Semester starts

So the past week and a half has been...interesting...

I got scheduled for work last Saturday and Sunday (a definite relief from a financial standpoint), and my legs were SO sore by Sunday night!!
But it was good to be back at work, even to telling people where the bathroom is, and smiling as politely as possible when snidely told, "Well your job is very easy!"

Monday it rained like a monsoon, which was unfortunate for me because I was grocery shopping without an umbrella or jacket, and I was wearing my chucks - which are NOT waterproof.  There were standing pools of water everywhere, full three and four inches deep!!  Suffice it to say, I was very glad to get home, put away my groceries, and take my sopping shoes and socks off.

Monday night I had my GIS class - the one I tried to take last semester and was barred from - and I'm both looking forward to it and dreading it.  It's going to be a LOT of work, reading, and class time (we have class for a five hour block on Mondays), but at the same time it's going to be fascinating, and it'll up my skill sets too.

Yesterday I had my remote sensing class (it's basically a continuation of the one I took last semester) and Dr. Lee handed back our finals - I got a 97!!!  I'm very proud of that, and hope I can do as well again this semester.

Last night I left my apartment at 6 and got to campus at 6:25 and went to Dr. Loewe's office to wait for him - he said he'd be at his office from 6:30-8:00 pm - so we could discuss my advancement to candidacy.  He wasn't there when I knocked on his office's door, so I sat at a nearby table, took out my mini netbook, and listened to President Obama's State of the Union Address from the BBC website's live stream.  I thought it was a good speech, but I'm pessimistic about the odds of oil companies actually paying a fair tax.  (What I consider fair, anyway.)
Anyway, I sat there for ages and finally called Mom and Dad, and they said I should wait until 8 and then leave.  I ended up leaving at 7:50, and walked to the grocery store and bought cookies and ice cream, which was a terrible idea because now I'm ten million calories over what I should've had in the past day and a half.  Dr. Loewe still hasn't responded to my emails, which sucks.  I need to sort this all out, like yesterday!!

Today I tried to get some work done, but I couldn't fill in all my greencard application by myself - I need to call Mom and Dad and go through it with them at some point.  I also need to do my taxes, file for FAFSA, and write a few emails...blah.  Life is VERY expensive!  Can you believe renewing a greencard costs $500?!  Hellllooooo, broke graduate student here!!  I can't afford that madness!  Luckily, Mom and Dad have agreed to help me out.  I have the best parents, I really, really do.

I've also had a stupid wart on my chin for about two weeks now - it started out as a pimple, which I scratched, and suddenly turned into a wart.  I left it alone except for bedaubing it liberally with tea-tree twice a day, but nothing really happened, so today I went to the campus doctor.  She confirmed it was a wart and not cancer (whew!), and treated it with liquid nitrogen.  She helped me make an appointment for two weeks from now to treat it again, and says since it's such a new wart, it should go away quickly.  I hope so, I really REALLY hate it - I thought I was done when I stopped getting warts on my hands at 14!!!!
I suppose I should be grateful that it didn't decide to grow out of my nose...I just hope this one disappears ASAP and I never ever get one again.

Oh well, dinner will be ready soon.  Then it's back to the grind!