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Officially bored

I’m officially bored. I don’t know what to do with myself, and I absolutely cannot wait until school starts! This sounds pathetic, I know, but I need something productive to do with my time. And by productive, I mean not piddling around in the kitchen cooking dinner for my mom, and baking goodies that my fat ass doesn’t need. I also mean that productive does not entail reading for fun, trying to figure out how to make my own wordpress theme, and stalking random celebrities on the internet (just because I have the time to do so, and well, why not?).

I’ve been watching far too much TV. My brain will have completely rotted by the time February 16th rolls around. The only thing that I have been doing that I consider productive is taking the dog for a walk. Because he needs to lose weight. And I like going on walks and exploring this amazingly hicky boring town I live in.

I seriously am going stir crazy though. I need to have deadlines, I need to know that I have to be somewhere at a certain time, etc.

While I do love having all this time to myself, it has just been too long. I’ve already been out of school for a month, and I still have more than a month to go!

I’m trying very hard to appreciate this time, because it could be the last time I ever have this much time off to do nothing.

I’m considering driving to Phoenix to visit with my cousin next week. Although, I’m not entirely positive that my car will make it. The check engine light is on, and my car has generally sounded really not good lately. My cousin, J, said that we could go to the Grand Canyon and do stuff like that. I want to go. so. bad.

But my mother is trying to talk me out of it. Her reasons?

1) You can’t make that long drive by yourself! (my response: yes I could, I can do anything if I really want to)
2) I thought you didn’t have any money. (my response: I’ll take it out of my study abroad savings, and gas is cheap right now)
3) Your car wouldn’t make it. (my response: ……)

You think she wouldn’t like it if I asked if I could take her car? Maybe I’ll ask in a joking way and see how she responds.

My car gets better gas mileage, though. One of the perks of having a small car.

Other than boredom, nothing much has been going on. Today was Chris’s birthday. I honestly can’t believe my brother is 23. Why, you ask? Because, that means I am getting old, too! And I just so don’t see myself turning 21 in May. I don’t feel almost 21, at least. And I don’t mean that 23 or 21 is old, not at all, it just seems very grown up. And I don’t feel grown up, and I don’t see Chris as grown up.

My little brother doesn’t help the age thing much either. He just turned 16 in December…! And to really put age in perspective, one of my youngest cousins is turning thirteen this year. And this is a cousin who I will always think of as five years old.

Anyway.

I’m going to check the fluids in my car tomorrow. That’s really all I’m good at when it comes to fixing my car. I can check the fluids, take care of tire pressure… and that’s it. Oh! I also know how to change out the battery. I’m so cool.
har har.

I think I may be low on oil. Good thing I have a full can, I bought extra last time. Only thing is that I really need an oil change. It’s been like two years.

The dog and I will also go on a walk tomorrow.

I also plan on emailing my professor tomorrow who is supposed to write a recommendation for me. I need two recommendations by February 1st, and I haven’t gotten either of them yet. One of the professors said that if I don’t receive it in the mail by January 15th, to email him and remind him. The other one said that she’d put it in the mail, but never said when. So I need to email that professor to remind her. Because she is so the type that would forget easily. I wouldn’t put it past her.

Other than those extremely uninteresting tidbits, I have no other plans for tomorrow.

I meet with the study abroad financial aid guy on Monday.
I also need to take care of my transcripts on Monday while I’m on campus.

I was going to order my transcripts for study abroad last week, when I realized that my grades are still effed up on the new system. They’re putting my GPA at like a 2.5, and several of my grades are WRONG. You see, they just recently moved their online system to a new one. I noticed these horrific mistakes in mid-December. I went to educational services at that point, and they said that the problem would be handled in a few days. Well, it is still not handled. I was going to go to campus last week to rip their heads off for this, but I couldn’t justify wasting the gas when I know that I have an appointment to meet with financial aid this Monday.

So the head ripping off will occur then. I need to ask them if my grades are the same on the online system and my actual transcripts. Because my actual transcript might be fine and dandy, and totally unaffected by the new online system. I really hope that is the case. And if not, then they better fix my transcript right then and there because I need to order my transcript and have it sent to the study abroad department. It takes two whole weeks for them to process it, so pretty much it needs to happen Monday. And if I have to order my transcript with the wrong grades, then I will. I will just add something in to my personal statement stating why my GPA is so horrible on my transcript.