Well, week 5 of math and I’m doing great. Now, either this is easier than normal math classes or the professor is just explaining things better. I’m not sure which.

File Management is going pretty well. It’s more annoying than hard since it’s one of those newbie classes that assume you don’t know shit. So that one’s a no-brainer.

Now I have to come up with the money to get that software (Studio 8). I ended up asking for an extra $312 to be tacked onto my student loan. I got the note today saying that I have it, along with notification for a $2000 scholarship I won. (Aw, yeah!)

Even so, I made a new account with FastWeb.com so I could begin doing scholarship searches. I hate that place, the last time I had an account there they spammed the hell out of me. So I made a totally new alias, so if they spam me — I can just delete it without actually getting rid of my account.

I have to get my books and crap ordered for next session. (Note to myself.) I might get one book late, since everyting I have is going out for Studio 8. Maybe if it looks like it isn’t going to totally clean me out, I’ll order it through the school. Otherwise it might have to wait until next paycheck or there abouts so I can buy it off from Amazon.

I am sincerely not enjoying fall. It came just too fast and we’re avoiding turning the furnace on. I like a little cold, but when I can see my breath inside when I get up — that’s going a bit too far. Thank God for pets and electric blankets, that’s all I can say.

Someday, somehow I have to order myself space for more icons on my LJ. I’ve found several that amuse the hell out of me, but I have all three filled. =]P

I stayed up too late last night this morning. I spent hours screwing around with my new layout — trying to figure out how to make special layouts for custom pages and getting a new plugin to work. Wasn’t as big a fight as Livepress was, but it still took me long enough. I slept in late and I still feel like I need more sleep.

Anyroad — I need to be calling and getting my next round of books and Macromedia Studio MX 2004 ordered. The books don’t bother me so much as the $200 I’ll have to burn for Studio MX. According to the business office, I’m $88 in the hole until my next disbursment of financial aid comes in. I have $58 set aside for books, but I would really like to save that for as long as I can.

I’m working up the questions I’ll need to ask when I call the school, since I’ll have to speak with three different departments to set this up. Last time I called, the lady told me I wouldn’t have enough before she asked her manager. Damn near gave me a fucking heart attack! Just one of these semesters I hope I’ll have enough money left over so I don’t have to worry about this shit.

I’m still passing algebra, which is a good sign. I’m glad I’m taking it now though, instead of waiting. I have classmates who held off taking it until they’re out of classes that don’t require it as a prereq. I was never good at math before, but this time I keep having these “eureka” moments where I suddenly understand it. So I guess it was a good thing I waited so long.

My INF class is supposed to be starting tomorrow, so I have everything laid out for that. I still have to install the training software, but I can’t do anything with it anyway until I have my class ID. I’m supposed to have access right now, but so far nothing. I suppose I’ll have to keep checking back.

Thanks for that link, JB. I’ll read it over. =)

Well, I finished my 11th layout. And I didn’t go for an anime theme this time! *gasp*

http://jasson.lunaescence.com/

Still have a few more sections to work on and some more layout issues to deal with, but it’s done as far as I’m concerned. I dunno, I’m just not too concerned if it’s compliant or compatible with other browsers or resolutions. I know I should, but I’m just not. Overall, I’m just feeling rather apathetic.

The one thing I am sure of, I want to find the sprites from Wizards and Warriors 2. I want to make an icon with Kuros’s death animation with some statement against fangirls. =]P I found a hilarious icon from Avatar: The Last Airbender that says “Fangirls are scary”, but now I don’t remember where I got it. =( Ah well.

Anyway, I’ll post more later, but now that I’m basically done — I have me a GF to kill (er… be killed by, most likely) in FF8. I always manage to beat Diablos when everyone’s like 8HP away from death.

Yeah, I’m still alive. Just feeling rather quiet lately. Fall has hit Michigan and the temperature has suddenly dropped. We’ve already had to run the furnace three times so far. Which has me feeling very old all of a sudden.

No… I’ve suddenly become very aware of the time that passes and it has me slightly depressed. Bills keep piling up and yet somehow we keep managing to scrape up the money to pay each month. I’m holding my breath in between paychecks, pretty much living just in the now.

We’ve been here a year. Sugar’s been dead for almost two, and the kittens will be turning 2 in March. In about two more years, I’ll have been out of school a whole decade. And I still have about that long before I’m out of school.

But with what? An Associates of Applied Computer Science in Web Design. Design at this college really isn’t the focus, it’s the programming aspect. Granted, I prefer programming. But I’ll still need more than what they’re giving me. I won’t have any experience in Photoshop or Illustrator, nor Cold Fusion. What will I be leaving with? What will I be able to find?

Yeah, I know… I’m being stupid. I suppose I just feel that I should be… I dunno… further, I guess? Helping the house more? Being somebody? It’s a little difficult to define.

Math is going well, better than I expected. God willing, I might even be able to stay on the Dean’s list.

The funeral went far better than expected. The ushers put us on the opposite side of the church from Sheba and my aunts, so interaction was limited to a hug. We ducked out as the luncheon was starting (meh… family tradition) so we’re probably on the shit list again. Ah well, might mean we won’t have to put up with her annual visit next year.

The neighbors are blasting their stereo again. It makes it hard to concentrate. Fortunately, I got my homework done last night, so I can go play FF8 until my eyes begin to bleed. — which, I think I’m going to do now. I’m going to get Diablos and beat that damned train sequence if it kills me.