Decisions, Decisions

When I wrote my title...like 25 minutes ago, I had some serious doubts about what the hell I was doing with respect to classes. I was basically going through one of my ARGH moments when it comes to deciding what classes to take and which ones not to take.

Basically, I decided to make a last minute adjustment to my summer course schedule (seriously, I changed it like 45 minutes before I lost every possible penny) switching my biochemistry from 2 credits to just 1 credit. Basically, I'm going to be doing the same amount of work either way, and I get back like 230 dollars. I'll just tell my prof that I'm short on COF hours and money and needed to drop one of the hours.

That money that I'll be getting back is going to go instead to my credit card, which has somehow managed to top $315 again. I keep trying to knock it down to less than 200, but it keeps creeping up on random uses.

I also have like $50+ in rolled coins that I'm waiting to deposit into my account. I actually try to get coins for everything possible because I just don't spend coins as fast as paper dollars. I mean, I seriously go around school in free time putting dollars into vending machines and pushing return money in the hopes that it comes out in quarters. I also have another $10 or so in unrolled coins that should be rolled prompty.

I then adjusted my fall schedule to have 1 credit of biochem study, when I'll be more able to pay for that one hour, so I right now have seven classes, but only 17 hours. That's freakishly awesome.

I also junked three hours that I had signed up for at Pikes Peak, hours which I may take in the Spring so it feels like I'm doing something with my time.

Therefore, right now I have an expense expectation of about $3877.65 for the Fall. I know I'll be making around 2000 over the summer, so this leaves me about the same amount short for paying for fall. I'm definitely NOT going to be getting a parking pass, so that's going to save me some money. I'll probably get the rest of the money I need out of my bonds, because I've got like 7,000 in bonds. I really DO NOT want to touch the college money I have left over, because I want that money to go to my youngest sister so that she has a really big college savings account (I think that the college costs are going to FAR outgain the interest she's making on that count over the next 10 years). Plus, that 9200 will save my dad a hell of a lot of hours at work and a hell of a lot of money to worry about.

I was considering taking yet another class, but when considering that I really need to be focusing my attentions on my senior thesis for history and on graduate school apps, I really don't need to be taking another course. I think 17 hours is plenty for my purposes.

I do have to say that I MIGHT switch my German over to Pikes Peak to save myself a LOT of money if it turns out that PPCC uses the same book and that the difference in tuition more than makes up for the gas I would use having to drive up to PPCC's campus. Chances look good that there will be no change.

In other news, I am ALMOST done with my first chapter of French for 211. Only four to go...

In lab news, I am blowing the socks off the cells in the lab. By the end of this week, I'm going to go from 184 experiments left to perform to 176. I know that doesn't sound like a lot, but if I can manage to get like 8 experiments done per week, I'll be able to finish this project by the end of the year. However, this looks extremely doubtful. I also think I may have fucked up something today. I won't be able to say until Wednesday. A day, which will be FILLED with working. I'm going ot have about 200 samples to run.

Right now, I am feeling really drained. I fear that I may catch whatever the hell is going around at home...