Have I mentioned that I really need a job? I applied at a daycare center called Pokachoag Acres (I may have spelled it wrong; it’s a difficult word). I would make about $8.50 an hour and watch kids all day, which sounds like a good deal to me. I’m just waiting for my cori report to come back so that I can start. Unfortunately, it’s not really a full time position. I would be like a substitute, coming in when someone goes on vacation or calls in sick. So in the meantime, I went back to my old boss at Kumon Learning Center to see if I could get my old job. She gave me one for two weeks, because someone is on vacation. I don’t know if she has room for me after that. Besides, it’s only open for about 4 hours 3 days a week, and that’s not really not enough time to keep me occupied. I applied to a restaurant for a waitressing job out of desperation. The owner knows my grandparents pretty well, so I was hoping that would help me get the job. No luck so far. I suppose that’s alright because I’m really not the most graceful person in the world. I just thought the tips would be good. Luckily, I will be getting a paycheck sometime next week because of working at Kumon, but I really need to start working regularly. I’m not used to being lazy!

Being home again is a lot different from being at school. For one thing, I have NOTHING to do! It’s a big change from school, where I’m busy constantly. Needless to say, I’m incredibly bored. It was great at first, but after a few days of it, I’ve had my fill of boredom. What makes it worse is that my body is still programmed to wake up early, so I get up before 9 in the morning, and I still have the whole day ahead of me. I am currently job-less, so I don’t have that to occupy my days. I don’t have any homework, so there’s nothing that I need to be doing. My sister is still in school, so I can’t hang out with her during the day (not that I’m sure we could hang out; we might kill each other). I don’t have any friends nearby, so still no one to hang out with. The highlight of my day is my exercise in the morning–which consists of jump rope and walking the dogs. By the end of the summer, I’m sure my dogs will lose all of the weight they gained over the winter, weight that they will just gain back again when I leave.

On the bright side, I do have my car, so that’s helpful. I visited Sam once; he lives about an hour away. That was an adventure! I had to mapquest the directions, and I didn’t print any out for the way back from his house, so he drew me a map….I still got lost. I had to stop at a gas station to ask where I was. Then today (Sunday) I realized around 4:00 that the day was barely half done.  I panicked because I had already run out of things to do after exercising, walking the dogs, and watching a movie. So I went to the mall to read a book that just came out (by Stephenie Meyer, the amazing author whose book I fell in love with in January) that I haven’t been able to buy yet because, like I said, job-less. I’ve gotten to chapter 8 and will probably go back soon so I can read some more.

Hopefully my days will miraculously be filled with something fun very soon so that I don’t go back to school in the habit of not doing anything. I’m sure it will all change when I get back, anyway!

I have a car!! It’s a 2001 Chevy Cavalier and I love it. Of course, I’m not very good at having a car yet. In fact, I’m pretty bad at it. I went grocery shopping with my sister the other night. We spent a good 10 to 15 minutes in the store before I was done shopping. I was standing in line, waiting to pay, and I realized I had left my lights on! I told my sister to run outside and turn them off (and prayed that I’d be able to start the car when I got out there). Then, last night, we held a birthday party for my grandmother at the Elks Lodge. I was in my car, ready to go home, and digging through my purse for my keys. I couldn’t find them, so I was going to run inside and look for them. When I got out of my car, an older gentleman told me that I had a pair of keys in the passenger side door….WOW! I left those keys in the door the entire 5 hours that I was inside. I am so lucky that my car wasn’t taken. I guess having a car takes some getting used to. Hopefully I get used to it really quickly….

So tell me if this doesn’t say how burned out by finals I am–I went blind this morning.

No, I’m just kidding. But I did put two contacts in the same eye this morning, which equates to the same thing. I was confused because I couldn’t see clearly when I should have been able to, and I especially couldn’t figure out why one eye suddenly seemed worse than usual. It was an odd moment.

But my last final is tomorrow, and then I get to go home!

So in case you were wondering, the No Facebook thing lasted a whole day…only long enough for me to finish one paper. However, I have to say I lasted longer than Alyssa, who asked for her password after a mere hour. Despite Facebook, I have been finishing all of my homework on time, and I have not (fortunately) lost any sleep! That’s saying something considering all of the in-between things (for lack of a better word) that I’ve had to do.

Tributaries, the Honors Journal, is finished, and one of my duties as editor is to put it together–which means lots of stapling and lots of folding. If it’s possible to have a bruise on your palm, I will have one. I must have pushed that stapler down a good 300 times. Then, when I was done, I carried the box of journals from the library to Frieberger–my workout for the day! I could barely lift my arms after. But on the bright side, the journal is beautiful! The art in it is amazing, especially the cover art, which people from the graphic design department worked on.

Last night we had our last Honor’s Seminar of the semester. All we were doing was presentations. I don’t think anyone who wasn’t presenting went to class except for me, Brittany H., Alyssa, Renee, and one other girl who’s name I don’t know. So most of the class wasn’t there. I brought my laptop so I could do homework in between presentations, so that helped me a little bit. 

Tonight is the Leadership Banquet. Don’t ask what it is, because I don’t know. It will be my first time going, and all I know is that there is food (catered!) and awards are handed out. I might blog about it after (if I have time).

Hopefully, I won’t lose sleep tonight either. I still have two papers to write, one of which is due tomorrow, the other one sometime before the semester ends (but I prefer to turn it in tomorrow). Then I have two finals tomorrow, and the last one is Monday!