Zen Crib Notes

The UCSB commencement happened over the past weekend, and the monday following after is the first day of Summer Semester for SBCC students. Traffic was horrible going southbound on the 101, due to the families on the road, but I earned more than $150 in tips over the weekend, so that was great.

Although the first day of school was also my fifth day in the row at the sushi restaurant. Made me want to change jobs. Ah well.

The best part of doing online classes is that i can arrange my own schedule. I can wake up at 3 pm and not worry about catching the bus or lying back down in bed in defeat knowing that I missed my class.

Now assignments are due every Sunday and so far all I had to know were the tools in Dreamweaver (the sad part of having the program downloaded and not bought was that I couldn't register it and get updates for it. Or something. Well, these sort of things always made me uncomfortable). Sadly I also have to have Photoshop installed so as some of my assignments need it.. Apparently. Man, more downloading.

Summer time is also the time for movies, and I've restarted my Netflix account, and now I'll get movies one dvd at a time. Really, I wanted to get movies like "The Last Unicorn" or "The Rats of NIMH" for the nostalgia value. But, now I have to watch "Julie and Julia" with my mom because my parents are disgusted at how nostalgic I am for my childhood. It's not a bad movie, but I'm the kind of person who watches "Star TreK" twice in the theater and who would save money to buy models of hot video game characters who dress in red.

Last week we watched "It Complicated." I don't want to see Meryl Streep for a long time.

I was also planning to be in an Online Spanish class, but because of that damn online learning website QUIA and the fact that I lost the damn book key that I had activated my Spanish book for my 101 class, I pretty much would have to reduce to buying the Spanish textbook AGAIN for the code, or pay 100 bucks to QUIA for the code.

So I dropped that. If it comes down to it, I'll have to convince myself that I can learn Spanish by myself. Alongside practicing my Chinese and relearning Japanese. Yeah....