Tonight at sundown begins Hanukkah. I thought that everyone would like to know that information, since everyone's all "Happy Holidays" (which, by the way, gags the living daylights out of me). I cannot stand this season. It used to be from the sheer materialism of it, but now it's not that so much as it is people going around and wanting to cram their seasonal happiness down your throat with their perky lights, their perky smiles, and their perky perkiness.

Then, you have people who want you to give away money and things you really cannot afford to give away. Sorry. I'm a college student. I have to satiate the demands of materialistic societies, and pay for things like textbooks, which promise to be VERY expensive. Very expensive.

Speaking of textbooks, I think it would be a good thing if UCCS published its textbook list for next semester, so I can order the books I need on half.com.

Anyways. Yesterday was not too bad of a day. I was slightly disappointed that I had to come in for one freaking hour, but that's life. I'm here now, and it does not upset me so much, save the fact that I had to wake up at 6/6:45.

I did, however, get to cook (YAY!), which I have not done since around Thanksgiving. Kolokythopita (Zucchini Pie), which is one of my Mom's favorites, and a new meatballs baked with yogurt recipe. Unfortunately, I forgot to consider that I am lactose intolerant before I finished cooking it. Therefore, my tummy does not feel very good. I feel the need to make some kind of desert. Maybe my Koulourakis, which always seem to go over very well. I could make them for work tonight, or something.

This break, I anticipate the opportunity to cook some new things. I do want to try a tyropita (cheese pie), some additional meat recipes, and some additional vegetable recipes. Maybe a desert here and there?

I ordered my CLEP book for ancient history the other day. It should be getting in at Borders sometime soon, and then I can study for what should be my final CLEP exam of college. I seriously will have saved one hell of a lot of money taking those things. I mean, it's like $200 per credit hour, so that would be a $600 class, plus a textbook, plus the time it would take to actually go to class, which all in all would be valued around $1000. I spent $90 to take the test, and $30 for a book. $120. And I have four that count here, so that's almost $4000 I'm saving here. I like thinking ahead and anticipating these things.

I have to start studying for the MCATs here soon, followed by the GRE this summer.
That's really icky.

I need some goals to accomplish in the next four weeks. I did not find a temporary job, unfortunately, so I will not have much money coming in, although I should be getting about $250 in the next two weeks (today and two weeks from today) for work.
So instead, I guess I will have to start looking at some scholarship opportunities. There are a few biology scholarships that I could consider, one is worth $3000 and the other is $2000. Anything to help with next year really would be a good thing.

That's a goal. I think a stream of consciousness goal setting thing would be good right now:

1) Look for scholarships
2) Apply for scholarships
3) Clean out the unnecessary things in my room
4) Give unnecessary things in my room to the Goodwill or Arc
5) Collect paperwork to file taxes
6) Contact Regis for my paperwork for this year
7) Purchase textbooks for next semester
8) Save additional money for Spring Break trip to Las Vegas (oooh. Star Trek Convention!)
9) Cook a lot
10) Watch Star Trek
11) Make one of those lists of things where I learned x in 2006 and will plan to do y in 2007.
12) Realize that such a list has no meaning
13) Rendezvous with Karin
14) Other rendezvous?
15) The End.