[mood : Tired]

Sorry folks… For a while there I was posting daily and now I’ve suddenly fallen back out of habit. =/

Yeah, I have a job. Kind of a temp one with a nearby warehouse, loading packages onto their trucks. Still waiting to hear back on a better job. It sucks, but not as bad as it could. I’m sore and I’m exhausted, but it’s not as bad as Sally’s Wal-Mart escapade. Of course, I’m working only 20 hours at max. But at least the pressure has been allieviated - somewhat. I really have to get off my ass and call Baker Online’s financial aid office so I can get college going.

I dunno what the problem is with me. I take one look at the phone and somehow come up with an excuse not to call. *shrugs* It’s pretty stupid…

Eh… what else…? Had a bit of an “oops” with the fanfiction area; you’ve probably noticed from my note on the domain’s front page. What happened is that I got a little overconfident at my “l33t” PHP/MySQL skills and messed something up BADLY.

It all started with me adding some mods onto the archive. The first three went off without a hitch, so I tried one more. I picked a mod that would have allowed members to input a little extra contact information.

I’d just about finished when Aikyo contacted me and wanted me to help her get into her account. So, I popped on, reset her password manually, updated her e-mail address, etc. etc.

And for some reason, the mod caused some of her updated information to be applied to everyone. So, I stupidly went back through and tried to edit everyone elses’ back - and ended up with John the visionary’s information propagating to every account.

I didn’t have a recent backup of the MySQL database, so I was on my own. I finally downloaded a fresh copy of eFiction and uploaded fresh copies of everything. Error fixed. So, the next day or so, I began cautiously readding my mods and nothing happened. I didn’t reinstall that final one, though. I’m pretty sure it was the cause of both the hiccup and the error.

So yeah, felt pretty stupid on that one.

Anyway… yeah, I’m alive.

[mood : puzzled]

Well, if I had to have any dilemmas, I suppose these are the best to have.

I was talking with my friend Jodi, whose a registered nurse. I’ve known her for some 19 years and I graduated from high school with her eldest son, who is one of Sally’s and my best friends. Of those ninteen years, she’s spent the last 13 of those constantly in college. As a nurse, she has to pretty much keep going to school the whole time so I trust her knowledge.

According to her, since I’m on Medicaid, I’m almost assured to be able to get financial aid to pay for college. In fact, it’s highly likely I’ll be able to get another Pell Grant to pay for it like I was able to get when I went to college the first time.

However, I need a job. Mom, even with the job she starts on March 1st, won’t be able to keep us afloat without at least one other of us working. Frankly, I want need a car again… I gave it up when I moved up to Mt. Pleasant because the insurance was killing me. I can’t stand living without that freedom anymore.

So this brings me to an interesting dilemma: Do I get a job and risk having trouble getting funding OR do I remain unemployed and have the funding almost guaranteed? I wasn’t really clear on how it worked the first time and I don’t remember what little I did understand.

I have never wanted anything so badly as I want this Web Development degree. I was rather lackluster the first time when I was preparing to go to college. To be honest, I was burnt out from High School and the last thing on my mind was more school. But I went anyway and failed miserably. Now, years later, I’ve found something I’m passionate about. I want this, but I’m also realistic enough to know I blew my chance at being able concentrate solely on college.

All my IRL friends and family have listened to me and advised me to go for it.

Which brings me to a new dilemma. Sally bought this computer in October 1999 for a steal with the sole purpose of being able to join Theresa in EverQuest. Now this beast is a dinosaur and in order to even attempt this online course I need a new machine. And to say I’m on a budget is the understatement of the century. Which in and of itself, almost necessitates I get a job, which brings me back to the first dilemma. XD

I suppose what I need to do is call Jodi back and have a longer talk when she isn’t being pulled in so many different directions. I should probably call Poppa too and ask him for his advice. If any of you have any advice, I’d love to hear it, please. =)

[mood : impatient]

Well, put my app in a bunch of places and now I’m into the worst part: waiting. =P

Like Sally said on her blog, I dropped by Fed-Ex in person to inquire about the job. They’re apparently looking for mainly students, but they’re offering tuition assistance plus other benefits. Now just to see if I get it. Not too sure I will, given how damned nice it sounds. The other job from Monster.com that I inquired about still hasn’t gotten back to me.

As usual, I suck at waiting. I want a job now, as in right now - this very minute. Gimme! lol Thank God for WTF Comics to help keep my mind off it =D

To pass the time, I’m dumping all sorts of work into my dictionary. Still have to work out the menu a bit more, though. I’m really tempted to make a LJ community for it, see if that won’t scare up some more activity. I added a few dozen more gaming definitions and hope to get back to more anime defs soon.