ImagiNation

That's odd

I wrote an entry last week that Blogger lost half of... I swear I published it anyway. Today, I check it out and nothing's there. Odd. Oh well. The last couple of weeks have been really busy for me. Preparing for the end of the quarter, presidential duties of my student group, packing for my month back home, applying for a job in Louisvile so that I'm not just sitting at home with my parents, etc...

So here's an update: Some stupid drunk chick bumped into my table at a bar a week or so ago- beer spills all over me. She doesn't apologize and just walks away. After drying the 5 huge wet spots all over my shirt and jeans I realize that my purse is filled with beer- and my cell phone is swimming in it. While I've never had any complaints about Verizon Wireless, they do not have any locations remotely near Athens. My phone has absolutely no sound- I can't hear anyone, nor can they hear me. I drive to Columbus (the nearest store, only an hour away) only to find that it can't be fixed and I have to purchase a new one. As I've mentioned before, I don't have much money. What to do? Go without a phone, while in a long distance relationship? Spend money I don't have on a phone I don't want and then wait 3 days to have it delivered? Drive three more hours to Louisville and beg my Mom to work something out with me? I go with the latter and end up in Louisville.

Meanwhile, my landlord has decided to no longer accept our rent money late (some of us in the house have to live off of our loan money, which we only get at the begining of a quarter, which just so happens to be two months before our quarterly rent is due). They use to let us bring in a note from the university that tells them that we get our money in January- you get the picture. So we ALL have to pay the rent on Nov. 15th or the entire house is fined $1500. Oh and they only gave us 10 days notice about this change in policy. This only ends in more begging of my mother. I'm pathetic.

So now I'm back in Louisville and started my super job at a video store, which a very kind friend hooked me up with. Though I have to say it- I'm 25, have a B.A., working on my Masters and making minimum wage. Oh and I was suppose to have an unofficial internship at Papa John's International department, only to have them call me this week and tell me they can only do it in the summer. But at least my finals are over and I get to spend time with my boy here in Louisville. Not to mention I get to watch my Cards play with other people who actually care about them and NOT have to hear people talk about Ohio State.

posted by imagine @ 12:57 AM 2 comments

Freak out

To kind of continue from my last post- I think I'm kinda freaking out a little. Much like I did when this time of year before I graduated from Louisville (just a small side note here- it really sucks watching Louisville football games here in Athens. When you're in a town 1 hour outside Columbus no other football teams are even worth looking at, which only adds to my love/hate relationship with OSU.) Anyway, I know I'm tired of school, but I have NO IDEA what I will be doing or even where I will be at in about 9 months from now. Its both exciting and scary.

posted by imagine @ 1:58 PM 0 comments

Just going through the motions

Things just seem to happen to me without too much effort on my part. Sure there is a bit of decision making, as choices always need to be made. As this quarter is coming to an end, I am just now beginning to feel the consequences of my decision to enter graduate school for the first time.

I always knew I was going to go to grad school- I just never knew what I would study or when I would actually go. I had three reasons for choosing Ohio University: I got a scholarship, I always wanted to have that away-from-home college experience, and I knew there was about a 99.9% chance that I would get to travel over the summer. But my choice had really very little to do with what I would actually be studying.

So far the course work hasn't been too challenging- with the exception of having to take a language. I knew that part of the program would give me trouble. I have absolutely no motivation to learn any of these languages when I know I'm likely to never use it. (Mainly because a two year program is NOT going to allow me to learn enough of a language to actually use it for research or making business deals.) Because I dropped Thai and switched to Indonesian I have to take some sort of intensive language course this summer in order to fulfill my two year language requirement. This just so happens to be in Wisconsin. Or Indonesia. Since I traveled last summer there is no way I afford to do it again this summer. Not to mention, from what I hear about the program in Indonesia, I don't think it would be for me anyway.

Sometimes I feel like this program is a bit of a waste- other than walking away with a Master's, I really have no idea how my knowledge of Southeast Asia will help me in the future. Then again I thought the same thing when I got my B.A. in Anthropology. Anyway, where I really think I'm going with this is that I think for the first time in my life I'm tired of being in school. I'm tired of being broke. I'm ready for a change and I hate that it has to be delayed because of a language program.

posted by imagine @ 12:37 PM 2 comments