Where I'm at (and where I'll be)
Mar. 23rd, 2002 10:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hkellickYesterday was not as good a day as thursday. To put it easily.
Let's start with it being bitter cold (so much for spring) and windy through the entire god damned day.
Go to the gym first... get 30 minutes jogging (go me), but the elliptical was AFTER me yesterday. (I use a random program so sometimes it's easy going and sometimes it's tough going and I swear it spent the most time on the tough going) and I ended up ending that 7 1/2 minutes earlier because I was still wiped from the jogging.
Came back to my office, had lunch, ran to GIS class...
Managed to forget I had a 5 minute presentation for GIS, so didn't do something that would have taken me 10 minutes to do (write up a quick outline of what my GIS project will be.) so ended up looking like a bit of a fool with something I wrote up 2 minutes before class.
Then I got my check and... I STILL haven't gotten my $300 that the Research people owe me! (Dr. Atkinson requested it all the way back on 2/28 and I still haven't gotten it. I should have gotten SOME if not ALL of it in this check. Now Monica (Dr. Atkinson's secretary) is saying next check. )
Blast it all. EVERYONE owes me money and I WANT some of it. Now!
Dr. Atkinson put in for $300 back at the end of February.. not here yet..
I'm owed about $100 from going to New York City.
And another $70 from Syracuse which they say I'll get ina bout a month.
That's $470 people owe me.
I REALLY could use some of it!
Especially since I only have $270 or so in my checking account and while my bills are paid for now, I need things.
For example, my sneakers are dying and I put alot of wear and tear into them at the gym, so I want to replace them BEFORE they fall off my feet!
If I watch my money, I'll get the sneakers probably next week and make the money stretch till my check, but if some emergency happens, like the car breaks down or we need to take the cats in for an emergency visit), I'm fucked.
It's my curse (and probably not just mine) that money goes through my hands like water. It's not that I specifically enjoy the use of any of it (I do buy a couple games, a couple books, a few dinners out, but the majority of it goes to bills and things I need.
*sigh*
So I deposit my check, realize i'm starved, have some (usually good but yesterday pretty bad) chinse food, go back to school for what they PROMISE will be two half hour lectures.
Of COURSE, the lecture not only starts 15 minutes late, but he talks for *50* minutes, not 30... no way I'm staying for the second.
So I bug out (along with half the other students) (Who were they kidding, not only having three lectures the week before spring vacation, but two on a friday afternoon. Can we say STUPID planning?!?!)
Anyways, come home pretty grumpy and of COURSE everyone else at home is grumpy too, so we headbutt and argue and stuff at dinner.
Mom's angry because her class of four kids is being combined with six more and she has aides (and for the types of kids she teaches, I think this is a Bad Idea (tm). 10 students, 2 "teachers"? And all students have "histories" (they've all been thrown out of Buffalo Central School for.. whatever reasons. usually behavioral.)
Had a big dinner of stuff mom brought home from their easter "lunch" and spent most of the night studying Statics for the EIT.
Which is how I'll be spending most of my vacation, I fear.. studying for the EIT, working on my thesis project and my GIS project.
I'm gonna try to swing some time to play The Sims: Vacation when it comes out.
The thing is... alright, the Thesis project and GIS project will take about 4 - 6 hours a day (and 2 to work out). So I'll be at school for only about 8 hours. The rest will be spent studying for the EIT.
I think I studied so hard yesterday that it affected my dreams. I had some dream about taking some pre-EIT exam where, on the table were the answers to the questions. If we looked at the answers, though, the test would be graded later by another professor (this was bad, not sure why). So I looked AT the table a few times. On one odd ethics questions, I looked hard at the table without looking at the answers, specifically, but the proctor thought I was looking at the answer and I had to turn my test in later.
I dunno.. my tests rarely make sense.
Today is shaping up to be a less than great test. Maybe it's just me. I'm grumpy still (money worries and grumpiness over a spring break that won't be a break for me..) and I read my weight which is a whopping 254 (But I know why. I had a big dinner two nights ago at the buffet that I haven't.. erm... disposed of yet (bodily) and another one last night and they're weighing me down, so to speak.) Hopefully tommorow these... weigh-downs will be gone and I'll be back to approximately 252 or 253.
Does that seem pathetic to you? Maybe. I want to be LOSING weight, though, not gaining it and 254 DEFINATELY puts me on the gaining side. Another weight like that will put me in a foul mood indeed.
On the possibly good hand, my friend Dave has a birthday party today.. 5 PM - Midnight. I'm going, of course. Maybe it'll help cheer me up and put me in a really good mood. Hopefully.
That's about it... I'll go to the gym in 45 minutes, come home and study Statics a bit more then go to the party.
See y'all later.
Wish me luck. I could USE some good luck. Instead of the constant stream of shit.
*sigh*
Let's start with it being bitter cold (so much for spring) and windy through the entire god damned day.
Go to the gym first... get 30 minutes jogging (go me), but the elliptical was AFTER me yesterday. (I use a random program so sometimes it's easy going and sometimes it's tough going and I swear it spent the most time on the tough going) and I ended up ending that 7 1/2 minutes earlier because I was still wiped from the jogging.
Came back to my office, had lunch, ran to GIS class...
Managed to forget I had a 5 minute presentation for GIS, so didn't do something that would have taken me 10 minutes to do (write up a quick outline of what my GIS project will be.) so ended up looking like a bit of a fool with something I wrote up 2 minutes before class.
Then I got my check and... I STILL haven't gotten my $300 that the Research people owe me! (Dr. Atkinson requested it all the way back on 2/28 and I still haven't gotten it. I should have gotten SOME if not ALL of it in this check. Now Monica (Dr. Atkinson's secretary) is saying next check. )
Blast it all. EVERYONE owes me money and I WANT some of it. Now!
Dr. Atkinson put in for $300 back at the end of February.. not here yet..
I'm owed about $100 from going to New York City.
And another $70 from Syracuse which they say I'll get ina bout a month.
That's $470 people owe me.
I REALLY could use some of it!
Especially since I only have $270 or so in my checking account and while my bills are paid for now, I need things.
For example, my sneakers are dying and I put alot of wear and tear into them at the gym, so I want to replace them BEFORE they fall off my feet!
If I watch my money, I'll get the sneakers probably next week and make the money stretch till my check, but if some emergency happens, like the car breaks down or we need to take the cats in for an emergency visit), I'm fucked.
It's my curse (and probably not just mine) that money goes through my hands like water. It's not that I specifically enjoy the use of any of it (I do buy a couple games, a couple books, a few dinners out, but the majority of it goes to bills and things I need.
*sigh*
So I deposit my check, realize i'm starved, have some (usually good but yesterday pretty bad) chinse food, go back to school for what they PROMISE will be two half hour lectures.
Of COURSE, the lecture not only starts 15 minutes late, but he talks for *50* minutes, not 30... no way I'm staying for the second.
So I bug out (along with half the other students) (Who were they kidding, not only having three lectures the week before spring vacation, but two on a friday afternoon. Can we say STUPID planning?!?!)
Anyways, come home pretty grumpy and of COURSE everyone else at home is grumpy too, so we headbutt and argue and stuff at dinner.
Mom's angry because her class of four kids is being combined with six more and she has aides (and for the types of kids she teaches, I think this is a Bad Idea (tm). 10 students, 2 "teachers"? And all students have "histories" (they've all been thrown out of Buffalo Central School for.. whatever reasons. usually behavioral.)
Had a big dinner of stuff mom brought home from their easter "lunch" and spent most of the night studying Statics for the EIT.
Which is how I'll be spending most of my vacation, I fear.. studying for the EIT, working on my thesis project and my GIS project.
I'm gonna try to swing some time to play The Sims: Vacation when it comes out.
The thing is... alright, the Thesis project and GIS project will take about 4 - 6 hours a day (and 2 to work out). So I'll be at school for only about 8 hours. The rest will be spent studying for the EIT.
I think I studied so hard yesterday that it affected my dreams. I had some dream about taking some pre-EIT exam where, on the table were the answers to the questions. If we looked at the answers, though, the test would be graded later by another professor (this was bad, not sure why). So I looked AT the table a few times. On one odd ethics questions, I looked hard at the table without looking at the answers, specifically, but the proctor thought I was looking at the answer and I had to turn my test in later.
I dunno.. my tests rarely make sense.
Today is shaping up to be a less than great test. Maybe it's just me. I'm grumpy still (money worries and grumpiness over a spring break that won't be a break for me..) and I read my weight which is a whopping 254 (But I know why. I had a big dinner two nights ago at the buffet that I haven't.. erm... disposed of yet (bodily) and another one last night and they're weighing me down, so to speak.) Hopefully tommorow these... weigh-downs will be gone and I'll be back to approximately 252 or 253.
Does that seem pathetic to you? Maybe. I want to be LOSING weight, though, not gaining it and 254 DEFINATELY puts me on the gaining side. Another weight like that will put me in a foul mood indeed.
On the possibly good hand, my friend Dave has a birthday party today.. 5 PM - Midnight. I'm going, of course. Maybe it'll help cheer me up and put me in a really good mood. Hopefully.
That's about it... I'll go to the gym in 45 minutes, come home and study Statics a bit more then go to the party.
See y'all later.
Wish me luck. I could USE some good luck. Instead of the constant stream of shit.
*sigh*
