I had a pretty busy weekend.
For the first time since I’ve been back in Kansas I actually had a weekend that was packed full of stuff to do. On Saturday, I went to the homecoming football game against Texas Tech with my brother’s girlfriend, Lauren, who invited me to go since she had three extra tickets and no one to go with. Despite, the game being shitty and losing by 40 points, we had fun and I was glad I got to go (by the end of the game, the stadium on the opposite side in picture 2 was completely empty). I really wanted to go to the KU v.s. K-State game but unfortunately, the game is already sold out - I should have guessed that would happen and bought tickets ahead of time, oh well there is always next football season!
Band playing at the open of the game
KU v.s. Texas Tech
On Sunday, I got up bright and early and headed up to Lansing - a 30 minute drive from me - to see Barry. It was a good visit but then again, I can’t recall when a visit had ever been considered bad or horrible. He gets 1 visit a week, either on Saturday or Sunday (it alternates by week), from 8:30am-4:30pm; I go every other weekend and my day has been on Sunday, so I’ll get there around 8:30 and stay until 4:30 and usually his mom will show up around 12-1pm since she doesn’t like to get up early. That’s fine with me because it gives me the chance to visit with him alone and talk about anything that needs to be talked about that can’t be said in front of his mom. The only thing that sucked about visit this past weekend was the fact that they had outside visiting closed because it was windy and cold outside which meant everyone was inside which made for a very noisy time, but all that matters is that I got to see him and vice versa.
He’s currently working on some legal things with his case and if everything goes as planned and his mom can find the document he needs, there could be a small possibly of him coming home in 2-3 years instead of the 8 he has left. Of course, this is all hypothetical at this point since no one really knows if said document that is needed that could change things for the better actually exist which is why his mom has to call the attorneys office and start asking for it. I pray that things will turn out for the better, but I’m not getting my hopes up - he still has eight years left as far as I’m concerned.
The other good news is that I have a job interview tomorrow at 4pm at the Arts Center for a part time administrative assistant position. I emailed my resume on Friday of last week and got a call on Monday to setup an interview time. I’m really excited about it because I’ve wanted to get out of the retail industry for some time now and if I get this job that will take care of my financial stresses and get me out of retail. Not only that but I found out they have an Open Studio class for people who have experience in developing and printing photography that can sign up for $25 for 2 hours to use the darkroom - even if I don’t get the job, I’m still excited that I found out about this because I’ve been looking all over for a place to develop and print my photographs so I’ll definitely take advantage of this once I find out more information on it. I could spend hours in the darkroom!
At this point in time, I can say that things are going well. I’m doing good in my classes, not really stressed out about any of them and I look forward to enrolling for my spring classes on Friday. Really, I have nothing to worry about at this moment and if anything the only thing dragging me down is this damn cold weather - I should seriously think about investing in an electric blanket because I hate turning the heat on because then I get TOO hot. I’ll update tomorrow about my interview!
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