Tuesday, May 24, 2005 

Apartment hunting was a bust. It figures, everything is either on the East Side or too expensive for me to afford.

If I made $600 a month year-round, it'd be a different story. But I don't think that's going to happen, once fall classes start.

Why is it so damn hard for me to get ahead? I either gotta live with my parents or else drop out of college and work full time in order to move out. Are those my only options?

The second option is more appealing, in all honesty. I don't know what I'm going to college for anyway. None of the degrees they offer really interest me all that much.

If I knew what direction my life was supposed to be going, this would be a lot easier. Then I could start planning accordingly.

But, of course, nobody knows where their life is headed. Maybe I'll die tomorrow and this will all be over.

Not that this is a thought I want to entertain.

So here's the question: what should Rachel do with her life?

Posted by Rachel at 2:05 PM |

Thursday, May 19, 2005 

I've been working about 30 hours a week on average and it's brought my monthly earnings up to about $600 a month (from my usual $400). Shh, don't tell my car insurance company. They're giving me a low-income discount for making less than $500 a month.

Sadly, work is the one thing in my life that's kept me from feeling completely pathetic (at times. I've been feeling down more often than not lately. Maybe I should just say "screw it" and go emo... Then kill myself. Ugh. I hope I'm never that pathetic. :P) My job makes productive use of my time, which is something I have trouble with on my own lately. I asked my boss I could be transferred to an Old Navy in another city or another state if I decided to move. He said that I could, so if I did decide to move to Chicago, for example, I'd have a job waiting for me when I got there. Ah, the advantages of working for a multi-million dollar corporation...

Apartment shopping soon. I used up all the minutes on my cell phone for this billing cycle (actually, I went over...that sucks. It's like 40 cents per minute) so I can't call any of the potentials I've found as of yet, but lucky for me, the new billing cycle starts next week. My mom's hightailing it back to Owosso by June 1 and my brother said he'd definitely go in on a place with me so that he wouldn't have to go with her. Dan and I have discussed getting a place together as well, but there's a lot of "what if's" involved in that....mainly because he works in Chesaning and I school/work in Saginaw (which is where I'm searching for a place).

I've started buying patterns/material for my sewing projects. I figure if I do become a fashion designer, sewing experience of some kind can only be beneficial. I also debated majoring in business at SVSU (then learning the art part of it in Chicago so that I could maybe someday start my own business) but the required classes for a bachelor's in business (economics, financing, statistics) sound rather dull so I'm thinking no.

That's about it.

Posted by Rachel at 8:25 PM |

Wednesday, May 11, 2005 

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Posted by Rachel at 10:07 PM |

Friday, May 06, 2005 

Perhaps my curse is that I will never be entirely happy, and I'll be left to search endlessly for something that will make me completely content with life, but to no avail.

They say that you first have to be happy with yourself. Alex, if you have any luck with what you're doing, then PLEASE tell me how it's done.

Posted by Rachel at 10:22 AM |

Monday, May 02, 2005 

I've been out of school for almost a week and it still doesn't quite feel like summer. Maybe it's the weather.

In other news, Napster sucks. Best Buy signed me up for a free two-week trial when I bought my computer, so I looked into it. You can listen to and download all the songs you want for $9.95 a month (or for free during my trial) . So I downloaded several songs then quickly learned that to burn a song to CD or to transfer it anywhere is $.99 per song. Okay, I decided, I just won't continue my subscription after the trial ends. After my two-week trial was up, media player couldn't play any of the songs I downloaded, so I figured the service had cancelled itself (Best Buy signed me up for both napster and netflix and told me that one of them would cancel itself and the other I would have to cancel [I can't be positive on which they said would cancel itself - turns out that neither one did, the bastards]). I figured that since Napster had taken away my song licenses, they'd cancelled my service. I was not pleased when I got my credit card bill and found out that Napster had charged me for April, especially once I went to the site and read that Napster subscribers get to keep their music for as long as they are members. I cancelled it myself at that point then wrote to them to complain, telling them that I'd like to have my money refunded since I hadn't been given the benefits I was entitled to with their service. They wrote me back (which I wasn't expecting) and said only this:

Thanks for contacting Napster Support.
Our records show the charge was for 3-26-05 to 4-26-05, and then the membership was cancelled on the same day it was due to renew.

I want so badly to write back and say, "What the hell does that have to do with anything!?" I'm still deciding whether I want to bother with writing them back or to just be out $9.95 (which is sort of a lot to pay for NOTHING when you're a poor college student like me).

So don't use Napster. At least not their free trial. I'm sure most of you don't bother downloading your music "legally" anyway, but with the shit they put you through, it's hardly worth it if you wanted to.

Why is everyone out to screw people over and take their money?

Posted by Rachel at 10:06 AM |