Current Ramblings
Thursday, January 06, 2005
Life.
None of my insurance is going to cover any of the break-in from yesterday. I'm not thrilled about having to blow a chunk of my savings to replace my radio, but at least I have savings. It turns out Best Buy dropped the price of the stereo I had a little, which is nice, and they have some on sale that might be worth looking over. The body work, well...I guess I'll just have to do an ugly job of it myself. Every time I went somewhere today I was struck by how small the area that was damaged actually is. The initial shock and horror of the moment has seared it into my mind as an inch-thick pool of glaring bare metal. I might put up a pic tomorrow, but it's really only maybe a centemeter out from the plastic around the lock and handle. It's already rusting, so I'll definitely need to do something, but if I can put some primer and a coat of plain black (if I can't get a closer match) over it it won't be too obvious. I hate the prospect of doing body work in the winter, but if I leave it 'till the weather's warmer there won't be anything left to paint.
School is going really well. I'm taking two classes, Beginning Algebra and an intro computer class. The computer class basically covers Microsoft Office 2003, which is good because office suites are one of the computer applications I know next to nothing about, but bad because it's not something I'm particularly interested in. Learning how to use Excel does not equal programming. But I suppose we all have to start in the same place. I was put into the algebra class by the placement testing, but the class seems to be jarring my memory more than teaching me things. It's good, though, because I'm finding it easy to relearn things I once knew. Both classes move a bit slower than I like, but that's been par for the course for most of my life in the educational system. I just have to work very hard to resist the things that brought me down in my younger years, i.e. writing fanfic in the back of my notebook and playing Tetris on my graphing calculator. And it'll probably be for the best if I pick computers facing the teacher so I'm not tempted to take advantage of that. I feel really good about this so far. It'll be a lot of hard work, but I think it'll be easy enough to understand. I haven't been this enthusiastic about school since kindergarden.
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