Lots going on!

Lots going on recently... here's my quick attempt while procrastinating on studying for the CPA exam:

• Computer broke. Lost my draft of the exit exam for my program. Luckily it wasn't too far along, but still. Annoying. Paid $150 to have them tell me my computer was broken. Paid $400 for a new laptop (a great deal, but I still don't have that money just laying around). Luckily parents are helping me out!
• Beyond annoyed at my parents for inviting NINE people to my MAcc graduation ceremony. It's NOT like the official commencement... it's like a small, intimate gathering. So inviting the equivalent of 10% of my MAcc program is not exactly going to go unnoticed. I'm so embarrassed. Everyone else is bringing 2-3 people. Awesome. Just awesome. The best part is that my parents were thoughtful enough to email the woman in charge of the ceremony to see if SHE thought it was acceptable to invite that many people... but they failed to ask ME if I thought it was okay. You know, it's only MY graduation. No big deal. I realize that it's really, really awesome that that many family members are willing to fly in to see me at this ceremony, but I just would have appreciated being contacted first.
  
• Going to Pittsburgh this weekend... suuuuuper excited but also trying not to stress about the infinite amounts of work I will NOT be doing while I'm there.
• Saw a movie last night... sneak peek for a movie that'll be out in June. Hilarious at parts, but overall not so great. I already forget the movie title... oops? Anyway, it was fun going.
• Overwhelmed by my mergers & acquisitions class. It's awful. I would have dropped it if i knew of any other good classes to take. but i don't so... here i am. stuck. my group presents a case on thursday and it's killing me. not to mention the punk ass girl that's in my group that i want to strangle. she's the type of person who... well let me just tell you what she did. We present on Thursday. The case was made available online on Saturday afternoon. By Sunday afternoon, she had finished the entire case (at LEAST 3-4 hours of work) and emailed it to our group. Like... I'm sorry, I thought this was a GROUP project? THEN she gets mad when I bring up potential problems with her answers. Like... bia, you could have just waited to do this as a group. Don't get so defensive. UGH. Not my fault you're such a ridiculous overachiever. And she is sending emails to the whole group that are addressed to me... "Britney, you're being contradictory in what you wrote in the last sentence to #7D..." um... okay. whatevs. sorry for trying to help out on our GROUP project. And then we like split up the parts for our presentation via email... how awesome for her that she chose the EASIEST section. Like, what?!?! you had the balls to take over the entire case, including the REALLY hard parts! freaking have the balls to explain it in class!
• speaking of this presentation, i'm terrified. our professor is just... so intimidating. at the end of our presentations, she doesn't just let us sit down. she makes you stand up there and GRILLS you for about 15 minutes on topics we don't really understand. if someone doesn't know the answer, she just stares at you. seriously. she does not say a word. After awhile, she'll just say, "Okay. My next question is..." and never tells us the answer to the first question!!! what the heck! how are we supposed to learn from that?! bizarre. just bizarre.
• the only class i like right now is my governmental/not for profit accounting class which is OF COURSE the one class i dont have any real grades in. like... its the ONE class i could find motivation to study for. we don't get our first grade until 1 week before finals week. omg. what. we also only have 2 grades... a presentation and a case study. sigh.
• i'm over a week behind on the cpa studying. fab.
• i'm trying really, really hard to not be so negative but i just feel like i've been beat down constantly lately. i've just had issue after issue (computer, allergies, M&A group, this graduation drama with my mom, etc.) and i just want to be issue-free for like, a day or two. i know it'll come sometime, but sooner rather than later would be wooonderful.

i'm going to make myself say some good things because this entry has been somewhat emo. let's see...

• my rent is $30 cheaper this month because we didn't have to use the heat so much last month! YAY!
• pittsburgh will be wonderful. pittsburgh will be wonderful. pittsburgh will be wonderful. PLUS donny's roommate bought a 55 inch tv... yesssssssss.
• less than 2 months until graduation!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
• less than 6 months until real money!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

phew