How relevant this is! After about 12 weeks of hemming and hawing, the DoS FINALLY gave me a passport! Now, as they say, "The world is yours." How I've been itching to take a trip somewhere outside the US. It's a bit sad, really - 23 years alive and I've never left American shores. Not even to Mexico (I'm about 6-8 hours away from the border) or ( Read more... )

 What's my age again? OH YEAH, I'm TWENTY THREE.

I made it through my birthday. Go me!!! :D

...over to Dreamwidth.

Since LJ's open-source, it's pretty much like LJ...except it looks a lot more awesome. Maybe I'll give them a month to set up. They require either invites or paying for an account [to make sure they don't overstep their bandwidth and servers and such]...it's like $15/6 mo. or $25/year.

And I can move EVERYTHING from here over ( Read more... )

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Oh my God. NONE of them. D:

I am thankful that every single day is different, even if it's worse. Because...I just can't imagine having a Groundhog Day life.

Also, I am pretty sure that my "best" day is yet to come. What about those?

 Went through first round of classes Tuesday - Thursday.

Decided that even though the Contemporary Social Problems class will be a lot more work [it's a "writing-intensive" course, which means that we write mindlessly to increase frustration about the English language], it's a keeper. Also keeping Creative Writing. The teacher's a published poet, ( Read more... )

Simple: STOP REWARDING GREEDY PEOPLE.

I wish the institutions would be held more accountable for how they use the "bailout" money. The average American is shedding a job, can't keep up with the house note, gets sick but can't get help with our healthcare system - and then the CEOs want RAISES. Needs to stop NOW.

Healthcare should be available for ( Read more... )

Inauguration Day 2009: Barack the White House started out terribly.

I went to look at my class schedule to register for another one and pay, AND they dropped me from the classes. ALL OF THEM.

This morning was muy frustrado y descansando. Spent a good 2.5 hours waiting in line for the dumb counselors to tell me that YES, I can register online... ( Read more... )

You know, I took a year off after school so I'd have MORE time to work on my graduate applications.

I'm EVEN MORE STRESSED than I was IN school.

And for some reason, I feel like I've gotten dumber since I haven't been in real school. HCC does NOT count as school. They don't have actual teachers, just professionals and other people they PAY to teach ( Read more... )