Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Life, Love, and the Persuit of Education


Things We Say:
Bumping into friends while you’re out and about is one of the best parts of going out and about. With Hangouts, the unplanned meet-up comes to the web for the first time. Let buddies know you’re hanging out and see who drops by for a face-to-face-to-face chat. Until we perfect teleportation, it’s the next best thing. --Google about google+

 
Email receipts are much better than paper.--Jake
 
what if the coach possessed the authority to eject an umpire--Eric
 
Water heater in our house is out for the next couple weeks. So it's cold showers for now... Any good lookin' ladies wanna share their shower with me? =)=)--Matthew

I missed out on free slurpees at 7/11. So, I bought alcohol to celebrate everything that has happened to me this fine night :]:] YAY--Becky
alcohol > slurpees--Me
So be still and know He's in control, He will never let you go.--Alli.  This quote is religious, but I liked it.
 

WHERE'S MY WIIFFEEEE?!?! :):)--Christy
did you check the back of your hand? or the kitchen?--her friend Cameron
and if you're looking for your husband, check the bottom of the toilet.. and if you find him, close the lid..--her friend Amanda
 

I hate you. I love you. I hate you. I love you. I hate you. I love you. I hate you. Oh, don't mind me. I'm just being a woman.--Carolin
 
Every skank I know is named after a beverage or weather phenomenon. Yea, I'm talking about you Daiquiri Storm.--Carolin
i totally agree I know a girl I can't stand named after cheap nasty ass pop..shasta..fucking skank hoe!--Britni
but shasta cream soda is good. (mental image not so much. lol)--Me
haha...yea...after meeting her i can never look at a can of shasta the same way again lol--Britni
 
Blurb My Brain:
So I have a feeling a majority of my fan base is in college.  I can/probably be/am wrong on this, but I talk about things that are related to me, and since I am a college student I assume that you are also a college.  Yes you, reader.  So I was talking to Boyfriend, and he was talking to me about whether or not he should take a history class now (and have it overlap when I see him) or in November (after I see him).  This has little to do with the story, besides me wishing I had the ability to just not take classes. 

See, my healthcare is conditional on me being enrolled full time.  And because of the move, I didnt' want to take any classes over the summer becuase I wasn't sure someone could proctor my exam.  Besides, who wants to sit at a computer and take an exam, when you're chilling at the lake house, or with family? So I thought, alright, I'll wait until we get to where we are going.  (At the time, we thought it was Spokane.  Not so much anymore. Typical.) But now we don't know where we are going, and therefore I feel that this is going to mess me over in the end.
 
Also, if I don't take classes, I start owing on my loans.  As a former student of Seton Hall University and a current student of UMUC, this is a scary scary thought.  I am in my third year of school, and have close to $60,000 in debt.  Talk about monthly payments! So, I MUST go to school.  Even if I don't like what I'm doing.  And I don't know what I'm going to do with my life. I must continue to move towards classes of SOME kind.  Afterall, I'm unemployed in 3 days.
 
So I told Boyfriend, school actually scares me. He ignored this to tell me how close he was to his degree, which is perfectly acceptable.  We have a way of doing that. It's almost "our thing."

Perfect segway into what ELSE I wanted to talk about.  Every couple has their thing. Maria and Chris have tattoos, Ashley and Michael have bickering over senseless things like Xbox, Jill and Gary have "I just wanted sex but I guess since we're married it's alright" playful banter, Sarah and Zachary have nerdiness, Michelle and Richie have tattoos and rock music, and Boyfriend and I have fart jokes, youtube, and rock music.  It's often funny to see what "thing" couples around you have. Its something that I really enjoy observing. Especially because it isn't immediate.  You actually DEVELOP these things. You start to enjoy the same things and then they become "your" things.  That, my dear 17 readers, is magical.  Developing together as a couple is fairytale quality stuff. So if you have a "thing" with your girl/boyfriend, then congrats, Cinderella or Beast.

2 comments:

  1. He doesn't play video games very often any more, but we still have other things to bicker about I guess. Just about every couple has their arguments that seem senseless to other people though, so that really doesn't set us apart. Maybe since that's all that sticks out for us, we're not in a truly happy couple? Also, why Cinderella and Beast? They don't go together.

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  2. Well, Zach and I have many "things". We post adorable animal videos to each other, some nerdiness is shared but there is far more that we do separately than we do together. But we make sexist jokes and "that's what she said/your mom" jokes. We watch old cartoons and listen to 90's music. :) We also bicker quite a lot. He likes things to be cold, where I prefer to be warm. But I agree, it's good to have your things. It's what give the relationship character.

    And don't be freaked out about school. Student loans can be totally manageable, and usually if you call the loan companies and tell them your situation (you know, moving and unemployed and whatnot) they can continue to defer them or even cancel/forgive some payments until you gets things straightened out.

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