Primordial Chaos

 Jamiroquai song!



I called my dad earlier, and in our conversation, I knew he was about to "advise" me. However, I assumed I was gonna get a lecture about partying or dating or whatever. Instead, he told me to not overload myself next semester. I was really REALLY surprised. I guess my dad knows me better than I thought, and knew I'm more likely to overload myself than anything else. Which is completely true, by the way. I chuckle every time I think of that. He's got me figured out. :P

Studying is basically all I do now with finals looking me in the eye and snarling. This weekend will be lots of me walking around spouting soliloquies in French, my oral interviews are next week while my French finals are the week after. I have the grading rubric for the oral interview and the topic list, so it's just a matter of me practicing and cleaning up pronunciations and refining my accent, which is amazingly on point as it is. I can also transfer it fairly well to English, which is kind of a fun trick to pull and watch people look confused. I just looked it up and my French final is Monday December 14th 3-5pm. I only have one other final, but it's not cumulative, on Thursday at 12:30pm. Everything else is final papers instead of exams. (oh no, please don't make me write, I'm such a piss poor writer :P) Those papers are due this coming week, so that frees up my time to really study for my actual test finals. I've made myself a rule, that I can study all I want until 24 hours before that respective exam. Then that 24 hours I spend relaxing, getting a good night's sleep, eating well, exercising, anything BUT study. I've noticed I burn out if I study up until the test, so no more of that.

In the spring I plan on taking some computer science classes and was talking this over with my bro, who got his undergrad at UNM's CS program. His advice to me was that I may not want to let anyone know I'm related to him. Apparently he frustrated a lot of people. (this does not surprise me, he's a smart dude) I thought that was funny, him telling me to be like "you don't know me". There was also some fall out over him qualifying for the CS dept student of the year two years in a row, and this one professor threw such a stink about that (I guess no one had ever earned it two years in a row) that they gave the award to someone else. Only me and my bro could get ourselves into trouble for being TOO good of a student.

I managed to get my registration date set to Monday. (they still won't let me do early registration, but Monday is ok? what the fuck?) So I'll know what my spring schedule looks like then, and I'm totally staying up until midnight to enroll the minute it lets me. I'm still peeved about this whole mess.

My being peeved at UNM also means I'm telling them to kiss my sweet ass goodbye since I'm transferring without any hesitation. This also means applications, essays and a few weeks of nervous waiting. I'm ALREADY anxious about receiving decisions! I just really don't know how devastated I'll be if I get shot down by my first choice. I'm sure it will be catastrophic. :P You can fully expect me to go full tilt crybaby for a few days. *I* fully expect me to do so. :P

I just went back and read my essays after having not looked at them for over a month. I hated them the last time I read them, but now I'm pretty impressed. :P I just hope they're impressed with them too. As soon as I get this semester's grades...my apps are ready to go only missing my UNM transcripts...hoooooo boy. The month of April until I get my decisions I'm gonna be a high strung mess. (More so than usual, for you smartasses who were thinking that I already am one.) My world is gonna change...and I think I'm ready for a new adventure or two.

~A.