{"id":242,"date":"2009-07-27T02:03:30","date_gmt":"2009-07-27T02:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.notuboc.com\/?p=242"},"modified":"2009-07-27T02:03:30","modified_gmt":"2009-07-27T02:03:30","slug":"fact-139-try-and-stop-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notuboc.com\/?p=242","title":{"rendered":"FACT 139 &#8211; try and stop me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>thought i&#8217;d give a little update on my year&#8217;s goal, as they&#8217;ve just had a major change.  things to Finish:  college &#8211; completely fucked. &#8211; anthropology 597 | finished, got an A, although the system now says i don&#8217;t have any credit for it at all. &#8211; summer classes | rhetoric not hideous, but certainly not something i&#8217;ll ever do again thank you very much, final was thursday, grades expected this week, but of course i won&#8217;t get to see them until the financial aid office decides to get my paperwork proving how unable i am to pay their student loans WHILE I&#8217;M STILL TRYING TO PAY THEM FOR MY CURRENT COURSEWORK&#8230; fall classes | &#8230;which will be at least twice as much for the fall quarter as i was anticipating. i went to apply to graduate this past friday, and the lady was going over all my classes, and she&#8217;s like, &#8220;so you&#8217;re going to schedule your last social sciences elective in the fall, too?&#8221; &#8230; i was like, &#8220;what social sciences elective.&#8221; &#8212; ps, when i reapplied, this is the same lady i spoke with. the same lady who told me i had only one elective, the 597 class that i took in the spring. the one i&#8217;m not getting credit for any more. so it turns out i have to take two classes this fall instead of just the one i was planning on. either that, or go another quarter, and put off graduation until the spring. fuck? that. so it&#8217;ll be $2400 for the fall quarter. &#8212; ps, you wanna know why i had no idea about this mysterious extra class? i&#8217;ll tell you why. there are two sets of graduation requirements that may apply to me. the first being the set that was in place when i started college, back in 1999. the second set is the updated requirements that actually do apply to me, since i dropped out in the middle for so long. i&#8217;m nearly certain that the lady had the sheet for the previous requirements when she was talking to me when i met with her to reapply. she told me there was an updated set of requirements, she told me the old ones no longer applied to me, but i&#8217;m also sure she said i had only one elective left. i said to her that i knew i was so close, and that if i had to rob a bank i was gonna graduate, and she said to me that we shouldn&#8217;t do anything like that. i&#8217;m hoping i still have the paperwork in my bedroom to prove it.  bills (not as big as it used to be~) &#8211; discovercard | aka rape lady nouveau. three payments down, three to go. &#8211; car! | 2 payments left, turns out i&#8217;ll be done in september. i&#8217;m seriously so happy about that it gets me a little choked up. seriously. &#8211; tuition payments (ouch) | please. let&#8217;s not even go into it. and then she was like, cap and  gown are on sale for $30? i was like, i have to pay you even for the damn things i&#8217;m supposed to wear? fuck? that.  crafts &#8211; replica of the national treasure 2 president&#8217;s book for my fav customer in the UK | yes, i&#8217;m still working on this. 1\/2 term classes have a way of making all else in one&#8217;s life freeze. i&#8217;m actually binding it right now, though. i&#8217;ve gotta work on the presidential seal, and then i&#8217;ll be pretty much done. &#8217;bout damn time&#8230; &#8211; diocesian books a super hit! the guy that actually ordered them was super pleased, and he said the new deacons like them, too. i&#8217;ve started listing more stuff on etsy\/silkfair, too so [spam] head on over to http:\/\/books.notuboc.com to see what&#8217;s new[\/spam]. &#8212; in other news, i read an article in the local paper the other day about a bunch of retail spaces they&#8217;re trying to fill south of campus. they&#8217;re starting what they&#8217;ve called Arts Alley, where they&#8217;re giving studio space to artists with free rent for a year. they haven&#8217;t started taking applications yet, but i&#8217;ve got myself on a list of interested peoples. i think public\/walk-in bookbinding demos and classes would be perfect for an area right around the corner from barnes and noble~  &#8230; so a crapload of bad, a little bit of good.  speaking of good, my fancy mp3 player is both fancy and an mp3 player. 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