Groove of things

I'm getting this urge to get back into the grove of blogging, but as it is, my life is so pedestrian. I need a creative outlet, being one of those artsy-by-moment people, but I think that I just need to face the fact that I'm not as highly creative as I've secretly, arogantly thought myself to be.

Well, naturally, this moment of writer's block must be broken by an update.

First of all, I want to remember my grandfather who passed away on 15 December in the Philippines. Mom flew back there for three weeks, but didn't have an easy time with the family and the Issues. She's back now, and hopefully she can get on with her life for awhile without having hers and ours interrupted with something else. Lolo, rest in peace.

The beginning of December marked the end of one job and the start of my life as a Senior Store Associate of the Powerzone (Electronics) department under an AAFES (Army Air Force Exchange Service) mainstore BX (Base Exchange; the military loves acronyms). It has now been one month since I've began and so far I've been working in the music/dvd section, only to fall back into the newbie stage again with reacquainting myself with a cash register in the middle of a section I have little knowledge about (heaps of cameras, computers, peripherals galore; and I want to get into a technical field, yipe). Hopefully, with time, I'll learn and hopefully they'll give me plenty of opportunities to pick up what I don't know- a lot.

Then there's college. I hate it when they don't give me the information I need until the deadline is so close by. I thought I had figured everything out and that I just needed to register, pay the fee, pick a class, and start (they don't accept early applications before the rego date for non-active duty military- it's a rather different college from most US ones that you'd hear about). Turns out that I need to mail a letter of reccommendation from my high school counselor (Latin, maths, and writing courses aren't done yet) to the registrar of this college I'm going to, but I've only mailed it about a week before the registration period begins because I was not told that it is only possible to mail (not hand in) the letter and that was not clearly indicated in the college handbook. Then, I need to wait for some new student package, but I'll have no idea what I'll expect when I go to register on the 17th of January because I don't know if and when I'll get that package "or whatever," which was also not said in the handbook. That lack of information when you've tried your best to find out what you need to know is just grating. This is just to get an education; people can convey such vague information.

Beside all that, there's not much going on. Dull, yeah. Hate to sound pessimistic, but I don't mean to. Things could get worse, and they have been, but otherwise, there isn't much I'm looking extremely forward to. College for me isn't like many of the stories you might hear, but with it being a new stage in life and me feeling like I'm getting somewhere, it's probably the only exciting thing in my life at the moment.

No more pity parties; they stink and I don't mean to start one :P Okay, so, I had to cups of coffee less-than-half full and, like, three sticks of German chocolat with cream in the middle...

Oh, btw, my classes start 23 January, and according to my schedule, provided I get the instructor I want, they're on Monday and Wednesdays for three hours for 8 weeks.

And remember, fush are frends, not fewd.