I was sooo not ready to go back to school today. I didn't even realize that today was the first day of the term until about 11 p.m. yesterday night when I decided to double-check my schedule online. For some reason I thought the term started tomorrow. Had I not double checked I would have slept through my classes today, and that would have been a bad way to start out.
On another school-related note, I am really tired of shelling out $80 + for one stupid textbook. Last term one of my professors let it slip that the school bookstore marks up textbooks like 50 - 80%, and I've been determined not to spend a dime there ever since. I find it totally horrifying and reprehensible that an academic institution would gauge students, who generally have very little money anyways, in that manner. So this term I am ordering all my books online. I saved about $100 by doing so even though I am paying out the ass for expedited shipping. And then at the end of the term I will sell them back to the bookstore, albeit for probably a quarter of what I paid for them, but whatever.
Since everyone is being all introspective and reflective about the last year I may as well jump on the bandwagon although I'm a bit late. 2005 was good, for the most part. I moved out of Portland to Seattle, which I feel was the best decision I have made for myself in the last three years, easily. I maintained and continue to maintain the best relationship I've ever had, and I kicked ass at school and got a 4.0. Some bad stuff happened too, but it was mild in comparison to the few years previous, and I feel like I actually learned from those experiances, which means that nothing negative that happened was in vein. I think that the biggest thing I realized this year is that shit happens. You can either dwell on it and obsess over things and people that you cannot and will not ever be able to change, or you can try to put it into perspective, learn from it, and apply it to similar things that may come up in the future instead of falling into the same fucked up pattern again. If I had realized this 3-4 years ago I would have been alot happier, but that's irrelevant. I know it now and I feel like it's a small but significant step.
As for New Years Resolutions, I generally don't make those, but this year I'm going to make an effort to read more books, cut back on the pot, cook at home more so I don't spend so much money on takeout and eating at retaurants, and maybe start some tattoo work on my arms. I could do more but I feel that is sufficient for now
Hope you all had a good Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanzaa/whatever and that 2006 is awesome for you.
On another school-related note, I am really tired of shelling out $80 + for one stupid textbook. Last term one of my professors let it slip that the school bookstore marks up textbooks like 50 - 80%, and I've been determined not to spend a dime there ever since. I find it totally horrifying and reprehensible that an academic institution would gauge students, who generally have very little money anyways, in that manner. So this term I am ordering all my books online. I saved about $100 by doing so even though I am paying out the ass for expedited shipping. And then at the end of the term I will sell them back to the bookstore, albeit for probably a quarter of what I paid for them, but whatever.
Since everyone is being all introspective and reflective about the last year I may as well jump on the bandwagon although I'm a bit late. 2005 was good, for the most part. I moved out of Portland to Seattle, which I feel was the best decision I have made for myself in the last three years, easily. I maintained and continue to maintain the best relationship I've ever had, and I kicked ass at school and got a 4.0. Some bad stuff happened too, but it was mild in comparison to the few years previous, and I feel like I actually learned from those experiances, which means that nothing negative that happened was in vein. I think that the biggest thing I realized this year is that shit happens. You can either dwell on it and obsess over things and people that you cannot and will not ever be able to change, or you can try to put it into perspective, learn from it, and apply it to similar things that may come up in the future instead of falling into the same fucked up pattern again. If I had realized this 3-4 years ago I would have been alot happier, but that's irrelevant. I know it now and I feel like it's a small but significant step.
As for New Years Resolutions, I generally don't make those, but this year I'm going to make an effort to read more books, cut back on the pot, cook at home more so I don't spend so much money on takeout and eating at retaurants, and maybe start some tattoo work on my arms. I could do more but I feel that is sufficient for now
Hope you all had a good Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanzaa/whatever and that 2006 is awesome for you.
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nicolelee:
Fuck outta here.
estrada:
Oh man, there was more.