Just once in my life, I’d like to have at least one month without drama. Just one month. Is that too much to ask, Universe?

Wow, four weeks since I last posted something. And I was doing so well too.

In summary, we’re now working 2nd shift. In some ways, there’s less drama and in other ways more. On 3rd shift, the drama was way more personal. On 2nd, it’s nothing personal — they’re just short handed and some machines keep deciding to take dirt naps at inopportune times. Had someone go home sick and I’m the natural choice to take their place. Let me tell you: It’s novel actually sleeping at night again!

College is… tough. (Not new.) I got a D+ in C++ Programming II, so I’m retaking it next semester. Passed my Web Usability Design (i.e. Planning Web designs) with a B+.

I’m re-taking C++ Programming I right now and while it’s not tough, my classmates can be pretty difficult. There’s one person who I really hope is a non-native English speaker. I can barely read anything she’s written because her posts are so garbled. The others can’t actually do the work without the professor holding their hands. They post help requests for every step of a simple program the book practically walks you through anyway. *sigh* Fortunately, I’m taking it online so I can just close the window whenever they get too annoying.

Last week, the car decided the middle of winter was the perfect time for the head gasket to wear out. (That’s a gasket actually inside the motor…) So, it was into the shop so they could tear the motor apart to replace this stupid little gasket. Since they were going to have to keep our car overnight, they gave us the loaner car to use. Well, it got us to work, got us home, and refused to start when we had to go to the shop to pick up our car. So, we got to squeeze into the cab of the tow-truck and ride all the way to to the shop. A $540 bill later, we have our car back.

Here’s hoping we don’t get hosed when we do our taxes. I need a month off.

Public Service Announcement to anyone in my C++ class!

This might come as a shock to you, but I don’t possess psychic powers. I have no talent in ESP. I can’t read your mind. I have no idea what you’re thinking, so you don’t have to worry about me snooping in on your thoughts or whatever.

If you want me to do something, you’re going to need to communicate.

Speak! Tell me what’s going on. Inform me to what happens in the group. I only have 3 - 4 hours to get homework in before I have to go to work, so I don’t have time to play guessing games with you.

We have a group discussion board, use it. I read it daily. It’s shocking that there’s only been 2 new posts this week. Don’t reply with the project guidelines when I ask what’s going on or say I don’t know what we’re even supposed to be doing. I already know.

You submitted almost the entire first half of the project without communicating with any of us. Either keep going or start talking.

I’m having one of those months where I’m just kind of “blah” about everything. My favorite character is back in the Naruto manga and I strangely can’t dredge up the energy to feel excited about it.

Anyway… good news: Everyone, including me, is now employed. I’m starting over at Kalfact Plastics tomorrow night. Mom works there, same shift, so there’s no extra gas being wasted to get me someplace else.

The bad news? It’s third shift. Well, depending on how you look at it, I guess. I’ve always been a night owl, now I just get to work through the night instead of aimlessly surfing or reading. I’ve just kind of been sitting here wondering “What on Earth have I gotten myself into?”

Good news: Three weeks left before summer break starts.

Bad news: I don’t think I can get any more burnt out on school. I do not want to do my homework, I don’t want to attend, I just don’t want to do it. I really hate my geography class, even though I’m doing really good. It’s just… troublesome. lol I learned APA format years, they hammered it in all my English classes here at Baker, but yet now I’m suddenly not doing it right according to this instructor. I’m doing it the way I was instructed to in all my English classes. *huff* I need the summer off, badly.

Gotta get the newsletter out for Lunaescece, this month it’s just going to be random. I don’t have the time to waste waiting for people to nominate things.

I guess this layout is as complete as it’s going to get. I need to move on to the rest of my project.

I don’t think I can take another 3am bedtime tonight, so I’m going to call it quits. There are still some things that need to be finished, like the blog comments, but I’ve been chasing CSS bugs for most of the day.

I also added screenshots of my eFiction skins and moved a few of my eFiction mods to their posts here. Next thing I have to do is figure out how I’m going to display my portfolio and other items in that section. I wonder if links to DeviantArt would be appropriate? I tried nearly every gallery plugin and they were so buggy, I didn’t want to mess with them anymore.

Next up, I need to format my resume so it will work in an online format. And finally, I think I should be done.

Yeah, I know this whole rush is partially my fault. I slacked off over at Gaia Online’s Official Naruto thread for most of this class, instead of working ahead so this wouldn’t happen to me.

Oh well, I guess. Someday, I’ll learn.

Ugh, it’s amazing how quickly a night goes when you have homework due and the deadline is ticking down. ^^;

It’s suddenly 3:00am. I swear just 20 minutes ago it was midnight.

I found the coolest plugin, so now I can host all my modifications here too. I already have Last Visit 3.0 done. So that’s going to be really cool.

Anyway, please bear with me. I have some final things to fix tomorrow and this layout should be complete.