dear isobel

Between sleeping, lectures and homework, and the occasional night out, I find myself with very little free time. I miss being in high school if only for the fact that I had fewer responsibilities.

Now I have to go clean my room and start my laundry, because I’m pretty sure the article I need for my speech next week is hiding under my bed. Good grief. And *then* I have to translate the Hunchback of Notre Dame from French to English to have any hope under standing what the frick I’m listening to on Tuesdays and Thursdays. And if there’s time before my Conquerors lecture tonight, I have to figure out the different bases for math class, so I don’t have to hand in another blank quiz.

And possibly lunch, but I guess that’s optional at this point.

Well, to start this post on a positive note, I had my orientation at Commerce today. It was definitely an experience unlike any other. There were some games, the instructor was very engaging, so all in all, I’m looking forward to my training and starting work.

It was the end of the day that was not so much fun. I got home and went across to submit my class registration for my Goal Center classes. I’m taking two classes to defer my student loans for this semester but when I got there, they had changed Western Civilization to World Civilization, which I had already taken. I was taking the other class, Health and Wellness just to have a second class, so there’s no point in taking it now. I’m a little ticked off.

So I checked the mail and found that Lady of Lourdes had sent me a collection notice for their payment. I called them to get the bill merged into my other account, the one I’m on a payment plan for and then I called the copy I have my debt consolidation loan with. They had offered me an additional $200 when I started to work so I called them to find out if I could get $600 which would be enough for two classes at the college. I had to jump through a lot of hoops just to get maybe $300 so I’m not even sure it’s worth it at this point.

Kind of crappy

I got the call on Tuesday that I got the job! It’s a little less than I had anticipated and it’s a full $2 less than I was making at Comcast, but it should still be enough to get my bills paid and after six months, I’ll get a raise. Plus, the hours are just enough that I’ll make some decent money but it works out that I have three full weekdays and two mornings clear for classes next fall, so it’s really the best work schedule I could have hoped for.

I took my drug test today and I get fingerprinted on Friday. I’m kind of excited to work at a bank, I wonder how much different it will be than Comcast and GGB, the only other places I’ve really worked. I’m just so thrilled to be able to work again and still come out with a lot of free time. I won’t have to give up my Trenton trips during the week! Very awesome news.

I was at the library tonight for the historical society meeting and it struck me that I had never checked out their Internet section so I popped over to see if they had anything about web design. They had a few books so I picked up on about HTML and XML (I expect to get a rehash of what I already know) and one that’s just a general resource on web design. I’m sure I know a portion of the material but it never hurts to brush up.

I’ve been working on the Nora Roberts site. I gave up Wordpress and came up with another idea that I’ll be hoping to launch sometime in February. I’m actually excited about the new layout for the site. It’s incorporating a lot of what I’m learning from the CSS book I bought last week.