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SCHOOL:

Let's see. I'm learning something already, how's that? I'm learning that the fact that I never did a standard American style undergrad degree means that I have NO FUCKING CLUE how this works.

I wound up making a spreadsheet of the classes I need to take, the classes I WANT to take, and the classes I hope to be able to waive (or will certainly be able to waive) but still need the number of credits for the course. I noted prereqs/recommendeds, as well. Then I went to the next page, side by side, and put in a tentative schedule, fifteen credits per quarter, for all the classes in the order they need to be taken.

Let me tell you, that shit is hard. I have a complete clusterfuck happening if I do in fact go back to school and I can't get into CTN 161 until fall because it's not offered in summer, but I THINK I have a tentative work-around that involves swapping BUS 116 or ART 114 into summer and shoving CTN 162 into winter and CTN 161 to fall. I HOPE that works, anyway, but I think the only prereq I've got out of the CTN 160-162 block is 160. And since ART 114 is Intro to Digital Photography and I'm taking it as a total elective, it doesn't matter where that winds up falling, though I would like to take it before Video Art I if at all possible.

But see, my point, several 'graphs back, is that I have never had to take a course like this. Because I am retarded, or because the American standard educational system is retarded, I have gone entirely to schools where the course scheduling goes something like this.
1) You sign up for a full-year, 48-credit course.
2) You complete the course.
3) You repeat to 180 credits.
4) You graduate.
OR
1) You apply to the school of the subject you are interested in studying.
2) You select, from a variety of options, three specific courses that interest you, but since you're talking Geographical Anthropology, for example, you're chosing between Oceania and Japan, let's say, not between Russian and Automotive Engineering.
3) You write a dissertation and sit a written exam.
4) You graduate.

Do you see the problem? DO YOU? Do you see that it is, for example, a lot EASIER to schedule this shit where you're taking CTN 160-162 simultaneously since that is the biggest headache you face by coming in out of sequence in the school year, but you can't because they are Web Production I, II, and III?

Also, AHAHAHAHA, I am looking at taking 13 Computer Technology courses (CTNs, very clever) and 6 Art courses. AHAHAHAHAHA.

There was an information tech course I wanted to take but I changed my mind when I realised that it was only offered at North Seattle and that I just had not read through the description of CTN 160-162 and was planning on taking the IT course for the experience with Java and Flash and something else, which those courses will give me. So now I have the Digital Photography course, which I have to have equipment valued between $175-$599 WHERE WILL I GET THAT? Fortunately, my dad has a camera that I think is quite expensive, so I can borrow that if I can't buy my own - and me buying a $175 camera is kind of like a person with no hands buying gloves. I might be able to use the camera on the other side of the class, but I have NEVER had the patience for photography - my pictures are crap, and I have adopted a philosophical objection to photos partly because I can't take them. So I'm not buying it to start with, that's for damn sure. Though I probably have to find out if it's compatible with the Mac before I start because otherwise I might as well move into the Geek Lab.

And yesterday's list.
1) Getting unofficial transcript from Evergreen so I don't have to take the COMPASS test. Figured out how to do this, now need to show Tim.
2) Getting official transcripts from Evergreen and Oxford so I can hopefully knock off fifteen-twenty credits (ahahahaha, you think I took a math class, HAHAHAHAHAHA.)
3) Getting CSC 100 waived because otherwise I will stab everyone in the world if I have to go be introduced to the internet.
4) Getting someone other than me to pay for the lot.

Steps 2 and 3 should be completed by tomorrow. Step 4 is gonna take some doin'. I have, however, determined that none of my credits EVER count toward math (and dude, I do not CARE what the WA State requirements are, I DIDN'T DO ANY MATH) and that I really don't even want to start dealing with getting a transcript from Oxford.

I look at my spreadsheet in the middle of the night and think "This is going to be FUN!"

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JOB:

Ahahahaha, NOTHING. Though I am going to apply to conduct the Underground Tour because that would be fun and awesome. I might also look at the community colleges around here; BCC had a GED instructor that sounded great until I realised that you have to have a degree in Adult Basic Education or else three years experience and I have 0 years' experience.

I can't even claim unemployment this week because I got paid for work I did in December last week and even if I am interested in defrauding the guv'mint, I probably should save that extra week for June when I still won't have a job. But I think I'm still going to turn in my three apps because - why not?

And I should know if I aced or flamed out the VT interview next week this time.

The problog is fun shit, though.

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FIC:

AHAHAHAHA, still does not have plot! Have turned into apiphile's research bitch in the hopes of getting an MCR-as-the-Rat-Pack AU and am having fun with that, especially since, in my considered opinion, GeeWay already sounds exactly like Sinatra; they have the same verbal tics.

HOWEVER. I have not found the appropriate voice for my characters, and I have stalled out with one page. I had two but I eated the other one. I really need to get a plot, though, because there are not enough crazy murderous sociopaths in the world, and I love writing crazy murderous sociopaths. So I'm going to keep giving it my best shot; we'll see.

Also, I am not editing my "real" writing and I would like someone to step up and volunteer to beat me into doing that. However, everyone I know is crazy busy (you have jobs, fuckers) and that's not going to happen. I can wish - and wishes are just a delaying tactic.

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REAL LIFE:

Have I mentioned that it has snowed MULTIPLE times this week and that when I was outside a little bit ago it was snowing AGAIN? Yeah. It's fucking FUN, people.

My insane shoes should be here soon, and also that I have a wicked bruise on my leg from where I tripped over the comics crate and it is NOT HEALING and it HURTS and I can't cross my legs at the ankle because OW FUCK HELL NO.

Also, my car is full of crap and my clock is stalled and my layout is noncompelling as far as finishing it goes and my chair is FINALLY being fixed by someone competent: ie, not me.

Fairly sure that's the second or third time I've used that subject line. But it IS an evil laugh. I was told this when asking someone whose laugh I was imitating for my evil laugh where they had gotten their evil laugh from and was told that it was, in fact, originally mine.

Right, so, the content of this post is: imagine me laughing, evilly. There you go, done. I'd love to share all the details, but there are multitudinous situations that deserve an evil laugh, occuring simultaneously around me.

1) Theft. Muahahahaha!
2) Veganism. Muahahahahaha!
3) KNOWING vegans. Muahahahahaha!
4) Planning ahead. WAY ahead. Muahahahahaha!
5) +2 Wand of Promotion With Retroactive Date of Occurrence. Muahahahahaha!
6) Czarity. Muahahahahaha!
7) Coffee. With extra Muahahahahahaha!
8) Fanon. Muahahahahahahaha!
9) Waaaaaaannk (complete with wahmbulance). Muahahahahaha!

One. ONE evil laugh. Muahahahahaha!

You may address me as the Czar of Catalogues, by the way. I insist that my first edict will be "Yeah, we're totally spelling that British, bitches." I wish now that I had a tiara, because that is TOTALLY a tiara-related emergency.

*muttering darkly* Everyone used to laugh at me for that. Where are they NOW, FOOLS, WHERE ARE YOU NOW? WITHOUT A TIARA OR A TITLE, THAT'S WHERE.

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UNRELATED RANT THAT DOES NOT DESERVE A SECOND POST:
This applies to me, because I am an editor. I would imagine that it applies to anyone who works with or for people who do not physically show up in the office (or perhaps those who do, but I don't think we're THAT big a bunch of assholes).

If you are going to get a blog, particularly on LJ (in my case, because I am ONLY competent at LJ-based systems), as a professional, then use that space ONLY for professional posts. Srs bzns, ppl. The lolcat/1337 makes it more srs. I am not dumb, and I DO know how to google your name (particularly if you have given me a business card that clearly lists your LJ, or use it as part of your sig). I know that manymany people have websites under their names - all well and good. But...dude. Do you REALLY want your editor to know that your kid is barfing? Or, more sensitively, do you REALLY want your editor to know that you are not happy that Shit Has Come Up and they have not gotten back to you about your latest proposal? No shit you're not happy - chances are THEY are not happy EITHER. And they will be less happy if you are not going to play the game of understanding that sometimes, that is totally how life is. At LEAST, ffs, lock those entries. Otherwise...well, you come off a little bit less professionally than you might want.

And let me tell you it is even MORE weird to find all these people listing you by name on their blogs. If I didn't know that someone had a blog before, I DO NOW.

Im in ur internetz lukin at ur life, d00d. Think about what you're showing me, srsly. And one of the things you are showing me is that, if anyone was paying attention to a mutual friend's blog, the cover on this one is TOTALLY blown.