Home Sweet Home

Well, I'm finally home! Got home Tuesday night (and promptly slept till 130 this afternoon) then ran a few errands with my dad before having a Christmas party with some friends. I'm up at 3am since they only left about an hour ago and I'm still wired from caffeine and adrenaline. Maybe I'll play some video games till I pass out... nah. Should probably go to bed after writing this.

Anywho! Update on my end o' the year progress. Though I'm still missing my last grade, my year is looking about as thoroughly mediocre as I'd expected. B- in Discrete math, C+ in Differential Equations (Calc 4), and a C- in Programming. The C- is the most suprising, because I'd entirely believed I'd gotten an F! I'd done so terrible in the class I essentially just took the final to prepare myself for taking it next semester when I retake the class. However due to some grading eccentricities, I get a C- instead of an F. This is good news, because my ROTC scholarship has two limitations. 1. Don't get an F or F-equivalent. 2. Don't drop below a 2.5 GPA. The F likely would have broken both, suspending my scholarship.

Needless to say, bad. But somehow I got lucky and pulled through, leaving me safe for next semester! Good news indeed.

Add that to knowing I'm top 3 in my ROTC class heading into FTP semester, I am essentially assured a spot at Field Training this summer, which means you can see me in my shiny officer duds come next year. Hua! Teach me some freshman how to march!

Also good news came from my application to Residence Staff. I'd applied to be an RA (and potentially a CA) and was told to expect a response 'by the 22nd.' Which apparently means 'midafternoon on the 22nd.' Anywho, opened to email to be told that I was placed as an alternate! This means that I'm in place for when the people who realize they don't want to be RAs drop, I get their spot. Apparently, almost all alternates get an opportunity at an RA spot. So essentially... I got the job! Now all that remains to be seen if the location of wherever I get assigned to after somebody drops is somewhere I want to be. If it is, I'll be rocking my RA badge next semester and living high off of the fact I'll be going to college for free. (You can thank me later Mom and Dad. :P)

If I don't like it, well, I'll likely be living in North Quad again with the same group of guys. Yes, it's that cozy. :D

And hm... on the home front. My experience with girls continues to be one helluva roller coaster. See, Thanksgiving I basically had a relapse into my post-breakup feelings. However, after I conversation gone wrong later that week between me and Katelyn and her corresponding totally inappopriate cold-shouldering of me (followed by telling me she started dating literally THE biggest tool I know in Army ROTC) the rose tinted glasses came off and I realized she'd been generally a b***h to me for the past 3 months. Yes, the cuss is warranted. :P

This was good though! Because I rapidly got over her, and somehow have managed to pick myself up a new girl in the form of Leslie, a girl from my ROTC. Am I lucky or what? More on that as it develops.

So with that relationship budding slowly, and me laying the foundation this past week for what may be some sort of a lasting friendship with Katelyn after I finally got her out of my head, and life is looking pretty good right now.

Merry Christmas, indeed.