In Which I Feel the Urge To Hit Someone

Posted by LSama on Jan 12th, 2009 in Family | 0 comments

First of all, let me apologize–I’d meant to put a post up about Windows 7, but instead, it went on my Livejournal, as I accidentally(and inadvertently), broke Rulihe the other day. Oops!

But that’s not what this post is about. This post is going to start out about college and then work it’s way towards my family. Stick with me.

I woke up today because Orientation for both New Students and Medical students to AACC was today. Medical was at 10, so I woke up at 8:30, got up, had breakfast, got dressed, and went to college. After that, I went to Testing to take my placement tests, both English/Reading and Arithmetic. Passed the English, but I failed the Arithmetic by 4 questions. :( So I’ve got to go back and retake it, but it’s not an emergency. That done, I went to Financial Aid, spoke with them, had to run back over to Registration, where I got told I needed to fill out some paperwork to switch around my class schedule.

So I got started on that only to realize it was nearly 2, panic, and run over to the other orientation, which was pretty long in and of itself. Once that was through, I went back to registration, finished filling out the paperwork, then went BACK to Financial Aid, where I got my book voucher and got my books foooooor:

Student Success(Actually, I didn’t get this book. Roommate has it, hooray!)
Intro to Psychology($75, USED, good grief!)
Medical Terminology($60, and I can’t wait to actually sit down and start reading it. *-*)

So…that done, I treated me and the roommate with Taco Bell with the last of my Christmas money, which I probably shouldn’t've done, but I wanted to. We came home and after eating, I called my mother.

I told you all of that so I could tell you this:
While on the phone with my mother I discovered that Travis, the brother that I rarely get to talk to, was there, so I asked to speak with them. At one point, the conversation went like this:

Me: So I’m basically going to become a Medical Assistant.
Travis: Why don’t you just go ahead and go for the whole thing and become a nurse?
Me: Because I don’t want to be a nurse. They’re on their feet all day and–
Travis: God, you are so lazy.
Me: ….Fuck you.
Travis: Well you are!
Me: Well you know, at least I’m trying to go to school and get a real fucking job.
Travis: I’ve had a real job since I was 17.
Me: Just give the phone back to Mom.

….Travis’ ‘real’ jobs have included working for a grocery store and basically doing hard, thankless, boring labor all of his life. Now, I understand that we need hard labor workers in this country and I’m not saying that it’s a bad thing, but let me put it this way: Would you continue working hard, thankless labor if someone offered to PAY FOR YOUR COLLEGE?

FUCK. NO. When we moved to GA and I started going back to college, Mom begged Travis to go back to school, telling him that she’d pay for it and everything. Did he? Nope. I think he might’ve tried a course or two, but failed it because he just wasn’t interested in it.

Every time I talk to Travis, he always tells me how I need to get out into the real world and everything, but apparently, I’m fucking lazy for deciding to spend the next at least two years, probably, in school. :D Thanks, Travis. Fucker.