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Go to Bookrenter.com and prepare to be amazed. My $200 finance textbook cost me a whoopin' $85.96 WITH shipping. I am so happy that I could very well cry with joy! I saved myself a total of $50 this semester on books. Ergo, I was able to purchase the optional book for one of my business classes that really wasn't optional at all. So yay for me! In other Year of the Learner news: Yesterday at the job fair I was volunteering for, I found out that if you're persistent enough, you can make the HR director for a major resort here in the Beehive State fall over and let me help him pack his stuff and send him on his merry way. For added bonus: you get a stellar reference out of the whole experience and a job offer that you are grossly lacking in experience. Didn't take the job offer because the job is in Midway and well, no car + more than an hour commute = no dice. Anyhow, I need more to learn about. If I plan my money right, I'll be able to take a road trip to LA for s...

So, remember when I told you guys that I was going to start reading autobiographies and biographies and the like? Well, I FINALLY finished this book. I had to renew it because I made the mistake of getting two Harlan Coben books and well, he's one of my most favorite mystery/suspense author's EVER. The Harlan Coben books were of course read in less than a week. I don't know how I did my homework. Good thing a lot of it is online and not due for a while...but still. I need to stop this habit of reading books when I should be doing my homework. Anyhow, The Road to Woodstock was a pretty good read. Lots of history. I don't know if anyone who reads my blog is really into Jimmy Hendrix or anyone from that era, but it was really cool to get an insiders perspective on what went on. The organizing of Woodstock was a pretty big undertaking but in the end, the organizers just let everyone in regardless of if they had purchased a ticket or not. Did you know that? The organizers of...

I reading my daily read list of blogs and I stumbled upon this post on on Cup of Jo's blog . A hobbit house! Isn't it amazing? I've had dreams of living in a hobbit house with the future little family that I'll have someday. A hobbit house. You only see those in Lord of the Rings where everything is fictional, where you find yourself wishing that there were guys that really looked like Aragon or an elf...or maybe that's just me. Either way. I really want a hobbit house now. There's just something infinitely homey with the way that hobbits live and how their homes look. Who could resist having a huge fireplace to warm everything up? Of course, I'd want a few modern twists like plumbing, flush-able toilets, showers and baths (I think it'd be awesome to take a bath in a hobbit style house), hot water, electricity and maybe a small stove and oven. Actually, that'd be against the hobbit way of life wouldn't it? Maybe I'll just have to start garden...

My financial aid came through! Thank goodness! I am so full of gratitude and caffeine that I feel like I could bounce off the walls right now. My loan also came through making it possible for me to pay for my books and get everything I need for the semester. I learned a while ago that I needed to write down all the blessings that I've been praying for to show gratitude for receiving such answers to prayers. I have A LOT of ground to make up. With my loan and pell grant just coming through, I have to email my professors and tell them the situation. Gotta get the little violin playing some sad music so they'll take pity on me and let me make up some assignments or do some extra credit. Or maybe just drop whatever class is giving me grief and add a different class. But that seems like too much work just to be done with something bothersome. Anyhow, I'm just really relieved that my school money has finally decided to show up in my school account. I just have to wait a couple da...

you throw them back and aim for the head. So UVU is 10 days into the spring semester and I have yet to see any sort of financial aid come through. I'm a little mad at myself for making that STUPID clerical error which will probably put me out another semester. ONE little box went unchecked on my loan counseling paperwork and of course, the student - me - has to either do without and drop out for the semester or magically pull $2500 out of their rear end, which would definitely be feat unto itself. Of course, this is all hypothetical. I don't actually know if my financial aid has hit the fan and is being spewed all over the place for other students to keep, but given the fact that LATE fees are going to be induced on the 20th, I'm almost certain that I won't be able to take any classes this semester. Part of me is a little relieved though and it's a bit unsettling because I actually like school (wow...never thought I'd say that). I was certainly happier being bu...

My night class starts right now. Do I want to be here? Nope. Did I eat dinner before I left for school? Ha! Not a chance. hm...now I have the Night Court jingle going through my head.

So, I went to the library and decided to peruse the new book section upstairs. I came upon this beauty: Ecco/HarperCollins I'm pretty stocked about this one because really? When you think about Woodstock you don't really think about how or why it started in the first place. Well, some people might think about the why and how's of it all, but when I think about Woodstock, I think about Hippies and marijuana and pot and people having sex and the music (of course). I'm pretty excited about the book. I'm gonna start it....tonight!

First post of the year and I really have nothing of importance to post. Well, school does start on Wednesday. I'm slightly nervous because I haven't heard anything about my financial aid which, when it comes right down to it, could be bad or good. I'm hoping and praying that it'll come through tomorrow. I mean, in the fall do you accept financial aid for the semester or for whole year that you've applied for financial aid? I just don't know. Oh, and my loan...same question applies. Did I accept the loan for the whole 2009-2010 school year and it comes in 2 payments like it should, or is that it? Is that all the money that I get? If that's all the money I get, I'm pretty much screwed. I don't have $2500 laying around not being used. Heck, I've only had that much money ONCE in my life before a bunch of checks and debits hit the bank. Breathe, Joyce. Breathe. Okay...so the Year of the Learner has gotten off to a shaky start. So I'm hoping that 2...