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The weekly-ish update.
Mar. 24th, 2007 12:01 pmLast Sunday we won the lottery! It was a momentous occasion. We used our windfall to, uh, not quite entirely cover a small round of groceries.
Okay, so it was $71 total once you count how much it cost us for the scratcher card things. But still, technically, we won the lottery.
In my programming class, there were apparently three people who got perfect scores on the midterm, and I was one of them. This will hopefully help offset the probably-mediocre grade I will get on the stupid group final project we have to do. Stupid group projects. I'd rather do the work myself and thus know that it's done, rather than splitting up something that doesn't even split up that well in the first place.
( The emotional/grieving type stuff. )
Since I may be graduating in 2008 (FUCKING FINALLY GAH), I've been spending a lot of time thinking about where I might want to live (US only, sorry, people in other places; I feel out of place enough amongst "my own countrymen" or whatever WITHOUT moving to another country entirely). And I just don't know. I mean, I loved Anchorage when I visited Chris that one time, and thought it was lovely, and couldn't wait to move there. Except now that he's gone it seems like a really bad idea. Nobody I know lives there anymore, so there's no one to help me get settled. And long dark evenings leave me depression-prone enough at this latitude; Anchorage in winter, where I'd have many many hours every night to sit alone and think about how it wasn't supposed to be this way? Um. No thanks.
I hate hot weather, but I also don't want those winter days to be too short. Also, uber-dry country is out because I get nosebleeds. Hilliness is good, young mountains like those in the Los Angeles area are better. I get depressed by especially old-looking areas (whether the geography or the human habitation) because the history just drags me down and I can't stop thinking about all the people who have lived and died there. I will probably never learn to drive so good public transportation is a must. And I am a filthy liberal who wants to not be 90% surrounded by either white people or Christians -- in both cases, when they get into big enough groups, they tend to start screwing things up for everyone else. Probably everyone would do it, if they got the chance; I'm not doin' some noble-savage thing here. It's just that right now nobody else is really in that position.
Also, someplace with lots of hospitals. Because it would be nice to have lots of employers to choose from.
There are websites where they give you silly little tests and then give you places where they think you'd like to live. The problem is that for every single city, the description reads like it was written by the Chamber of Commerce. No minuses, only pluses. I'd like to know what it's ACTUALLY LIKE to live in a place before I move there, rather than just reading the glowing prose about its parks and opera houses. So, uh. If anyone has any ideas, or knows any place I can read balanced information about places to live, feel free to pipe up.
Finally, I'd just like to note that my LJ subscription is expiring on April 2. My extra userpic space is also expiring, but I don't actually need it now that they have loyalty userpics so I'm letting that lapse. So anyway. If you would like to pay to keep me subscribed to LJ a bit longer, feel free. I realize I'm not nearly as active with LJ as I used to be, which means my days of "ask and then find five minutes later that someone's already bought you another year" are long behind me. But it doesn't hurt to ask again.
Okay, so it was $71 total once you count how much it cost us for the scratcher card things. But still, technically, we won the lottery.
In my programming class, there were apparently three people who got perfect scores on the midterm, and I was one of them. This will hopefully help offset the probably-mediocre grade I will get on the stupid group final project we have to do. Stupid group projects. I'd rather do the work myself and thus know that it's done, rather than splitting up something that doesn't even split up that well in the first place.
( The emotional/grieving type stuff. )
Since I may be graduating in 2008 (FUCKING FINALLY GAH), I've been spending a lot of time thinking about where I might want to live (US only, sorry, people in other places; I feel out of place enough amongst "my own countrymen" or whatever WITHOUT moving to another country entirely). And I just don't know. I mean, I loved Anchorage when I visited Chris that one time, and thought it was lovely, and couldn't wait to move there. Except now that he's gone it seems like a really bad idea. Nobody I know lives there anymore, so there's no one to help me get settled. And long dark evenings leave me depression-prone enough at this latitude; Anchorage in winter, where I'd have many many hours every night to sit alone and think about how it wasn't supposed to be this way? Um. No thanks.
I hate hot weather, but I also don't want those winter days to be too short. Also, uber-dry country is out because I get nosebleeds. Hilliness is good, young mountains like those in the Los Angeles area are better. I get depressed by especially old-looking areas (whether the geography or the human habitation) because the history just drags me down and I can't stop thinking about all the people who have lived and died there. I will probably never learn to drive so good public transportation is a must. And I am a filthy liberal who wants to not be 90% surrounded by either white people or Christians -- in both cases, when they get into big enough groups, they tend to start screwing things up for everyone else. Probably everyone would do it, if they got the chance; I'm not doin' some noble-savage thing here. It's just that right now nobody else is really in that position.
Also, someplace with lots of hospitals. Because it would be nice to have lots of employers to choose from.
There are websites where they give you silly little tests and then give you places where they think you'd like to live. The problem is that for every single city, the description reads like it was written by the Chamber of Commerce. No minuses, only pluses. I'd like to know what it's ACTUALLY LIKE to live in a place before I move there, rather than just reading the glowing prose about its parks and opera houses. So, uh. If anyone has any ideas, or knows any place I can read balanced information about places to live, feel free to pipe up.
Finally, I'd just like to note that my LJ subscription is expiring on April 2. My extra userpic space is also expiring, but I don't actually need it now that they have loyalty userpics so I'm letting that lapse. So anyway. If you would like to pay to keep me subscribed to LJ a bit longer, feel free. I realize I'm not nearly as active with LJ as I used to be, which means my days of "ask and then find five minutes later that someone's already bought you another year" are long behind me. But it doesn't hurt to ask again.
