Marina (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} marinalives) wrote,@ 2004-06-27 09:15:00 |
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Woo but I've been busy.
I feel more relaxed and alert than I have in months. I got home from a week at Quo Vadis yesterday evening. I now have a good night's sleep and a hot shower behind me and life is just grand. There's a ton of people in the house. We actually were able to rent a schoolbus and driver to take us from our doorstep to the Quo Vadis meeting place in Eugene for less money per person than Greyhound, so we brought about a third of Quo Vadis there and took about half home. That's not quite as bad as it sounds, since there were only 34 people there, but it's still a lot! I'm really glad it's sunny so people can sleep in the backyard.
So much has happened since I last wrote. Finals were good. I got As in all my classes, which once again is rather surprising and a little annoying for ASL. I like the language, and I'm glad I know as much of it as I do, but I think I'm done with the ASL program and the teachers there for a while. So yeah, finals were good but stressful. I spent all my time, and I do mean all my time, studying for about a week, then came home and collapsed on Wednesday night.
Which would have been great, except that I called the job I had planned on as a summer job to find out my schedule, and discovered I'd been laid off. Yuck. Really bad timing on that one. So... I'm not really sure what I'm doing this summer. I have enough money saved to last me through September, but since that's when school starts I'd be able to work less then, so I kinda need to earn money this summer. I got a freelance editing job from my roommate's father, which is very interesting. I'd love to do more of that, but I'm not sure it'd pay rent. I'm looking around for the usual food service jobs, although I'm pretty unenthused by it, and also pretty sure it wouldn't work. Most food service places don't want to hire someone for just ten weeks. I'm thinking of registering at a temp agency, or maybe even doing canvassing for political or environmental causes. That'd probably be something I wouldn't want to do more than once, but most wacky idealist college students seem to do it at some point.
Moral of that paragraph: if you or anyone you know needs something edited, (anything from copyediting to informed advice) let me know!
Quo Vadis was wonderful and just what I needed. Vacations are awfully good ideas, especially vacations in the backwoods of Oregon which involve unschoolers and swimming holes. I'm inspired and ready to plan out the rest of my life.
So, the current plan is: do something this summer involving not getting too stressed, learning cool things, and making at least some money. In August, take a short summer class called "Women In Art". Junior staff at NBTSC in September. Try to justify a trip to Wisconsin. In the fall, take math, physics, and philosophy (and maybe poetry, but I'll probably be too busy) at the campus that's a 15 minutes away, not 45 minutes. Visit Prescott and Antioch colleges, and any other really cool ones. Make a transcript. In January and February, apply to colleges. Take more PCC classes in the winter and spring, and work on Quo Vadis too. Do something in the summer, hopefully involving money. Go to full-time college starting the fall of '05 and graduating sometime in '07. Spend at least a year traveling. Find lots of land that's not too close to or far from a city, build houses with unschoolers, settle down, garden, bake bread and have babies.
If you skipped the above paragraph, it basically sums up to "There's a ton of stuff I want to do in the next ten years, but I wish it would go faster."
I feel more relaxed and alert than I have in months. I got home from a week at Quo Vadis yesterday evening. I now have a good night's sleep and a hot shower behind me and life is just grand. There's a ton of people in the house. We actually were able to rent a schoolbus and driver to take us from our doorstep to the Quo Vadis meeting place in Eugene for less money per person than Greyhound, so we brought about a third of Quo Vadis there and took about half home. That's not quite as bad as it sounds, since there were only 34 people there, but it's still a lot! I'm really glad it's sunny so people can sleep in the backyard.
So much has happened since I last wrote. Finals were good. I got As in all my classes, which once again is rather surprising and a little annoying for ASL. I like the language, and I'm glad I know as much of it as I do, but I think I'm done with the ASL program and the teachers there for a while. So yeah, finals were good but stressful. I spent all my time, and I do mean all my time, studying for about a week, then came home and collapsed on Wednesday night.
Which would have been great, except that I called the job I had planned on as a summer job to find out my schedule, and discovered I'd been laid off. Yuck. Really bad timing on that one. So... I'm not really sure what I'm doing this summer. I have enough money saved to last me through September, but since that's when school starts I'd be able to work less then, so I kinda need to earn money this summer. I got a freelance editing job from my roommate's father, which is very interesting. I'd love to do more of that, but I'm not sure it'd pay rent. I'm looking around for the usual food service jobs, although I'm pretty unenthused by it, and also pretty sure it wouldn't work. Most food service places don't want to hire someone for just ten weeks. I'm thinking of registering at a temp agency, or maybe even doing canvassing for political or environmental causes. That'd probably be something I wouldn't want to do more than once, but most wacky idealist college students seem to do it at some point.
Moral of that paragraph: if you or anyone you know needs something edited, (anything from copyediting to informed advice) let me know!
Quo Vadis was wonderful and just what I needed. Vacations are awfully good ideas, especially vacations in the backwoods of Oregon which involve unschoolers and swimming holes. I'm inspired and ready to plan out the rest of my life.
So, the current plan is: do something this summer involving not getting too stressed, learning cool things, and making at least some money. In August, take a short summer class called "Women In Art". Junior staff at NBTSC in September. Try to justify a trip to Wisconsin. In the fall, take math, physics, and philosophy (and maybe poetry, but I'll probably be too busy) at the campus that's a 15 minutes away, not 45 minutes. Visit Prescott and Antioch colleges, and any other really cool ones. Make a transcript. In January and February, apply to colleges. Take more PCC classes in the winter and spring, and work on Quo Vadis too. Do something in the summer, hopefully involving money. Go to full-time college starting the fall of '05 and graduating sometime in '07. Spend at least a year traveling. Find lots of land that's not too close to or far from a city, build houses with unschoolers, settle down, garden, bake bread and have babies.
If you skipped the above paragraph, it basically sums up to "There's a ton of stuff I want to do in the next ten years, but I wish it would go faster."
