Status Updates

I just realized that I'm not a frequent status updater. On Facebook, I have 'friends' who update their status multiple times a day or sometimes several times within an hour. I am not one of those people. I rarely feel like I'm doing something significant to post a status update about it. I mean, no one really cares that I just e-mail my parents and now I'm watching a re-run episode of the Sopranos and I'm about to take a nap since I only got a few hours of sleep tonight (see my previous posts about my insomnia problems). But I started thinking about my reasons for updating my status. I usually post a new status when there actually a story behind the statement I am making. I think I secretly, or at least subconsciously, want someone to then comment on my status so that I can proceed to post a follow-up comment explain the circumstances or story that lead up to the status in question.

Perhaps a better way to deal with my desire to tell stories about the circumstances and events in my life would be to actually blog about them. I know that my blogs don't have to be very long. There is no minimum word count requirement to post a blog. So I resolve to post an explanation here everytime I feel the urge to update my Facebook status. Then along with my summary statement I can post a link to the blog post here so that anyone who cares at all about my status can read the rest of the story if they so choose.

Now that you all (e.g., both of you) understand how this is going to work, look for posting coming soon regarding my most recent status updates:

1. Melatonin is my new best friend
2. I rode my bike to campus. It was pretty awesome.
3. I just finished spraying Lysol on everything i have touched in the house in the past few days. I even sprayed my steering wheel and gear shift in my car! I really hate being sick so I'm determined NOT to get swine flu.

Ok, so in the last one (#3) i kind of already told the story in the status update. But I do have more thoughts on the issue. Right now I'm going to take a nap before I go pick up my order from Athens Locally Grown and then go to Atlanta!

Registration Blues

I'm so excited about my last full-time semester here at UGA. Classes start on Monday so everything in Athens is kind of building up--kids moving in dorms, a little more traffic, people milling around downtown, etc. I, however, am running around frantically from office to office trying to get registered! I won't go into the whole story, but here's the summary. I found out mid-July that I wasn't eligible for Fall 2009. I got all my paperwork filled out and approved and still couldn't register. Finally the registrar's office fixed it so I could register but only for that day and I can't register myself so it didn't get done. This week my status in the system still says ineligible and people fixed it this morning. Now I'm just waiting for the program office to actually register me for my classes so that I can be awarded financial aid and get a certificate of enrollment from the registrar proving I am in school so I can defer on my previous student loans! (Big Sigh - how do you type that?) All this bureaucracy gives me a headache. Hopefully it will all be done today. Then I will be buried in books for the next 4 months!