10 Updates

1. Cuyamaca has started. This is my third semester at CC and I have mixed feelings about it so far.

2. Due to serious budget cuts to community colleges in California, there are not enough sections for the overwhelming number of students that are clamoring to get into classes. My College Composition & Reading class or English 120 is completely full with 10 other students on the waitlist.

So this leads me to wonder why there were budget cuts. Obviously California is in debt and can't shell out money (even for education?) like it use to. Maybe the students are to blame. According to one teacher: "Students don't vote so politicians don't have to worry about the problems students have."

3. My birthday is coming up soon. Supposedly I'm going to be 19 years old but I don't believe that. I still feel like I'm figuring out how to be 18.

4. Jury Duty - August 31st. Because I'm considered an "adult" (since I've been on this planet for approximately 216 months) I am given the ability to pass judgment on someone in a court of law - that is if I am even put on a jury.

5. Bought the new Arctic Monkeys' album "Humbug." Dark, deep, and mysterious. I am happy the Monkeys are changing their style.

6. This goes with #5. Arctic Monkeys' concert August 31st at SOMA.

7. Regal - still working but cut my schedule back. This means less money even though I need more money now then ever. And if I hear one more person say "Well, your a college student - this is the life" or something along those lines, I'm going to lose it.

I know its true though.

8. My sister got another tattoo. I don't know what to think - my mind keeps flipping in between two modes. The first is the 'big picture' mode where I think about what she will tell her kids, what meaning the tattoo holds, or what meaning her getting this tattoo holds. The second mode is the 'here and now' that says "everyone gets tattoos today," they don't have to have significant meaning, and why I am even thinking about this? Ha.

9. My cell phone is still malfunctioning.

10. Life in general: a struggle. Basically I'm getting older, poorer, busier, and not much smarter.