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I recieved that reception pricing pamphlet from the Hampton Inn. There is on slight glimmer of hope. If we decide to have the wedding on a friday, the food order minimum would change from $4000 to $3000.  The room rental fee would also go down from $2000 to $1800. These prices are still very expensive for our budget, but not entirely out of the picture.

I’m not sure if I have mentioned that my fiance is not going to working for six months in the next year. He is going to be doing a full time internship in order to be a licensed alchol and and drug counselor. I am very proud of him. This means however, that he is not going to be able to save up any money for these six months, and possibly longer because he needs to take a test afterwards that is only available three times a year.

I might take out another student loan to help cover the expenses. These decisions are stressful, and I want to be sure that I am making the right ones. I wish that I was out of college and had a job.  The average salary for the writing jobs that I am looking into is around $40,000 a year. It’s not the high, but it’s better than most jobs around this area. Once I graduate I think that if I found a job that paid this much I wouldn’t be so stressed out about having to pay back student loans. My fiance’s career field looks to be about the same.

I am coming to the realization that I am an adult. I can not tely on my father any more to manage my finances. I think this really hit me after I got engaged. My father still pays for many of my bills, including my cell-phone and car insurance. On the bright side, Matt and I will be able to combine these things. I don’t think that teenagers realize just how easy they have it. I am discovering just how easy I have had it. Even so, I’m still happy and excited for what the future holds.

Spring Break went by fast. 

I still haven’t finished reading “As I Lay Dying” by William Faulkner. I have a midterm in American Literature on Tuesday, and I work three shifts at JcPenney’s before then. It’s my own fault for procrastinating so much on the reading.

After I read “As I Lay Dying”, I still need to complete “The Also Rises” by Hemmingway, a novel that shows the affects that World War 1 had on society. Hemingway started “The Lost Generation” Literary movement. It focused cynical attitude toward life and mortality.

I have done the other readings, including “The Waste Land” by T.S. Eliot, “The Other Two” by Edith Wharton, and many works from Robert Frost. I am going to review “The Waste land” because it is so complex. Eliot is a master of allusions, and it shows in this poem. I feel some what confident about the exam. I took American Literature 1 last semester with the same professor, and she is designing the exams in the same format. Essays are usually my strong point, but I am worried a little bit about the mulitple choice.

I don’t work until 1 PM tommorow, so I should try to get some reading done tonight. I’ve never been one to pull all nighters, and I doubt that I ever will. However, in situations like these where I have a lot to do in a short amount of time it couldn’t hurt to put in the extra effort.

This is my first midterm of the semester, so maybe that’s why I am stressing out so much over it. As a matter of fact, I don’t think that any of my other course even have midterms. I have done a couple of exams in Physical Science, which are comparable to the work in a midterm, except we have five of them a semester. We are getting into the workshop portion in my Literature class, but my story is not do for a couple of weeks. There are no tests in Poetry. We are expected to do a sufficient amount of work throughout the semester, which I find appropriate for the type of class.

Then of course there is my Weblogs and Wikis class. This blog is comparable to a midterm and final wrapped into one. It can take a lot of motivation, but I think that is good for me as a writer to get my feelings out “on paper” so to speak. Putting time and work to review what I am learning also makes me take a step back and look at what I am doing wrong. When typically slacking off, it is easy to repress of forget about your studies. You can’t slack off when working on a blog that documents your coursework.