Ahh the joys of going back to school...

hoorah for the FinAid office... :-
so, is it just me - or all the FinAid offices of every school, college, university, institute, etc. extremely unorganized and have no sense of communication what so ever.

the other day a couple of my fellow hallmark students and i discovered that we would not be getting our "scheduled" living expense disbursements until mid september OR even october 1st!!! so, exactly how am i going to pay rent on sept 1 - on the day that my payment is supposed to be to me already - when they can't even tell me a specific date on when i will rec. my check.

so... i wrote a happy little e-mail to my FinAid advisor letting her know of my angst and she said that "September disbursement is a tricky thing due to different circumstances students are going through." HELLO? you tell me on the 1st my check will be cut for 10 months, this is the first month - GIVE ME MY MONEY FOO! (i will be able to get my check between 12 pm and 5 pm on friday afternoon if i would like to pick it up... durrrrr...)

oh how fun this all is!!!

woot woot

Hakuna Matata?

GAH!
So... the butterflies have finally arrived! I'm getting extremely nervous about starting classes. I know that everything will go smoothly and I will have a wonderful year - I can just feel it - but those pesky little nerves and my little Jiminy Cricket is not supporting me as well as he should be. I think it is because I'm so close to my crossroads right now - it is my last week of working fulltime, it is my last week of living in Granby, it is my last week before the madness of photography bootcamp starts. All summer it didn't affect me at all (except for the whole waiting for acceptance and waiting for the monstrous loan to go through) and I thought I would be cool through it all, but now that it is HERE freak out mode is in full effect. I'm sure that many other students are going through the same thing. I just need to stay focused and live for my dream. I know that I have all the support necessary to get through it all - ALL of my friends and family have been super through the whole process and I can't thank them enough - and I know that so far the people that I have met through Hallmark (both alumni and up-coming students) will be that extra support that will guide me through.
Me thinks that I will visit my father today (if the rain holds up) and get that extra guidance that I need right now.
So - all ya'll, keep your fingers crossed from now until June. (Sorry if they get a little cramped over the next 10 months.)

the truth about blogging...

so sorry that i haven't blogged in what seems to be ages. i have posted a couple blogs on the infamous myspace - but haven't visited here in awhile. i am really not sure why i haven't but think that it's due to the 'addiction' that has formed between myspace and myself. i have finally admitted to step one: "We admitted we were powerless over myspace —that our lives had become unmanageable." i never thought that i would become one of them, but it is too late - it has totally consumed me. i am hoping and praying that with the start of classes, my need to fill my boredom will not be taken up by this evil that is myspace. sadly, i have also become addicted to the surveys that people post as bulletins and sometimes as blogs. this too, i have to ween myself off of. wish me luck... on to step two: "Came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity."