So things are better lately.

School. It's still crazy. I have massive amounts of work to do every week. I had my first Money & Banking exam two days ago. I got a 70 something. I forgot the exact score & I'm too lazy to check. But it's only 10% of my final grade so I'm not too worried about it. In two weeks, I'm going to have 4 exams in one week, 1 on Monday & 3 on Wednesday ): That is not going to be a fun week for me...

Work. I'm really not happy with my job right now. I keep thinking about my evaluation from last semester. I got a 3 (out of 5) for initiative because "my breaks are too long." I feel like this is really unfair. I didn't always take break as soon as they told me to go. I usually finish up what I'm doing & then I go. I guess it's partially my fault for not being clear to them about when my break is starting. I could have gone to them before & been like okay I'm going on my break now. It takes a while to get food too...especially when you work dinner shifts. Sometimes the lines for food is so long & just getting food could easily eat away half your break time...& also so what if my breaks are too long? I always finish early. If not early, then at least before we're all supposed to be done. & I always end up helping everyone else finish up they're jobs after I'm done with me. If that's not initiative, I don't know what is. So what's the big deal? Yeah, I get that I should stay within the allotted time for our breaks but is that really bad enough to merit a 3? A 4 I would be okay with.
Also, they keep making me wash pots. It's really getting on my nerves. I mean, yeah, I don't like validine. I'm glad I'm not doing that much. Not always crazy about doing customer service. I still love dish room though. It is still by far my favorite position. Last semester they kept putting me there...to the point that I was really annoyed...now this semester they've been avoiding putting me there. I'm nearly always on pots. I believe last week. I was on pots for both of my shifts. This week, I was on pots on Monday & then customer service on Wednesday (which did not make me feel better at all...because I would have rather been on pots that day because customer service was really busy that day since it was a snow day & the dining hall was packed almost my entire shift). I just really don't like the way they're managing things this year. They don't know how to rotate anymore. I remember when they used to keep track of where you've worked & how often. They made sure you worked each position equally. There is none of that this year ): I understand that certain times they need certain people on certain positions but they can always make you do something for most of your shift & then move you later...they used to do that when Jen was in charge.
Long story short: I don't want to work there anymore. I'm seriously considering working in the Student Union instead. I wouldn't mind making wraps or burritos or salads for all my shifts. That stuff is fun. But cleaning the dining area every day would suck a lot...

Boyfriend. We got in a huge fight. It was huge like...we were on the brink of breaking up. But we didn't, lol. Things got a lot better after that fight. I think I just need to vent more often instead of letting it all build up. Our one year is coming up. We made plans to go eat stir fry at North dining hall. (it was the first meal we actually ate together as a couple, according to him). This always seems to be how our relationship goes...when we get to a part where we're always unhappy with each other, we usually always end up having a huge fight & then everything is better after that.

Valentine's Day/Chinese New Year. This is terrible, lol. I don't think Shawn & I will have much time for each other. Maybe a little at night but we don't really have plans. Plus he'll probably have to end up writing his lab report that night. My mom is coming up around noon to spend time with my brother & me. Shawn's mom wants him to go home tomorrow & stay until Sunday. He doesn't really want to go because of the long drive & he doesn't have sheets at home but I think he should go. She's been wanting him to go back for the past 2 weekends. Besides, family should come first. We have our one year anniversary two days after Valentine's day anyway. That's 9849932429374987234 times more romantic than some Hallmark holiday.

Laptop. I finally brought it in to get looked at. The fan was driving me nuts. Hopefully they fix it soon. I know they won't be able to do the diagnostics until Monday & get back to me with a quote on the repairs but I hope it'll be done by the end of next week. I'm on my desktop right now. It's ancient & slow. & I can't play Lineage 2 on it, lol )))):

That's pretty much everything. I have a lot to do this weekend. My biggest concern is a lab report I have to do for my Mythology class. I can't think of anything that relates to the material from this module. I wish I could have gotten feedback on my first lab report before having to write this one. Sorry for the long, boring post about my boring life, lol.

Goodbye, social life & anything that was fun in my life.

So classes started this week. I have Tuesdays & Thursday completely off. My Mondays & Wednesday are crazy. I have classes from 8 am to 11 am then work from 12 pm to 4 pm & another class from 5 pm to 6:15 pm. So I'm pretty much busy from 8 am to 6:15 pm. Friday is just classes from 8 am to 11 am.

My classes are ridiculous. It's like all my professors/TAs decided not to teach anymore. I miss when they used to spoonfeed us what we needed to know. So now I have a shit ton of reading to do every week.

Operations Research. This class actually doesn't seem too bad. The exams are open book. It doesn't seem like he expects us to read too much. This is pretty much the only class I won't have to read for. What does suck though is that he might have to cancel class a few times & reschedule over the weekend. That's just...ew.

The Short Story. This class doesn't seem too bad either. The readings should be fairly easy since they're stories so they'll be entertaining & they're short so it won't take too long. The papers don't have to be long either. Nothing to whine about for this class yet.

Money & Banking. The professor for this class is the spawn of Satan. He expects us to do so much work on our own...like we're not taking any other classes except his. I miss the days when I never had to read the book (or at least just had to skim it or read chapter summaries) & just going to class was enough...his exams seem brutal. I heard from other people that his exams are overly difficult & he said himself that he only gives us 1 minute per question. That isn't a good combo. We can't even hesitate on one question or we'll run out of time. Everyone I talk to say he's evil. I just got back from a floor meeting & one of the girls on my floor asked me if I know that professor & I went on a mini rant about how evil he was & she was like yeah that's the one. This class is evil. It's going to be the death of me this semester...

Intro to Marketing Management. Again, she expects us to read the book & teach ourselves. I guess we pay tuition so we can have someone tell us what books to buy so we can teach ourselves all semester. I hate reading textbooks. She's nice in general though. I like her. Just frustrated that I'll have to read a lot for her class too.

Classical Mythology. It's an online course so it shouldn't be too bad. All the reading just feels like it's going to be really bad right now on top of all the other reading I have to do. (Edit: We have to read the Odyssey too...when we read it in high school I didn't get it. I don't think I'm going to get it now...) I also have to find time when I'm not reading to watch the video lectures...& write the papers...& the forum group work...

So yeah, I don't think I'll have as much time, if any, as I wanted for Xanga. Maybe it's not as bad as it seems right now...I mean last semester seemed bad but I ended up gaming most of the semester & still did well. I'll just see how it goes.

Shawn & I went down to NYC today. While we were driving to the restaurant to meet my mom & my brother, this black Lincoln start turning into our lane & almost hit us (he couldn't turn anywhere to avoid it because we were in the left lane & there was a wall on the left). But Shawn honked the horn at him & it didn't kill us.  I guess I see why some people honk in NYC now...but a lot of times people honk for nothing, which I really hate about the city. That plus they're always in such a hurry & no one lets you through traffic like people in Connecticut do...& finding parking is horrendous. I don't think I could ever live in the city.

I got my hair cut while we were in NYC today. I just wanted a trim. I told her two inches but she definitely took of more than two inches lol. I feel like I have no hair. How am I ever supposed to grow it out long if everytime I go to get a trim it brings me back to where I started?! ): Maybe next time I should just say half an inch or one inch. I miss my old hairdresser. I'm sad that he went back to China. I trusted him completely with my hair. It always turned out exactly the way I wanted when I went to him.

On our way back, we took 95 even though he usually take Merritt Parkway because we had like...no gas at all & he thought we would have a better chance of running into a gas station before the car died if we took 95. But we didn't know there was a second toll when you're leaving NYC & neither of us had enough cash to pay the toll, haha. Epic fail. Now I understand why older people always tell me to keep extra cash on me. A debit card is not enough in some cases. Good thing my mom was only a couple minutes behind us though & she saved us. It was pretty pathetic. She & my brother had a good laugh at us. Then after that it was just a race against the tank to get to a gas station. He turned the heat off to conserve gas, lol. We made it though. The dial was on empty & the little gas light was on the whole way. I'm surprised we made it. Today was an interesting trip to NYC. One of the most interesting ones of my life.