ultralaz0r

This past Friday I caught up with my therapist after not having seen her for a few weeks. Instead of the usually talking talking talking, we took some ACTION and worked on my phobia of elevators. I wound up taking the elevator down a floor and up a floor. This has been the first time in over 15 years (excluding the special case of the elevator at the SDSU trolley station) I had even set foot in an elevator. It gave me a lot of self-esteem and the following day (Saturday) I decided to give taking the trolley a try. I took it two stops to Grossmont Center relatively panic free and rewarded myself with a new pair of shoes. Today, Sunday, I took the trolley again to Grossmont Center, since my trip there was cut short the day before (Ryan came and picked me up after he had gone to the Japanese market, which is just a bit past my comfort zone at the moment). I did have a bit of a panic attack on the return trip, when the trolley stopped in the middle of the tracks (that always made me feel nervous in the past) and I got that weird taste/feeling in my mouth as I did the last time Ry and I tried driving out to Kearny Mesa (where the Japanese market and Bird Crazy are) but I stuck through it (I guess I had to!)

In other news, I'm trying not to get sick! I've been surrounded by THE VIRUS (regular influenza), and have thus far remained fairly well. My body is definitely fighting it off, though.

Tomorrow, if I feel well, I will attempt to trolley to SDSU and yell at the cashier's office for still billing me for this fall, even though I've talked to them twice over the phone and have been told that it's "taken care of."

I need to start making money again. I did some transcription work from that, so I'll be seeing a bit of income from that. I'm hoping that a job opportunity I recently inquired about is legitimate. The company is calling for college graduates of linguistics or related fields who'd like to tutor ESL students in Japan over Skype. Boy, that would be great and quite perfect if I am to resume schooling in January.

I'm thinking seriously of changing my emphasis to Applied Linguistics/ESL (rather than Computational) since there are much more employment opportunities in that field, especially locally. I'll see how this next semester goes, wherein I'll actually be taking some rather interesting sounding Applied Linguistics courses.