home

I'm been home for a week now, and I feel like time can't move faster. I have this bad habit of going under the internets radar when I'm at home, which explains the fact that I haven't posted in a while.

It's nice being home, but I keep wishing I were still in my dorm room to myself playing WoW or something... I don't know, I like the idea of being home, but I just feel that I'm wasting my time here doing absolutely nothing, and in the process wasting my parents' time and money, especially during these times when time and money are in short supply. I feel a lot happier when I'm living by myself on my own terms, waking up when I want to, attending to what I want to without incessant nagging, doing what I want to do: going to get a slice of pizza, working out, or sit at my desk playing freecell all day while downloading huge torrents. I guess I come home only for my parents' and the house's sake: the first things that I did when I got home were straighten up the place, vacuum, wash the dishes, and sort through the junk mail, the stuff that usually gets forgotten because of work or stress. Oh, and tend to the plants.

And speaking of the plants: my very own are in the hands of good friends over the holidays; I hope they can thrive without me. As for the ones at home, some have died (namely the calamondin and orchid), but the rest are fine. My mom seems to be learning to take care of them, but I hope my dad gets into it too, since he's always so stressed all the time.

so, yeah, the semester ended. It wasn't as bad I had thought: a GPA under 3.0, but not as bad as a cumulative GPA under 3.0. an A (plus CCNP certification; hell's yeah!), a coupla B's, and the expected D's from organic chemistry, [shrug] but only because I didn't try; If I had, I actually would have gotten at least a C in the class and actually enjoyed it, too. (gasp!) But I did learn a lot this past semester, including to NEVER EVER take 21 credits again EVER: it was just *way* too much, not including pledging APO and joining more clubs that I can bear to count. but after this, assuming I don't fail, I'm pretty set: I can actually graduate a semester early if I only take the required stuff from here on, which is pretty awesome!

now, the only things I have to do until I go back are:
-monies, including tuition for next semester, taxes, gifts, and interest payments
-books
-possible new responsibilities for next sem.
-trying not to be fat
-finishing my resume to finally get me some gratuitous amounts of money
-my Christmas gift for this year: who to give forward to
-ACTUAL reading! yay!
-try to bring more plantstuffs to my room: calla lilies, spider plant seeds, other cuttings
-actually get some decent sleep (i.e., at least 8 hours, and waking up around 8 in the morning and do something productive)
-try to work on getting more of the a cappella arrangements done (a long shot, I'll admit)

and that's it for now, I think...

laters for now.
再见。