Marina (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} marinalives) wrote,@ 2004-05-02 11:43:00 |
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And the living is easy...
I've got a little over an hour before I have to leave for work at Cold Stone. I'm a little grumpy about that, because I just got back half an hour ago from a mandatory meeting (which was actually pretty cool; I got a free movie ticket) and got home at 1am last night. I closed for the first time last night, and although the store closed at 11pm it took four of us an hour and a half to clean up. It's intense working there... There was a line out the door until 10pm. And the store is big. Big area behind the counter, big lobby, big back room. But it's fun. I mean, it's ice cream. And I'm starting to get to know my co-workers. Most of them seem to be high school students, which is a little odd. I've never really gotten along with people who spend their weekends feeling cool for drinking illegally. But most of them seem nice enough. And I have to say, I'm really enjoying singing the stupid songs. "I got ice cream on a cloudy day... When it's cold outside, I've got sorbet..."
So yeah, I'm a leeetle too busy. I'm working 15 hours a week in the cafeteria at PCC, and next week I'm working 16 hours at Cold Stone because prom is apparantly Saturday night so no one else can work. But I got my first paycheck from Cold Stone last night, and it's so very very nice to not feel broke. I could buy pizza for dinner! Or a CD! Or fancy-shmancy bike lights! Or organic jam! Oh the possibilities.
I've been biking a ton, too. Half an hour Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, and an hour every day I work at Cold Stone. It's nice, especially in the wonderful weather we've been having lately. I've sure been working off my ice cream. *grin*
School's good, although I'm getting a little tired of it. Spring fever and all. Deaf Studies is fascinating, and touches on education, linguistics, cognitive science, minority history... plus the teacher is Deaf, so two women interpret for him, which is fascinating to watch. Sometimes I think I learn more ASL from them than from my ASL class.
ASL class is... hard. The teacher is wonderful, much nicer than my last teacher. She goes off on these random funny stories every once in a while, and thinks our textbook is boring, and gets mad when we don't ask about signs we don't understand. But... I guess learning languages is just not something I find easy. I want to do everything perfectly, even though I know many people who speak English as a second language quite imperfectly, and I really admire them.
And math class is easy. We're working through polynomials, and just started learning how to factor them. It's fun. The teacher's nice. I can't decide whether to take math 70 or 95 in the fall. 70 is basically a review, but everyone I've talked to says 95 is really fast and really hard. We'll see. I'll ask my current math teacher for advice.
Also in the fall, I'm going to take "Language and the Layout of Argument" with a teacher Tessa has been recommending for a good year or so. And I'm going to take a class at Portland State University too, probably "Languages of the World". PSU has an amazing variety of language classes... Turkish, Tagalog, Korean, Persian, Norwegian... I'll hopefully continue to work at Cold Stone, and they may be opening up a store right near PSU. And I'll make up a high school transcript, visit various colleges, and apply in January. Wow. I've spent a long time thinking about four-year colleges, since I was about 16. It seems weird that I'm finally ready to commit to it.
What else what else. I'm looking forward to this summer. I'll be working about 30 hours a week, which means I'll have much more time at home! And no homework! I want to read a lot, and go on recreational bike rides, and garden.
Oh yes! The garden! From my window I can see five fully bloomed roses. They're yellow and red and absolutely incredible. We've got two more bushes that are starting to bloom too, one dark dark red and one pale, and two more tiny bushes that aren't blooming yet. Roses are amazing things. And we've got two kinds of mint, and basil, and lettuce and onions and peas and soon we'll have carrots and tomatos.
Hurrah for summer.
I've got a little over an hour before I have to leave for work at Cold Stone. I'm a little grumpy about that, because I just got back half an hour ago from a mandatory meeting (which was actually pretty cool; I got a free movie ticket) and got home at 1am last night. I closed for the first time last night, and although the store closed at 11pm it took four of us an hour and a half to clean up. It's intense working there... There was a line out the door until 10pm. And the store is big. Big area behind the counter, big lobby, big back room. But it's fun. I mean, it's ice cream. And I'm starting to get to know my co-workers. Most of them seem to be high school students, which is a little odd. I've never really gotten along with people who spend their weekends feeling cool for drinking illegally. But most of them seem nice enough. And I have to say, I'm really enjoying singing the stupid songs. "I got ice cream on a cloudy day... When it's cold outside, I've got sorbet..."
So yeah, I'm a leeetle too busy. I'm working 15 hours a week in the cafeteria at PCC, and next week I'm working 16 hours at Cold Stone because prom is apparantly Saturday night so no one else can work. But I got my first paycheck from Cold Stone last night, and it's so very very nice to not feel broke. I could buy pizza for dinner! Or a CD! Or fancy-shmancy bike lights! Or organic jam! Oh the possibilities.
I've been biking a ton, too. Half an hour Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, and an hour every day I work at Cold Stone. It's nice, especially in the wonderful weather we've been having lately. I've sure been working off my ice cream. *grin*
School's good, although I'm getting a little tired of it. Spring fever and all. Deaf Studies is fascinating, and touches on education, linguistics, cognitive science, minority history... plus the teacher is Deaf, so two women interpret for him, which is fascinating to watch. Sometimes I think I learn more ASL from them than from my ASL class.
ASL class is... hard. The teacher is wonderful, much nicer than my last teacher. She goes off on these random funny stories every once in a while, and thinks our textbook is boring, and gets mad when we don't ask about signs we don't understand. But... I guess learning languages is just not something I find easy. I want to do everything perfectly, even though I know many people who speak English as a second language quite imperfectly, and I really admire them.
And math class is easy. We're working through polynomials, and just started learning how to factor them. It's fun. The teacher's nice. I can't decide whether to take math 70 or 95 in the fall. 70 is basically a review, but everyone I've talked to says 95 is really fast and really hard. We'll see. I'll ask my current math teacher for advice.
Also in the fall, I'm going to take "Language and the Layout of Argument" with a teacher Tessa has been recommending for a good year or so. And I'm going to take a class at Portland State University too, probably "Languages of the World". PSU has an amazing variety of language classes... Turkish, Tagalog, Korean, Persian, Norwegian... I'll hopefully continue to work at Cold Stone, and they may be opening up a store right near PSU. And I'll make up a high school transcript, visit various colleges, and apply in January. Wow. I've spent a long time thinking about four-year colleges, since I was about 16. It seems weird that I'm finally ready to commit to it.
What else what else. I'm looking forward to this summer. I'll be working about 30 hours a week, which means I'll have much more time at home! And no homework! I want to read a lot, and go on recreational bike rides, and garden.
Oh yes! The garden! From my window I can see five fully bloomed roses. They're yellow and red and absolutely incredible. We've got two more bushes that are starting to bloom too, one dark dark red and one pale, and two more tiny bushes that aren't blooming yet. Roses are amazing things. And we've got two kinds of mint, and basil, and lettuce and onions and peas and soon we'll have carrots and tomatos.
Hurrah for summer.
