basically, i got home and found aziza and her luggage in the living room watching one of the three tapes containing general hospital episodes ever since she left on her trip to europe december 14'th (i think). it really scrolled my perimiters, and i finally realized that things really are going back to normal.

a lot of confusion ensued regarding jessica and rent, etc but i suppose it is all sorted out now to some satisfaction. me and jessica were under the impression that as long as jessica paid rent for january, she would occupy what is normally aziza's (or gabriels..) room for the duration of the month.

well. as we didn't have a lot of time to discuss this before aziza left, she was under the impression that jessica would be moving out as soon as she found a place to rent and most likely be gone by the time aziza returned so that aziza could once again inhabit her room.

you see the clash here, right?

in the end, jessica moved out of the room and back into mine, aziza moved back into her room, i moved back out on the couch in the living room, and jessica is to pay a quarter of the rent for these two first weeks of january. she's attempting to leave for her own place towards this upcoming weekend, and already has had one interview with a girl looking for a roommate this afternoon.

my head is still spinning a bit from it, and i feel bad for unknowingly having lead jessica to believe that she'd be able to stay here all month, but all and all, this is how it is, and i am absolutely confident she will be nicely settled into her own place within the next few days. life. it's spinny sometimes.

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i also attempted to sort out the clogged toilet, with little success. after a failed mission to harris teeter (during which i lost my handheld tetris game! eek!! it is seriously messing me up just thinking about not having the game to resort to when i'm going nutty and need to focus on something else. bah!) to find something aggressive designed to burn its way through our clogg and destroy earth as we know it.

after an emergency call to angela for support (garrett picked up the phone and told me a story that lasted minutes before angela realised somebody had called and was on the line - hilarious!), we called maintenance, and i placed a plastic container in the bathroom for the night just in case. i'm not secretly known as pee-girl for nothing. they were supposed to show up this morning, but were a no-show an hour and a half after the time they promised to be there, so i'm thoroughly hoping they showed up while i've been here at school.

bah. clogged toilets.

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other than that, i am so impressed with me today and what i got accomplished that i mostly resemble a glowing disco-ball, or at least the picture of tori above (except that i'm fatter, and have pink purple hair, and.. uh.. okay, forget it.)

Checklist:
• get work visa application - done!

• check that the teacher who gave me an incomplete back in fall 1998 had given me a grade this past december before it turned into an F - done! HE GAVE ME A -B-!!

• get library card that means i can check out books from any school library in the area, including unc's davis library which is so pretttty - done!

• get school id card validated - done! spring 2000.. oooo

• pay tuition - done! the clerk thought she had made a mistake when she saw the sum, until she realised i must be out of state.. ouch.

• see that my community service hours were counted - done! i have 188 hrs. you only need 120 hrs during your 4 years, and i'm only a junior. i'm alllll done, baby!

• ask advice and complete battle plan on how to make the class i attended but apparently wasn't enrolled in count - done! i'm writing the snippy professor a letter. that way i won't have to fear his foul mood, or me getting all nutty and unable to fully make the requests i need to him, etc. a bit cowardly, sure, but if it gets it done better than turning me into a mess for 2 days like our meeting monday, i'm alll for it.

• make appointment with school health counseling - done! i'm scheduled for friday afternoon. it's a bit scary, and nothing may come out of it, but facing my nuttiness is definitely good.

• add the class i failed last semester - done! the class is actually full, but the teacher added me and another girl anyways. now why is it i fail her class and yet she seems to harbor no ill feelings whatsoever, while this other asshole acts like an idiot when it's not my fault i wasn't on the roll for his class? bah.

• discuss and confirm with the guy running my school's online stuff so that he will create an account for me to load the school paper into - done! he asked me what my weapon of choice in web design was and i answered notepad. his response? 'oooo, you're such a bad-ass! excellent.' *shrug* whatever. heh.

• get signed up by my professor so that hopefully i'll get $75 for being the online designer and editor of the campus echo - done! yes. thrilled. :)

i'll stop now, haha, but see why i am exploding in all sorts of particles? it's like i regained the power to do. i feel responsible, and having accomplished so much with no negative responses along the way, i feel as green and textured as a five-dollar bill.

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other than that, there is a blood drive tomorrow, and i need to get home and pop an iron pill so they don't reject me when i go to donate. i also have a zillion more things i need to do, such as actually buy text-books, but hah. it'll be fine. *deep breath*

hopefully all with sort itself out for the best for jessica. hopefully the dreadful flu staggering around in gene will fold soon enough so we can say hi. hopefully all is well. and mostly..: