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17 Days
Thursday, August 2, 2007

17 days. 17 more days of this shit until summer, for me anyways, is officially over. 17 days before I take the final in a class I've been putting off for the longest time and putting in a ton of work just so that I can barely pass. 17 days before I can go home and help out with harvest, make enough money so that not only don't I have to work at all for the remaining school year, but have enough saved up for a nest egg to live off for when I'm done school. 17 days before the purgatory that is Spanish 110 and the hotbox of a house I live in with a roomie I don't like is over.

Today was a bit of a busy day for me. I got up at around six and drove to the uni instead of walked so that I can fit in some last minute cramming for a test that was supposed to be yesterday. After busting my ass studying so that I can bring my average past 51, I think I did fairly well on the test. The preterit didn't bother me too much this time around. And I also got my first composition back, and got the first good mark I've gotten in a month. I was really proud of that since it brought my average up to a 52%, which is exactly where I want it to be. I just want to get the credits.

I go back home and cleaned the kitchen. We had a potential roomie coming to look at the place, which I was hoping for, since the current roomie we have I really don't like. To make a long story short, the potential roomie didn't even show up because she decided to stay with friends. Well at least the kitchen is spotless for the first time in a month.

I studied in basement because the roomie I don't like was still there watching tv, and I have to study once again for another chapter test tomorrow. The stuff I need to know I can memorize, but for some reason, it's not sinking in.

I dunno. I just need to vent online before getting back into it. Now that I see the end in sight, I just want to get there. And there's nothing really I can look forward too in these 17 days. Yeah, there are still summer movies I want to see, but not on the same level as KNOCKED UP, LIVE FREE OR DIE HARD, SICKO and RATATOUILLE. Maybe SUPERBAD. But other than that, nothing. Every free moment will be dedicated to a class I have no interest in.

But after the 20th, it's going to be so sweet. I can go home to help out with harvest (they're already doing peas and lentils at home. And one of my uncles employee's ended up rolling a fully loaded grain truck.), make some money, and lose some weight. My weeks on the farm are sort of a detox period for me. Matt will be home after 7 months in Afghanistan, but we won't be able to leave for Edmonton just yet. I'm hoping we can fit it in the first week of September, as opposed to the last week of August. My birthday is up in about a month, so I'm hoping I can be with my lady friend Rikky, who I haven't seen since June, and then go out for a night of drinking with my film buddies, who I haven't seen since April. I'm a bit nervous about that, though, since it occurred to me that it's on the Labor Day long weekend, and they might have plans already. And even the ones who are in the city might not come. Dave and Andrew were the ones who sent out the e-vites to the people in the class for when drink night was. I don't know if they'd come if it were me sending them out. Nothing sucks more than inviting people for a night out and no one coming. Any ideas?

And then after that, I am in the home stretch in terns of academia. I only have one class per semester, and I already have an idea for what I want to do for my final film. I can shoot in the interviews in a month and spent the rest of the year editing. And I can look into seeing if my pipe dream can come true. Hopefully, I can get work as a trainee grip or electrician on a film set.

So fucking close, and yet so goddamn far.

17 days.

COMMENTS

Thursday, August 2, 2007 5:43 PM

BLUEEYEDBRIGADIER


Ah...if it wasn't for the fact I have never taken a Spanish class in my life, I would have sworn you have been stalking me and were borrowing past adventures for your own tales;)

Really? I can totally sympathize with you about so many things here, Luke. Had a roommate that drove me nuts - mainly cuz she was a spazzy, female natural foods enthusiast living with 3 guys who lived on pre-made meals; did all kinds of last minute cramming to attempt to raise my averages in several classes I really wasn't interested in and I am all kinds of experienced with the fun of trying to rope a disparate group of friends together for fun times:(

So...much luck to you in your Spanish studies, I hope you get a great new roomie and I offer all the secular prayers for a safe harvest for you and yours so you can have that nest egg;D

BEB


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