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When did LJ start allowing 'like'-type clicks?

So much for taking a class this summer, and it ended up being my own damned fault.  I was signed up to take an interpersonal communication class, and thought I could do this online and short semester.  Ha!  When the course finally started, I realized I had something due every single day except weekends, which okay... doable.  I did the first three chapter quizzes and my grade average was a 78.7.  *Not* okay, especially since I was confused about what I was reading.  Talked to Cassie and after looking at the ACC website, realized that there was an in-person class that still had 11 seats open, and it ran for the whole summer, not just until July 5.  Awesome!  I dropped the online class, signed up for the other one and ... nothing.

O_o

It wouldn't let me register because registration was closed.  ::bangs head on keyboard::  I'd missed the deadline.  Okay - no problem.  I know that you can get into classes post-deadline, because it happened in mine the semester before.  I call over to the department heads office and leave a message, hoping to hear back quickly, because the classes meet M-W and I'd only missed one at that point.  Finally got a call back the next day, and it was a 'Nope, sorry' situation.  Even though it was the exact same class, and even though there were openings available, unless I could prove a hardship being why I dropped the online, I couldn't switch over.

Crap crap crap.  I mean, missing the class wasn't the biggest deal - I could pick it up some other time.  The problem was that I'd already gotten the first half of my PELL grant disbursement and have to pay it back of course, but I'd pre-paid for the class which meant I'd be out that money on top of it all.  Got the letter yesterday and it's not as bad as I thought, so next week I'll zip over to the school and give them back the money they gave me.  I still feel bad about dropping the class but I was so totally over my head, and didn't want to tank my GPA over this.

SO, I'm relaxing and just enjoying my summer, or at least trying.  Stupid kidneys are acting up but I think I caught them before they'd necessitate a hospital trip, which is always a good thing.  Cassie and I have gone swimming a couple times, both here at the apartment and with my best friends' daughter and her babies (my kinda!kid, since Mary An is Cassie's other mom).  In fact, we're scheduled to go again on Tuesday to help Amy baby wrangle the boys, so I need to pick up some snacks and drinks for us to take with.  (makes note to self).

I have a birthday in a couple weeks - 53, which still blows me away.  I honestly never expected to live this long.  Shay would be 32, which is another boggling thing.  I wonder if I'll live long enough to where she'll have been dead longer than she'd be alive?  That's only another 11 1/2 years, if my math is right.

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Let's see... things I've learned or whatever, part who-the-hell-knows -

1 - Underpants aren't supposed to be baggy?  Are they sure of that?  (Cassie made me clean out my drawers and buy new ones.  LOL)

2 - More than halfway through the semester, and now I'm buckling down to writing papers/presentations I need to do in my two in-class classes.  Psych is kind of fun - my first is a 5-ish page paper on 'Tuesdays With Morrie'.  I came home from class and banged out the first 2 1/2 pages and emailed it to my instructor, because she said she'd read over them and let us know if we were giving her what she wants.  Her first reaction was 'You've already got stuff written?' and then I received 'You're headed in exactly the right direction.  I'll be glad to read it when you get done, to check for grammar issues.  You're ahead of the curve!'.  I guess the English teacher in her never gives up, even after you get a doctorate in something completely different.  ;-)

2a - My book report/presentation is on 'Reviving Ophelia:Saving The Selves of Adolescent Girls' and man, oh man, do I wish I'd read this about 20 years ago.  My problem isn't writing this thing - it's cutting it back to the time limit (10 minutes, including Q&A).  So much good stuff, and I'm going to be glad to get it done.  I present on Thursday.

2b - My addictions presentation is a bit different.  We have to pick *something* to do with drugs, or addictions, and present as though it was to a specific audience.  He's very open to whatever we choose - one year, someone did Fetal Alcohol Syndrome as given to pregnant woman.  Another, someone did marijuana for pain relief as presented to law enforcement.  I think I'm going to do mine on the effects of THC for pediatric cancer patients, as presented to a group of parents of cancer kids.  I mean, they say write what you know, right?  I wish Shay'd been able to use it sometimes, because of her appetite mainly.  Anyway, that one isn't due until May, so I'm not worried about it.

3 - Of course, with us in school and Cass working, we're resigning our lease sometime in the next few weeks.  Our little apartment is fairly well located, it's probably as cheap as we could possibly find in Austin, and with the parking right at the patio, it's great for my bad days.  Oh - Cassie bought her first 'it's paid off' car last month.  She's got a 2007 Ford Escape Hybrid named Gallie (the Chevy is Tardis, so this seems to be a theme).  I love her, even if I do periodically think she's just died when it's actually kicked over to electric.  We're going to try to get the Chevy paid off, and use it as a trade on a small hybrid next spring, since I'll be doing a lot more driving as our classes won't synch up as well.

4 - Healthwise, I'm doing okay, I guess.  Still seeing my pain clinic so they'll refill my Tramadol and Flexeril, and they did another round of Synvisc in my knees, but this one doesn't seem to have done as much.  Of course, I'm much more active this time with being in school than I was in August last year, when I got it last time.  Heck, I'm even taking one flight of stairs in and out of the building most times (Tues/Thurs classes).  Cassie's in the building across the street, and if I can do the stairs, it saves a *lot* of walking or wheelchair use.  Thank goodness for handrails, is all I can say.  :-)

I... think that's hit the high points, mainly.  Questions from the audience?