Happy June!

It's the middle of the year, so I'm revisiting my New Year's resolutions (see Happy New Year post from January). Let's see if I can remember them:

1. Donate.
2. Keep making good grades.
3. Keep the apartment clean and work on organization.


They seem so easy!

The first goal was to donate twice per month to a different charity (The Jane Austen Maids Foundation, so named because maids during Jane Austen's time received next to nothing, and so were these charities). I've kept this up, with the second donation for May going to Soldiers Angels and the first one in June going to the Best Friends pet rescue organization. But for the second half of the year I will have to slow this down to once a month, and will be decreasing my Netflix subscription to compensate for the donation.

The reason for the change? As of Fall term, I will be attending school full time so that I can participate in things like teaching assistantships and internships, and will need to adjust my expenditures accordingly. In other words, I will be broke. Any loans I do through Kiva will have to be done through relending the money that my previous loans pay back (Kiva team name LunaLend).

But I'm hoping to be able to volunteer more so that I will still be giving time, just not as much money. Not that I was giving much in the first place! But it is actually a great feeling to help even a little, and if even one person also gave a little to one of the organizations, so much the better.

I slipped a little during Spring term on the grades, the second goal. I even got a B, and since it was in a five credit class, it tanked my cumulative gpa. I'm gonna pull it back together for summer. I just really don't like the +/- grading that some professors use. An A is an A, in my opinion. But that's probably just sour grapes, cuz I got an A- in a class.

And no comment on the third goal. I'll deal with that later.


And I think I'm going to add a goal: to take advantage of the university gym (even though I don't like the idea of the cameras) and work out. There's a couple of kickboxing classes this summer, though I would have preferred a salsa class. Maybe they'll have one again in fall.