January 8th 2008

Well, school's started up again and, of course, the stress begins. They do say that January is the most depressing month of the year and this week is the most depressing of the month. Did you know that most divorces happen in this week of the year than any other given week?

Anyway, I finally gathered up the nerve to talk to Rinku (my McDonald's head manager) about transferring to a different McDonalds due to the improper treatment from some of the managers and crew. I didn't have the heart to tell Rinku to her face that she was part of the problem. I like Rinku as a person, but not so much as a manager. She tends to get all over people for things that, sometimes, they aren't even doing, which is one of my biggest pet peeves. I, myself, have been trying very hard not to do that sort of thing in my own life.

Anyway, long story short, she told me no, that I would have to wait a month while she tries to talk to Emily about what's been going on and then, if nothing changes, then she'll transfer me, but not before then. That's OK I guess. I do need to give the new manager a chance but I've been putting up with the people at this McDonalds for quite a while now and I just don't want to deal with them any more. I'll be applying for as many other places as I can in the mean time, just in case I never get transfered.

Also, Stephanie (the girl I met and became fast friends with at EMU) and I are supposed to go to her house (near Saganaw) next weekend, starting on my birthday and going through that weekend. We're having a bit of a problem finding a way of getting there and back again though. Her mom said that she would either pick us up or drop us off but my parents would have to do the other one which sucks because my dad works late and my mom refuses to drive in bad weather AND she refuses to take me over there right after work. I may end up having to drive myself if it keeps going like this. Or, I might just have her over at my house Friday night and then have dad take us in the morning. Then, at least, I would have my birthday at home.

I need to figure out how to talk to my mom about living on campus. I'm sick of driving every day, I'm sick of coming home to Alex acting up every five seconds (almost literally) and I never talk to anyone at home anyway. I know it'll be hard for me and for my parents as well but, I think it will be a growing experience. I want to be near my friends and I want to actually be able to get some sleep at night without having to worry about whether I'll be in class on time. And, on top of that, I won't have to worry about bad weather while I'm driving because the farthest I'd have to go is about two miles down the road for Mijers, Target or McDonalds is right across the street if I wanted to transfer there.

AAAAAAAND, I got my laptop back for the third time. I'm actually typing on it right now :) I'm hoping that it doesn't break again. I can deal with restarting it a couple of times, but if it does the same thing that it did before, and completely stops, HP is going to get an ear full and I had better get a new laptop.

OH! and carrying on with school starting. So far I like all of my teachers on a non-personal level. I was concerned about my Biology teacher for a while there because he was rather snipity with me when I questioned the e-mail he sent out, but he's not bad. He has ADD and is dyslexic and has horrible hand writing and talks like an auctioneer. I learned that we're going to have a shit load of homework in this class too, which sucks. We're going to have some surprise quizzes and homework too, but the good thing about those is that, if you're there for the lecture , you turn the homework in on time and at least 50% is correct then you can get extra credit points. He said there's up to 55 extra points to get in this class which is more than half a test grade! Also, we have five exams, but he drops out lowest and we have four quizzes but the lowest is dropped again. Woo!

Tomorrow Mom's supposed to meet me at the school so that I can return one of my books, the one for trig, because the school had my teacher registered for the wrong one. I also need to get two other books that they didn't give me when I was there to get my books. I didn't get one of them that was supposed to go with my English book and I never got the lab packet for Chemistry either. I also need to get a pair of goggles.

The first lab for Chemistry wasn't very hard. All we did was take different sizes of papers and crumple them up into balls, measure the diameter and radius of them and then weighed them then recorded it and charted it on the computer. We then printed it out and handed that in. We were done within twenty minutes.