It's been awhile since I've been awake for close to 18 hours (more like a little past 17). It's been a busy day pushing more paperwork, making more phone calls. spent half the day shopping which is about as nice as nice can be when you're stressing over how you're going to make it through next month when you have bills you know you can't pay on your own and you're not all that happy about having to ask the parentals for more moo moo... but I digress. Or I don't...
Not much to say... I think I'll manage to get my Japanese back on track tomorrow while waiting for Honda's shuttle service to take me home (my car may have a manufacturer defect involving an ABS wheel sensor o-ring).
Some more news regarding my return to SD... I may finally get the go ahead to start looking for a place to live on Friday... if not Monday (or possibly later... who knows till the moon decides its time).
On a side note that might reveal a little something about my personality that most people don't know about: After a few weeks of hunting for materials... I've found my break into letter writing. I've been holding off on the account that I don't have the stationary to do so (I refuse to use copy machine paper or that stuff we used back in grade school). Unfortunately it was too expensive to justify the purchase (especially after spending a butt load of cash on work worthy clothes). fortunately my Mom has a stash of interesting (if not archaic and somewhat ugly... but still interesting) paper that I can use along with some envelopes that don't quite fit. To further the stationary fetish... I've spent the last hour and a half researching laser copy printers (with the altruistic excuse of providing my mom with a good laser copier/printer for her day care business but in reality hoping to find a more robust printer to print off books worth of materials for my own consumption so I don't destroy my color laser which is quite the workhorse itself but is every bit the low middle end small business printer it was made to be) and (to get off my run-on digression and back to the point of this sentence) some disc binding system that I've been checking out at diyplanner.com forums. The DIY planner is basically to make a planner system that typically costs hundreds of dollars cost a heck of a lot less assuming you have the requisite tools. This could range anywhere from printing a letter sized forms (calendar, to do templates, project planners, etc), photocopy and clip together, or you can shove it into a DayRunner or some other pre-existing planner system that would cost you a buttload of cash upfront and each time you run out of forms. One system that seems pretty useful is the rollabind/levenger circa binding disc. I've seen Staples knock-offs before but didn't pay much attention to them because I thought they were ugly... now I'm thinking of giving it a second thought. Unfortunately the products are a bit hard to find since they cater to what looks to be a pretty niche market. Being the ugly little beast it is (think naked 3-ring binder, but less shiny... like plastic) I think the kid who bought this (rather expensive) take on notebook binding would get habitually beaten up by the kids who bought into the latest and greatest mead/five star notebook craze. I think the former will win in the long run though since it is a heck of a lot more versatile than your standard notebook. I kind of wish I had one in college now...
But in the end, cost is everything. I still can't afford it. My new day planner/agenda/calendar experiment will continue in its present clipped and ringed form.
Sorry about the long rant-y post... I tend to write better when I'm half asleep as opposed to when I'm awake but tired. If you're still wondering what the heck I'm talking about... check out diyplanners.com. Think of your calendar or agenda or whatever you use to organize your life... and then see how the pro's do it... and then decide how much they pay for a system like to be retarded and think of a home-made solution that will hopefully cost less in the long run. I've found that the best way to get full ownership in something is to just build it from scratch... which is a helluva lot harder than that line makes it sound.
Good night.
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