my life is a sitcom

Last week was probably one of the most stressful first weeks of a semester I've ever experienced. Hopefully, the rest of the year will be different but the beginning did not bode well.

I hectically tried to get internship applications together, spending several hours on Wednesday running around campus and bugging professors for recommendation letters. I mailed the applications second-day mail, costing about $30. I was in such a frenzied state that after I mailed them, I got confused about whether I mailed the right letters from my professors to the right organization. After already harassing the people in the mailing center about prices and delivery dates, I went back and had them open up my package so I could make sure the correct letter was in it. It was. I had left most of my Arts page to be written until that night, which is not a smart idea. That is why the page isn't very good. But while I was working on all my Optimist stuff I ran home to try and tape West Wing, only to discover that I couldn't. My VCR is hooked up with my cable, so in order to tape something using my rabbit ears, I would have to rewire everything. I was not happy. Being in the office until 1:30 in the morning 3 days into the schoolyear is not my idea of a good time. I'll just keep telling myself that things will get better.

I went and saw In Good Company this afternoon with Jaci and need to get a start on my page so I don't end up going crazy and producing crap like last week. At the theater, I was again reminded why I hate Abilene: since it was a holiday, Century Theatres, which already does not provide student ticket prices, stops the matinee price for movies at 2 p.m. I was pissed. I only had $6 and had to use my laundry quarters. I told the lady behind the glass this. She didn't care. Jaci was nice enough to give me extra quarters so I can wash my jeans and socks. However, the bureaucratic bastards at Century must be stopped! First not giving us discounts even though we're poor college students and then making us pay more on holidays? Death to them all!

On a completely different topic and note, please keep the families at Highland affected by the car accident yesterday in your prayers. You can read about it here, and post a comment of encouragement on Mike Cope's blog here. These children are so young.