While some things change, others stay the same...

... no matter how annoying they are.

Some constants in my life

-The fact that whenever I get a pair of pants, more often than not they're too long for me. Even the petite pants are too long, which makes no sense at all.

-March comes in like a lion and goes out like one too, especially in Potsdam. It was snowing on my way to work this morning. Snowing.

-I will always, always arrive at the office before my boss does, when we're scheduled to work at the same time.

-There will always be too much work to do, and too little time to do it in. No matter if it's school work, housework, or work work, there will always be a stack of it.

-Coffee fixes everything.

Spring Break, Consensed

Well, I'm sure most of the people who know me noticed I disappeared off the face of the internet last week, and I'm back in freezing Potsdam after a... well... maybe you could call it relaxing... well, let's just say I'm back from a week of break. It was busy, and fun, and productive.

I started off the week with helping out around Bryan's parents' house, just doing things that needed to be done- trimming the dog's fur, helping build the jacuzzi shed, doing odd jobs at Bryan's mom's office. I also had a job interview for MetLife this week, for the open Office Assistant position, and I have my fingers crossed that I do get the job. I don't want to have to worry about being broke once I get done with college, although with loans coming due, I probably will be broke forever. But that's okay. Bryan and I also looked at an apartment, and should we get jobs, we'll take it- it's not like it's going anywhere. Yesterday I helped rake leaves and such at Bryan's grandparents' house, then we helped empty the jacuzzi room in hopes it eventually becomes Bryan's mom's office. And then we fell asleep ridiculously early, only to get up at 2:30 am, and leave at 3:30 am. And here I am!

It occured to Bryan and I on the way up that this was our last trip up to Potsdam for a long time. True, we'll be up here to visit friends and such, but this was the last trip we were making as college students. I'm excited, and a little scared. Real life is coming at me quickly. (Again. But that's a long story, for another day, if anyone actually reads this thing.)

Work, work, work.

All I ever do is work, it feels like. Either I'm here in the office, printing and scanning and so on and so forth, or I'm up to my eyebrows in books at the library. Or I'm trying to deal with Gamma Sig business- upset pledges, angry alumni, and so on and so forth. At least Spring Break is coming up. I have three goals for break- finish my Leonardo da Vinci paper (which shouldn't be hard), read the Cleopatra books I signed out for my Egypt in Late Antiquity class, and write some more chapters for my Black Jewels Trilogy fanfiction. Yes, I've started writing fanfiction again. It's frightening, isn't it? At least so far I've gotten good reviews, and hopefully I can crank out a chapter or two to keep the few fans I have at the moment happy. I missed writing fanfiction. It's a good stress reliever, and this time I'm trying to do it right- make original characters that aren't a reflection of myself in some way, and stay true to the story. My old Sailor Moon stories were horrible... I should probably delete them from my hard drive, so nobody ever stumbles across them. Some of them are just so horrible I deny the existence of them. They really should be obliterated from the face of the planet.

In other news, I'm ready to graduate. I want to be done with all these tests and research papers and so on. I want to go forth and enjoy what the real world has to offer me. I want to get a real job, and a better apartment than the ones I've had. I want to experience life. I'm done with being a young adult, I think. I'm ready to grow up now. I really wish I hadn't screwed up in my first year of college, then I would have graduated by now. However, if that had happened, I never would have met Bryan, and I wouldn't exactly be the person I am today.

Okay, enough rambling. I've got to get back to homework and scanning.

Things are slowly looking up.

Well, I just had one job interview, for MetLife down in Hauppage (about 10 minutes away from where Bryan lives). Granted, it was a simple phone interview, but hopefully I'll get scheduled for a full interview over spring break. I hope I get the job. I really do. I also hope that Bubba's mom will go down on the price of the apartment in her basement. I have a good feeling about everything right now.

In other news, the sorority is going down the tubes. Too much angst and drama, and I'm more than sick of it all.

I got to visit my mother this past weekend. It was nice to see her.

I think I might start double posting my livejournal entries here, so the public can see most of what's going on (the truly private posts will stay on Livejournal). Maybe then I'll meet new people, make new friends.

Apartment hunting is frustrating.

The title says it all. Apartment hunting is just ridiculous. If you want to live near the city, apartments get more expensive. If you want something relatively affordable, you end up renting in the boonies. If you want to try to rent from a friend, they're going to milk you for all it's worth. If you want to try and live with your parents, either they'll never let you leave for fear of an empty nest, or it'll be a struggle to get them to let you move back in, because they enjoyed the empty nest.

Why is it so hard to find something affordable near where one wants to be?