April 19, 2004 :: 12:46 a.m.
they will see us waving from such great heights
GAH. I'm itchy. Really, really itchy. And I don't know why. It's not concentrated in one area - it kind of flits all over. Arms, neck, hands, face, legs, everywhere. It's highly annoying and kind of makes me want to shower until my skin turns red. But, no.
I think it may have something to do with the heat in my bedroom. it's about 65 outside now, but since I'm up in what is technically the attic it feels more like 80. I have my little air conditioner chugging along, and it's helping, but really... it's a little window unit, not a miracle machine. It's livable up here now, but before the AC was on it was terrible. And it's midnight. Noon was just horrendous. I like my room, but it's like the Land of Extreme Temperatures. It's never just neutral, or pleasant. It's either very cold (we're talking painfully hard nipples cold here, people) or skin-meltingly hot. Totally unfair, and not so much fun either way.
And DEAR CHRIST, I'm itchy. This is really just ridiculous.
So I got my financial aid stuff from PCA&D on Friday; it's kind of good and kind of bad. It's good because the majority of my tuition is taken care of with, like, three grants and a loan. I love me some grants, because the whole not having to repay them thing? Is most excellent. However, there is nothing at all in the financial aid package for supplies or housing. Supplies are going to be costly - like $1,000 costly. And housing is a big, big deal. It's not an optional deal, either. You either commute or you live there. I'm too far away to realistically commute, and even if I wasn't, I don't want to commute. So I have to find an apartment, and then there's bills, and food, and it comes out to somewhere around $6,000 for "room and board." That's quite a chunk of change; in fact, it's half the yearly tuition. I guess I can get loans for it somewhere, and work while I'm there - but I can't expect to work more than two or three nights a week while going to school full time. Ugh. The whole financial aid thing is Greek to me. Honestly, it's just... so confusing. And frustrating. And did I mention how confusing it is? 'Cause, yeah.
In less bothersome news, Joey and I made a lasagna dinner tonight. He and Joe and Adam and I all sat down and ate together - it was nice. Everything was pretty good, considering. Then we watched Kill Bill Vol. 1, which Adam picked up this afternoon. It was excellent; lots of highly imaginative carnage and killing. I want to see the second one now. The rest of the evening, after Adam took off to do homework (which I totally should have done too but didn't), was spent watching Angel while Joey and Joe worked on their knitting. I taught them a few weeks ago, and now they're both working on scarves. It's fun.
And now I am immensely tired. Like, ready to drop my head onto the keyboard tired. And my thumb hurts, because I burned it while trying to take the lasagna out of the oven tonight. Note to self: let someone else remove things from the oven. Gah. I've got this ugly, puffy, red and white burn... I guess that's what 375-degree metal will do to you. So I'm going to go slather my burn with ointment of some kind, do the hygiene thing, and then hopefully fall into a blissful coma, from which I will awake around 9 am feeling well-rested and refreshed. Mmm, sleep. The ultimate non-permanent escape.
'Night.
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