A Long Day, Hopes And Continued Frustrations

[chelseajmunoz]

In the last blog entry that I'd written on Tuesday I forgot to mention that when I'd went through the mail I'd received there was one thing I didn't mention having received. I forgot to mention that I'd received two books that were in print of course. The print books were from my insurance company. Ugh, so frustrating!! So I'm going to have to call my insurance company at some point to request that said business communicate with me through email rather than print. Although I'll need to look up my insurance company's phone number first because I don't know what it is. Yesterday morning I got up and got dressed so that I could go to the college I'm going to be attending. I wore one of my favorite dresses because I wanted to look nice for myself just because I could look nice. Since a friend of mine had school yesterday as well the two of us took an Uber together to go to school. However the Uber driver that said friend and I had at that time sucked. My friend and I'd actually had that particular Uber driver before and neither of us thought very highly of her. In fact I'm pretty sure that I wrote about said Uber driver when my friend and I'd had her the time before last. So anyway the reason that particular Uber driver sucked was because she strictly uses Apple Maps when numerous customers of hers (including my friend and I) have told her how unreliable Apple Maps is. Both times that my friend and I've gotten her as our Uber driver my friend and I've both told her that Google Maps is far more accurate than Apple Maps is. Each time said friend and I'd told her that, she acted like she agreed with us. Yet she still refused to use Google Maps. So yesterday when she'd taken my friend and I to the college I'm going to be attending, my friend and I just let her do what we knew she was going to do anyway. Then when she'd dropped off my friend and I at the spot of the college that we'd asked her to drop us off at, my friend and I discovered that she hadn't even dropped us off close to where we needed to get off which was frustrating as fuck. However it was nice to do some walking so I didn't mind the extra walk. Once my friend and I'd walked to the OSD at the college I'm going to be attending I went inside the OSD building. Right away the person who'd helped me when I went to the OSD the first time helped me again. I told her that i needed to go to the Financial Aid Office as well as the Transcripts Office to check whether both of those departments had received everything they needed from me. I then told her that a friend of mine had told mE that there's a guy at the college who drives around on a golf cart that takes students to and from wherever he or she needs to go. Right away she knew exactly what I was talking about and called the transportation guy. A little while after she'd called the transportation guy at the college I'm going to be attending, the transportation guy arrived at the OSD. Once I'd introduced myself to said transportation guy he took me in a golf cart where I needed to go. On the way to where I needed to go though I had a great conversation with the transportation guy. During his and my conversation with one another he told me what he was going to school for. It turned out that he was going to school for the same exact thing that I'm going to school for which made me really happy. Because I've never met anyone who shares my exact goal regarding what it is that I want to go to school for. Interestingly the transportation guy also told me that since the college I'm going to be attending doesn't have the exact field he wants to major in he had to change his major to something that was along the lines of what he actually wants to major in. So I'll probably change my current major from "undeclared" to "sociology" at least while I'm attending this particular college. Fortunately both places that I needed to go were in the same building as one another. The first place I went to though was the Financial Aid Office. There was a bit of a line to wait for someone from said office to help me. However I didn't mind waiting because I felt like I was on a mission to get things done that needed to be done. So once I'd been told that it was my turn to see a guy in the Financial Aid Office I told him that I'd received two print FAFSA applications when I'd already reviewed and signed both FAFSA applications online. The guy in the Financial Aid Office who was helping me then asked me when I'd filled out my FAFSA applications. I told him I'd filled out each FAFSA application on February 22 and that I'd signed each FAFSA application on February 23rd. He then told me that he knew exactly what had happened: according to the guy in the Financial Aid Office, since I'd submitted each FAFSA application without my signatures the FAFSA business had sent me each FAFSA application in the mail by default. However the guy at the Financial Aid Office told me that since I'd signed each FAFSA application the day after I'd submitted each FAFSA application, everything would be fine. He then told me that I didn't need to do anything at this point but wait for the college I'm going to be attending to contact me once said college receives my financial aid applications. Shortly after I'd finished taking care of my business at that particular office the transportation guy and I walked to the Transcripts Office. Unfortunately though no one was at that particular office and the office door was even locked. So then the transportation guy and I walked with one another over to Admissions and Records to ask that particular department about whether they were still waiting to receive my transcripts from Austin Community College (ACC). The lady I spoke with from Admissions and Records told me that the college I'm going to be attending had not yet received my transcripts from ACC. That was a bummer but I didn't regret going to the college to check the status on things. After I'd taken care of everything the transportation guy and I went back to the OSD. Since my friend was still in class at that point though I hung out in the OSD for some time. While I was in the OSD I received a call from a number I didn't recognize. I didn't answer the call though. When my friend came to the OSD after his class had finished he told me that he'd seen that student services had indeed posted my female roommate wanted ad in a couple different places of the college. However my friend also told me that student services had posted my female roommate wanted ad in places of the college that were close to one another which was frustrating. However a friend of my friend's who was with my friend at the time said that she'd talk to the student services people and ask if they'd post my female roommate wanted ad in different areas of the college in the hopes that I'd get more responses from people. Shortly after I'd finished talking to my friend's friend, the friend that I'd went to the college with and I left the college using Uber. Once my friend and I'd left the college we ran a couple errands. Then once we'd gotten to his place to hang out for a bit I received a text message from the lady whose house I was supposed to check out. In the text message she'd sent me she asked if we could either change the time she and I met that evening or if we could reschedule our meeting for the next day. I immediately replied to her text message saying that it would be fine for us to change the time we were scheduled to meet. So she and I'd scheduled to meet with one another later in the evening. After I'd arranged a different time with the lady whose house I was going to see I texted one of my friends. The friend I'd texted is the mother of a little girl that I wanted to make a customizable white cane for. However after talking back and forth with the little girl's mother about things that her little girl might love I decided to get her a different birthday present instead. In one of the text messages that I'd exchanged with the little girl's mother I told her that I love her three kids to death and that I wanted to do what I could to make all of the kid's birthdays special. A little while after I'd finished exchanging text messages with my friend it was time for me to leave to go see the lady's house that I'd arranged to see. So my friend and I took Uber to said lady's house. However the lady's house was so hard to find that I ended up calling the lady a couple times to ask her exactly where she lived. The lady whose house I was going to see ended up talking to my Uber driver because I didn't want to keep being the go-between just to try and figure out where said lady lived. Fortunately though talking to my Uber driver was helpful enough for my Uber driver to eventually find where the lady's house was located. Once my Friend and I'd arrived to the lady's house the two of us verified with the Uber driver where the lady's house door was so that we weren't just walking around with one another aimlessly. As my friend and I were walking up the lady's driveway the lady opened her door for us. The door that we entered into the lady's house from was actually her house but we walked through her house to where the studio was. Surprisingly the studio was fairly big. There was already some furniture inside of the studio which was neat. There was even a private entrance where whoever lived in the studio could exit privately. On top of a private exit/entrance there was a gate right outside of said exit/entrance that opened up with a remote control. Through said exit/entrance there was also a patio with chairs that people could sit outside in which was nice. Once my friend and I'd come back inside of the studio from the patio I told the lady whose house this was that I really felt like I could see myself there. The place felt very homey and safe to me and I liked the kind of person that she seemed to be as well. She and I then talked about some of our values with one another and the two of us learned that we had similar values where not wanting to live with males and not wanting to live with drinkers or smokers was concerned. However she then dropped a bombshell on me which was that she'd already had some people who were interested in renting the studio from her. She said something like "I was going to tell you to just cancel coming over here tonight but something told me to go forward with meeting you." To be honest I couldn't even be upset at what the lady had said because I just loved the place so much. Safety is my number one priority in looking for a place to live. Before my friend and I'd left the lady's house the lady told me that she'd let me know by the next evening what her decision was going to be. I told her that I hoped she'd reconsider having me as a tenant because I'm a responsible person. After my friend and I'd said our goodbyes to that lady, the lady told the two of us that she had some paperwork that she'd like for me to fill out. So I took the paperwork just in case she'd decided to allow me to be a tenant at her house. Although I'm already counting that particular place as a loss I really want to be wrong. I really want for the lady whose house that was that I'd seen last night to choose me as her tenant. This morning when I woke up I checked my email. It turned out that I'd received an email from the college I'm going to be attending. However the email I'd received from the college I'm going to be attending was a general email saying that the email I'd sent to the Counseling Department was sent to an email address that no one ever checks. Well isn't that lovely? LOL. I then read an email that was from Bookshare customer service. In the email that Bookshare customer service had sent me I was told that I didn't need to take any further action if my issue had already been resolved by Bookshare. I'm guessing that that particular email was referring to the fact I'd initially contacted Bookshare regarding my membership with said business. I don't know for sure though because I could've been contacted by Bookshare regarding the fact that I'd recently put in a book request for the book called Goodbye Ed, Hello Me to be put on Bookshare's website. I'll probably never know the exact reason why Bookshare contacted me this time around though because no one left a voicemail on my phone nor did the email I'd been sent this morning specify why I'd been sent said email to begin with. A while after I'd read through the emails that I'd been sent this morning I emailed the Manager at my old apartment complex because I wanted to know why I'd received so little money back from the security deposit that I'd put down on that particular apartment. In the email I'd sent the Manager of my old apartment complex I asked her for an itemized document with all of the things that that particular apartment complex had charged me for as well as why that particular apartment complex had charged me for said items. I'm prepared to not even receive a response from my old apartment complex though because that particular apartment complex has never truly been helpful to me.