but one of my classes, Design Fundamentals I was a killer course. Long classes and TONS of outside of class work, and she advised me to talk to someone who had the course and see how they did. Turns out Olivia had it (after she mentioned all the work I had gone "Huh, what are the odds....") and yes, this was the course that tried to eat her soul last semester. However, she did get an A- and had a good bit of flexibility with the assignments, but she also said it was tons of work and to take six classes with it would be madness. But, I really don't want to drop Japanese (neither does my mom, she sounded alarmed when I called her on Friday night and explained all of this, I'm not sure she understands just how MANY tech courses I have to take early on and that Japanese would be the one class I could afford to drop and not have it endanger my prospects of submitting my portfolio next spring). GTCC, so one of the colleges near my house, is offering the course that I could take over the summer and App would accept the credit. My mom says that credit hours are fairly cheap at GTCC so we could probably pay for it, but that lead to what I was worried about talking about.
She's gotten the preliminary quotes back from FAFSA and I am getting money and the option of work study (and the idea of work study with 6 classes doesn't sound too smart, IMO more incentive to try and take this course in the summer) but, well, here's where I'm getting a bit confused. Next time I email her, so in the next few days, I'm going to ask point blank if my dad has had to take a pay cut since the recession started. I'm really confused here since he's mentioned in the past that 20% of all his earnings have to go to taxes (and I hadn't been aware we were in that high a tax bracket) and he is saying that he doesn't want to pay for all my tuition again for another year (I haven't heard the word "can't" yet but at this rate with the recession....) so I think they want me to get a summer job partially to pay for college. Which I was expecting but
the mere thought of applying for a summer job sends me into mini panic attacks. Seriously, I want to bust out crying just THINKING about it. You know how they say things get easier to deal with over the years, you know, with practice? It doesn't always work like that for me. I'm more scared of needles than ever before, my other fears seem to be getting worse as well, and the idea of a job search like last summer, just yeah, NO. How the friggin hell am I SUPPOSED to get a job in this economy anyway!?!? And I don't know if I'll have the flexibility to do that and take a summer course as well, and the job would probably take precedence over it. I mentioned to mom that dad and I had (briefly) discussed me interning with one of the photographers he knows (like I said, no specifics, it was just an idea), and she didn't sound keen on the idea, probably because interns don't get paid much. She swears she wants me to get a job to stay busy during the summer but let's be honest here, she's filed the correction to FAFSA not saying that she made more money than she previously thought but less. Good god, we weren't in great shape before this recession, the number of things we need to fix around the house (the $400 driver window repair, fix the toilet again, the new furnace, half a dozen other smaller things), I'm scared. So scared because I can't do anything to really help but deal with something that, so far, has made me spazz for a day straight. And I have to deal with this idea for at least a month more, honestly wondering if I'm depressed as well....
Aaannndddd, I frolicked in the snow a bit today. Got a lot of snow down my boots (how did Sam deal with this for years?!?) and argued with crunchyroll. Hope I have better luck with that fight in the morning, and I'm heading off to bed now, really need to get back on a better sleeping schedule. But why the heck am I still hungry? I've been hungry all evening and I had dinner this time.... signing off, guess it's popcorn time then bed.
But before that, found out in my photography class that I needed a full roll of good negatives for class to develop Monday. So I've been frantically shooting "parts" (our next assignment and we need two rolls of it) so that I can develop the roll Sunday. I think I can get it done in under and hour and it should be dry in another hour but I'm still annoyed at finding out so late. But I did hear something interesting in class. Different types of film are more forgiving than others (ie, how far you can deviate from the amount of light you should have on the shot and still have it show up) and my teacher mentioned one brand, T-Max, where you couldn't be more than half a stop off in either direction for it to really work. And I think that was the brand I had in the camera, plus the negatives that turned out looked pretty good, if that's all true then I feel pretty confident about myself.
In the afternoon I met with my adviser for my fall 2010 courses and I asked if she thought I could take 6 courses since I wanted to continue with Japanese but also had a lot of major courses to get through. She said that normally she would say I could do so (apparently the fact that I made not only the dean's list but the chancellor's list is impressive) but one of my classes, Design Fundamentals I was a killer course. Long classes and TONS of outside of class work, and she advised me to talk to someone who had the course and see how they did. Turns out Olivia had it (after she mentioned all the work I had gone "Huh, what are the odds....") and yes, this was the course that tried to eat her soul last semester. However, she did get an A- and had a good bit of flexibility with the assignments, but she also said it was tons of work and to take six classes with it would be madness. But, I really don't want to drop Japanese (neither does my mom, she sounded alarmed when I called her on Friday night and explained all of this, I'm not sure she understands just how MANY tech courses I have to take early on and that Japanese would be the one class I could afford to drop and not have it endanger my prospects of submitting my portfolio next spring). GTCC, so one of the colleges near my house, is offering the course that I could take over the summer and App would accept the credit. My mom says that credit hours are fairly cheap at GTCC so we could probably pay for it, but that lead to what I was worried about talking about.
She's gotten the preliminary quotes back from FAFSA and I am getting money and the option of work study (and the idea of work study with 6 classes doesn't sound too smart, IMO more incentive to try and take this course in the summer) but, well, here's where I'm getting a bit confused. Next time I email her, so in the next few days, I'm going to ask point blank if my dad has had to take a pay cut since the recession started. I'm really confused here since he's mentioned in the past that 20% of all his earnings have to go to taxes (and I hadn't been aware we were in that high a tax bracket) and he is saying that he doesn't want to pay for all my tuition again for another year (I haven't heard the word "can't" yet but at this rate with the recession....) so I think they want me to get a summer job partially to pay for college. Which I was expecting but
the mere thought of applying for a summer job sends me into mini panic attacks. Seriously, I want to bust out crying just THINKING about it. You know how they say things get easier to deal with over the years, you know, with practice? It doesn't always work like that for me. I'm more scared of needles than ever before, my other fears seem to be getting worse as well, and the idea of a job search like last summer, just yeah, NO. How the friggin hell am I SUPPOSED to get a job in this economy anyway!?!? And I don't know if I'll have the flexibility to do that and take a summer course as well, and the job would probably take precedence over it. I mentioned to mom that dad and I had (briefly) discussed me interning with one of the photographers he knows (like I said, no specifics, it was just an idea), and she didn't sound keen on the idea, probably because interns don't get paid much. She swears she wants me to get a job to stay busy during the summer but let's be honest here, she's filed the correction to FAFSA not saying that she made more money than she previously thought but less. Good god, we weren't in great shape before this recession, the number of things we need to fix around the house (the $400 driver window repair, fix the toilet again, the new furnace, half a dozen other smaller things), I'm scared. So scared because I can't do anything to really help but deal with something that, so far, has made me spazz for a day straight. And I have to deal with this idea for at least a month more, honestly wondering if I'm depressed as well....
Aaannndddd, I frolicked in the snow a bit today. Got a lot of snow down my boots (how did Sam deal with this for years?!?) and argued with crunchyroll. Hope I have better luck with that fight in the morning, and I'm heading off to bed now, really need to get back on a better sleeping schedule. But why the heck am I still hungry? I've been hungry all evening and I had dinner this time.... signing off, guess it's popcorn time then bed.