Random good news:

1 - Finally (almost) better after being sick for a week. I'm celebrating the lack of a fever, congestion, headaching, coughing, somebody-please-kill-me-now feeling. It's the simple pleasures. Like being able to taste things again. Yay!
2- I just got hired full time at my job! Which means finally being able to do more interesting work than scanning paper. And more importantly, a real paycheck! And maybe moving out soon!
3 - I got an e-mail today from a friend I'd lost touch with. And she's in town right now!

Yay!

I hijacked this entry from my MySpace page, because it's still running through my head tonight.

It's funny that the last time I updated, it was to say how excited I was about my job. Because now I'm finding that it sucks.... I barely have enough to do; and most of what I DO is mind-numbing.

Anyway.

After a lot of soul searching, I left school last year. Again. Because I just couldn't take it anymore. The required courses, and the lectures and the term papers and the tests and the finals and the on and on and on. I'd reached the point where the thought of sitting through one more class made me want to kick and scream, and start climbing the walls, and pull out my hair and then get into my car and just drive forever. I remember crossing the campus at KSU and saying to myself, over and over, "What the fuck am I still doing here?"

And now, while I'm at work, feeding one page at a time through my scanner because it jams if I feed it two, I entertain thoughts of going back. Again. (For what, the third, fourth, fifth try? I've lost count by now.) I still can't stand the thought of going back to the lectures and the labs and term papers and the tests and the finals and all of that. It's not that I don't think I can do it. I just don't want to. Not anymore. I still get that screaming-and-climbing-the-walls feeling just going online and reading a few nearby schools' graduation requirements.

But I get the same feeling while I'm at my desk, cursing out my paper scanner.
If I stay at my current job, I'll slowly lose my mind. But if I go back to school again, I'll lose my mind there too. It's the reason I still haven't finished.

Anyway. I'll keep job hunting in the meantime. And I still have the college pages bookmarked, in case I have another attack of insanity, and decide go back again.

I finally got a job!! YAY!!! It's mostly bookkeeping/admin/payroll type stuff; with opportunity to move up to something more interesing later on. I'm really excited! I've been sitting on my ass doing nothing for WAY too long by now. I start work in early December. I can't wait!

I found out today that a good friend of mine who moved to England last year... is coming home! We've been out of touch for a year. As so often happens long distance. But he's back in town right now! Looking for a job close by.

*does happy dance*

Last weekend, Dad bought himself a giant-flat-screen TV. He said he's wanted one for four years now, and apparently last weekend, the price had finally dropped enough that he decided to go for it. (I wish I had that kind of money to throw away. But that's another story.)

This weekend I'm house-sitting for him while he's visiting some friends of his. So right now I've got a bottle of beer and a Lifetime movie (Cyber Seduction: His Secret Life) playing on the big screen TV. Life does not get much better than that.


I also finally have a lead on a job possibility. Yay!

We found Ashes! Yay! Turns out that after she got out, she came right back inside, then hid underneath Mom's night table -- and just stayed there all day and all night. She started crying at about 3 AM and we found her then. (Don't ask me how the hell she got under there into such a tiny space.)

She's hiding again right now. But that's OK since I know she's in the house someplace. Yay!