久し振りなー

So I've been off trying to finish the rest of my semester (which ended today), and I don't have any final exams. Good on me.

A lot has happened in the last couple of weeks. Last Tuesday I was hired to be a Graduate Assistant (GA) for my department. I'm really excited, because I get paid tuition, insurance, and 10% off at the bookstore. If only this opportunity had come about last semester, then I wouldn't have had to have been poor for 3 months...

So getting a new job means that I can spend a bit of money once in a while. I've enjoyed being a student for the last week or so. I've eaten out once, bought some nice food at the store, and did a bit of early Christmas shopping.

I'm working on quitting my current jobs at the library. I didn't think it was fair to leave the one department where I was working a lot all of a sudden, so I'm trying to phase out gracefully. Fortunately I could do so because the finals schedule starts tomorrow, and other people picked up a lot of the hours I had signed up to work. I am starting at my new job as an hourly employee, but I'm getting almost twice what I was making.

I'm going to work in Japanese collections next semester, but I can't get any money because being a GA and a student are on two levels of hiring, so I'm going to work and get credit instead. Which is cool, because those credits are being paid for.

Last weekend I went to the theatre on campus and watched Little Miss Sunshine. It's this hilarious movie about this rather dysfunctional family that goes halfway across the country in a VW bus to take the little girl to a beauty pageant. It was awesome! I want to watch it again. Perhaps I'll bittorrent it...

I engaged in a bit of self-indulgence after being hired for a better job, and picked up two awesome deals for scuba gear. I bought a brand new pair of fins from another diver, only used once on a 30-minute dive and with spring straps for $40 (spring straps alone cost at least $30), so with shipping came to $54. Then, thanks to the generosity of my mom, I got a new wetsuit for my trip to Mexico in a couple of weeks.

I modeled for the camera--check it out :)