Just a note to the public: this is more for organizing my thoughts than for you to read. I don't what I'm expecting will come of posting it publicly, but maybe I'll get the feedback I need to make a decision, though by the time I get the feedback one of my options will already have been eliminated. Here's an update on me: Half of my tuition to Jeffco was due Friday, July 6. Today is Tuesday, July 10. They run the drop list tomorrow. I haven't paid a single payment on the tuition. I haven't finished my financial aid process. I don't have any money that isn't in my savings account. I'm a procrastinator by every definition. I'm almost certain there's a spot next to the word in the dictionary reserved for my photograph. At the end of August, it is most probable that I will be moving. I have several options: Bill's, Grammy and Johno's, Dad's, maybe a friend if I can talk to someone about it. I have a job interview waiting to be scheduled. It's with Denny's in Arnold. I'm pretty sure I'll get the job; every employee that I've met in my frequent ventures to the restaurant have been friendly with me. I even have inside jokes with a few. Heh. Okay. So I told all of this for a reason. These all tie together into one large problem for me. Here are the options that I can come up with: 1) Drain my savings account today and hope that they won't drop me tomorrow. ((((I really prefer to not have to tap into that money)))). 2) Not pay today, get my financial aid straightened out, and start a semester late. 3) Drop the whole thing for now and wait a year and apply to UW instead so I can start learning Korean instead of having to learn Arabic or French or German first. 4) Not go to college and find a bunch of dumb jobs. ((((This isn't an option I will choose. But it still is an option. However, it is out of the question. 5) Let them drop me and check to see if I could reregister. ((((I don't think I would get the best classes that way... I don't know. I was very fond of my schedule: nothing before 11AM.)))) Now here are some more options that affect the options above slightly: 1) Move to Bill's. It will be crowded trying to fit stuff there and Kayla and I will have to share a room. I will be far away from Jeffco if I do end up going there, and not that close to work either, assuming that I continue to work in Arnold. 2) Move to Grammy's and Johno's. I will have my own room and I will be much closer to Jeffco. I'll be able to help my grandparents around the house and I could be the one to take Grammy places instead of Johno. I will be even farther away from work than at Bill's. 3) Find a friend to live with around here. It will be basically the same as the original plan, but I will feel as though I'm mooching. I would try to pay for my being there. 4) Move in with Dad, Arlene, and Dolores. I wouldn't have a room... Well, I could, I haven't talked to them about this... but work would be right there. Jeffco wouldn't be much farther away than from my home now. ((((I'm steering away from this one. I'd prefer to not have to put up with Dolores's and Arlene's constant anxiety.)))) 5) Find my own place. Can't really do that because I don't have that kind of money, and I won't have that kind of money every month. This wouldn't work if I drained my savings account. Now we would have to fit two of the options together instead of making millions of pairs out of all these. I'm going to list a few that I think will work out best and that I'm kind of leaning toward. I think that I should wait a year and become a freshmen at UW next fall, assuming that they accept me. Perhaps I'll apply to several other colleges that teach Korean, but UW is what I have my sights set on. If I choose that option for college, then it doesn't exactly matter who I live with next month. So, in that case, I think I would go with one of the first three, probably in that order of preferences. I don't know if that's what I /should/ do, though. I haven't gotten any counsellng on it, but I think it's best to wait until at least next semester for college. I really wanted to start this semester, but I would prefer to make it more convenient than put all of that stress on me. Blargh. I hate deadlines. But, I suppose, without them, I would never end up doing anything. Now that we're going to be moving, I need to do some "consolidating". My mom keeps using that word. My room has been a complete mess for the longest time, and I know that as soon as it's clean I'm going to get a bunch of crap about it. But, I have to clean out everything and decide what I can take and what I need to throw away. Hopefully that doesn't take me forever. Cleaning my room usually does because I find things that I should have thrown away and I start to become nostalgic. Meh. Well, there you go. Send feedback if you will. I don't really know what to do. I'll be trying to decide. Have a goodly day. //Stacy | 
