Yesterday

The day started out with a meeting with my Academic Advisor to try and map out the next 2 years of my life (as far as school and classes go). The meeting was at 12:30, and I got to the campus about 5 minutes before that because my Mom had to drive me (because only the truck is working right now...yay), and we had to stop for gas before we left town, so that put us a few minutes behind schedule.

Anyways. The meeting went well, I thought. I should have scheduled for an hour, but I don't know if I could stand to meet with my advisor for that long...I mean, she's a nice lady, but...I don't know, I just don't think I could be in the same room with her for that long. We got all of my required classes mapped out and divided into quarters, but I still have 18 credit hours to add into that before I reach the total I'll need to graduate. With electives, that shouldn't be too hard to manage.

There's probably going to be at least one quarter that I'll be taking 18 credit hours, and I'm really not looking forward to that. I still need to remind my advisor that I'm not planning on doing the Masters Program, and maybe talk to someone about what my other options will be with the degree that I'll have. Hopefully I'll find something that I'm interested in because I really don't want to be a teacher anymore...at least, not right now.

At 2:00, I had an orientation session for the Learning Center, where I'll also be working this Fall (if they still keep me at the Advising Office, that is). That lasted about an hour and a half, but we'll get paid for that, so it was basically easy money. :) We just talked about things you can expect to encounter on the job and stuff like that. Like I said, it was easy money.

Since I have no vehicle, Jake was nice enough to pick me up. We headed over to the mall, and I called Jess to see if she wanted to meet us there so I could give her her birthday present. She got there about an hour after we did because she had some stuff to take care of before she left.

While we waited, Jake and I wandered around Walden's for about 30-45 minutes (probably the longest amount of time I've ever spent in that store...mostly because it's a small store). I saw some really cool stuff, and found a book that I'd like to get (a Dr. Seuss book that has a collection of 12 books...I basically just want one of them, tho ;p), but it'll have to wait until I have money.

After Walden's, we browsed around the calendar stand that they have outside of Hot Topic. They have some really cute ones for next year, and I may have trouble picking just one out, but they might come out with one between now and when I get mine that's even cuter than the others, so my decision won't be as hard. :)

After that, we went down to FYE and poked around a little. I may have gotten some ideas for Christmas presents. I know it's early, but I like to get started early and spread out the expenses a little. Anyways. After we got done in there, I gave Jess a call to see where she was, and since she was close, we decided to meet in JCPenney's. When we finally found her (we were at one entrance and she had come in another), we headed over to Old Navy so she could grab some flip-flops.

We headed back to Penney's and decided to go to Hot Topic, where I also found some potential ideas for Christmas presents. We looked around, but nobody was buying anything, so we left. We stopped by Journeys (or whatever the shoe place is that's by Hot Topic) and looked around in there for a few, mostly because Jess wanted to listen to the song that they were playing.

By this time, it was about 5:30 or so, and Jake was ready to leave (he's so not a good shopping buddy! ;p), so we headed to the cars. I walked over to Jess's van with her so I could give her her present, which she loved, but it was a little small, so I told her I'd exchange it for one the next size up and mail it to her or something.

The exchanging of the present was a little harder than I'd expected. I went to the store last night, and they didn't have any of the same hoodies there. I wasn't sure what I was going to do, so I called Jess and told her the situation and that I was going to go ahead and return it and try to find it on the website, and if that didn't work, the she'd be getting something different, and she was okay with that. So, I returned it and checked the web when I got home, and I actually found it, so I ordered it and hopefully it'll be here in a few days. :) Crisis averted! ;p

P.S. I think this is probably the longest blog I've ever written!