Since the move, Zeppelin has horrible separation anxiety. It frustrates the hell out of me and the house smells like dog pee all the time now. Rawr. It has, of late, been smelling much better with the use of those fancy enzyme pet stain cleaners. Mmm. Enzyme-licious! I really wish he would stop peeing into the floor vent though. Every time the heat goes on, we also get a fresh blast of dog pee smell. Ick ick ick!

I registered for my classes at COD today. After attending VanderCook where the majority of classes were only 1 credit, it seems strange that I am only taking 2 classes and that equals 8 credits. I have a math class twice a week, Tuesday and Thursday from 1:00 to 3:20. And I have a cultural anthropology class once a week on Friday starting at 2 and going to 4:50.

And that's it. Oh the glory! That isn't like, 12 classes equalling 17 credits. It's just 2! This is going to be awesome! And they're both afternoon classes! Cha-ching! No more waking up at 7 practically every morning for class! Yay!


Dave and I are looking for apartments/houses together currently, and we are planning on moving in with each other around August. That's awesome, because that's right before fall terms start, and so I after taking some COD classes, I can transfer out to a university or college in the city. University of Chicago has such a gorgeous campus and a really great archeaology program (Indiana Jones!!) We are looking for something on the North Side of Chicago, which is awesome in some aspects, but kinda sucks because UChicago is in Hyde Park, on the south side. And I don't really want to go to Loyola or DePaul because they're so Christian-based. That pretty much leaves Northwestern and Northeastern. Northeastern sucks, from what I've read about/heard about and even if I studied my ass off this semester I could NEVER get into Northwestern. Never. Even trying to get into UChicago is a stretch, but it's more realistic than getting into NU.

So that leaves a few small colleges. But I don't want to go to a small college again! I want to go to a really, really big university! Really big! Which I think is what I wanted to do all along before VCM sucked me in.

What to do, what to do. There's also the option of staying at COD even when I move out and only taking online courses. Or taking a few classes just once a week on one specific day and just drive out. Though that wouldn't be very convenient since I currently live closer to COD than I would in the city, obviously.

My plans might change completely. No clue. I don't know what to do about this whole college thing. COD was a great idea until I realized today that I can only get an associate's degree and I then I still need a bachelor's. Then a master's. Then a phd. Oy.

In any case, I just sent out for more information from pretty much all colleges listed above. Including the ones I can't get into/don't really want to go to. We'll see what happens. Life is frustrating.

Also frustrating is that life is expensive, and I'm going on this vacation in like... 2 weeks and I don't have enough money for it yet. And I don't think the next 2 paychecks I'll recieve will be enough to cover it. I have a phone bill due, and I have a speeding ticket to pay. Jeeze. Money sucks.