I Have New Icons! All Archie-Goodwin-Licious

[kitsjay]

Matt and I finished around 3:00 a.m., at a staggering 11,000 for word count of the main paper and an additional 3,000 words in the citations.

I have never been so glad to have finished something in my entire life.

Not much else has been going on. Mike, Mary Ann, and I are going to buy a Christmas tree and decorate it tomorrow; I'm going to call Wells Fargo on Monday and get my loan taken care of; I have a few miscellaneous chores to accomplish and have an entire week to myself as Mom and Dad are going on vacation to Florida.

Dad went to the sleep clinic in Floresville last night, and they confirmed that he most definitely has sleep apnea. Moreso, he apparently has not been getting any REM. He was in a much better mood today, and I'm wondering if it's not because they hooked him up to their little machine, so he actually rested. He even offered to buy me a plane ticket to Australia to visit Bianca next year, which is, well, kind of brilliant awesome.

I also had to give a persuasive speech a few weeks ago, and I delivered mine on "Hitchhiking: Why It's a Great Idea". We have to give a similar "call to action" speech this coming Tuesday, and I asked my teacher, "Would it be alright if my topic was, 'You Should Hire Someone to Write Your Papers For You'?"

My teacher cracked up and said, "That's gold." I sent him my outline two days ago and received this email back:

Kitty,

This is outstanding work! One of the best speeches I have ever seen. Let me make a one minor point with the goal creating an immortal speech--provide some research to show how stressful college is to justify what may be considered extreme, unusual action.

I will re-read this being that I was so excited I read the outline very quickly.

Mr Williams

I also checked my grades a while ago and my government teacher already has my "A" down on my unofficial transcript, though it's not even December yet.

The only thing that has not been fantastic is that I have to return an immunizaiton record to UT by December 3; I recieved it two days ago. So yesterday I gave it to my doctor, who returned it unfilled out, so I took it back to her. Today, a nurse dropped it off at 5:30 at the office, and told me I needed a tuberculosis test, and to fill out when I had chicken pox.

I read the thing, and it says "only students born outside of the U.S." need the TB test. Barring that, she also forgot to sign it.

I can't fax it either, so I guess I'm going to have to pay for same-day delivery in order to get it to UT on time.

Frustrating, but do-able.

All in all, things are--

Confound it ... Satisfactory.

--Nero Wolfe, to Archie Goodwin in "The Doorbell Rang"

Comments

[needanap.livejournal.com]

*falls off chair*

GET IT IN WRITING! USE BLOOD IF YOU HAVE TO!

[be-merry.livejournal.com]

Hooray! for finishing the paper!!!! :)

I want pictures of the tree when you finish! I love looking at Christmas trees! :)

Yay! for Dad volunteering to pay for you to go see Bianca. You go see her next year and we'll go to Boston once we're both legal to drink. Sounds like a bueno plan to me. :))

I love how your teacher is completely fanboying over your speech idea. That cracks me up. :D

I hope things get done in time for you to get your immunization record into UT on time! *huggles*

For the awesomeness of this post you get Dean's Batman icon. lol (It's totally not because I'm massively in lust with Jensen Ackles or anything...)

[kitsjay.livejournal.com]

ajfklsja. I need to take pictures of the Halloween haystacks, the Thanksgiving hay stack turkey, and the December tree (did I really just say December tree? Wow.) and post them all at once for a well-rounded holiday post.

:)) Sounds good! I SO WANT TO GO TO SAMUEL ADAMS BREWERY. I'm reading Founding Fathers slash again, can you tell?

ajfklsjfa. He's so hilarious. I love him.

Gah! Getting it. Mom went and talked to them. :| Ergh. How hard is it to do things right the first time?

[be-merry.livejournal.com]

You totally do. Those were awesome haystacks! :))

AWESOME. So, yeah, I'm glad you like that idea because my car payments start in January and my insurance has gone up crazy lots. However, I should be able to have my car completely paid off by January/February 2009 and my insurance should have gone down by then. It's just going to be this year that's a little rough, finances-wise, methinks.

I love having awesome teachers like that. Unfortunately, I very rarely get them!

Good. It seems to be very hard to do things right first time around. God knows, very few people seem to be able to do it! Have Batman!Dean to make everything better! :))

[kitsjay.livejournal.com]

ajfklsj. They are awesome.

And lol, no worries. You might call your insurance up? Sometimes you can do things like take a defensive driving course or sign something saying you'll never drink or drive and stuff like that that'll lower your insurance. Just call and ask if they have anyway you can lower it, besides turning 25.

:)) Batman!Dean does make me feel better. I think I may have successfully started converting Matt to the Supernatural side...

[be-merry.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Theresa was saying that I can take defensive driving, like online or something, and as long as I don't have another accident within a year, I should be good? I don't know.

Batman!Dean should make everyone feel better. :)) Well, Batman!Dean and piecraving!Dean. Someone posted an audio clip of his "I WANT PIE!" from the end of season 2. Oh, Dean, you are so much love; how are you so awesome? I'm still working on Susi to convince her she wants to watch Supernatural with me over Christmas break. *grin* All must bow to the awesomeness that is Dean and Sam and John. *nods* And the sexiness that is the Metallicar. :))

[spinett.livejournal.com]

Medical forms are such a hassle - either they're not filled out right or the office doesn't follow the instructions. Did the nurse know you were born in the US? Sometimes it's not on your record so they don't know and might just assume you need one. I think I got told I needed one even though i was bornw in houston AND had a tb test withing the past year... insane. And I'm guessing she didn't sign it because there are people who lie on their forms, and she wanted to make sure you got it before signing it (even though she should've read that clause and asked whether you were born in the US to determine whether you even needed it)

Only 1 more weeks of classes and then finals :///// But hooray for your govt prof!

In addition to wells fargo loans, I'm also looking at chase loans (http://www.educationone.com/chase-student-loans/undergraduate.htm), but i still haven't really figured out which one I'm doing since I get confused with all of the rates (didn't get it taken care of over thanksgiving like i thought i would)... Plus I'm not sure when and how long i'm taking to pay it, but hey, it's worth a look

ps if you're possibly going all the way to australia, you should totally make a layover in christchurch, nz...

[kitsjay.livejournal.com]

I gave them every document I had, which says that I was born in the U.S. like three times. So annoying. :| Mom said they apparently screwed up the dates on my immunization records, as well, when they filled it out. She went back and talked to them today though, so hopefully! *crosses fingers*

He's so awesome. I adore him. I need to make index cards tonight though...

Hm. Dad has a personal lady at the bank (having his own business does have its perks...) and he talked to her. Unfortunately, instead of discussing it, she was like, "Just go online! You can do it there! :))" and I'm like, "That's what I was trying to avoid because I don't know what I'm answering when they ask questions... They could be saying I'll be paying $500 extra every month in interest and I won't have a clue."

I WILL. :)) I want to see Hobbitville... and that thing where you roll down the hill!

[spinett.livejournal.com]

Obviously they are just morons then hahaha

i wish banks would actually explain it in depth on like websites and such, but alas they don't really

luckily christchurch is pretty close to queenstown ie ADVENTURE CAPITOL... well, by close i mean on the same island lmao... but there's also the southern alps nearby!

[kitsjay.livejournal.com]

!!!

We are so going. :)) We can hire a Sherpa!