See, kids? This is what happens when you decide to go back to school while working at your dead-end job. You lose all traces of your social life (if you had one in the first place… which I did not).

Anyway, I survived my first semester back in two years, and I passed. I actually did better than I thought I would–I managed to get an A in both Financial Accounting(!!) and Intro to IT, B+ in Intro to Business (which made me happy–professor even said I did a wonderful job considering the coursework), and a B in English Composition II… mostly because I skipped a lot of the classes because my professor sucked and made me lose total interest in the class. I made up for it with the papers though.

I have no classes this week, just work, though next Monday I start my Summer I semester–one class (Intro to Philosophy), Monday through Thursday, 8-10AM, for six weeks. I’m doing it mostly at the behest of my mother and my family, who don’t want me to waste my summer doing absolutely nothing, just like I had planned. But they’re right, and I’m taking a class.

And work… well, work is work. I’m lucky I even have a job. I’m in “summer mode” now and I’m working a couple of extra hours, since I need the extra cash. No more full-time hours like last summer, though, since they’re not paying overtime anymore. And with this job (especially the branch I work in), you always wind up working unpaid overtime. Always.

That’s it. That’s all that’s been happening these past three/four months. And now I’m going to resume tweaking my Fall schedule so that I can actually take classes with professors that won’t suck (RateMyProfessors.com = my BFF).

Also: Thank God Ty is finally gone from Dancing With the Stars. I don’t care how nice of a guy he is, he can’t dance. Period. He should have been gone last week. As for late night TV, while I’m excited for Conan coming back next month, I think Jimmy Fallon’s doing a great job, and that his show can only get better from here. That’s right, I said it.

One more thing: Stop telling me to update, WordPress. I’ll update when I’m damn well ready.

Title says it all. I pretty much have no personal life (or time) anymore, since I finally got my ass back in school. That’s right, kids–after two years of wasting away at a bank, I’ve decided to go back and get some sort of degree, so that I won’t have to keep wasting away at said bank. I’d almost forgotten what it was like… namely the mountains of homework they pile on you right from the get-go, and the insane, highway-robbery prices of the textbooks. ($200+ dollars for an accounting textbook? No thank you, crappy school bookstore.)

My day now pretty much goes like this: wake up at 6AM, shower, get ready, eat breakfast (otherwise I can’t focus at all), leave by 7:15 the latest (because there’s ALWAYS traffic on both the main highway and on the backroads), hopefully get to school by 7:45-7:50 (when I’m really only 15 minutes away… damn traffic), in class from 8AM to 12:30 with a 45 minute break in between, attempt to leave campus at 12:30, finally drive off campus at 12:45 (because everyone apparently arrives and leaves the same time that I do), get back home at 1PM, eat lunch, change into work clothes, work from 2-6PM (7 on Fridays), do homework/read, try to get to bed by 11PM or midnight so I can actually function in the morning. Rinse and repeat.

*sigh* So yeah, not much time left for personal life. The school part isn’t so bad now that I’ve gotten back into it–my professors are decent, and I kinda enjoy the classes I’m taking now (I wish my English Composition II professor was more interesting–it’s an 8AM class, and by 8:05 I’m ready to go back to sleep, since he’s so dull). Though right now I have it easy–I’m majoring in accounting, which means I have a LOT more to get through… and a LOT more money to spend, since business-related textbooks are expensive. Really, really expensive. >_<

As for work… my frustration almost hit a fever pitch today. I’m a part-time teller. I was hired to handle deposits and withdrawals, and the occasional sales of items. I wasn’t hired to act as head teller and prove out 10 different things while helping the other girls prove out their own work while helping out customers in both the lobby and drive-through and wondering when I myself can get my work together. I’m not even going to talk about my “raise,” though I should be fortunate I even got one–right after my raise came into effect, the company implemented a pay-freeze. I can see the downward spiral right in front of me.

Long story short: I’m back in school, and I’m an even bigger ball of hatred and frustration when it comes to work. Hopefully it won’t get to the point where I finally jump the teller counter and punch someone in the face, or just throw my keys at the wall and walk out… though it certainly feels like it might get there.

No work rantings today, because I really don’t want to think about work right now. Nothing really notable in my life either, though I did finally get myself a twitter account–let the randomness commence.

And now, a quiz I ganked from Elle: Read the rest of this entry »