i tried to be like grace kelly

Thing I learned today: with the way that things are going for me, I will be finishing my broadcast degree in Fall 2012.

Here's what my advisers have told me:

I have 9 more non-major upper level elective hours to get, which I could probably fill with my art/film stuff,
I can totally go back to my community college and do Core Complete, which would guarantee that I'd only have to take ONE math class,
I can talk to one of the deans about switching my foreign language requirements up, since the last time I took a Spanish class was in summer '06 and Lord knows I am so not ready to jump into Spanish III after that long of a break.

I'm kind of excited about this, but also nervous because then I have all my film stuff! And I want to try to pay for that on my own except I have like, no savings right now and even though my dad’s been all "Mom and I will help you with your school", I know that it's been, uh, forever since I've started college and the two and a half years before I transferred here and that’s been a lot of money per semester, even if this is a state school. So I don't want to financially burden them, but at the same time... it's not a lot of money that I'm making at The Job. And I don't know how my schedule would look if I take on a broadcast job (or even if I could, considering the market and I want to do tech and production, not reporting so there’s that), so... it's a lot of stuff to consider.

But at least I will have one degree by the time I'm 30. At least now I have a possible graduation date. That's something to be proud of!

Unrelated things!

an argument I wish they'd actually had on Glee.
Tip or Die. Note the $10 in the Biggie cup.
I know for sure that I've shared this video on Tumblr, but I can't remember if I have over here. At any rate: Corgi reacts to puppy butt. Related: a Corgi in a snow tunnel.
DevastatingExplosions.com, for when you just want to blow shit up.
Picard says "Make it snow." You know how everyone who watches Doctor Who has their first Doctor? As far as Star Trek goes for me, Picard was my first captain.

Finally, something I need to remind myself of: I value my friends' opinions, but I really need to stop letting their views color my own so much.

Now I need to finish my resume for class.

What I've been up to today:

I ended up doing one of those random searches a few nights ago and I found Tomboy Style, and after going through some of their archives I saw this outfit. And today I more or less found my own version when I got an orange tank top from Old Navy and bright blue shorts from Walmart. SUCCESS. I think the only shoes that would be acceptable to wear with it would be white Converses, which I do not have. In the meantime, sandals will do.

I constantly filter/second-guess posting things on Tumblr because I know that some people I follow dislike them, and I hate that I do that. I've been maintaining a blog/various other forms of social media for such a long time that I've been through bouts where I wondered why someone else was following me/making comments/reading my stuff because I don't always post serious things, and I'm silly a lot of the times or kind of a mess re: my personal life, but I rarely cut entirely back on posting what I liked. But on Tumblr, it's like, I'll see something about Glee (for example, as that's one of the major hot-button things with the people I follow) that I think is cool, and I'll like it instead of reblogging it because some of my followers have a visceral dislike of it.

And I get that. It's cool. But sometimes I read that dislike and their remarks about their dislike as being something of a judgment of everyone who likes that particular thing, and I feel like they're thinking less of me, because while I do have my own issues with various things that I like and I understand the criticisms that other people have about them, it's just... taxing. Is it ever possible to say "I understand why you dislike this, and why it makes you angry, but when you go on at length about how terrible it is makes me feel like you're saying that I'm terrible for liking it" without sounding whiny?

At any rate, I'm trying to tell myself that followers/online friends read my stuff for a reason: because they like it and they like me, and that there are people whose stuff I read and like, and we don't always share the same opinions about all sorts of things, but I don't see them in a less-than stellar light because of it.

And, to close on a lighter note, a gif of Castiel from Supernatural barfing a rainbow!



I have no idea where the "barfing rainbows" thing came from, but I enjoy it so much.