Thanks to a call from my new landlady (whom I'm quickly starting to adore) Emily and I can move in tomorrow instead of Tuesday! This is good because I can spend all day moving crap after History instead of having to break to go to my evening class.

Getting the bed up three flights of stairs... well, we'll see. We got it into the van I have faith we can get it inside the apartment.

This also means my internet usage will be a little screwy until we get it all set up for ourselves. Oh well. I'm just excited to get moved in sooner.

So, I was randomly reading AOL news stuff when I cam across something that disturbed me greatly.

Tossing Out Old Pillows "In five years, 10 percent of the weight of the pillow is dust mite and dust mite debris," says Dr. Tierno. To fight the mites, he recommends a protective cover for your pillow in addition to using a pillowcase. The National Library of Medicine recommends purchasing allergen-impermeable pillow covers, or replacing your old pillows with synthetic, washable pillows and wash them in hot water weekly. So let's hope the 15 percent of survey respondents who said they never throw away their pillows are making every effort to keep the mites away.

DUST MITE AND DUST MITE DEBRIS, WTF?! (o_O)

There's also this:

Washing Your Sheets Sixty percent of you aren't changing them weekly, which is how often Dr. Tierno recommends -- and that's as long as you have a protective cover to guard against dust mites and debris that build up in your mattress. "You could do it more, but that can be excessive and a waste of water," he says. To the 16 percent who wash their sheets monthly and 10 percent even less than once a month -- you might want to consider changing your bedding more frequently.

Now, I fail in the sheet area, always have, but after this I'm gonna try to do it at least once a month now. As for the pillows... that freaked me out even more because isn't everyone's favorite pillow the one they've had forever?

Needless to say I just changed my sheets and hurled them and my pillows into the laundry area. I'm MacGyver-ing my own stuffing for clean pillow cases. Yes, I know I'm being paranoid. I am also buying new pillows to bring to my apartment this week.

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Well, the good news is my history book came. The bad news is my math book problem is still a problem. The bookstore people actually told me it was better to show up without a book rather than show up with a never-taken-out-of-plastic book that ends up being the wrong one. It feels wrong to me, but since I can't figure out how to contact the teacher (s/he's not on the math faculty, and the only two searches of their name reveals no info on one and an email list and 'tutor' for the other.)

So I guess I'll just show up without one and ask the guy/gal when they show up.

On an unrelated note, Emily and I made Pineapple Upside-Down Cake and did shopping for the apartment. Much was accomplished.

EDIT: It's a guy, according to the class description I looked up. But there is no info on him at all. He's a ghost, apparently.

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I forgot how much I loved that song. Also, I cried a little because of the OT5. I'm not ashamed.

All right, first things first. Old news to some but Trip out East is canceled because even I am sick now. *shakes fist* At least it's just a cold and not the Death Plague everyone else has.

I applied and got accepted to the community college I wanted. I just need to get those darn transcripts over.

I took the placement test this morning and passed into respectable levels of reading, writing, math. So I can't register for classes until tomorrow, but after I do I have 24 hours to pay tuition. (As TODAY, THE 7TH is the actual date tuition is due, this is not actually a bad thing.)

I will be going as a part-time since Korean at the U is 5 credits, and if I took 11 credits at the college (the max for PT) I'd have 16 credits on my plate. Which is a full-time load. My dad finds this reasonable.

Now I just need to find a place to live. Stupid apartments.

Grades are finally up. And I got...

An A!

Somehow the 'term gpa' was 4.0. Which I can't wrap my head around but hey, I'll take it. I guess I didn't totally bomb the oral stuff after all. ^_^


Ps. Yus, the layout has changed. I think it's quite pretty. Props to tinseltown16

So. Last semester we had to get a lame work-in-progress textbook for beginning Korean. We had to do the same for seconds semester, obviously since I'm sure it's going to be one huge book.

Every so often there's a Culture page, and I stared a bit at one of them while I was flipping through. Lo, did my eyes behold a strange sight. Big Bang. A blurb on music, the second half on Kpop, and Big Bang in a photo. Now, they didn't label the picture saying it was Big Bang but I know what I saw. I took pictures as proof.


My camera is kind of lame, but I dare you, tell me that I'm wrong.

( cut for big photos )

Bento-ing was a good idea. Two hours later have made a bento and taken pics/made random video accidentally on purpose. Will post sometime tomorrow, am tired now and need to sleep.

Night all.

So. Am thinking of going back to college. For realz, yo.

There's a lot of stuff to think about. I desperately need to talk to someone about how I go about doing this because I really don't know how. I was a student at UE and then that didn't work so I went home. And then last fall I become a non-degree seeking student at the UofM.

Anyway, I was thinking with the credits I have and the breadth at which I passed them, I should try out Comparative Lit. Major on the 'Cultural Studies' track. With a possible minor in Korean, because that's only four semesters of Korean and two Asian Language and Literature courses 'in one Asian literature/culture related to the student's area of concentration' Which looks like "Topics in Korean Literature" and "Topics in Korean Culture" So...yeah.

The suck part will be all the Gen ed stuff I didn't do like.. science. And probably math since I don't think I got a high enough grade in the one for it to transfer, but we'll see. I did however get an A in Intro to Psych and a B in Intro to Philosophy, so theoretically they should be fine. But like I said I won't really know anything until I talk to people at the U. Aish.

It should be noted that this whole 'becoming a student by Fall' correlates to the strong fleeting hope desire to go Study Abroad in South Korea in Spring Semester 2010 with my friend. Double aish.