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Today at 4:45am when I was fighting the urge to go back to sleep for another five hours, it hit me that I will only need to wake up early like that for work one more time over the next week, before I join the 8-5 world. It makes me so happy and sad at all the same time!

This weekend is kind of wierd for me. Several weeks ago, I looked forward to this weekend, thinking a certain situation would be magically fixed around today or tomorrow. Due to a humongous turn of events, this is not at all something that will be happening.

It is still a big weekend though. Tomorrow I have my first of a series of introductory activities at UCLA. I am meeting a possible roommate, and if we have enough time to go over to the apartment and everything seems right, I may be signing my name to a lease for an apartment in Los Angeles for next year. I still cannot believe this is happening, it is so surreal. I also cannot believe that my parents pay a couple hundred dollars less for a pretty big house than a small 2 bedroom/2bathroom apartment in Westwood will cost. This had better be worth it!

In addition to the UCLA stuff, I have a bridal shower, two evenings of work, three essays, and a couple of finals to study for by Monday. Fun stuff! And then another essay due on thursday. I just finished my last week of classes ever at LBCC. I had another instructor have me submit an essay for publication. And in another English course, I got candy and a pencil for perfect attendance; it was cute! It all makes me a little sad to leave that school.

I am generally just kind of sad today, I suppose. However cheesy it sounds, this next week really will be the “ending of an era” for me, and it will be extremely difficult to not see my co-workers or the friends who I currently go to school with on such a regular basis. I am so excited for the next phase of my life, but I have loved this past phase, despite all of the craziness that has happened.
It would probably do us all good if I stopped listening to Elliot Smith while I type.

That when my brother first played some songs for me from The Dresden Dolls, I thought he was losing it. But recently, some of the songs have grown on me. I have no idea what they are singing about half of the time, but the music is amazing. It is a lot darker than the “piano-rock” that I normally listen to (Ben Folds, Something Corporate, Pernice Brothers, etc). You guys should listen to some songs from them.
On a different topic… last night was the season finale for Gilmore Girls. It was alright, but I do not like where the series is going. Gilmore Girls is pretty much the only show that I still keep up with as far as new episodes, so I am not sure if my television will get much use this summer, other than for the news in the morning.

Almost everybody I know is already done with school, or will be done in roughly a week. Yesterday I found out that my last final is on the 31st! What is up with that?!? I will not complain (except for right now), I am still having a pretty long summer break, but it just is getting dragged out so much longer than I thought it would be.

Continuing on with the sort of random flow of topics in this post, yesterday I was hit with the realization of my financial situation for the next few years. Because of the choices I am making as far as school and housing, I will actually be a little in debt. I am going to work nearly full time this summer at a crap job (I am thinking temp work) to help myself out, but it will not make a huge difference in the end. All of this is so that I get a fitness center in my building, three pools to frequent as I please, a private bathroom, air-conditioning, and key-card entry. I will be broke, but I say it is worth it. This is what I have been saving up for my whole life, right?

Psst. One of my Instructors is having me submit a piece for publication. I doubt anything will come from it, but it’s exciting, it is my first time doing something like this. Given my major, I suppose I will have to get used to doing this kind of thing.

Sorry for the abundance of college-related posts as of late… at the very least, you can see how finals and next fall have been dominating most of my thoughts!