It's raining right now.
I don't want to do homework. I just want to make some hot chocolate and read a book and listen to the rain outside my window. Of course, I also want it to stop raining so I can run to the store for some groceries, but I can do that later. Why, physics, must you torment me so? I suppose I could do homework to the sound of rain, but that just feels like blasphemy.
Classes are going along swimmingly, coming up on a midterm for my programming class soon, can't wait for after fall break because then I'll have one less class to worry about. Hooray for half semester classes. Being a TA is great. I don't think I even have to be there for a few weeks because my professor is teaching the next couple lessons. I think, if I figured this out correctly, I get paid $50 a class I teach. Because I only have to be there 5 times for each course, and I'm TA for two courses, and I get a $500 stipend for being a TA. So all in all, not bad.
STILL no word from the space building position. I want to email them, but I don't want to sound bothersome, but they said they'd be done by the middle of the week and now it is the next week already. Aargh, I know I'm not eligible for work-study, but I hope that didn't put me out of the running for the position. I really like the job, I was hoping to get it, I think it would be super fun. Not to mention, having a paycheck is kind of nice.
Friday was fun, though. After my proficiency testing for Chinese (that was a laugh and a half), a few friends and I headed downtown to the art museum for this thing they do called "First Fridays". Admission is free, so you can just go in and wander the museum. It was really awesome, and they have an exhibit currently called "The Art of Video Games". It was okay, but it was more of a history of the medium rather than an art exhibit of the games themselves. Which was a little bumming, since between the four of us, we knew most of what they were showing. There were a few game surprises that were interesting, but for the most part the rest of the museum was more interesting than that exhibit.
In other news, the medieval club I'm in is going to start preparing costumes for the homecoming festival (apparently there is a football game that night too, who knew?) because the history cultural group managed to reserve a tent along one of the busiest stretches of the festival, and so they want members out in costume to bring people over to the tent. Tristan and I are going to be Vagarian guards, viking mercenaries who were often hired by the Persians and other Mediterranean armies. They have really cool cloaks. Everyone else in the group is being the usual Ren Faire royal gown get-ups. I wonder if we're allowed to have fake swords. Hmm, I'll have to ask about that. But I can't wait for the sewing parties, it's going to be awesome.
And other than that, my life has been pretty uneventful. Which is good. Don't want anything too crazy happening, I have classes to pass, dammit. It's still too hot for people to be calling it autumn, and I am not looking forward to the festival if it is still this hot out when we have to be in costume. Why didn't I apply to go somewhere out of state? Why didn't I apply myself harder in high school to get better scholarships? Why am I still in this hell hole of a state? Ugh, just three more years till I graduate.
It's going to be a long, hot, three years.
