Yup, y'all have missed a lot since I've been gone.
For one thing, I went back for yet another visit to Hilton Head Island. Just in time to see yet another "beach renourishment" project swinging into high gear.
"Renourishment", for those of you who don't know already, is the government's hugely expensive--and ultimately quixotic--effort to prevent barrier islands from doing what they naturally do; namely, move. Doesn't it warm your little hearts to know your tax dollars are being spent to preserve the property values for a handful of hideously wealthy beachfront landowners?
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GiddyIguana's household has gained a few new members.
Meet Buddy and Cookie, the two best alarm clocks known to man. They're society finches, which is a very appropriate name given their disposition. They're bred that way, it seems...they were first domesticated by the Chinese about 3,000 years ago.
And what's the GiddyIguana without, well...an iguana?
Meet Chairman Mao. I know very little about Chairman Mao at this point. Heck, at this point I'm not even entirely sure whether or not the good Chairman is male or female. Nevertheless, y'all are undoubedly aware that I've been keeping iguanas for....wow, ten years now?...so I'm certain the Chairman and I are going to have a lot of fun getting to know each other over the next few years.
And, of course, I still have my cats. There's the evil genius London (held here by the lovely and talented Gina):
....and the frighteningly-inbred and stupid (but nonetheless sweet!) Cletus.
(Oh, yeah, and I've sorta grown a beard lately too, thanks in large part to my distaste for razors. What do y'all think?)
Yes, the Casa de GiddyIguana is beginning to get a bit crowded, but you're still not going to hear me complain.
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No, if I was going to complain here, it'd be about school. It finally happened..I was finally ruled "ineligible for financial aid" this semester (one lousy semester before my anticipated graduation date, too!) I can't imagine why they chose to do this NOW...after all, I'm only in year seven of a four-year degree.
Anyways, to make a long story short, I've had to cut my schedule back to next to nothing (I'm only in Senior Seminar and Research Methods now), just to make tuition and fees semi-affordable (assuming, of course, that you consider $1,885 "affordable.") My biological dad has, at least, agreed to help me with that much, but by doing it this way I've bumped a lot of classes out to summer school and possibly one last semester. How I'm going to afford all THAT, I don't know, but I'll cross that bridge when I get there.
As always, my life is a bit....unpredictable at the moment. Perhaps not a whole lot of fun for me, but at least it makes for interesting reading. So, if you're into the whole shadenfreude thing, I suggest you stay tuned.
For one thing, I went back for yet another visit to Hilton Head Island. Just in time to see yet another "beach renourishment" project swinging into high gear.
"Renourishment", for those of you who don't know already, is the government's hugely expensive--and ultimately quixotic--effort to prevent barrier islands from doing what they naturally do; namely, move. Doesn't it warm your little hearts to know your tax dollars are being spent to preserve the property values for a handful of hideously wealthy beachfront landowners?
___
GiddyIguana's household has gained a few new members.
Meet Buddy and Cookie, the two best alarm clocks known to man. They're society finches, which is a very appropriate name given their disposition. They're bred that way, it seems...they were first domesticated by the Chinese about 3,000 years ago.
And what's the GiddyIguana without, well...an iguana?
Meet Chairman Mao. I know very little about Chairman Mao at this point. Heck, at this point I'm not even entirely sure whether or not the good Chairman is male or female. Nevertheless, y'all are undoubedly aware that I've been keeping iguanas for....wow, ten years now?...so I'm certain the Chairman and I are going to have a lot of fun getting to know each other over the next few years.
And, of course, I still have my cats. There's the evil genius London (held here by the lovely and talented Gina):
....and the frighteningly-inbred and stupid (but nonetheless sweet!) Cletus.
(Oh, yeah, and I've sorta grown a beard lately too, thanks in large part to my distaste for razors. What do y'all think?)
Yes, the Casa de GiddyIguana is beginning to get a bit crowded, but you're still not going to hear me complain.
___
No, if I was going to complain here, it'd be about school. It finally happened..I was finally ruled "ineligible for financial aid" this semester (one lousy semester before my anticipated graduation date, too!) I can't imagine why they chose to do this NOW...after all, I'm only in year seven of a four-year degree.
Anyways, to make a long story short, I've had to cut my schedule back to next to nothing (I'm only in Senior Seminar and Research Methods now), just to make tuition and fees semi-affordable (assuming, of course, that you consider $1,885 "affordable.") My biological dad has, at least, agreed to help me with that much, but by doing it this way I've bumped a lot of classes out to summer school and possibly one last semester. How I'm going to afford all THAT, I don't know, but I'll cross that bridge when I get there.
As always, my life is a bit....unpredictable at the moment. Perhaps not a whole lot of fun for me, but at least it makes for interesting reading. So, if you're into the whole shadenfreude thing, I suggest you stay tuned.
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Couldn'ta said it better myself!