Congratulations, we've kept it going for three whole years now. With three years of experience I still don't know what I'm doing here. I have to admit it is nice to be able to have this one amorphous blog to stick to. My other blogs are certainly more topic focused, and that's useful for things like getting web hits, friendly shares, and money; but Karinamania really has something personal to it. It has allowed me to keep all of my long-distance friends to stay in touch with what I'm up to these days and it also offers a perfect platform for venting and sharing my opinions that often need more than three lines of text in a Facebook status. This blog has been the all-telling story of a struggling college student in the Pacific Northwest and a budding archaeologist to boot. I'm sure you can tell though, that this blog does not focus on my academics, for that you will have to read something like this (
Culture Environments). I'm so close to finishing my second serving of college and jump into a more real world. So lets keep this together and move into the next round together.
In other news: this has been an awful week. I don't want to gripe too much but I'm really feeling the withdrawals. My good ol' laptop has finally limped to an end. Using these school computers is not the best relief to my hunger for technology. I mean, looking at porn is a whole new experience while using a computer in the school library; your adrenaline rushes every time you have to look over your shoulder for other looky-loos. Haha I'm just kidding. Now I have to work on getting a new computer. I'm thinking since I'm going to be out of school for a little while, a desktop PC might be what I need instead of the portable laptop. How I'm going to pay for that is going to be a sad story for the next several years. Its going to be stacked in with all these school loans I'm going to have to pay back. And don't get me started on how much I hate the financial aid office here on campus, my fellow schoolmates I'm sure can agree the heart of ultimate evil in this world resides in the financial aid offices around the country. Good news here is that I may not have to worry about dealing with a financial aid office for a while! Woot!
I'm currently preparing myself to enter the work world. I'm going to be primping my resumé and working on acquiring the needed certifications such as CPR, first aid, AED, and food handling. I should also consider how to get my driver's licensing completed. My father has told me that soon he is going to be getting rid of his 1987 VW Jetta, and I have asked for it. There seems like so much to do and time is fast approaching.
I'm probably going to have to set up a way to move to the Seattle area and crash for a couple weeks while I slave away finding work. All of this scary-unknown future stuff makes graduation really terrifying.
