the times they are a-changin'

I'm going to start a whole new chapter of my blogging adventures in about 10 days time.

I'm going to retire MVL.

I've started a new blog over on wordpress.com. I've been posting to it for about two weeks, independant of this blog in anticipation of the move.

I just thought it was time for change.

MVL chronicled my first four years in Oklahoma and the disaster that was the three months I spent in Wyoming last summer. I wanted a fresh start.

Some of you I've already told about the new blog, the rest I'll either email or leave a final post here directing you to the new home of My Crazy Life. Similar title, same life, new location on the web.

Circle July 1st on your calendar apps... that's when the big change will happen. Kinda like Daylight Savings Time, except I won't "fall back".


That's all from where I sit.

--MorelaterZ--

The times they are a-ch-ch-ch-changin'

(Wow! I stole from Dylan AND Bowie....)

Well, my email today brought the news that my friend, JC, in Massachusetts, is resigning from his job of 13 years to run his "side project" graphic design venture full time. I got the mass email announcing this great adventure (the one that's sent to JC's 100+ closest friends). He's been waiting a long time to do this, and I'm absolutely thrilled for him, and told him so in the return email I sent.
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I found out today that I've somehow managed to maintain an A in my English Comp class. I've always been pretty good at it, so it's not really that hard for me. It's the writing of the essays that sometimes get me. All that in-text citation stuff is starting to sink in, but I still don't remember having to do that before. I guess they teach it in the high schools now, because it seems that the majority of my classmates know how to do it already.

My professor is good at what she does. She's not like some of the teachers I had in high school that bored me to death. And, despite the fact that I am closer in age to her than I am to my classmates, I am learning something (or relearning it), everyday. When I enrolled for my fall classes, I signed up for her Comp II class.

Okay, so I have a B in US History, and an A in English Comp I, and I have no idea where I stand in my two broadcasting courses. I just know that my editing project that was due today was not my best effort.

Hopefully, I'll still have my 3.0 GPA I need to continue to receive financial aid.

And on the subject of financial aid... I found out that financial aid is for one school year: for example fall of 06, spring of 07 and summer 07 would fall under the 2006-2007 school year. Because I started in spring 07, I'll get money for the summer classes because I didn't go last fall. Next summer, unless I budget my money really well, I won't be able to take summer classes. I wouldn't be able to afford it on my own, even with a job. My tutition for summer is almost $500.00! For fall it'll be over $900.00!

Yikes!




That's all from where I sit.

--MorelaterZ--

Stef's To-Do list for Monday, April 2nd

Pay rent: check

Enroll for summer and fall classes at school: check

Turn in the essay that was due today: check

Rock someone's world: pending


That last one has been on my To-Do list for a long time. I'll have to take care of that the next time the opportunity presents itself.

Though probably not today.
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About the enrolling for school for the summer and fall semesters... I learned this today: because of a change in the curriculum for the degree I'm working for, if I want to transfer to someplace like UCO or OU, I have to complete the Associates in Applied Sciences requirements first, then continue on for the Associates in Broadcast Communications, which will transfer (the other one won't transfer everything). So if all goes well, I'll leave Rose State with two Associate degrees, then go on to the four year school for the Bachelor's.

And if I'm 50 or something when I get done, so be it.


Part of me wishes I'd done this years ago, and part of me is glad I waited until now.


That's all from where I sit.

--MorelaterZ--

Whoopty freakin' doo!

I changed my name on my driver's license recently to my maiden name, since it's been my legal name for well over a year now.

This is my Oklahoma license. I already had it on my Wyoming license, which I put thru the shredder earlier this week. Perhaps I should send the shredded pieces back to the driver's license bureau in Cheyenne with a note stating that I've changed my address, and probably will never live in Wyoming again.

Jon text messages me earlier this evening and says something to the effect of that i've never had a license under my maiden name, since I originally didn't get a license until I was 24 years old when I was still living in California. I was already married by that time.

Why does he think that this is a big deal for me? Because it's not, IMHO, a big deal to me. Just something else I have to change.

With my luck, by the time I get everything changed, I'll probably get married again.

Naaaah... I've been married, thanks. And even if I did remarry, I'd hypenate my name with his.

But I don't anticipate that happening.

I would like to be in a mutually satisfying relationship if that is in my future at some point. The companionship would be nice...

*sigh*



That's all from where I sit.

--MorelaterZ--