Dealing With The Unexpected
It is always hard to know how to react to something that is dropped in your lap. Whether its school related, money related or related to your living situation. Today seems to have been a day where all three were an impact for me.
First off the positive. I finally got my Bursary money!! If only it had come a couple weeks sooner, then I would have been typing this on a macbook. Oh well.
School despite only being two days in looks like its going to be a killer. There seems to be a focus on readings by the profs this semester with a ton of group work to make up the majority of our marks. In fact in one course alone all of my marks are group related, even the self eval. But with a little focus and some many pots of coffee I should be able to follow up my 2 A+’s, 2 A-’s and one unknown mark without concern.
Lastly my living situation. I came home exhausted, I think jet lag may have set in today, to be met by a house guest moments later. A house guest that will be here for a couple weeks (said the roomie vaguely). A house guest that has four legs. Yes my roomie is dog sitting. Did I mention that she didn’t even have decency to ask if I would be alright with having a dog here. I told her that I was having no part of it and that all the responsibility is on her. My biggest problem is that she didn’t ask and that it is making me feel even less at home here then I already did. I have very limited personal space, and now with a dog roaming around that is cut down even more. Not to mention with our busy schedules, I am expecting there to be many presents left by the dog around the apartment. Heaven help if this dog wakes me up during my four day weekends. I will not be a happy camper.
Don’t get me wrong, I love dogs. I would have even said yes to having a dog here for a short while, but two weeks without advance notice is a bit much. I guess all I can do is wait and see. If it becomes too much I guess I will voice my opinion and hopefully the dog will go home.
So that has been my day thus far. I am going to keep this daily posting going until I get swamped, but hopefully now that I have lappy working on campus I can be blogging during class. Yahoo for wireless…boo for Win2K.
