Stuck in a cave
School was terribly lame yesterday. I can't stand it sometimes. I have to get up at 7:30 to get there by 9:00. That's not even that bad. I don't mind it except when there was just a blizzard the previous day and everyone and their brother is riding the subway. As expected the 1/9 Platform at 96th street was crowded 7-8 people deep waiting for the damn train to bring 90% of those individuals up to Columbia. Needless to say, my commute was irritating to say the least.
I have one class this semester that I REALLY enjoy. It's called Planet Earth and it's pretty much your basic entry level science course. We talk about anything from light to the dinosaurs, so the topics can be pretty interesting. I have this professor that's entertaining to say the least, even if his lectures do tend to be a little scattered. Anyway, it's not such a bad way to start my Monday morning. The one downfall of the class is that every Monday there is a test on the reading. Of course I don't really read everything for that class because I usually have a pretty good grip on the material as it is without reading. So we arrived to class yesterday, take the damn quiz and then our TA tells us that the Professor was unable to make it to class, so we were free to go. Irritating. So I waited around school for 2 hours, doing a little research for my 35 page paper that's going to be due at the end of the semester and then went to possibly the most boring class in existence. It's called "Life After Death". I can't stand it. The Professor things he's just so funny, but he's just not. He tells the worst jokes and giggles like a school girl while working from behind the podium. I think that he fancies himself as a multimedia guru because in EVERY CLASS he has some sort of video or something to show us. He usually spends around 15 mins just getting the damn thing to work while half of the class cringes at the mistakes he's making while trying to get it working. Oh well...
My final class of the day is Terrorism and Counterterrorism, my second favorite class. I have never before had a professor at Columbia who is quite so down to earth but so incredibly knowledgeable in his subject matter. It's definitely very nice to sit and hear someone speak off the cuff about such an interesting subject. So all in all it wasn't THAT bad a day, it just started out so terrible.
So I get home around 4:40 and Laura shrieks at me "WAIT!! You are early!!! You can't come in here!" So I promptly turned around and went to C-Town for some much needed shopping. Poor cats were out of wet food (what a travesty that would be). So after shopping around for a bit I came back to the house. Laura had set up a beautiful living room picnic for us. We ate brie cheese and had some wine. We watched some TV and a movie and headed to bed. It was quite nice. She and I make quite the nice couple. Not to mention that she's excellent in bed :O
So I guess that brings me back to today. I'm kind of bummed out about the day because I'm really wanting to find myself a job. I mean, as I have said before, I have one in NYC, but I'd really like to find something outside of the city. I'm just tired of living here. It's funny that I read so many of these blogs from little rich girls that come pouring into the city talking about all their exploits and getting drunk and all that shit....uhhhh, just makes me want to get the hell out of here even more. One of Laura's friends moved to the city not too long ago and she constantly gives Laura shit for not going out to super trendy clubs and bars, meanwhile she spends 110% of her paychecks and just accumulates debt like it's no one's business. Oh well, I just need to get out of here and stop paying exorbitant amounts of money on rent.
Laura and I spoke about my post-graduation vacation and as it turns out, it may look like a stretch. I am going to be a little tight on finances, especially if I end up having to take off some time from work at the end of the semester like I did last year. I spoke to my parents about it last night to see if they were possibly going to spot me some money, but I don't know how that'll work out. We'll see, it's still awhile off, but it'll come fast.
There are less than 100 days left of school. That's awesome. For those of you that know me, you'll know that it's been a few years in the making, so it'll finally come to a close and I"ll be moving forward. Laura kind of made me feel bad last night that I hadn't checked in with any of the places that I sent my resume to. I should really get on that this week, but it's just so hard with working all day and then going to school, I just have to set aside some time.
It's strange that every time I think that I'll have a little time coming up because of whatever reason, it just seems like things just keep piling into place. Like I thought that with Football ending I would have more time for things on the weekend, now this weekend there are wrestling events and such,. It just doesn't seem to ever slow up. I remember a time when I was working at the law firm awhile back that I would go weeks without anything interesting going on. I just had so much time then. Now I feel like I can't fit anything else into my days. Between cleaning up the house (or feeling guilty about not doing it), working, school, reading, going out with friends from out of town or whatever, I just can't seem to get ahead. I just recently spoke to Laura about how I need to get a little more dedicated to my school work because sooner or later I'm going to have midterms and papers and stuff due, so I need to really get my head into it. I did so well last semester, I just need to get back there now.
So today I'm sitting in this back office because we have so many temps in the office right now doing this SEC document review. I actually like working here because it's quiet and no one can really just walk up behind me to see what I'm up to, hence me being able to write out this super long blog posting.
Anyway, I think that I should get some work done.
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