23 August 2007

Balancing academia, domesticity, and fabulousness.

My transfer credits have all gone through for my online classes. I was pissed off at how little I got (58 out of 99 hours), but when it was explained to me it sounded a lot better. I'm basically getting a complete GPA makeover because I'm a transfer student and my prior GPA doesn't count. Talk about a second chance (although this means I still have about two years left).

Even though I don't start until October, I've already picked World War II history and Human Sexuality for this session. World War II will give me an opportunity to learn more about the war in the Pacific (because, as everyone knows, I've always been obsessed with the Nazi aspect of the war). Human Sexuality seems like it will be a simple social psych class. Score.


I just started reading Deathbeds, and quite frankly, I'm not nearly as interested or impressed with the new poetry as I am with the prose he included. Stupid asshole kids are buying this for over $140 on ebay because it was limited to 1000 copies. I don't know whether I hate the people selling them on ebay or the idiots who will actually shell out that much money for a book they can borrow from their brother (as I am) more. I don't know...I'll expound upon this when I'm finished with it.

The house has been coming along quite well. The office and two bedrooms actually look like an office and two bedrooms. The office, which is the smallest room in the house, now looks BIG to me when I'm in it. All clothing, save a small pile of my things and a large pile of Rich's things, is put away.

Projects coming up:
  • Refinish dresser, vanity, three mirrors, and two tables
  • Construct a pegboard organizational system in the kitchen for pots, pans, and utensils
  • Finish reupholstering the chairs in the kitchen
  • Buy the spoon rest that matches my Fiesta Ware - I am sick of looking at the shitty one on the stove
  • Buy a cover for the badass grill


My mom's cat will be staying with us while she's in Brasil. We picked him up last night, and he is not pleased with his situation. All of my babies want to meet him so badly, but he hasn't left the safety that is under-the-bed since I brought him into my room last night.

This is him in the window sill:
My optometrist appointment got moved to today, so I will probably be ordering the glasses this evening. I tried them on at Lens Crafters on Monday, and they were just as amazing in person as I thought they were in pictures. Rich hates them and thinks they are gaudy (which seems to be the general consensus among males) , but every female I know thinks they're wonderful. I must have fabulousness on my face.

That is all.

8 comments:

Unknown said...

The Pacific war is very interesting. The Japanese were a way more ferocious enemy than the Nazi`s ever were.

hvbc said...

That's exciting. I can't wait to find out why!

Anonymous said...

Have they never heard of reprinting either?
Why would they limit the book to 1000 copies EVER?
It's gonna be funny when they make more and all these idiots paid 10 times the price.

hvbc said...

That's pretty much the exact train of thought I had on the matter.
It's retarded.

philologic said...

People are dumb about a) deathwish b) converge and c) wes eisold. I know you know how I feel about those things though. And by people I mean not you obviously.

hvbc said...

Trust me, I'm right there with you these days.
I got 30 pages into the book, was horribly disappointed at how much of a scumbag he made himself look (or is), and stopped reading it.
Whatever.

Anonymous said...

my boyfriend ordered the book for me as a gift for our anniversary - somehow i ended up with two copies initally and then two more appeared. i now have 4 and am considering selling them for the fuck of it.

ps: i was also extremely disappointed, i didn't tell michael this because it was thoughtful of him. i had just hoped for more.

hvbc said...

Sell them, who gives a shit? I was horribly disappointed, too. I figured he was a scumbag, but printed proof in front of my face was still annoying and a big let-down.

They're going for quite a bit on ebay and they really, literally will never be made again. I might like to buy one from you, actually, because I fucked up my brother's copy pretty bad when I borrowed it from him.