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Wow! I am terrible when it comes to updates but I’ve been literally all over the place! My hours have been changing constantly at work which has been keeping me away from home a lot. But I have some more amazing news! After working 3 weeks straight I finally received my paycheck! Two at that since I didn’t get one last week. Yay for me! Also, I’ve applied to college and I’ve been accepted! I’m so excited I don’t know what to do with myself! I’m planing to major in Psychology. Classes begin in Fall 2010! I applied for all the grants and what nots. I received one and I’m waiting on the other. In other news I have jury duty in April and my court date regarding my traffic ticket in July. Bah. Lol.

Oh and Endless Horizon has officially been online a whole year (since last month)! Can you believe that! It doesn’t even feel as though it’s been that long since I decided to close VMF and open this site. Anyway, here’s to another year on the web! Will update on Saturday!

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I bet you guys have been wondering where I’ve been…well…I have joined the work force. Yes, it is true. Amidst all the chaos in my last blog, I had a job interview on the 4^th of this month. It went well—so well that the same day I was offered the position as a Sales Associate. Can you guess where? I’m an official employee at Staples Copy & Printer Center. Haha. So now I’m working and going to school. So far its been okay. It’s a bit of a demanding job but I’m hanging in there. With the hours I work I don’t have time update. My day begins at 6am and it doesn’t end until 9pm. And now my weekends are gone too because I have to work weekends full shifts then. There’s so many rude customers that come into the shop demanding that molehills be made out of mountains. But I guess it’s a trade off. It means more money in my pocket for general expenses. The only reason why I was able to update today was because there was no school today. LOL. But I still have to go to work… *sniffles*

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I’m beginning to fall off the radar again like I did two years ago and a couple of years before that. It feels like I’m using being personally busy as an excuse not to make some major site changes. But truth be told, I am so exhausted I can’t even see straight. So many things have been happening to me lately. Not that they’re bad things but its a bit much circling me at once and I’m finding myself backed into a corner. People are expecting of me what I can only hope to bring and my head is just reeling from the challenge.

In other news…On Friday, January 22, 2010, all my late nights cramming sessions, hard work, and dedication paid off and I was able to graduate and get my diploma. You can view it, here. I whited out the necessary stuff. I’m really happy that I got it but I feel that’s there more for me to do.

I think this is where my dilemma started. I mean I’m proud of the accomplishes that I have made and grateful for the opportunity that was given to me but I didn’t have much time to breathe because not even a week after graduation I began attending classes for Transportation Communications Union (TCU). When I first considered TCU I thought it would be more hands on training available and there isn’t. And what’s driving me completely insane is all the work involving the computer. For 8 hours straight I sit in front of a computer and speed test. I only get 15 minutes breaks between each class only to go back into the class for more computer staring and silence. I have literally and this is no joke, the SAME instructors for each class. My Learning Lab, Communications and Keyboarding instructor are all the same instructor. She migrates each period. And my Transportation instructor is also my Math instructor! No cell phones are allowed on the floor, no mp3 players, you’re required to dress professional one day out of the week AND I am forced to clock in and out like I’m at work and its school…(*dead silence*) I know! That was my initial reaction too but I didn’t think it was going to be that bad. I thought, “Hey, I have this. No problem.” Wrong. Nope. Maybe I just need to get used to this new atmosphere. I will cope…run…cope! Run! Oh I can’t decide…its a toss up!

So today or rather yesterday (Monday going on Tuesday), I took a day off because I woke up with a blazing headache. And I knew I wouldn’t be able to function at school like this. But the funny thing is, is that the head blazing I had rid myself of earlier returned like magic (sounds like a cheesy fanfiction the way I’m blogging this doesn’t it?) Anyway…it returned…magically…when I realized I had a traffic ticket that’s due in like 3 weeks. Yeah, and I totally forgot to blog about this…several times actually. OK so…Here’s the rundown…I got the ticket in December 2009…right before Christmas too. And its one of the nasty tickets. It’s a red light violation. In my defense, the light was green until I hit the crosswalk then it was suddenly red and I got the ticket mailed to me with photos and all. Lovely photo-enforced intersections. I’ve never gotten a ticket before so I was baffled when I got it because the damn thing totaled to $510 dollars. At first I thought I could afford to pay it off but $510 dollars?! I’m not a damn ATM. I’m not loaded! Since when does a red light “violation” cost $510 dollars?! I bet a speeding ticket is cheaper! Or hell, the deputy issued ones! It’s not like anyone died.

I’m a full-time student and full-time student equals no money. BROKE…yes…I’m BROKE… law enforcement trying to take my liquor store money…anyway I had filed to contest the ticket by appearing it court a few months back but they sent me a letter back stating I had to pay the ticket first to be considered for dismal where they would then issue me my money back in check form if I was found not-guilty. Stupid right? I know. The system is psychotic. I tried phoning the offices. The automated system told me I’d be able to speak to a human clerk but all the service did was redirect me several times. So today I decided to drive down there to see if I could work off the ticket by doing community service, have the ticket decreased, or dismissed. After waiting in a semi long line, in like 5 minutes I got a court date without having to pay a thing. Which is funny too because by the time I do appear in court to contest the ticket it’ll be almost a year from the date I initially got the ticket. So there you have it, the system is evil and does not work.

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