I got my driver’s license yesterday. I was a little nervous about it, but after so many reassurances that it wouldn’t be so bad, I wasn’t too terribly worried. I passed – not necessarily with flying colors, but I passed. This is the point where it hits me – the state of South Carolina saw it fit to put me on any highway in America, just like that. How can they do that? I’m a terrible driver! I don’t pay attention, and I wait too long at intersections. I have no sense of direction, Roads don’t make sense to me, and I’m probably a bigger insurance liability than Geico will ever know. No wonder driving through Greenwood is so scary. They let people like me pass the test.
For almost a year now, there has been a small bird that likes to build nests in our garage. We have a few small shelves on the wall up against the house, and I guess she liked the warmth during the winter, and shelter from the rain. It was really nice to get to hear the baby birds chirping after they hatched. Dad told me tonight while we were standing outside that he’d heard baby birds this morning, and that he thought her eggs had hatched. I excitedly started climbing things to see the little babies, but they weren’t there… just this ugly brown snake. I hate him. I think he ate the mommy bird, too, and now we don’t have any birds in our garage… just Ugly Brown Snake. Last night, we saw the snake sitting in the corner of the garage that the mommy bird slipped under when the door was closed, and we tried to catch him for a while, but eventually gave up. And now all of our birds are gone.
I don’t like snakes anymore.
My trips went well. Summer, so far, has gone well – mostly working and whatnot. It always feels a little weak to talk about two or three months’ worth of activities after they seem of such little importance now, so I won’t.
Next semester, I’m taking CIS 135 (formerly with Chaz, but now with Shaffer… I’m so upset), CIS 231 (C++ 2), ART 105 (yay!!), ENGL 214 (Literature and Madness with Rieger… yay!! again!), and Math something (211 maybe? statistics – meh). I’m also going to be teaching two high school Spanish classes at Hopewood, and apparently monitoring some PE classes and homework sessions. As usual, I’m way more excited about Hopewood than I am about Lander – the new building is really, really exciting.
Oh, yeah. Speaking of Lander, they’ve decided to increase tuition 12-13%. Apparently, this puts them more on par with such colleges as Clemson. I’m not sure how making us pay more money is supposed to make us feel like we’re getting a better education, though – Lander will never be able to offer the resources and opportunities Clemson can. So if you feel like donating to the Amy-college-fund… you know. Let’s talk.
Also, the new Coldplay cd is really, really good.
song of the moment: Wilco and Billy Bragg – Way Over Yonder in the Minor Key