Posts Tagged ‘ books

money, books, delays, go figure

On Monday I headed down to the college to gather the books for the upcoming semester. Turns out I need six books for the four classes I am taking. History requires two, same with math. Math on the other hand has the most retarded second purchase ever. It’s a CD with random papers attached and costs over $100. I highly doubt I will EVER use it and am pissed. I am hoping that when I attended the first math class the professor will tell us that it isn’t exactly required in which case I will return the piece of shit. Overall I spent $550 on books I will rarely use. Fucking school, they should pay me just for going.

So now I am poor until my paycheck next Thursday night. I am thankful that my Kodak Zi8 is still on back-order, otherwise I would be fucked.

downturn, strike, shutdown

With summer dwindling down into the nothingness that it seems to have been and the new semester approaching, I find that my over productive mind is stalling out as of late. All this ideas of things that seem good and fun to do just end up being nothing. I thought of stuff I could do to make the site better only to drop interest and not proceed. That story I was writing, for example, has hit some roadblocks. As I was brainstorming the overall structure and plot I realized that I would have to do some big revisions just for the time scale to work. It isn’t going to be easy and probably will take a while but I hope to keep the main points intact. Not sure when the hell I expect to finish but hopefully someday I can look at it with satisfaction that I managed to create something of value.

The idea of my motivation taking a nosedive is not really a new thing considering I feel the same about school. I really have no clue what the hell I want to do. There are many classes I need to take that I just don’t want to. Mainly math and science. Both subjects aren’t a big hit for me. Science is very subjective for me. For me to enjoy it it has to be something I personally want to learn more about. Not the generic biology or chemistry stuff that we have to know. Math, on the other hand, is something I just don’t give a shit about. The big reason being I just don’t see a use for the complex shit. Now there probably is some I should care about (if not all) but I don’t. Call me biased, I don’t give a shit.

With this upcoming semester I hope it will at least put me back in gear and get me somewhat motivated to get the fuck out of school by taking those classes. I know it won’t happen overnight but I need to hurry up and get some sort of degree. I also have to figure out what I plan to work towards in terms of career path and future degrees, then I can figure out what mystical four year to go to. It’s crazy to think of how much of our lives we spend in school. It reminds me of one of my favorite lines from a System of a Down song:

Our days are never coming back

- “Highway Song”

As for other matters, I get paid tonight but can’t go out and buy books tomorrow considering I work from the morning to the evening. Going to try and get some next week on my days off. The boss is pushing max hours on me until school. When I get back to school my hours get cut big time. It is kind of a blessing and a bit of a downer. On one hand I can get lots of money via the bigger checks for books and supplies along with that speeding ticket. As for the other hand it is eating up my time but I guess I can’t complain. I’m sure I’ll be more stressed when school returns and I juggle my two lives.

threes are the worst

The last 72 hours haven’t been the greatest. On Sunday I woke up at 5am with a horrible feeling in my stomach. I jumped out of bed and ran to the bathroom only to lose the dinner from the night before. I ended up throwing up two more times and decided I should probably call in to work. Called them up and took a sick day. The rest of the day was spend in bed sore as hell. Felt like I had been hit by a truck.

On Monday I was feeling better and to top it off it was my day off. I paid my cell bill and then relaxed for the day. At around 10pm I decided to do  my dad a favor and pick up my brother form his girlfriend’s house which is up the freeway a bit. My dad left me drive his car and I was off. Halfway to the next town I see a car coming up fast behind me. I was wondering who the fuck it could be considering the highway was pretty empty and he could have just passed me in the other lane. Turned out it was a not so happy CHP officer. He flashed his lights and the scared feeling crept up on me as I pulled over. When the office approached the passenger window he said that he pulled me over for speeding and that I was doing fifteen miles-per-hour over the limit and said that it “took him a while to catch up.” He got my paperwork and wrote me a pretty ticket. After he left I continued on and got my brother. To top off the night I wasn’t able to meet up with Miryana since I had to deal with everything else. Killed my night twice as hard.

The morning of yesterday (Tuesday) was the finale to the three day torture. As I got up and getting ready to watch my morning television the power went out. A few seconds later it came on again and then out. This time it stayed out for about an hour and a half. When it finally came back on I noticed it fried one of my clocks. I liked that clock. Damnit.

Now it is Wednesday and I hope to hell it is a lot better than the last three days or I am going to go crazy. Now not only do I have to save up money for the books for my classes but also for the speeding ticket and the driving school crap so I can avoid the insurance hike. I feel like I drove into a brick wall.

and on the first day, judgement had been passed

Today was the first day of my 2009 Summer Vacation Spectacular (go ahead, steal it, I know it is awesome). I woke up when I felt like it (which happened to be the usual) and chilled in bed for a bit. After crawling out of bed I figured I should get my ass back down to the school (and for once not for class) to get rid of the stupid books. From the original $200 I spent on books, I ended up getting $70 back. Lame.

Anyway, I get back home and screw around. Playing games, watching television, and IMing people. At 5 I headed out with my brother and saw Terminator Salvation. It was…fucking sweet. Terminators fucking shit up. What is there not to like? I mean you could hate it but then you would be a machine. Fucking machines.

Now I am just hanging out in my room, television on and browsing the net. Tomorrow I have to work at 4 which is normal. Not sure what I am going to do before work but whatever. What I am looking forward to is Saturday when a few of us from the photography class (that would be the film one) are getting together and party it up. Should be a wild time.

And that’s that.

adventures in a not so wonderland

I am one step closer to getting a house in Lord of the Rings Online. Reached level 15 today so now all I need is the gold to buy the house (it will be a cheap one for now until I get super rich). Apparently I also have to pay upkeep or some such nonsense so I will need to save up a good amount of silver to do that. The other thing I did is replace the three month subscription I had plan and took advantage of the anniversary deal and did a lifetime subscription. I’ll be billed for $200 on August 19th so I need to have enough money in checking to cover me for that and still keep it over my “better have more than $200 in my checking or I will punch something” limit. Hopefully my next paycheck (next Friday) will help with that. I estimate it will be about mid-$500.

In other news I plan to work on the site either tomorrow or before work on the weekend. My plan is to add a status page of sorts, either on the site itself or as a page on this blog. Hope to get Xbox Live status, Last.fm, and anything else I may be forgetting. Should help locate my sorry soul.

Another thing I seem to have to do tomorrow is head down to the college and check out prices for the books I need for this coming semester. Hopefully they aren’t too much and by too much I mean money and quantity. Since all the classes are back to back to back to back I don’t seem to have enough time to run over to the car and swap. Should be interesting to figure out a routine. All I know is that once school starts I will be busy as fuck with work, school, and homework. Be prepared for rage and emo-ness.