I got my official offer from Texas A&M in the mail today. The good news: I did get some grant aid. The bad news: I did not get a lot of it ( Read more... )

Someone pulled a gun at the mall food court. I was in a Borders book shop about three stores down at the time. I didn't know what was happening until the Borders employees were pulling the gate over the entrance and all the customers were being huddled into the storage room in the back ( Read more... )

-Respond to email from alum asking me to look over her resume and cover letter for open position at my new workplace. Apologize for not being able to help because I was, in fact, hired to fill that position.

-Write bio for work website(!)

-Iron clothes.

-Email a gazillion people.

-CLEAN ROOM.

-Try not to freak out about starting work tomorrow.

I do! I'm going to be a DC-based association's newest program assistant/database manager/office bitch!

It's in English and French. And the link I'm supposed to follow has a Polish web domain.

I think I'm going to start translating more songs from German into English when I'm bored/in a funk. It's nice to work my brain a bit and try to figure out the best way to phrase something.

This song is also by the band Wir Sind Helden. They're awesome!

( Bist du nicht müde )

I was all set to post about how I just got a temp job starting Thursday. $15/hr!

Except, now they've just called me back to say they're going with someone else.

Shit.

This is the _second_ time this has happened to me. In the last week.

"Sometimes we put up walls. Not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to knock them down."

-Unpack
-At least start excavating my room
-SUBMIT SOME FREAKIN RESUMES ALREADY!!! Minimum-Meridian and CEB
-Eat Chinese
-Try to figure something out for New Year's
-Work on email list

Je alter ich bin, desto blöder bin ich, davon bin ich fest überzeugt. Mit meinem Leben bin ich wirklich nicht zufrieden. Ich dachte, ich wüsste wie ich meinem Zustand verbessern könnte - nun bin ich nicht mehr sicher. Ich habe keine Ahnung, wie ich anfangen sollte. Ich wünsche, ich hatte mehr Mut, und Kraft.

Ich bin allein, und es ist meine Schuld