So Very Dark

Today is the last day of my break.  Tomorrow at 1pm I will begin my Art Direction class.

Sadly, the last week of my break has been less restful than I might have hoped.  Along with the fact that it was ungodly hot until Friday, we (as you may or may not know) lost our car on Tuesday night due to being a liiiitttlllleee late giving the bank their money.  It wasn’t even a case of not HAVING money to give the bank — Briggs had just gotten paid and everything…he just hadn’t gotten around to bringing the money TO the bank.

So, instead of spending the last week of my break de-stressing to my heart’s content in a quiet house, watching stupid tv shows, drawing and trying to learn yoga, Briggs and I spent the week trapped at home, struggling with PNC to figure out how we can get our car back (turns out we can’t) and doing the opposite of de-stressing.  PNC were big jerks and totally unhelpful, my credit score is pretty much screwed for years and we have to figure out how to get a new car now because there isn’t really public transportation out here in the boonies.  (And by ‘isn’t really’ I mean that, about 30 miles away, there might be a bus stop).

I kind of want to call the school and ask for a do-over.  This has not been the relaxing break I had hoped it would be, and I do not feel refreshed and ready to jump into a new quarter of school.  I mean, over the course of this break:

I possibly fractured my kneecap

I got caught in downpours two days in a row

I acquired at least two slightly less major leg injuries

I tried to give myself sunstroke at least once

Our car broke down in the middle of nowhere

Our car got repo’d

I still didn’t get to go swimming or find the darn river.

The frustrating thing (okay, one item on the list of frustrating things) is that all over school, before I started on break, were these posters extolling the virtues of taking classes over the summer quarter, and why students shouldn’t take the summer off.  I got in right before AIP changed from fixed tuition to variable, and if I were to take a quarter off, I would have that revoked, and that includes the summer quarter.  So, where as almost all other college students get to have a summer free of classes to…I don’t know, go work at a boat house in a lake-side town or whatever, I am required to stay right where I am….but most of my peers are not.  And those posters just…taunt me.  But I know if I took a quarter off to deal with stuff like not having a car and being on the verge of a nervous breakdown, when I returned they would suddenly hike tuition by 200% for no apparent reason and I would have to drop out of school just a couple quarters before graduation and spend the rest of my life working in a Burger Hut.

But let me tell you…I could really do with a real summer break right about now.  Preferably one that was water-adjacent.

Anyway…other stuff…I made zucchini bread for the first time the other day.  I put a bunch of chocolate chips in it and it is delicious.

Even more delicious was the salad we had last night.  Tons of delicious veggies (something we haven’t had a lot of the past few days) with awesome grilled chicken on top…sooo good.

I got fully caught up on Gossip Girl and Grey’s Anatomy, and have watched the first three episodes of this season of True Blood.  Briggs and I started the second season of Better Off Ted last night (super funny if you haven’t seen it) and remembered a show we had forgotten about — The United States of Tara, a dramedy about a woman with multiple personality disorder and how she and her family deal with it.

Anyway, since I go back to school tomorrow, I’m going to go now and continue to make the most of the rest of this day.  I hear there may be a bonfire later.

I’ll probably catch on fire.

(By the by…does anyone know of any gypsy curses I may be under?)