One Step Closer

I am so happy I could burst! I just got done with my advising appointment for next fall. At first it looked like I was going to have a schedule as jacked up as the one I have now and that I wouldn't be able to find enough time to work. Then there was Bebe.

Professor Nickolai is acting as the interim adviser for the Communications program and somehow we worked a miracle. I had to give up a few of the Sociology courses I wanted (such as Urban Soc., Stratification, and Organizational Behavior), but I think I should have enough flexibility to be able to take those at a later date, whereas I have a lot of Comm classes to get out of the way yet. Anyway...I'm going to be in class from 9:25 am to 12:15 pm, Monday through Thursday. That means I can work all afternoon those days and all day Friday. I may not even have to work weekends.

Now, let's see how many hours they'll give me at work. Hopefully all of them. Hopefully they'll let me work the front desk. Hopefully...

Sim City, here I come!

Well, they finally got me playing PS2. How? I rented the Sims: Bustin' Out from Blockbuster. I love it. Josh says I like it because it's like playing house, but I really like the feature that allows me to customize my character to look like me. Well, my character resembles me; she's actually prettier than I am. LOL...it's funny really.

When we play two player, though, Josh and I are married. I don't know how I feel about that. I'm probably just reading too damn much into it, but it's weird. The Sims have kids and build a house and that's the whole premise of the game. So if we're married, we wind up having kids and all these things that we aren't really doing in real life. It's just strange to talk about them right now.

Anyway, I didn't think Josh would play, but I think he's just happy that he found a game I like. It's hella addicting, but fun, too. I need some frickin' fun in life.

It's been a little minute...

...since I posted anything.

Um...last week was spring break. I didn't do anything except work for the first part of the week. I was tired, and cranky...and Joshua and I fought a lot. It was fun. LOL...

I went home to Iowa on Thursday night and then spent the whole weekend in Chicago with my mom and her friend. It was really nice. The hotel we stayed at was located on the Hamburger University campus. Yeah...Hamburger University. It's where McDonald's trains all of their store managers and owner/operators. Not to mention, their world headquarters. So basically, I was in a place where they have an upscale, Starbucks-esque Mickey D's on every corner. The hotel was beautiful, and it was on a lake. They had big screen plasma tv's in all the rooms, an olypmic sized swimming pool and a humongous hot tub that had three parts. I definitely think I'll be taking my honeymoon there...you know, ten years from now.

Our hotel was in the the rich, "old-money" part of Chi-town. All the homes out there cost at least $3 million. I don't think I'll ever make that much money in my life...but it was gorgeous. We went shopping at the mall next to the hotel--it had Burberry, Prada, Coach, etc. and all those kinds of stores. Nothing in there cost less than $200 unless it was like a white undershirt...and then it cost like $80. Needless to say, I didn't buy a damn thing. But it was cool to see how the other half live.

We rode the trains, we took the bus, we did taxis...we ate at nice restaurants, and had cocktails (non-alcoholic for me) at the John Hancock building on the 96th floor. We saw a play, we swam, we shopped. It was really nice. I won't go into every single thing that we did, but it was a nice little vacation. It was good for me to get away from all the problems in my everyday life--school, work, friends, boyfriends, growing pains. And then my dad ruined it when my mom and I got home on Sunday. But that's another story for another day.