damn the man

or in case, the mom. my mom. she sucks. she managed to worry me slightly about housing next year, which no one else has been able to do. now, i'm not really that worried, but she did bring up a couple good points. the whole situation is pretty much decided by now, i'm gonna be moving off campus with mike. jared has other friends in aron that he's going to room with, and ryan's going abroad for a semester, so they're not coming with us. not that either of them were incredibly enthusiastic to begin with. so it'll be mike and me. which is great, of the three, he's the one i get along best with (not by much, but enough). we're really a lot alike, which is good in that we won't annoy each other, but bad in that neither of us will set a good example about schoolwork for the other. so there's a good chance nothing will get done next year. oh well, such is the price you pay. so now we have to find somewhere to live. i'm not worried about actually finding a place, there's a lot out there. the only problem is finding somewhere cheap. most places are looking to be about $600 a month each, or more. that's not an insane price, but my mom didn't really like hearing it, which makes me slightly worried. i know i'll figure it all out, but she was talking about having to get more than one job, and all these extra costs that i'll need to factor in. so now of course i'm thinking about it. i mean, i'm pretty positive that i'll be able to make enough, but it might happen that i have enough to cover rent, and that's about it. i'd like to be able to go out sometimes, or have a little money to spend. i suppose i'll get another job this summer, working at walmart or something (hate the place, but they pay pretty good). then if i don't go out much this summer, don't buy tons of movies again, i'll have a decent amount for next fall. and then i'll probably work in the polisci department again during the day between classes, and find something else for the evenings. i suppose i could get mike to hire me at the doughbowl, but his hours are a little crazy. but he pulls down bank there, so i guess it's a trade off. really, i'd like to find a restaurant or maybe somewhere like blockbuster, but i don't know if that'd pay enough. ehhhh, i'll figure it out. or go into massive debt, drop out of school, and spend the next ten years living in my parents basement, working at the theater. now that'd be fun.