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May. 11th, 2006 10:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
trinityvixenDo you ever wonder if it's the little things that are going to bring about the apocalypse?
Yesterday, I applied to Columbia's School of Continuing Education instead of just saying "Oh, but I missed pre-registration for the class I want..." which I managed to do for the past two years I've worked here. I may even--gasp!--keep up with the enrollment and take more classes for the next session this summer. Maybe the one after that!
Then, in a fit of responsibility, I mailed thank you cards that were terribly late. But I mailed them! Instead of just assuming the recipients would have given up hoping for them by now. I also straightened up materials for my dental and health insurance and I'm this close to like actually going to see a dentist and a doctor, respectively.
But perhaps the most worrying thing of all: I started playing Animal Crossing. That makes it the first--really? yes! really!--Game Cube game I'll have ever played (I discount Smash Bros. because I hardly ever played the Game Cube version, maybe once, twice?). Not only that, but it's Animal Crossing. The game that's been around me for two years as my roommates built up a town, then built its cockroach-infested, treeless doppleganger on a second memory card as an excuse to live out their fantasies of being fruit mafiosios and letting Liz M occasionally stop by to play ihateyou. But but but! There was a really cute character design. I had to have it!!
Plus, I dunno if anyone noticed my recent postings about video games, but I have minor video game OCD.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
xannoside and feiran probably remember this too well from all those Dynasty Warriors 3 hours logged just to get everyone's weapons (ACK! I NEVER FINISHED THAT!). They were all like "Let's get items to help the characters we want to play!" and I'm all like "MUST GET THE BIG FAT BOY'S FOURTH CLUB-THINGY!!! ZOMG!" Hence, the determination to be worth of Jiminy's not worth-it secret ending in Kingdom Hearts II. Hence the finally cracking down and taking matters into my own hands because the roommates won't get all the bugs, fish, trees, et al that are needed for their town to be perfect and thus worthy of the ultimate collectable item: the golden axe.
It's amazing what you can pick up by just watching. What I can't pick up is a golden shovel and a net and a fishing rod, but give me time...
Yesterday, I applied to Columbia's School of Continuing Education instead of just saying "Oh, but I missed pre-registration for the class I want..." which I managed to do for the past two years I've worked here. I may even--gasp!--keep up with the enrollment and take more classes for the next session this summer. Maybe the one after that!
Then, in a fit of responsibility, I mailed thank you cards that were terribly late. But I mailed them! Instead of just assuming the recipients would have given up hoping for them by now. I also straightened up materials for my dental and health insurance and I'm this close to like actually going to see a dentist and a doctor, respectively.
But perhaps the most worrying thing of all: I started playing Animal Crossing. That makes it the first--really? yes! really!--Game Cube game I'll have ever played (I discount Smash Bros. because I hardly ever played the Game Cube version, maybe once, twice?). Not only that, but it's Animal Crossing. The game that's been around me for two years as my roommates built up a town, then built its cockroach-infested, treeless doppleganger on a second memory card as an excuse to live out their fantasies of being fruit mafiosios and letting Liz M occasionally stop by to play ihateyou. But but but! There was a really cute character design. I had to have it!!
Plus, I dunno if anyone noticed my recent postings about video games, but I have minor video game OCD.
xannoside and feiran probably remember this too well from all those Dynasty Warriors 3 hours logged just to get everyone's weapons (ACK! I NEVER FINISHED THAT!). They were all like "Let's get items to help the characters we want to play!" and I'm all like "MUST GET THE BIG FAT BOY'S FOURTH CLUB-THINGY!!! ZOMG!" Hence, the determination to be worth of Jiminy's not worth-it secret ending in Kingdom Hearts II. Hence the finally cracking down and taking matters into my own hands because the roommates won't get all the bugs, fish, trees, et al that are needed for their town to be perfect and thus worthy of the ultimate collectable item: the golden axe.It's amazing what you can pick up by just watching. What I can't pick up is a golden shovel and a net and a fishing rod, but give me time...
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Date: 2006-05-12 05:23 pm (UTC)Rockefeller is job-related only courses for reimbursement, and only up to something like $8K.
Come play WoW!
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Date: 2006-05-12 07:43 pm (UTC)Columbia has reimbursement for classes that aren't related to your job, but if they are for your job or are graduate level, they're not tax-free. I talked about this with the HR people. We get 7 points a semester to take.