I have been in school for 3 days. I have been back to work for 2.
First day: good. Extremely tired because I am in class (with a few hour breaks here and there for food, thankfully) from 9:30 am to 8 pm.
Second day: work in the afternoon. What I thought was going to be a relaxing afternoon of watching movies and studying kanji turned out to be anything but. I thought, how much can 8 women use the bathroom in 4 hours? Apparently, a lot. Some of them went more in those 4 hours than I go in a day. And I feel like I pee a lot. In any case, pretty sure I fucked up some details which may be major or minor, I don't know, I'm going to call the kid in charge of the study and he'll get it straightened out. Afterwards I went to class (it's weird working in the afternoon then going to class at night) and headed off to a show for my boyfriend's band except half the band was sick so they didn't play. So the poor guys from People Noise, who played an extremely great and fun show for 7 people (half of whom were employees of the bar, not counting the 3 people working that night) had at least a handful of people show up, but honestly, you can't expect a huge draw for an alt-rock band in Lincoln, Nebraska in the middle of fucking freezing January, on the Tuesday the week school starts in a college town. Most of us at least make some sort of effort the first week.
Third day: Today I am not making an effort. Actually, I did. I had no problems finding a parking spot on Monday so imagine my surprise and irritation when I return to the same lot today and spend 20 minutes driving around and not being able to find ANYWHERE to park. By the time I could've found somewhere else a bit farther away (in other words, on the other side of campus) I would've been too late for my class for my comfort - I don't like even being a few minutes late so 10 is out of the question and 20 is just silly cause that's almost half the class! Instead, I decide to be useful and go buy books. They are expensive even though I scored a bunch of used ones. (I used to have a book scholarship but the honors program was very uncooperative so I said, fuck them I don't need this stress.) It didn't take very long at all, so I decide to run home real fast (I live about 5 minutes away by car) and put on another shirt cause it's gonna be cold today, and to drop off the books I don't need. I return in plenty of time to find a spot. I drive around. And around. And around. And around. No dice. It seems that unless you can vulture a spot in the 10 minute between-class window of whatever:20 and class starting at whatever:30 you're out of luck. Not to mention, my campus is extremely spread out (compared to Senshu or even the Tec) and even if I could find a spot in that 10 minutes, I'd probably still be late to class cause my closest building is a block or two (5 minute walk minimum) away. Laaame.
So now my next class is in an hour. It's snowing heavily and honestly, I just want to sleep, even though I'm taking this class for fun cause I'm a dork. I hope my night class gets cancelled cause of the snow. We're supposed to get 2-5 inches and the way it's already coming down, I can believe it. I might just stay in and read cause all my classes are reading-heavy and my non-teaching classes are very much 'read the book and come to class for the notes and you'll be fine'. Plus, one of my teachers (who teaches 2 of my classes, even) puts all her notes and whatnot up on blackboard so that's even better. Yay.
No class tomorrow but work from something like 5 or 5:30 to 10. I hope it's not as stupid as yesterday or I'm going to be pissed. It's so frustrating cause it's like.. I know what I'm doing 90% of the time and I'm expected to know what I'm doing 100% of the time, and I forget little things like signing logs or what information goes where on the sheet, or where we put tubes now. aaarrgh. It's like being freshly new again. At least I'm in the training class for February, assuming my brain doesn't kill me first.
And yay new Flux set! She's so damn cute and smart. I like Flux.
First day: good. Extremely tired because I am in class (with a few hour breaks here and there for food, thankfully) from 9:30 am to 8 pm.
Second day: work in the afternoon. What I thought was going to be a relaxing afternoon of watching movies and studying kanji turned out to be anything but. I thought, how much can 8 women use the bathroom in 4 hours? Apparently, a lot. Some of them went more in those 4 hours than I go in a day. And I feel like I pee a lot. In any case, pretty sure I fucked up some details which may be major or minor, I don't know, I'm going to call the kid in charge of the study and he'll get it straightened out. Afterwards I went to class (it's weird working in the afternoon then going to class at night) and headed off to a show for my boyfriend's band except half the band was sick so they didn't play. So the poor guys from People Noise, who played an extremely great and fun show for 7 people (half of whom were employees of the bar, not counting the 3 people working that night) had at least a handful of people show up, but honestly, you can't expect a huge draw for an alt-rock band in Lincoln, Nebraska in the middle of fucking freezing January, on the Tuesday the week school starts in a college town. Most of us at least make some sort of effort the first week.
Third day: Today I am not making an effort. Actually, I did. I had no problems finding a parking spot on Monday so imagine my surprise and irritation when I return to the same lot today and spend 20 minutes driving around and not being able to find ANYWHERE to park. By the time I could've found somewhere else a bit farther away (in other words, on the other side of campus) I would've been too late for my class for my comfort - I don't like even being a few minutes late so 10 is out of the question and 20 is just silly cause that's almost half the class! Instead, I decide to be useful and go buy books. They are expensive even though I scored a bunch of used ones. (I used to have a book scholarship but the honors program was very uncooperative so I said, fuck them I don't need this stress.) It didn't take very long at all, so I decide to run home real fast (I live about 5 minutes away by car) and put on another shirt cause it's gonna be cold today, and to drop off the books I don't need. I return in plenty of time to find a spot. I drive around. And around. And around. And around. No dice. It seems that unless you can vulture a spot in the 10 minute between-class window of whatever:20 and class starting at whatever:30 you're out of luck. Not to mention, my campus is extremely spread out (compared to Senshu or even the Tec) and even if I could find a spot in that 10 minutes, I'd probably still be late to class cause my closest building is a block or two (5 minute walk minimum) away. Laaame.
So now my next class is in an hour. It's snowing heavily and honestly, I just want to sleep, even though I'm taking this class for fun cause I'm a dork. I hope my night class gets cancelled cause of the snow. We're supposed to get 2-5 inches and the way it's already coming down, I can believe it. I might just stay in and read cause all my classes are reading-heavy and my non-teaching classes are very much 'read the book and come to class for the notes and you'll be fine'. Plus, one of my teachers (who teaches 2 of my classes, even) puts all her notes and whatnot up on blackboard so that's even better. Yay.
No class tomorrow but work from something like 5 or 5:30 to 10. I hope it's not as stupid as yesterday or I'm going to be pissed. It's so frustrating cause it's like.. I know what I'm doing 90% of the time and I'm expected to know what I'm doing 100% of the time, and I forget little things like signing logs or what information goes where on the sheet, or where we put tubes now. aaarrgh. It's like being freshly new again. At least I'm in the training class for February, assuming my brain doesn't kill me first.
And yay new Flux set! She's so damn cute and smart. I like Flux.