Numerous Frustrations and My World Has Been Restored

[chelseajmunoz]

I've been forgetting to mention that in the game Timecrest that I love to play there are Twitter accounts for a few of the characters in that particular game. So every time I see tweets from any of the Timecrest characters I engage in discussions with said characters. Sometimes I don't always engage in discussions with every single Timecrest character but I love the fact that fans of Timecrest do have the ability to enjoy more fun with said game on a social media platform like Twitter. Perhaps I'm just a nerd though and this kind of thing is lame to every other human. LOL. In the last blog entry that I’d written Thursday I forgot to mention that that Wednesday evening the Uber driver that a friend and I’d had was awesome. Because my friend and I’d wanted to go to Chick-Fil-A (which is one of my favorite fast food places). And the Uber driver that we’d had told us that next to Chick-Fil-A was a Crispy Cream doughnut shop. I then told the Uber driver that she was telling me things that I didn’t want to hear. And she ended up getting my friend and I a doughnut each. And right now at Crispy Cream, that particular business is having a special where they are selling doughnuts that taste exactly like Nutter Butter cookies. So my friend and I both chose to get Nutter Butter doughnuts which were delicious!! The reason I wanted to make sure I wrote about this particular experience with that particular Uber driver is because said Uber driver getting doughnuts for my friend and I was a small gesture...yet said gesture meant so much to my friend and I. In the last blog entry that I’d written Thursday I also forgot to mention that that same Wednesday evening I’d shared the FB status update that I’d created a few days prior regarding my Mac acting weird. The reason that I shared said FB status update again was because I’d tagged a few of my FB friends in the comments to see if anyone would respond to my cry for help. Shortly after I’d written my last blog entry Thursday I called the financial aid department at the college I’m going to be attending. I told the guy I spoke with at the financial aid department what my situation was and he said that he didn’t know the answer to my question about the grant I’d applied for the college to give me. He then transferred me to the Admissions and Records Department. I told the lady I spoke with at that particular department what the situation was. She said that I wouldn’t qualify for the particular grant I’d applied for since I’m not a resident of this particular state. She then told me that I should talk to the cashier’s office about my financial situation and then she transferred me to said department at the college. I told the lady I spoke with at the cashier’s office that I was directed to call her again. Fortunately she was really kind and helpful, unlike the other people I’d talked to in other departments at the college. She suggested that I contact my VRC, tell him to contact the cashier’s office and speak with a certain person in that department. So right after I’d gotten off the phone with that particular lady at the college I’m going to be attending I called my VRC. Unfortunately though I got his voicemail. So I left him a message telling him what the situation was. In that same voicemail I’d left him I also asked if he’d let me know what the transportation arrangements are going to be for next week. Shortly after I’d left my VRC a voicemail I received an email from the lady at the cashier’s office that I’d been speaking with. The email she’d sent me was something that she’d forwarded to me from the other person she’d contacted about my situation. In that particular email that she’d forwarded me I read something that said that my non-resident fee had been paid. In the same email that the lady at the cashier’s office had forwarded me I was also told that my VRC should call the cashier’s office to straighten this situation out. So after I’d read that particular email I immediately replied to said email. In my reply to said email I let the lady from the cashier’s office know that I’d left a message with my VRC informing him to call the cashier’s department at the college I’m going to be attending. I then sent an email to the academic counselor that I’d met with the previous day. In the email that I’d sent her I told her what had happened the previous evening with regards to me not being able to register for English 101 this coming fall. In the same email I’d sent her I also told her that I’d thought that that had happened because I haven’t taken the prerequisite English course yet. In the same email I’d sent her I asked her if there was a way to override what the system says or whether I’d have to wait until I’ve taken the prerequisite English course to register for this other English course. A little while after I’d sent that particular email to the academic counselor at the college I’m going to be attending I logged onto the post office’s website because I wanted to email that particular business to make sure that my address had successfully been changed. However my phone/BlueTooth keyboard was being a pain in the ass (PITA) and would not let me complete said form. And while I was messing with said form I received a call from my VRC. During his and my conversation with one another he told me what time the cab company would pick me up for next week’s appointment to get my AT evaluation done. He then stated that he was unsure why the college I’m going to be attending has been giving me such a hard time regarding payment for this upcoming summer semester. He then told me that he’d talk to someone at the college and find out what was going on. A little while after I’d gotten off the phone with my VRC I received an email from the lady I’d been in touch with from the cashier’s office at the college I’m going to be attending. In the email that she’d sent me she let me know that she’d get in contact with me if she heard any further updates. Shortly after I’d read that particular email from a lady at the college’s cashier’s office I received a phone call from my VRC. During his and my discussion with one another I told him that I’d met with an academic counselor at the college the previous day and that she and I’d created an education plan for me. My VRC asked if I’d forward the newly created education plan to him so I said that I would. I then told him which state university I chose to attend once I’m done with community college...and he seemed hesitant or maybe even surprised at my choice. I say that he seemed either hesitant or surprised at my university choice because there was a loooooooong pause between when I told him what my university choice was and when he replied to said university choice. LOL. Although I honestly don't know why he reacted in such a way because I didn't choose to go to a private university. I then told my VRC about the recent experience I'd had with a lady in the college's financial aid department when I went to said office to deliver some documents. His response to that part of our discussion was "Well those things are just the nature of the beast that is going to college when you're blind. Everyone pawns us on the OSDs at our colleges...and I guess that's their way of not wanting to be held accountable...but we don't question it. We just go with the flow." When he'd said that, I thought to myself "Maybe you personally don't question things of that nature happening but I'm definitely going to make noise about said experience I had as well as any similar experiences that I'll have in the future." Because while there are many blind people in the world who don't want to rock the boat there are also many blind people in the world such as myself who won't hesitate to speak up when we feel we've been mistreated or when someone is ignorant about something that we as a blind person know a lot about. You know, I used to feel sad when I'd encounter blind people who didn't want to rock the boat. Hell I was one of those blind people myself at one time...but there comes a time when it's like, either you advocate for yourself and others or you get left behind. Either way it's each blind person's choice. Now though I don't get sad knowing that there are blind people in the world who don't want to rock the boat because that just means that there's more room for me to make as much fucking noise about things as I want to make!! And there's real power in that sort of thing. My VRC then asked what I was going to do in terms of housing, given that the particular area I want to go to is incredibly expensive. So I told him that I’d rent a room like I’m doing now or that I’d find a roommate to rent a place with. I told him that going either of those routes doesn’t bother me at all. He then told me that what he’d found out when he’d called the college was that the college’s financial aid department was waiting for me to provide my high school transcripts as well as the other documents that hadn’t been processed by financial aid yet. So I told my VRC that this past Monday was when my high school transcripts were mailed to me. He then suggested that I email the lady from the college’s financial aid department to make her aware of that. So that’s just what I did: once I’d gotten off the phone with my VRC I sent an email to the lady at the college’s financial aid department to give her the same update I'd given my VRC. Shortly after I’d sent her that particular email she emailed me back. In the reply email that she’d sent me she brought up the fact that said financial aid department was waiting for my VRC to pay for my school for this upcoming summer term. I replied to her email letting her know that I’d just spoken with my VRC and he’d told me to contact her with my latest update. In the same email that I’d sent her I also told her that I’d go to the financial aid office at the college as soon as I receive my high school transcripts. In the same email I’d sent her I also made sure to let her know that I’d filled out and submitted the additional paperwork that financial aid had asked me to fill out a week or so ago. Shortly after I’d sent her that particular email I forwarded my new education plan to my VRC. At first though when I input my VRC’s email address into the “to” field my school email account would not let me forward said email. So I then typed my personal email address into the “to” field and put my VRC’s email address in the “CC” field. Fortunately said email was forwarded successfully. Shortly after I’d forwarded that particular email to myself and my VRC I received a call from the insurance company that I’d been assigned as a secondary insurance plan. This time though I answered the call because I wanted that particular business to stop calling me. I told the lady I spoke with at that particular insurance company that I was no longer with said insurance company and that I’d appreciate it if said insurance company would quit calling me. She said she’d update the information that was in said insurance company’s system so time will tell if she was telling the truth or not. A little while after I’d gotten off the phone with a lady from the insurance company I did not want as my secondary insurance plan I called the insurance plan that I’d chosen as my secondary insurance plan. I asked the lady that I spoke with from said insurance company if she’d tell me whether I’d been assigned a doctor or whether I’d need to pick a doctor. Upon looking up my information the lady told me that said insurance company had selected a clinic for me to go to. I then asked the lady if the doctor at said clinic was a male or female and she told me that there were both genders at the particular clinic that had been chosen for me. So I’m hoping that once I’m at said clinic I can tell the clinic staff members that I’d like to always see a female doctor when I go there. So once I’d been given that particular information by a lady from my secondary insurance plan I asked her if she knew how long it would take for me to receive information in the mail from said insurance company. She told me that it would take anywhere from 7 to 10 business days for me to receive my secondary insurance card and anything else that said insurance company needs to send me. Once I’d gotten off the phone with a lady from my secondary insurance plan I called the clinic that had been chosen for me. I waited on hold for several minutes which was frustrating as hell. Although once I was actually able to talk to a staff member at the clinic the lady I spoke with was very helpful. I told her that I’d recently been assigned to that particular clinic by my secondary insurance plan and wanted to see if I could schedule an appointment even though I don’t have my secondary insurance card yet. She asked me whether I knew what my secondary insurance plan was so I told her. I also gave her the insurance information that I do currently have available and she created a chart for me right then. Once she’d created a chart for me she asked if I’d be available to go to the clinic this coming Wednesday evening. I told her that would be great. But before I’d gotten off the phone with her though I had her give me the clinic’s address. So after I’d gotten off the phone with her I put said appointment on my calendar. That way I wouldn’t forget about it. A little while after I'd put my upcoming doctor's appointment on my iPhone's calendar I sent an FB message to a friend of mine who's a Mac user. In the FB message that I'd sent him I asked him if he knew how I could resolve the issue that I'd been having with my Mac. A little while after I'd sent said friend that FB message another friend of mine and I went to Starbucks with one another. I wanted to try a new drink at Starbucks so I did. I tried a white mocha frappuccino and said drink was absolutely amazing! What I usually get from Starbucks is a white peppermint mocha frappuccino or a white peppermint mocha which is hot. I've also gotten a white mocha at Starbucks too. I don't usually get different drinks from Starbucks but every once in awhile I just want something different from Starbucks. So anyway when said friend and I'd went through a Starbucks drive-thru the lady who took our order informed us that it was happy hour. I didn't even know that Starbucks had happy hour so making that particular discovery was great, especially because my friend and I got two medium-sized coffees for the price of one medium-sized coffee! After said friend and I'd gotten back from Starbucks I listened to Christina Aguilera's new song "Accelerate" using Alexa. I think Christina Aguilera's new direction of releasing hip-hop music is going to be a refreshing change from the garbage that's currently on mainstream radio. Yesterday morning I woke up at an early hour because my phone rang. So I grabbed my phone and looked at its caller ID. It turned out that the caller was someone from the college I'm going to be attending. However I figured that it was someone from the financial aid department who'd heard the frustrated message I'd left said department the previous day. Once I'd gotten up for good though I checked my school email and discovered that the academic counselor I'd met with earlier in the week had replied to the email I'd sent her the previous day. In the reply email that she'd sent me she informed me that she'd done a temporary override in the school's computer system in the hopes that I'd be able to register for English 101 in the fall. So immediately after I'd read the academic counselor's email I logged onto my school's website and went to the "register and pay" link. Once I'd double-tapped that particular link I entered in the Class Registration Number (CRN) for English 101. When I'd submitted those changes I realized that I still was not registered for that particular class. So I read through the page again and located a popup menu that had the word "none" selected. I then double-tapped said popup menu and found another option that I could select which was "wait list." So I selected the "wait list" option then I replied to the academic counselor's email letting her know what had just happened when I'd attempted to register for English 101 in the fall. While I was logged into my school email account I noticed that I'd received a couple emails that were specifically from the college I'm going to be attending. One of those emails wanted me to complete a survey so that the Counseling Department at the college could know how I felt about those particular services. The other email that I'd received at my school email account was informing me that the school's server had been down for some time today for people who were off-campus. So I guess since I'm receiving other emails from the school now that means that I'm officially a student at that particular college. Cool!! A little while after I'd sent that particular email to the academic counselor I received an FB message from the friend that I'd reached out to the previous day who's a Mac user. In the FB message he'd sent me he told me that I should check in the navigation settings to make sure that my VoiceOver (VO) cursor was not set to follow the mouse. So that's just what I did: I checked the navigation settings as said friend had suggested...and my VO cursor was not set to follow the mouse. However I did stumble on other settings within that same menu that's checkboxes should not have been checked. For example there was one particular checkbox in the navigation settings that said something like "cursor follows keyboard." And that particular checkbox was checked. So I unchecked said checkbox and I'm pretty sure that that's what stopped my Mac from jumping from place to place. Shortly after I'd resolved that particular Mac issue I listened to a playlist that was on Amazon Music where Christina Aguilera talks about some of her favorite songs that she's released as well as some of her favorite songs that other artists have released. Of course how Christina Aguilera has promoted said playlist on her FB though was great. She said something like "This particular playlist is going to be commentary on the new album that I'm going to release soon." So of course because of the way I'd read about that particular album's upcoming release and given what a huge Christina Aguilera fan I am I was hooked upon hearing her promotion of said new album. I listened to the entire playlist and can say that Christina Aguilera's promotion of said playlist definitely did its job. What I mean in saying that that particular playlist did its job is that I'm far more interested in Christina Aguilera's new album release than I was before I'd listened to the playlist that's on Amazon Music...and the crazy thing was that there was only the one song "accelerate" on the playlist that was from her new album. LOL. She's sure doing things right this time around, that's all I can say. A while after I'd listened to Christina Aguilera's recent playlist that's on Amazon Music I went to CVS Pharmacy to pick up my prescription that that particular business had filled for me. While I was there I told the lady who'd helped me that she'd probably need to change my address to my PO box for insurance billing purposes. Surprisingly though she informed me that it didn't matter what my current address was because according to her, CVS Pharmacy had already billed my insurance company. While I was at CVS Pharmacy though I also told the lady who'd helped me that I now have a new secondary insurance plan. I also told her though that I don't have my secondary insurance card yet. So she told me that whenever I receive my secondary insurance card I should bring said insurance card to CVS Pharmacy so that they'll have it on file. This morning I woke up because I heard my school email account alert me that I had an email. So I looked at who the email I'd received was from and it turned out that the academic counselor at the college that I'd met with several times had emailed me. In the reply email she'd sent me she told me that she'd recommend taking myself off of the waiting list for English 101 in the fall because it's a hassle for the student to keep checking the computer every day to see if he or she has been given a code to register for said class. In the same email that she'd sent me she also said that I could definitely register for an English 101 course with no problem because there are tons of those particular classes available at the college I'm going to be attending. So once I'd read the email she'd sent me I logged onto my school's website and dropped that particular English 101 class. Once I'd successfully dropped that particular English 101 class I searched the college's catalogue to find an English 101 class that I could register for without any problems. Fortunately I found one. And once I'd found an English 101 course I registered for that particular course successfully. Yay!!