Ok, so here’s that update I promised like 5 days ago or whatever it was. I can’t remember anymore, I’ve been too busy spazzing out over various things. Mostly stress spazzing.

So, I didn’t get that double major. Instead, I have my minor in music and a bunch of random music credits that I’m not exactly sure what to do with. I’ve been registered for my summer courses, and I should be picking up my packet for those next week sometimes. I needed an extra 6h (that means two semesters’ worth) course to graduate, so I’m taking a History Of Women in Canada course from Athabasca University hopefully. I had to get a letter of permission and that’s currently being processed at the registrar’s office right now. They said that it would take about a week, so next Thursday it should be ready so I can send that off to Student Loans.

I brought 3 of my textbooks back and sold them, I got 80$ from that, so that’s not too bad. Better than I was expecting! The only crappy thing is that they wouldn’t take my huge Java book because they’re getting a new edition. GRR! I hate that! So now I have this rotten Java book that I don’t know what to do with. I might try and find a student that might use it next year. I’m going to try and sell my Modern Drama book from my second year. That would be awesome, since I know that I’ll never be looking at it again — some of the wackiest plays ever written are in that thing. Nasty stuff in there. I’m going to try and sell my physics of music book too, after I’ve written the exam. But after I sold those, I went to go buy my new books for my summer courses — MY GOSH. I ended up spending 350$! On 5 books. For two courses. And one book wasn’t even there! Although, the guy told me that they’ll buy them back for 50% or so if they’re still using the books, so that’s nice. Apparently distance education is a bit different than normal classes, since they’re always in demand.

I’m really hurtin’ for my student loan, though. I’m going to have to call student accounts and find out if my mom can sign my student loan for me, since I won’t be around. It looks like my money problems aren’t as bad I thought, but they’re still not too good at the moment. Darn expensive school! And I still have oodles of library and apprenticeship stuff to do, although I’m definitely going to put the priority on library work and exams, and if I can’t finish the rest, then I can’t. I’m not going to make myself crazy for Christoph when I don’t even need this course to graduate.

Right now, it’s the library stuff that concerns me, although I’ve done 9 hours in two days, so I am catching up, and I might even be finished my hours by early next week, then I can focus on packing and my two exams. And I’ll have a NICE big paycheque the first week of May, so that’s nice.

I haven’t heard from the Writing Centre place, so that might not happen. I’m not going to lose hope completely, but I’m not exactly counting on it either. I’m going to try and get a library job if that doesn’t work out.

Anyways, I should fix me up some supper or something, so I’ll be back with more updates later. This one should do it for now. Hopefully there’s more than Lyssa out there reading this! :D If not, I suppose that’s okay.

So today I ran around crazily once again to get things together for graduating next year with my double major. I’ve been pretty busy all week. Yesterday I had to run around and get my summer courses registered for, so I’m all set with Intro Spanish and a second year History course. I wasn’t sure if the second year history course was going to contribute to my major, but I thought I would take it anyways so that I won’t die from sudden exposure to third year History courses next fall. So I had to apply for my student loan which requires a form filled out by student accounts before they’ll approve you for summer school funds. I guess a lot of people try and cheat the system by getting extra summer cash or something, but I have to have my summer marks in by October 1st, or I’ll get in trouble for my next loan. It shouldn’t be a problem because I will not have enough time to take a bunch of correspondence courses during the school year. This also gets me off the hook for having a summer job. Well, a real job. I don’t know if I’ll be getting 40 hours a week from Val (although I’ve never had a 40 hour/week job in my life so I don’t know why that’s a requirement…), but at least I can be like “Yo, dudes, I was schoolin’!” so they won’t yell at me for not having an employer.

Anyways, today I found out that one of my courses got unregistered because I didn’t have the prerequisite. I signed up for Spanish 1 and 2, so I can’t have 2 officially until I complete 1. I can apply for it online when the time comes though, so as long as it doesn’t take me until July 31st to complete the course, I should be fine.

And then I had to go see the head of the History dept, which went well. He wasn’t scary at all, like I was worried about. Apparently I need a second year History course for my requirements, so I’ll only need to take 30 hours of third year History to complete those requirements after my summer courses.

The only thing standing in my way now (besides receiving my money from student loans) is that the music dept will approve my double major and let me have the credits that I already have. Of course, after that I have to get it approved by the Dean of Arts, but I think that’ll be a cakewalk as long as both depts approve, and well Mr. History seemed to be really nice. He told me he would get me into any History course I needed to graduate. I thought that was really swell of him.

So I guess I have to wait until tomorrow for it all to go down and see how it ends up. EVERYBODY CROSS YOUR FINGERS!!!!

Well, I think I’ve made a decision. After careful thought and consideration, I think I’ll be switching to a History major in the fall (about a 97% chance). I’m going to head to the registrar tomorrow and see about getting a double major with Music and History. I already have a crapload of music credits that I’m sure I can use, so we’ll see from there. I’ll just need to take 36 hours of History courses and 6 hours of a language other than English. I figure I’ll take a first year French course, keep things simple. I don’t much want to learn a foreign language when my grade is dependent on it. Kinda funny, because in high school I so badly wanted to take a Spanish course. Of course, the French kids got to have it… but I digress.

But after this BA, I’m considering taking a MLIS (Masters of Library and Information Studies), and being an archivist/research librarian. It’s something I could be good at and hopefully a lot more easily attained than this friggin’ music thing. I imagine I’d be taking that degree in the states though, with maybe a few years’ break in between. It’s just a two year graduate program, so it’s not too long, and besides, I might want a break to get used to living in a new country.

I looked at some of the history courses and what they involved, and it seems as long as I can handle presenting an essay in class, that’s the most public performing I’ll have to do. That makes me happy, for sure. Honestly — what was I thinking? I always hated speaking/singing in front of people. Music is all about performance! I’m retarded! At any rate, if I can get this double major thing squared away, then I’m almost all set. We’ll see how things go tomorrow at the registrar’s office.

Well, today I went to go see a career counsellor.

Lately, I haven’t been too happy in this music degree. I’m failing one of my required courses, and the odds are good that I’ll have to repeat it. But it goes deeper than that. I don’t really like the bulk of my courses.

I don’t like singing lessons. I don’t like choir. I resent going to those concerts for credit. I HATE ear training. I don’t really like theory, but it’s one of the better ones. I’m not the biggest fan of the tech program around here. I don’t really like any of my classes this term, in the least amount. And I wanted to do this for a living? Do I want to be miserable for the rest of my life? At least last year I enjoyed my art history class. And I liked my music history courses too. So should I be a history major? I don’t really care about Canadian history, but I know I could probably do well in it. Writing papers and reading is something that I’m good at, I’ve always been in my element when doing that type of thing for school. Even if I was like “bah, ANOTHER friggin’ paper??” I’d still much rather write a paper than do sight singing. Because at the end of the day, I’d get a B+ on the paper and a D on the sight singing.

And with this whole archiving thing. I have the experience with the equipment to do it already, I have no more classes left to take for recording studio after this term. But I would probably have to take some librarian course to be able to be an archivist. I like working alone and at my own pace, so that would be something I would like. But do I want to go through more school?

Chances are, if I stick with this music degree then I will be here another two years. If I switch majors now, I could be here for awhile longer.

The other solution is to transfer to the states and be near Mike. Then it doesn’t matter how long it takes me to go through school, because we’ll be together. And really, that’s the most pressing issue as to why I want to graduate. I don’t want to be stuck apart for longer than necessary. I want to get married next June and not live apart anymore. Heck, I want to be together now.

So the counsellor gave me some things to think about and I’m going to stew them over. But first, I have to get through the next week and a bit, my jury is on the 16th, so after that I’m free to do whatever I want until my two exams. Hopefully I’ll at least figure out what I want to do with school.