heather79

this year the (new) music teacher at the elementary school where i volunteer seems open to giving me access to the piano whenever i like!

July 1, 2008
!!!

so now i am just waiting for them to deliver it… june 5th by the latest!

2007 is done. 2006 i still need to file.

may 14th

this is such a waste of my time. why did i feel i needed to do this?

get the application form

fill it out

get my photos done

get notary/lawyer to sign lost passport declaration

get my guarntor to sign photos/application form

drop it off/pay the fee

i was determined and got the shelves up on friday. now that all (well, most) of my books are out of boxes i realise what a big job this will be!!

part of this goal implied putting up 2 new shelves (in addition to my 2 enormous already croweded bookcases), but i discovered yesterday that there is metal or something in the wall where i wanted to put them. i am afraid to drill through it…

what i really want is to play the piano again. i miss it terribly, but there is no piano available to me right now. clarinet cannot replace piano. the love is just not the same.

it’s time to do this. i have told him. he wants reconciliation, but it is just not possible. his treatment of me was a definite ‘deal-breaker’.

i have many goals that i just don’t have time to devote to achieving right now… financially, by the time i graduate (my $80,000 in student debt notwithstanding) i will have about enough money to live in a village hut with no amenities in the middle of a very poor third world country for a year. unfortunately, very few of my goals can be achieved under those circumstances. moving back in with a parent is not an option. finding an amazingly high paying 3-day-a-week job would suffice…

i’ve discovered that in order to get myself to start using the dvd I really need to accomplish that goal of putting up blinds …

turn off the computer by 9:30 pm every night for 2 weeks (October 21 – November 3):

okay, successful!

these have been my most stress-free days in a very long time. i am for sure keeping this in the permanent routine. who doesn’t need a little down-time in their day?!

i now own a dvd… i guess that’s a start… in a way…

and waist deep in readings i need to catch up on for uni. therefore Fisk sits unfinished at the bottom of my bookshelf, 760 pages down and 526 to go.

i’ve figured out what kinds of students make it into these things, and i’m just not one of them.

an excellent (easy) goal for summer: first course has no papers (just exams); second has only in-class assignments and a major group research project (hard to submit things late when 3 other people’s grades are counting on me); and third has only one major paper due at the end of july, which i already have some articles/literature for…yay, me!

this is my dream way of finishing off my degree, but it is a VERY competitive program.
my biggest obstacle is finding a member of the faculty to recommend me: when profs get to know me it’s usually because i’m handing in something late…

but only a select few know it :(