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I’m sitting in a lab at school, waiting for my next class. Figured since it’s really cold and I don’t want to walk over to the other building just yet I’d waste a bit of time by updating you all on my life!

My Reading Week was all in all a really relaxing seven days. I had full intentions of buckling down and getting lots and lots of work done but, being the eternal procrastinator that I am, that didn’t actually happen and, instead, I spent lots of time sleeping, catching up on my gossip via The Superficial and Go Fug Yourself, playing video games of all things (only when I have this much idle time do I start playing video games, lol) and just generally bumming around. For the first half of the week I felt really guilty and kept telling myself to start doing some work but around Wednesday I was resigned to the fact that I am indeed a procrastinator and no, this will never change. So I enjoyed the rest of my week of rest. I think that was for the best anyway since if I had spent the time feeling guilty and stressing out I would not have enjoyed myself at all AND I still would not have done any of the stuff I intended to do.

However, post-Reading Week was rough. That midterm that I had during my break? I received a 63% on it. It consisted of two parts: short answer and an essay question. When I wrote the exam I felt confident that I did well on it. However, when I got the results back the following Wednesday I found out I received 7 out of 18 on the essay portion! I was really pissed off because I knew I deserved more for the essay than I received and it totally didn’t correlate with the marks I received on the short answer which was 12 out of 12! I’m serious - I passed the first half but I FAILED the second half.

So, I’ve requested a remarking of that midterm. I’m not going to take that 63% lying down cause I don’t think I deserved it. As I was writing my request (because he required a request in writing) I compared my essay to his answer sheet and found that my answers were very similar to his and I only fudged two parts of it, one only partially. Hopefully he’ll give me a better grade. He was nice enough to let me write my midterm when I couldn’t make it to class and he and I had a nice chat today as we were walking out of the building together. I hate having to make a stink but I really feel it’s necessary.

Anyway, so that was the first bad news of my horrible, terrible, no good, very bad week. The second part came on Friday when I was supposed to present for my senior group project our current status. Mind you, there are six of us in this group. I’ve taken up the reigns in this group because no one else has and already it’s come around to bite me in the ass. Suffice it to say, I wasn’t able to make it to class due to weather and the fact that I didn’t hear my alarm clock at 5:30 (had to leave at 6:20 to get myself there on time!). I called up as soon as I could to let one of the girls know my situation and she told me she could handle it and suggested I go back to bed. Thinking everything was alright, I decided to heed her advice and did go back to sleep since I didn’t have class until 12 after that. When I got up I found frantic messages from her on my cell phone asking if I was coming. Basically, she didn’t tell the prof that I wasn’t coming (saying she didn’t want to get me into trouble) and he assumed that I was only late and I would arrive eventually. When I didn’t show up she had to present with the one other girl from our group that DID show up and they basically fumbled through it. Everything I was going to say was common knowledge that they knew. We discussed all of it the day before in our meeting and Alex assured me she had a handle of it. I’m infuriated that I was left to be a scapegoat because she didn’t tell him that I wasn’t coming and now I’m being held accountable for making our group look so ill-prepared. However, the rage has ebbed somewhat since Friday. I’m just concerned that this doesn’t bode well for the rest of the project! :S

On top of that, I fell on ice that day and have a big ol’ bruise on my knee because of it. I was ready to just sit there and cry my eyes out except my bum was getting wet.

However, this week has basically changed everything around. It’s funny how that happens, isn’t it? Friday I was too upset to be excited over this but I found out I was accepted to write the Border Officer Test for a job with immigration and border patrol for the summertime. Not only is this an excellent summer job cause of the cash money I’d be making but it gives me a chance to apply for internal jobs once I’m there! Woo! Furthermore, my marketing group’s paper is really well written and I’m really thankful that I lucked out with this group. They aren’t the most personable bunch, except our group leader who is an absolute sweetie, but they’re all a bunch of smart cookies, too! And continuing with marketing, I though I did really poorly on my midterm but I ended up with a 76%! It’s not great but it’s a lot better than the 55% I thought I was actually getting, lol. Finally, the one other midterm I got back I received an astounding 87% on. I think it’s safe to say that currently I’m kicking ass. This could all swing horribly to the wrong side of town but I’m hoping it doesn’t cause I’m really happy over this. So I’m going to stick with my seven courses even though there’s no turning back after this Friday (the last day to drop courses). I hope this is the right decision.

And the best thing to happen this week? I got a call from Chapters about an interview! I’ve wanted to work at Chapters since I could bloody well work. I’m SO excited over this interview!