i am kind of failing at life

• I don’t want to go to work today.  I missed work yesterday, and they probably won’t be too happy about that.
• I lost my PUC ID card and a search of my apartment revelaed nothing.  I probably left it in the gym or something during the volleyball tournament, but no one has let me know… so I suppose I’m just going to have to buy another.  Gogo $10.
• My house is a MESS.  I haven’t cleaned the birdcage for days, and my porch/patio thing is covered in water and the heads of flowers (thanks to yesterday’s storm), not to mention dirt and grit from other people’s porches and who knows what.
• I missed a weekly assignment in Bio this week – for the third week in a row.  I didn’t miss it purposefully, however… actually, ALL THREE times I simply forgot.  And that’s AFTER writing it in my planner.  How horrible am I?
• I want to vote today but I don’t know if I’ll get home in time!  Hopefully traffic isn’t too bad, and I can go on my way home from work.  (Then I’ll go to Starbucks and get my free cup of coffee!) =D (Okay, that’s not so bad.)
• I really need stamps so I can pay my bills.
• Also, I really need MONEY so I can pay my bills.

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I have a whole bunch of stuff to do if I want to get into a state college to get my teaching credentials.  My goal: get into San Francisco State, live in student housing with Dan (which hopefully would be cheaper than normal renting!), get my credentials, and have a job to teach in the city by the end of the year. Easy enough, right?

Well… no.  Because I’m way behind on my teaching-type stuff – I decided to focus entirely on graduating with my English degree, which seemed like a good idea at the time but in retrospect, I probably should have at least entertained the idea of checking with the education department, even if I wasn’t getting my credentials there… Now I have four months to make all the arrangements to take these two big state tests for teachers.  I also have to volunteer in a local school at the approximate grade level I want to teach (high school) for a whole bunch of hours; I don’t even know how many.  And that’s just the stuff I’ve been researching today; I know there’s more.

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I’m also trying to organize my schedule so I can get a minor in these last two quarters of school – a history minor, in fact.  I have several reasons for this: I don’t currently have any minors and it would look good on a transcript (this is the least of reasons), I don’t have anything to DO next quarter and it would allow me to stay employed at PUC (a pretty compelling reason), and gosh darn it, I like history and it would give me something else I’d be able to teach (another good reason).

No matter how I try to squish everything in, it looks like I’m gonna have to overload by one credit (meaning, I’ll have 18 credits) either Winter or Spring quarter.  That last credit will be a P.E. class, so it’s not TOO strenuous (at least not in an academic sense – it probably WILL be strenuous literally) =P – but I still have to petition it.  Also, I have to add a class I took during the summer to raise my grade in it (at the time, I didn’t think I’d be minoring in history, so I slacked off… oops) and the stupid computer won’t let me do that.  I guess I need to take a trip to the records department and remedy both of those things.  And if that wasn’t enough, I have to transfer my credits from both 2-year colleges I’ve attended (very briefly; only for certain classes.  In fact, I never actually made it ON the Shasta College campus – everything was online.)

I’m thinking I’ll make a pilgrimage to Records plus get a new ID card at 2pm.  But now it’s 1pm, so I shall do homework and quite possibly slack off until then.

(I still don’t want to work at 3…)