UPDATEY: No sooner had I given up all but the tiniest sliver of hope of going to the symposium, than I got the acceptance e-mail! Now I'm excited/nervous. The program reveals that I will be joined by a fellow from Concord who I enjoy a very much one-sided rivalry with; that is, I sort of consider him my personal rival but I'm pretty sure he has no ( Read more... )

So, a final decision has finally been reached. Finally. Tomorrow, Corey is going to be moving into his spiffy new dorm room at Concord! His loans covered everything but about $560 dollars, and his brother is giving him that, and I'm buying his books this semester because I am such a good sport. With any luck he'll get a job on campus and that'll ( Read more... )

What a day of academic success this has been! A red-letter day for Lorien Anderson! Allow me to enumerate:

Success the first: I checked my e-mail and transcript stuff today, and although I don't have my grade for sociology yet, I had an e-mail from Dr. Luff saying she had gotten my final and asking if I would consider a sociology minor. This means ( Read more... )

Ok, I wasn't going to say anything about this until it's happened and I can post actual photos, but it's not for another day still and I'm exciteedddd! See, my dear ol', um, half-sister's dad (backstory: mom's first husband, dad to half-sisters-who-are-really-just-sisters, been around my whole life, pretty much a second dad to me [or possibly ( Read more... )

Ooookay so I called the financial aid office this morning (actually I was nervous and got confused and called the fax number a couple of times first lololol) and they definitely are doing work study over the summer! And I definitely am approved for full-time work study! So I'm going to have like a zillion hours of work a week, soon! I just don't ( Read more... )

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I GOT A CAR TODAY.My sister's dad called me today and told me to come down to his house for a minute, and when I got there he was like "Well, I went on and bought you a car." I guess since he gave Emily the Camaro he felt like he could do something to help me out too? It's a 1996 Pontiac Grand Am (which Google ( Read more... )

I FINALLY got the desktop out of my room. You can have NO IDEA how awesome it is to have all this desk space back, LiveJournal. NO IDEA.