Dear Blog: College Week #3, #4

Yikes, I'm busy. Really, really, really busy. So I forgot about this for a while. But anyway.

The new job has been going really well. I've been fixing a few things here and there, and the rest of the time I get to do homework. So it's not all that horrible on my schedule. And I got my first paycheck from the new job today... much better than shelving books, I can say that much. Do I miss the old job at all? Not a bit.

I've been obsessing over some programming for the last couple days... the forums from the text game crashed for some reason, and I've been trying to piece together bits and pieces of the database to recover as many posts as possible. It's fun... I just like it too much and ignore homework because of it, heh.

So yeah, about that educational stuff... I had a few tests this week, which were all pretty easy. I'm definitely not looking forward to writing a 7-page paper for english, though. And the math test won't be too great either. Ick.

I've been going to daily Mass on campus, too. It's really nice, especially because I wanted to go to Steubenville in the first place because of all the Catholic stuff there. There's not a big group of students who are active in campus ministry activities and stuff, but there are enough to get noticed. And to top it all off, the head of the computer science department goes to daily Mass a bunch too. So, I'm happy about that. And I get to eat lunch with the "Mass crowd", too. Instead of by myself in a corner. Which was getting a bit old, I guess.

Oh, one more thing. I've moved the date for getting my new car back to Christmas break. 8 more months is too long to wait when I'm this obsessed, heh. And I decided that a car loan won't be so bad after all... I'll pay what I can, which will be at least half, and then I'll just have to pay an extra $800 or so in interest by the time I pay it off. Insurance will be a big pain, though. Stupid "18-year-old-males-are-guaranteed-to-get-drunk-and-wreck-their-cars" stereotypes. Doesn't a completely clean record for 2.5 years mean anything?