Damn, I'm tired!

Yesterday was a pretty good day. I slept in and when I woke up, I found that the wonderful government decided to put money into my bank account in the form of it's yearly "Ooops, we're sorry for taking money from you all year, so here ya go" kind of way. It wasn't overly huge, but it was a nice chunk of change. I'm not the type to wait until the last minute, so when I got my W-2's at the beginning of the month, I filed at the first opportunity. Eleven days later, it came.

So, I decided I was going to splurge a little. There'd been a few movies I've been meaning to add to my collection, so Matt, Fawn and I took a little trek to the mall. A few hours and couple of dollars later, we stopped for dinner. By the time we got back to the house, my brother, Kevin, and his girlfriend, Leighann, were already there, having driven more than three hours from Pennsylvania for his bi-weekly trip "home." Matt and Fawn stayed up for a while, before going to bed (they had to get up for work at 4:30-ish), Kevin took Leighann to her mother's house and then came back. We then stayed up until almost 3am, just sitting around and talking about everything in general, before I had to go to bed. I knew I was going to feel like crap the next morning (three and a half hours of sleep is more of a long nap, rather than a decent nights' sleep), but it felt good to sit around with my brother, with not a care in the world.

Just talking and laughing.

Man, I'm paying for it now...

It's a < insert title here > day

Thursday, 3:05pm
Outside sunny and clear, temp. 27 degrees/10 degrees wind chill factor

Huzzah! I had my phone interview with York Technical this morning and it left me rather excited about the prospect of going back to school after all these years. The woman gave me some background about the facility and surrounding areas and was very open to my questions. All in all, the interview was about half an hour. I'll be getting the booklets and packet in a couple of days.

It looks like I'm going to be enrolling in the classes starting in October, which should give me ample time to get things squared away down here. It will also give me enough time to look for work in Pennsylvania and figure out living arrangements.

The nice thing about it, too, is that classes are four days a week and five hours a day, which leaves me plenty of time to work and study, but more so, work. My bills aren't going to stop just because I'm going back to school.

Speaking of which, I need to get my butt into gear and check out grants and loans and stuff, because it's not going to be cheap in the least. I'm looking at almost 40K that I'm going to have to come up with to do this. I'll get it done.

Anyway, I'm super excited about this. More to come.

Random thoughts

It's been two days since my last post and it's all same ole, same ole with me. I've spent about 5 hours on the phone with my friend, Erik, played lazy slug yesterday, worked a bit today, added a goodly chunk of songs to my MP3 playlist (mostly techno/industrial in flavor) and generally slacked off.

In case you hadn't noticed, I did add a picture of myself to the profile section of my blog. Not a terribly great one, but not a bad one, either. Just me.

I talked to my girl friend a little bit yesterday morning, as well. It went very well - keeping things on a platonic level for the most part. I'd still like to be romantically involved with her, but I'll take it as I can get it. I've spent 7 plus years with her out of my life - I don't want to risk losing her again.

On a positive note, I have a pre-entrance interview/phone conference set for Thursday morning with York Technical Institute to see about going back to school for computer sciences or something similar. The woman I talked to this afternoon informed me that there were a few new classes that were going to be available in the summer that weren't definitely scheduled yet. She said she would have more information on Thursday for me.

Work is work. I am, however, getting very frustrated with the office manager and his wife. Aside from their seperation, which is getting on my nerves, because, since they both work in the office, it gets brought into work, where it defintely doesn't belong, he's missing a lot of work to go to doctor's appointments, therapist's appointments and dental appointments. Not that I mind him going. Hell, I hope he gets better. But, dammit, schedule these for times when you're not working!! His job is not getting done, which shifts a lot of it onto me, and, with me now starting the document/record destruction part of the job, I'm not in the office as much as I used to be.

I think I need a vacation, and I just had one three months ago...