17.08.2006, 12:11 am

I got a notification YESTERDAY (5 days before classes begin) that I had a block on my registration. Then I remembered...I never sent in my pre-entrance health record. I never sent in the proof of health insurance or required vaccinations etc. etc. It was all due on August 1st. I am slightly concerned...because I can't remove the block unless they accept that paperwork, and if I can't remove the block I can't do final registration which means I am automatically dropped from all of my courses.

This is totally unlike me. I am buying my parents matching auto decals that are incredibly cute:

Aren't they just the most? My parents have never had anything to be proud of. Well, before now. Anyway, I was picking through the stickers at the bookstore and going "TOO BENT" and "CROOKED" and "TOO FADED" and I must have gone through 50 of them. Jim said, "Colleen, aren't you being a little obsessive?" I replied, "I wouldn't be at UVA if I weren't a little obsessive." I'm more than a little obsessive. I'm crazy obsessive. YOU SAW MY FIVE YEAR MASTER PLAN. I don't fucking play around. I don't miss deadlines, I do things WAY ABSURDLY in advance. I don't forget things, I put them in my day planner, my monthly calendar, my wall calendar, and beg people to NOT LET ME FORGET. So, this is incredibly out-of-character for me and frankly quite humiliating. Forgetting a deadline like that, TOTALLY allowing something to slip your mind, it's irresponsible, immature, and just downright pathetic at the age of 22.

So I am calling the University tomorrow to try and straighten it out. I am hoping to fucking God I don't have to drive up to Charlottesville again this week. Also hoping it doesn't interfere with my waitlisted course. I feel really nervous about it. I am very disappointed in myself. The worst of it is that if something terrible did happen to my student status as a result of this...the one thing my parents have to be proud of would be taken away. Because of my own idiocy.

I planned to go out on Friday and buy an 30gig white iPod, and have been getting all of my music ready for importing. It takes about an hour to burn a CD on Napster, rip it back into iTunes, convert the files to CAA, then rename them all. And I have about 20 CDs to do.

But honestly I'm so disappointed in myself that I really don't feel like doing something special like buying a toy. What kind of attrition is that?

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