Ah, such is the life!

Welcome friends!

Welcome new life! Tonight is the first night where I will be spending the night in an apartment. No dining hall food, no dorm comfort...a good ol' ready-to-fall-apart, insect infested apartment. Ah, such is the life. The same apartment where there are no outlets where it makes sense...especially near the cable and ethernet hookup. Seriously? Ah, such is the life.

I just enjoyed my first meal of macaroni and cheese with tuna. It was heavenly after a long day at work, which by the way, is not going to be terribly bad. It was a lot of busy work but overall, very doable. The biggest part of my job this summer may be fixing a few UConn websites. If that sounds enthralling to you, how about putting official transcripts into envelopes? Ah, such is the life. It's a job. It pays better than working back in the furnace known as Luisa's Pizzeria (which reminds me that it is also air conditioned too!) So in retrospect, it is not so bad. Actually, I am not hating on Luisa's, because the job was nice to me; however, would you rather spend your day in a small cramped space that is a sweltering 130 degrees everyday? My guess, probably not!

Today is my adjustment day. Today is the day where I can relax. Tomorrow, work begins. I hope to practice or analyze music after work for an hour or so until I decide to come back and make dinner. This apartment does have a TV with cable, however, I feel like I do not need to watch it. In fact, I honestly think that I need to start weening myself off of cable while I prepare myself for the burden of 21 credits next semester.

If I haven't told you yet, my schedule plays out like this:

Monday: 8-9, 10-12, 1-3, 4-6
Tuesday: 2-3 (only go 10 times a semester)
Wednesday: 8-9, 10-3
Thursday: 2-3 (same as Tuesday)
Friday: 8-9, 11-12, 1-3

So, I get out by 3PM 4 days of the week. Honestly, that isn't too bad (other than the fact I have 5 hours of class in a row on Wednesday). I also have not taken into account my piano lessons or my composition lessons...or even the fact I am working on two theses this semester as well. The work load looks horrendous. Then again, I have always lived (maybe limping) at the end of these hellish semesters. We'll see how it goes. As long as I put my head in my books, I am sure I will do fine.

Ah, such is the life!

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