Well...I'm surviving my first week of college. Calculus is all review, atm, and I only have homework due once a week! How cool is that?! I'm really excited about that. My professor originally was from UC Santa Barbara and taught there for 6 years. He's, so far, has been a really good teacher and pretty fun. I dropped Tech Tools, the class, and I'm taking the assessment, which is basically an independent study sort of thing. It's going to prove "difficult" in the manor that I'm going to have to self-teach myself somethings, and pick my own "topics" for my portfolio, but it shouldn't prove TOO hard. I have 4 weeks to complete 4 assignments. The first is word processing on Microsoft Word. I have different requirements I have to fulfill in the paper that has to be at least 1500 words. I'm thinking of revising one of my school papers to fit its needs. The 2nd assignment is a spreedsheet. I have to use a MINIMUM of 100 cells! What in the world, data wise, am I going to use that utilizes at least 100 cells?! I have to write a little thing on it explaining what the data tells me. *rolls eyes* I also have to make my on formulas, which I haven't done ever before. First Year Seminar isn't bad either. It's basically a get-to-know-the-campus-and-students class. That's where I'm really getting to know some other students and such. Overall...I say it's been a good week! I have my calculus lab tomorrow.

Working and doing school has been a little rough on me. I'm closing 3/4 times when I work, so that wears me down the next day, but luckily that's night class! Work is still going good, but the only thing is...I'm ill! I've got this cold/allergy thing. *shrugs* It hasn't really gotten too bad. I'm more tired and a bit more weak, but I'm still surviving, mostly.

Lastly, I ordered my computer tonight!! 15" apple powerbook w/ DVD burner. I also did their cram & jam deal so I also got a 20gig iPod. This computer is costing me my entire scholarship money, which goes to a good cause, I suppose. HOPEFULLY, my $1500 from CSUMB is renewable each year, which I think it is. So that'll help a great deal during my stay at CSUMB. But yeah, it's going to take me till next semester (January '05) to "pay-off" my computer. I've got the money, NOW, so I'm going to take the money out of my savings and pay myself back as I get my scholarship money from various places, which is good. I just have problems with the fact I'm spending aprox. $2200 on ONE thing. Even if it is about as top of the line you can get.

Well, that's about it for now! Hope everyone is doin' well.

WHOA! Haven't updated in a while.

QUICK update:
1) I'm working 35-40 hours a week. I'm still liking my job, too! Do you know how hard it is NOT to spend your pay check at Borders THOUGH?! I get a 33% discount...
2) I start school, COLLEGE, on Monday
3) I opened a checking account today
4) Doing research on getting a laptop (Sorry, to the pc people!)
5) Working on my license, still
6) My cell phone is doin' good. I like it, but...I can't find a blasted phone cover for it that I like that's NOT on-line so I don't have to pay shipping!

7) GOOD LUCK TO ALL MY FRIENDS STARTING COLLEGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I think that's it...for now...I'll update whenever I get the chance again.

Oh my gosh...working is a LOT of work... Or, well, opening is. Standing on your feet from 3-4 hours at a time, isn't the funnest, but for the most part, I like working at Borders. I've had some small blunders since starting and I'm still learning as the days go by. We're getting new cash registers tomorrow so that'll be nice! Things, hopefully, will go more smoothly and faster.

I open twice next week, and have two shifts that go in the middle of the day and I close once next week also. It's mainly the exact same schedule as this week, except on Monday I go noon to 8pm. I think Tom had pitty on me because he knows that I have the aquarium the day before till 6pm and I think he wanted to let me have a BIT of a rest, at least.

Any ways, I gotta go. Laters for now!!

Well...my first few days at Borders has gone fairly good. I haven't done a LOT of blunders. Twice I forgot to give someone all of their change, I would give the coins back and the larger bills, but forget the ones. It happened TWICE. 4 ones. I had something weird going on with the ones...*shrugs* At least I noticed it, unfortunately right when I closed the cash register...

Orientation today went okay. Filled out papers and got some other knowledge. It felt weird going it all backwards, but it works, I suppose. I'm still not COMPLETELY done with orientation, but I have the bare-minimum for me to be able to work on my own next week. I can always just call "Service manager" if I get into a blunder next week.

I work this Sat from 8am-4pm, just so I know how to open because I open on my own Mon, Tues, and Wed next week.

So my schedule next week:
Mon: 8am-4pm
Tues: 8am-4pm
Wed: 8am-4pm
Fri: 11am-7pm
Sat: 3pm-11:30pm

Good amount of hours. Tom schedules people to, usually, never work more than 7 actual hours. We get an hour lunch/dinner break that, obviously, we don't get paid, which is cool. The 3pm-11:30pm is becoming my "norm" because of the last two days that's what I worked and I don't know many other cashiers to get that rotation also. It should be pretty boring Mon, Tues, Wed since I work hours when a lot of people are still at work and such. The evenings tend to get busy because everyone is off of work and making last runs to Borders or whatever.

I think that's it for now. Hope everyone is doin' well. Hasta

So, today and tomorrow I'm going in from 3-11:30pm for a crash course on the cash registers since the manager and the assistant trainer are both leaving this week on vacations and it'd be at least 10 days from Friday before I started work. Thursday I go in from 12-4pm for orientation. It'll be interesting. Besides the fact that at the end of July, which is this week, a cashier is leaving back to go to college, so I applied just in time. I hope I do well and have fun.

Today, which is kind of sad, but oh well, is the Student Guide BBQ in Carmel from 1-6pm. I'm going to have to miss most of it, the awards ceremony and probably the food because I have to be back in Seaside for Borders. *shrugs* Oh well, least I get to see my students one last time and whatnot.

I think that's all on the news front. Write more when something happens.

Well! Good news, again. I filled out and turned in my Borders application a little over a week ago and I had my interview today with them and they called TODAY and offered me the job! I am now employed at Borders. Gettin' $7.25 an hour. Lookin' good for me.

Whelps...the good news is I got my permit today! I missed only 1 on the written section, so that was cool. My license is going to say that I have to have "corrective lenses" to drive though. >.< Unfortunately my eyes can't see the dumb small print that far away, which is weird because you won't have to see that small of lettering while you're driving!! But what can I do? I also was only at the DMV for 1:15 hours, which is pretty good. Only took a half hour to get my picture, get the forms, pay the fee, and take the test. I guess it helps, also, when the 4 people in front of you never showed up and there, at one time, were 3 people taking people. I'm gonna practice some and then go get my license, though... Hope it all goes well!

No news on the job front, but I only sent my application into Borders, one place isn't gonna cut it. I'm going on Monday to the mall to pick up some more applications and such.

My cell phone still works, oddly enough. *shrugs* I don't know what's going on there. I am going to try and set up my cell phone at AT&T sometime today, tomorrow, or on Monday. So we'll see how that goes also.

I also figured out how to get the waiver from CSUMB on two of my classes. I have to wait for that to process and then I can pay my fees and such at CSUMB. I have to wait till the school opens for me to get my $750 from the high school too. The $750 from CSUMB is most likely going to the rest of my classes and fees and such.

I believe that is it for now. Hasta!