Pearls of Wisdom:
-God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other. - Reinhold Niebuhr (1892 - 1971), from a sermon in 1943

I probably should give up on things going smoothly, shouldn't I.

First of all, since I haven't posted since "the day" I'll tell you that nothing happened. I'm sure whomever wrote the graffiti in question smartly laid low. The place was crawling with police (Athens, Nelsonville, and campus), plain clothes cops, State Patrol, EMS, FBI, Fire personnel, and we even had a guy who (I belive) worked for the Secret Service and frequently consults on terrorist threats like these across the country and further. Do not deny the power of a school that has mass amounts of law enforcement and public safety service contacts. Anyway, I found out yesterday that I moved out of my old room for naught. Roomie has withdrawn from school allegedly due to this incident. I admit I think it was a convenient excuse.

Onto the room wrench. Sooooo, I have been contacted by my former workplace to come back. It was not as sweet and simple as that but part A of the paperwork is in the mail. I thought it was going to be hard enough to figure out how to schedule 6 credit hours into 1 day at a school that was 2.5 hours from where I worked. I managed to pull it off too! Then, last night, I was told about another potential issue....my housing contract.

It is allegedly feasible that I will NOT be able to get out of my spring quarter housing contract unless completely withdraw from classes here. I will not be able to find out for certain till next week when the housing director comes back. What this means is that I will either, A) not be able to take classes at Hocking which will be an issue with having my job, or B) I might have to pay $1650 for a dorm room that I won't be using more than once a week, maybe twice, and also be paying for an apartment near work.

Why the hell is any of that an issue in the first place? I HAVE to be a "degree seeking" student, taking a minimum of 6 credit hours, spring quarter and I also HAVE to be returning to school in the fall. It is a federal program and these are the rules. (Yeah, I'd much rather just have a job but I don't want to wait till June to get my job back.)

Anyway, since my tendency is to freak out over shit like this, I chose to make myself stop and sleep on it. Granted I didn't sleep very well but I am hoping that I am approaching this in a slightly better manner than if I'd stayed up all night fiddling on the internet. Ohio State is somewhat out of the question due to cost and the fact that I already have my Bachelor's. While I can pretend to be a "degree seeking" student at Hocking, I can't forget that I can also pretend to be a "degree seeking" student at Columbus State (CSCC). CSCC has a much wider variety of classes that are web and hybrid (web based with only a few meetings on campus) courses. Downer: I will not have financial aid to help me pay for CSCC like I have at Hocking and, as of right now, I haven't found any courses are web courses or only meet 1 day a week (this campus is 1.5 hours from work).

There is one other option that is through Ohio State that offers Graduate credit (which is highly appealing, expense and all) but I don't know how many credits it is, I need to sign up for it ASAP before it fills, and the people I need to ask questions to are at a conference till Friday. I don't know if I have to apply to the grad school or what. Either way, it'll be pricey without financial aid.

Now the hardest part....serenity. Simply doing things that can be done and letting everything else go to divine timing. I can schedule Hocking courses at midnight tonight (or when I get up in the morning. My choice.) I can schedule CSCC classes now so I'm looking through that stuff. I won't hear about the OSU course till Friday at the earliest and the housing thing till Monday at the earliest.

In other news, the boys in the dorm next door we sweet and gave me deer burgers. they are DELISH!