Pressing on

I'm finally moved in! I spent all day yesterday shuttling back and forth between orientation events at SPU and unpacking at my apartment - which is conveniently just down the road. I have one roommate - Jamie - and two house mates who have their own rooms at the other end of the apt. - Sarah and Heather. I still have a box that hasn't been unpacked, but it's mostly kitchen stuff and it's under my bed. I can't wait for classes to start, mostly because I want to be doing something - and have an excuse for my sitting around doing nothing :) That and I want to get started so I can get finished with all this nonsense.

Two of my classes I'm really looking forward to - they will probably be hard and challenging, which is the kind that I enjoy the most. The third one I'm sort of rolling my eyes at, the whole class seems a bit silly and absurd for an upper division course. But as long as I can smile and nod my way to an "A" I'm happy. Oddly enough one of my books required for "Belief, morality, and the modern mind" was written by one of my professors at Biola. oh the irony.

I'm excited; I get to see Michael in like a week. We're going to the Mariners baseball game a Safeco field at the end of next week. He's never been to one and I've only been to something like two or three. A bunch of people from Church are going as well, which should be a lot of fun. Someone said that they'd pick me up on their way down so I don't have to worry about conning a ride out of one of my roommates. Speaking of church, there are like three Covenant churches close to SPU that I'm going to try out. Two of which are within 2 miles - unfortunately I can't walk there from here do to things like crossing the freeway and to go around would be an extra 5 or 6 miles. Ain't life just dandy? But Jamie said she'd take me this Sunday. Hopefully I'll meet someone there who can give me a ride in the future.






Cause it's you and me and all of the people
with nothing to do, nothing to lose
And it's you and me and all of the people
And I don't know why,
I can't keep my eyes off of you
You and me and all of the people
with nothing to do, nothing to prove
And it's you and me and all of the people
And I don't know why,
I can't keep my eyes off of you
"You and Me" Lifehouse

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My parents just dropped a bombshell on me, my college fund is empty. Okay, let me start from the beginning. I was looking into getting a digital camera and found one that I really rather liked (Olympus c-5500 sport zoom just in case you want to get me one for Christmas j/k) and my mom said that probably wouldn't be such a good idea that I should save as much money as I could. I was sort of puzzled by this because we had already figured out a budget for me next year and I already have the money set aside for it. It turns out that my college fund is almost completely empty - sometime in the last few months over half of what was left in my account disappeared. The stocks and bonds in which they had invested in crashed and now I have don't even have enough to pay for a second quarter at SPU. I have one year left and no money to pay for it. I don't know what I'm going to do - even if I took a year of and worked fulltime I wouldn't earn enough money to pay for a year of school - mostly because I wouldn't have a degree. All I want is to be finished with school and now I can't even do that without getting myself into massive amounts of debt. Even if I took the SPU loan and the Stafford loan I wouldn't have enough money to pay for a full year. *sighs* prayer would be good.