I GOT A JOB

So yesterday I was sitting in the cafeteria after an Italian quiz and I got a voice mail, (I get crappy reception here so sometimes voice mails just show up). I called and checked it and it was a guy from the place I interviewed last week, he was asking me to come in and take another test. So I called and told them I was on my way. When I got there I did a little test, and the manager says, "Don't worry, we'll teach you how to do it better." BAM!! Greg got a job. So they asked me when I could start, so I asked if Tuesday was too early, and he replies, "How about today?" DONE! I went home ate a quick lunch and went back and had my first day at work.
So long story short I got a job and now I can stay in school this year.
Then when I got home there was some kids around 10 pm that wanted to start a Star Wars Marathon a.k.a. watch all of them in one night. I informed them that is quite impossible because it takes about 12 hours to watch all 6 but they didn't care. So we started watching them and before i knew it I had passed out and was gone all night long. So finally I stumble to my room and sleep till around 11:30. I had forgotten how much a full days work takes it out of you. But all in all I am glad to be working and getting the chance to stay in school this year.

"These aren't the droids you're looking for."

REALLY!?!

School is great and life in the dorms is interesting as ever. The kids down the hall smell horribly and the girls upstairs like to run, scream, and slam doors. But none of that is as frustrating as waiting to hear back about a job and then never hearing. I called them yesterday to check about my job and they told me they have been so busy that they have yet to have an opportunity to interview anyone else and that they will call me thursday or friday. Well if they hired me they wouldn't be so busy!! Seriously! I've done everything so that they could hire me, lightened my school load, opened up my schedule and moved things around, spoke with my RA boss so that I am allowed a full time job. JUST HIRE ME.
Okay enough of my ranting, sorry I'm just really stressed because I have bills coming up that I need to pay and I have 0 dollars oh and did I mention I still have no way to buy the one book I need for my class . . awesome.
All this stress has gotten to me and I woke up with a cold sore, yeah . . that's different story there. LAME.
So this Monday is the 6th and some of you may know what that means. I'm a bit anxious about that cause it could happen any day now and I am just ready to have this whole situation done and over with. Vaughn and Amy probably feel the same way, I can't imagine how excited they are and they just can't wait. I am so happy and grateful for them. Well I gotta run, love being an RA.

"You dumped a porn star?! . . Friendship OVER!"

Good feeling, wont you stay with me just a little longer.

The title of this post comes from an amazing Violent Femmes song "Good Feeling". It's just a very relaxing and has been very well written.
Well the second day of school has come and gone, and I have realized that I get to drop all my classes except for my Italian class and I'm pick up an on-line one so I stay above half time status for my financial aide. The reason for this is because I got a job interview with American Car Care here in Ephraim for a full time job. Tim, my RA boss, said that its okay if i drop some classes so that I can have a full time job and stay here as an RA but only as long as I am still in school some what, so I found a way and now I'm just really praying that I can get this job tonight then I won't have to move back home and I can finish school here.
It's been really nice living away from home again, I love my family and all that but really it is so nice being out and on my own . . some what, I'm not sure how much on your own you are when you live in on campus housing. But still all that aside, i love it.

"Don't say that!..What?...That, . the Zed word."

Sleepless Nights

So I spent my night last night rolling over and over and over. I couldn't sleep, I had too much going on in my head. I am so stressed cause I don't want to leave here and go back home. Not really cause it means moving back into my parents basement but more that it means I won't be in school AGAIN this year. I can't handle not being in school and working to get it done. I want to finish so badly. And also I was having issues with a resident last night that kept me up and reading and rereading the housing contract.
I'm pretty sure I would hate to move back home. The building is almost full so it's been pretty fun to walk around and have people to talk to and hang out with. That and I don't know where I would work to make enough to move out once I did move back, if I have to.
So I spent my night reading, because if I didn't I would just sit and stress and freak out. I was reading World War Z, it is amazing. It is so well written, it is very believable. Other than the fact that it is about zombies, it is really creepy. I love it. I need to buy it so I can reread it later. I'm not sure where my fascination with zombies came from, but I find them very interesting and entertaining. So if you're looking for a creepy/good book, World War Z is a must.

"Well don't you want to open your present?...If it's a severed head I'm going to be very upset."

First day of move-ins

Today was insane, but tomorrow will be worse. We had our first official day of people moving in and so everyone was running around like crazy trying to get things done the right way. Not only that but I have realized that unless I get this other mechanic job i have applied for down here I have to move back on Monday or Tuesday. I really don't want to come back seeing as how I have gotten this RA gig and a grant to pay for school but I have way to many other financial burdens that it may force me back into Utah County for a while. If that's the case I don't know when I'll get back into school and that scares me.
I am hoping to hear about that job tomorrow or Monday morning but we'll see. On the brighter side of things, I have finally had something to do other than decorating, which I was up till 1:30 doing last night. Now that there is actually residents living here there are people to talk to and things to help with. It has made the day go quickly but it was a quite exhausting day and I'm glad it's coming to an end.

"What are those for? It gives it a little more kick!"

Stresses already

After days of working on this thing it is finally finished. That contract has taken more time than I ever thought possible. My head hurts from smelling the sharpies I used to write it and I'm dizzy from having to look back and forth between this bright yellow paper and the tiny white paper that I am copying. Though I did add my own parts to it to make it more interesting so it wasn't all bad. I'll be surprised if anyone tries to read all of it cause I don't even want to.
I'm still not sure if anyone is reading this blog but I'm going to still pretend that someone is and that you are interested in what goes on.
I can't believe how poor I really am now. I have paid all but one bill for the month and in all honesty I am completely broke. I am way glad that they are feeding us for the rest of this week cause I really don't want to be eating my own food just yet, it costs too much to replace. I am really hoping that someone will buy my truck soon. Tyler is supposed to be driving it everyday to work so that he can park it out on main street in Spanish Fork, but so far I have only gotten one call on it and they double checked the price and then seemed utterly uninterested. I keep reposting it on KSL.com but again no one wants to buy it. I'm not really sure what I am going to do if I can't sell it. I have been looking to see if there is any place down here that will hire me but not one place I went is hiring, well Mcdonald's is but I don't have as much time as they would like me to have to work there.
Being an RA has made it almost impossible to find a job somewhere seeing as how I have to be in the building A LOT. So I am going to keep trying and hopefully it will all work out.

"I'm mostly looking for some mercy. Like, it would be freaking awesome if I didn't get hit."

Busy, Busy, Busy

The power is back on in Ephraim, if any of you have lived here you will know what I mean when I say the power here is retarded. It gets shut off at random times for no reason. But I guess today they were doing work on the power grid and shut down the whole town for 3 hours. It kinda sucked, but we did get time to work on some projects in our building.
For when the residents move in each building has to have a theme and decorate the building to make them more inviting (seriously its a little depressing to move into a building with solid brick walls every where you look). So our building, Castilleja Hall, has chosen the theme of Willy Wonka and we are taking ideas from both movies but mostly from the first. So today during the outage we worked on our version of the lickable wall paper (which is NOT lickable by any means) and we are hoping that someone will try it any ways. While they did that I volunteered to make our own version of the giant contract that has the ridiculous fine print the lower it goes. So I spent my day starting to rewrite the actual student housing contract on a giant piece of paper. I am slightly regretting that choice, but it should be done by saturday and then I can keep it after next thursday.
Things have been going well down here, once the meetings and training started I have been so busy that I barely have time to look at my phone. So sorry to those that have tried to call or text and never got a response, I promise I am way busy and will get to you as soon as I can . . . . remember. All the other Community Leaders or RA's are pretty cool and we all get along really well. The other ones in my building are the married couple Magnum and Andrea with their son Magnum (or Mags), and the two girl RA's Ali, and Megan. It's been boring and fun sitting in the classes doing the trainings, the reading of hand books and contracts sucked to no end but the other parts where we do scenarios and watch movies and stuff like that isn't too bad.
Today was the actual first day that I didn't see Lyric after I moved. It was very, stressful. I had grown accustomed to having her around to relax and enjoy my nights with but I guess I have to get used to this. I just wish I was able to be more attentive to my phone all day for when she calls or texts, so, sorry Lyric. I really am trying to answer as much as I can :).
I have started to get a little more stressed about paying my bills this year, I have yet to sell my truck and I have no idea how to pay for that and insurance and the phone and my school loan, and my credit card, and finish off the ring, and cover food costs, and pay for all the other little things like prescriptions and little things like that. I am trying really hard to figure it all out but no luck yet, if I could just sell that truck my life would be alot easier.... oh well.
I know this was kind of a rambling post and I'll try not to do that as much in the future but that is just how my life as been the past couple of days, just crazy randomness.

"Do you know what they call them in Mexico, Submarineos!"