school makes me mad >:(

School's pretty crazy. I was supposed to start at UTD last fall, but due to a lazy academic advisor who wouldn't register me for classes or let me change majors because "it was more paperwork for her to fill out," my enrollment was postponed until January. The semester started out really well. Good classes, good schedule, good teachers. Everything seemed to be falling into place quite nicely. But then a few weeks ago, I found out that even though I already have an Associates degree in science, it will take at least 4 more full years for me to get a bachelors in any science major. Even if I change my major to something I don't like, the soonest I can possibly earn a bachelors is 3 full years, if I'm lucky and none of the classes I need overlap schedules. Surprisingly, UTD did accept all of my credits from the local community college. And, because UTD accepted all of my credits from the community college, they are also planning on doubling my tuition. Crazy. I know. I asked if they could somehow "un-transfer" some of those credits, and they said no. I am really not interested in paying that outrageous tuition rate for 3 years in order to get a bachelors. Right now i am in the process of applying to a surgical technology program at the community college (a surgical tech is the person in the operating room who hands equipment to the doctor and can close the patient when the doctor is done). I think I would do well in the program, and would really enjoy the job. It is a two year program. It is a hard program to get into because they only accept 12 people a year, and a lot of people apply.

RIP Sushi

For the last three and a half years, I've had a beautiful blue/green beta fish named Sushi living in a fish bowl on my desk. Thursday morning, when I was about to feed Sushi, I discovered him pale and belly up at the bottom of his aquarium. After a moment of silence, I gave Sushi a burial at sea (*flush*). Even though I had cleaned the fish bowl less than a week ago, it smelled pretty nasty, so I rinsed it out a few times, scrubbed everything inside of it, and then filled it with bleach water and let it soak for a good 60 hours. Crazy as it may sound, the aquarium still reeked of dead fish. Soaking it in bleach had not made a bit of difference. I rinsed everything off again, and pulled out some lemon scented non-bleach disinfecting wipes. Individually, I wiped off the glass bowl, and the glass rocks from the bottom of the bowl, and finally the pink glow-in-the-dark plastic plant. I discovered that the glass bowl and rocks smelled perfectly fine. The stench was only coming from the plastic plant. Even after soaking it in bleach for 60 hours, and then scrubbing it off with a lemon scented disinfecting wipe. It still smelled. I gave up all hope of ever cleaning the pink plastic glow-in-the-dark plant when the thought occurred to me that I could probably buy a new plant for under $5 at Walmart. Probably even a better looking plant. And maybe a new fish.