A summer full of magic and adventure! ......and work....

So as most of you have probably noticed, I like to do one of these around pretty much any time I'm either out for school or am on my way back into school, just to kind of cap stuff that's been going on in life.  Well, with finals week over with as of last Tuesday, we're well past due for that time yet again.  So as such, I now present to you the mostly pathetically sad and uneventful yet strangely interesting and exciting events to come in the life of everyone's favorite geeky loner.

First of all, a recap of what has happened since the last time I did this.  As most of you know I was struggling with my Calculus class for a very long while there, afraid that I was going to fail it and thus effecting my financial aid in a not so pleasant way.  And the stress continued well up until, well, pretty much around the same time I took the final.  But since I posted my thoughts on this particular issue a few months ago, I must say I've been making up the slack quite well for the most part.  I was able to work my way up from an E probably within the 30 percentiles to an E in the 50 percentiles, but an E nonetheless.  So I was cutting it dangerously close, needless to say.  But it was most certainly progress, that's for sure.  Then after pouring over my study time endlessly for the remaining two tests of the class (the one we ended up having on the last day of class and the final) I was able to make even more progress apparently, because it was enough to pull my grade out from the 50 percentiles to what I have recently checked as my final grade in that class as a D, better even than the D- I was at the very least least shooting for in that class.  Now if only I had tackled things like that from the very start, maybe I wouldn't even have to take the class again.  But, no point in worrying about what could've been I suppose.  Whenever we make mistakes we just have to accept the consequences and do the best with what you have otherwise.  In which case I look forward to this fall when I take it again, this time with more confidence in what I already know as an advantage instead of being overwhelmed by seeing it for the first time.  Other grades were pretty solid though.  Typical A in Symphonic Band of course, with a B in CS 1030 and a C in Anthropology.  Which both are a bit lower than I was hoping they would be, but still satisfying enough.  However that fact plus the Calc grade ended up hitting my GPA pretty hard.  After rolling for two strait semesters of 3.19 and 3.25, I ended up with the lowest GPA I've ever had at a 2.17.  The overall cumulative GPA only dropped from 2.99 to2.87 though, so it's really not so depressing when you think of it.

And now with that behind us, we look ahead to 4 fun-filled months of not having to put up with the stress of exams, homework or studying!!  Unlike my stint of depression back during spring break though, I'm actually kind of looking forward to having plenty of time to do nothing this time around.  Though I still look back and miss ever so dearly how things were before with regret as to how I allowed them to turn out, and though I still feel quite lonely from time to time outside of the many fond times I still do have with the good 'ol doompants gang (Peter, Aaron and co.), I think I'm well enough removed from the situation by now and used to the way things are enough that for the most part, I've learned not to let it bother me quite as much anymore.  Which is a good thing, because now I can focus on other things other than how miserable my life is.  Like for starters, I've finally been able to get out and begin my journey into the world of having a job.  Got a bishop's referal turned into the D.I. a couple of weeks ago and back on Tuesday I had an interview to work there.  Today I went in to sign some paperwork, probably would have even done some work in my assigned department (I will be working out in the dock, which is awesome because I get to see all the kinds of awesome and entertaining stuff that comes in there!! :D ) with my job training coach as well if he had been in today.  But since he wasn't I'm assuming I'll be doing that tomorrow sometime after the orientation in the morning.  All of which I get payed for, which is also nice. 8-) When I do start actual work up, I'll be working 40 hours a week, 8 hours a day for 5 days of the week, though I will be required to work on Saturdays.  Which is pretty much why we've come to the conclusion that I won't be working when school starts up again, or at least not there anyways.  By then I hope to be moving on to a part time job that will work me at the very most 6 hours a day for 4 days, which would pretty much be ideal for me.  In the meantime I'll be earning minimum wage with this job, which when you do the math comes out to about $500-$600 per paycheck, of which I have no reason to complain. 8-) As for the good 'ol family paper route, I'm still working that one as well, but only until May 31st, as we are sending in our notice on Saturday.  It sure will be nice to be able to sleep again after about 12 or so years of doing it, that's for sure.

As for the dating situation, I think I'm just going to take it easy for a while.  I won't deny the fact that I still have feelings for who I do, and I still don't think those feelings will go away very easily.  But I think what's best for me to do right now is just take up any opportunity to go on whatever date I can with anybody and not really worry about finding a relationship out of any of it.  Basically I think for now I'm just trying to expand my horizon of who I can meet and who out of those people I can possibly like.  I don't think that means that I'm promising I won't end up in a relationship any time soon though.  That mostly depends on who I do meet and how much I end up liking them.  But that will be determined only after I figure out whether or not they like me first I think.  I've been in way too many one-sided situations where I've been the one to like them that way to do anything else.  But for now I'm just not going to worry too much about it.  It may happen, it may not, either way I don't think I really care too much at the moment.  All I'm really concerned with right now is putting myself out there and seeing who likes me and whether or not I like them.

And of course, as always, it wouldn't be a long break from school without a crap load of anime to watch! ^_^ I imagine my anime watching will be somewhat limited this summer from what it typically is, given the fact that I'll be working and all (and working for 8 hours a day no less..... ).  But I'm sure it won't be by too much.  Already on tap, and already have I delved into, are two series in particular, one of which I'm actually already halfway through.  That series would be the French revolution epic Le Chevalier D'eon, which full series box set I ended up getting way back at Christmastime.  So far the series has indeed been quite epic, and without a doubt quite interesting, given the setting and story taking place in a time period and location not typically seen in an anime series, complete with actual historical figures as lead characters and all.  According to most it starts out kind of slow, which I must say I do kind of agree with to a point.  But I think I'm already getting to the point where this thing is really starting to get quite exciting.  The other, which I have watched two episodes of so far, would be one of Masaaki Yuasa's first masterpieces in Kemmonozume.  It's start hasn't been quite as impressive or magnificent as Kaiba's was or Tatami Galaxy's has been so far, but still very, very impressive and magnificent nonetheless.  From the disappointment I hear about how the series turned out though, it is possible I might find myself experiencing the typical railroad crash we saw with Kaiba.  If not, then maybe it'll just be as impressive as it is now, never getting better, which I won't complain about if it does.  I may be able to put it up on a higher pedestal than Kaiba at the very least.  Then there's the new spring season anime that I'll be trying to follow regularly, which I have already posted on this blog earlier and which I have already posted my first impressions of (at least the ones I was assigned anyways) over on ArizUtaku, and I'm also thinking about finishing up Planets, which I got about 12 episodes into during the winter break and never finished, and Eve no Jikan (Time of Eve), which I have regrettably only seen one episode of.  I might even be looking into finding Yuasa's grandest masterpiece of them all, the highly acclaimed film Mind Game, some time this summer as well.  Who knows, I might even end up finding myself FINALLY getting around to watching Haruhi and the second season of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex if there's time for anything else.

And so my friends, my fellow bloggers who have been so kind as to follow me on here, there you have it; my life at this moment in a nutshell.  Hope I haven't bored you to death too terribly much, heh heh.