Fangirlin' It

Okay, I feel like I should do some sort of update, but, like stunt_muppet, I never really know where to start.  I guess I'll start by making people jealous and saying I finished all my holiday shopping in one day on Amazon and didn't break fifty bucks, which is good since I still have no income.  I've got a few leads on things that might become possible job openings in the new year, so we'll see what comes of that.  I've been out of school for a year this month, although I guess you could count the six months of paralegal classes and that makes it only five months.  We'll go with that since it makes the fact that I still don't have a job sound less loser-like.  :/

Speaking of paralegal, I finally got my letter that says I passed the state bar!  They even gave me a nice certificate that I can frame and put in my office should I ever be employed and actually have an office in which to put it.  I squeed really hard when I got it in the mail today.  It came in a large envelope that the mail man had to ring the doorbell for, and I looked at the address label, which said it came from the state bar, and I told myself, 'well, surely they wouldn't spend all this money on an envelope like this if it was bad news'.  :)

Both of my football teams lost this past weekend, which sucked donkey balls, especially since each could have (should have) won.  Sigh.

My computer hard drive is sounding/acting suspiciously like it needs to be replaced, but I've been putting off finding out for sure.  I guess I need to determine that so I can beg for a new hard drive for Christmas.  Better than a new laptop, both because this one was very expensive and I'm not through using it, and because I hate changing computers.  I get used to the way one works, and I don't want to get a new one.

Well, I have been busy (only sort of) with my class for the first summer term: Caribbean History.  Man, talk about tainting the enjoyment of things; we've focused on the slave trade and sugar, then I just wrote a paper Monday (in two hours before it was due!) on race and labour in Central America, which was on banana plantations in Costa Rica. 

We also learned that fictitious (as in, the author didn't even do actual research before she wrote the book) slave owners in the American south had absolutely nothing on the cruelty and sadism of the sugar plantation slave masters in the Caribbean.  We read an excerpt from a slave owner's diary (in exhaustive detail, including every single sexual encounter) and it was so gruesome I had to quit reading.  But the class is still really interesting.  It's almost over, though, and then I have another class next summer term, which is also a depressing history class on something to do with the Holocaust.  Why oh why is my interest in things that are invariably depressing?

In other aggravations, my laptop power cord (the one I use at school) finally bit the dust Monday, so I had to write that paper on a school computer.  The replacement one I got a few months ago is really persnickety, so I try not to move it from my room, but I've had to use it yesterday and today, and it's a fight to get it to work every single time.  So I went ahead and ordered a new one from Amazon last night for a whopping 2 bucks, then paid ridiculous shipping to hopefully get it here by the end of the week.  While I was at it, I decided to replace the battery, which is the reason the power cord thing is an issue, for under 30 bucks.  That one at least had free shipping, but will take longer to get here.  *crosses fingers that this is the end of the computer woes*