Well, I did it again....
Yes, that's right...I somehow managed to pull above a 3.0 this semester. A 3.11, to be precise. How?? Yeah, you got me. I didn't do jack schitt. But somehow, getting 4 credits of A's worked to my advantage, along with a C+ in Chem (WOOHOO! I GOT A C+! WOOHOO!! YAY! It's better than my high school chem grade of a D-. Yes, a D-minus. Don't ask. I'm still bitter about it), and B in Immigration history. The history grade is what has me baffled (don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining). By all of my calculations, I should not have gotten a B. Hell, I only got one grade in the class that was a B! I skipped at least five classes (unexcused, for the reasoning of I don't feel like going, I didn't do the reading, or just sleeping through class), got a B-/C+ on my research paper, got a C+ on the progress of my research paper (which is funny, since there WAS NO PROGRESS!), a C on my take-home exam, and a B my other paper, not to mention doing about a third of the reading the entire semester, not getting the first textbook until we were more or less done with it, and not even buying one of the books!! So, how that figures out to be a B, I'm not sure, but I'll take it. I'm just waiting for the 'oops, we goofed' from the registrar like they sent me this summer!!! That was mean. Granted, I knew they had made a mistake, but still! Why did they have to fix it?? I liked my GPA the way it was before they realized they had made a mistake, since it dropped a few tenths after that. Or a lot of tenths. Whatever. :)
Either way, I'm not sure how I pulled that GPA. Like my dad said, maybe I should consider a career in investing, afterall, I put a lot of bullshit and less than stellar work into the class, and come out with a good grade. Maybe I can do the same in investing....
Speaking of careers...anyone got a clue what I should do in, oh, five months? Yes? Okay great, let me know. Or where I should live? Or what I should do???? Arguh! If I have to spend any time living at home, I'll go even more crazy!!! Hopefully I'll be able to land at least a partial job teaching some sort of private lessons...I'm banking on a continuing shortage of piano teachers! Not that I'm much use in that category...but oh well. :)
I still have this dratted ear infection, but as usual, not having a doctor tends to put a damper on getting it taken care of. Of course I get it when I'm at home, too. At school I could take my lazy butt to the nurse, but here? Noooooooooooooo. Sigh. I should also get my Christmas shopping done. A negative balance in my checking account could make that difficult, though. Well, I'm pretty much done.
That and my New Year's plans may have gone suddenly awry. Not that New Year's plans are the only things going awry, but at lot of other things. Holiday seasons cause so much damn stress!
On the bright side, I found my quote book from sophomore year. It made me laugh, though I can't remember what all the quotes relate to? Orgasm and a side of fries, anyone??? (huh...wonder what idiot said THAT...oh damn....). And speaking of more amusing things, my message history on ICQ is making me laugh too. Oh the conversations I used to have with Tara and Paul (Wilbur!) and Matt H (roommate's boyfriend's best friend that they tried to set me up with who was afraid of girls....)....if ICQ message archives are amusing me this much, maybe it's time to take up a new hobby!
Tomorrow (well, actually, looking at the time and date, I guess I mean later today), I will try to be as un-Scroogelike as possible, in posting my happiness found in Christmas specials and movies.
Until then, here's hoping the ear infection miraculously disappears, because I reeeeeeeeeeeeally hate antibiotics. :)

- posted by L. @ 1:35 AM