The last few weeks were flying by...time for changes and one began to take shape. There were days when it all stood still and now and then one when a sudden leap happened and I found myself on a new route. Would it work out? Would it be worth the effort? Time to shove second thoughts aside and just get 'er done. Changes--some I was leaning toward but still very uncertain. I do tend to be a stuck-in-the-rut type person. All too often, Taureans are creatures of habit. Would it really be worth the effort? Hush, just do it.
May 6, 1969 Monday
The AT&SF is rolling--I really knocked myself out on it this weekend. I am not very pleased with it though with each reading it looks a little better. I guess I won't hang my head too low. Now for the other one and then my Dapr projects. That will be quite a go-round, I reckon. It is mighty windy this morning. I am cutting marketing, mainly just too lazy to get my carcass down there and I really wanted to go over that paper once more.
Only four more weeks now. I've got to get on the stick and get my summer plans worked out but right now I'm sort of waiting on Mary and Judy. Judy seems to feel it's all systems go. I figure I'd better get a job so I'll be sure to have enough money. Actually the folks still owe me $196 with all the horses and saddles subtracted from the balance, but I don't imagine I'll get it any time soon. That would fix me for the summer, but I'll just have to earn it myself.
I'm presently sending out some inqueries about housing and jobs. For sure I can swing 1st session with Judy but I'd like to do a little better than that. After my second paper, I've got to begin sorting and packing. I really need another trunk but may not be able to afford it. I'll have to see. I won't be selling back many books this time. And I really need to have two teeth pulled. That's at least $12.00 and probably more. Need new glasses too. Oh money, it is the rattiest stuff. Screws up everything. Well, I'd better be getting ready to go. It's nearly quarter 'til and I don't want to be late. (ha ha).
May 9, 1969 Thursday
And now big paper number 2 is done. And I am proud of it. It's neat and well written, at least as far as I can judge it. After being dismally depressed for awhile I feel pretty good this morning. Now, if I can get one or two of my programs to run and if I get some mail, I'll be real cheerful. Looks like I'll have to go to Cottonwood if I want my $50. That kind of ticks me off but that is how people are.
Tonight I guess I'll get dressed up and go hear Miss Reckner's talk. I think Michal Ann is going. So that means I'd better do my research for that managment report this morning and then I can spend the afternoon in the computer lab. And sometime I've got to write a marketing case and do an accounting problm for tomorrow. Would you believe only 22 more days??
Gee, that's something else and I've stil got a lot to do. But it's such a relief to have those two term paaers done. The damn Data Processing ...but I'll get it done just by plugging along I'd sure. Like to have a 1 on that class, I can't possilby get a 1 in Accounting and probably not in Finance so I need all I can get. I've got Management and Marketing sewed up unless I really goof bad and I think I've earned a 1 in Tech/Report Writing so that leaves Dapr and Finance to struggle with while I do the best I can in Accounting. I've got to get preregistered pdq. If Dr Downum does not call me I'll try to run up tomorrow right at 1:30 and get started anyway. I still can't decide about a major and that's bugging me. I go eenie, meanie between accunting and marketing. Oh fudge.
Later: Well, its been quite a day. I'm $135 richer thanks to Uncle Dan and Chief's new people. I safely mailed it to my account and it should be deposited tomorrow. I went up to see Dr Downum. He is really a great old boy and I like him loads. His advice, and getting the money decided me to move off campus, I bought a paper and I've got a list of numbers to call in the morning. Saturday I'll go see any possibilities. I just can't see running down to Nancy's ths weekend. I may call her though, out of courtesy.
Guess I should go wash my hair. Maybe I will and braid it and curl the ends. Oh, my posters came, too. Leonard Nimoy for Judy is in color and my Good and Bad are pretty cool. Guess they were worth the $4 after all. I'm bushed. Tomorrow is going to be busy even if I have got my papers done so maybe I'll just shower and turn in for a ittle extra shut-eye. It's really not all that early
Obviously I let the major issue ride. And why Marketing and Accounting? I cannot recall at all but those seem rather unlikely. Yes, accounting of the forensic type for pre-law but Marketing?? How to sell yourself to others maybe because I always whined I could not sell fridges on Fuji Island or stoves to the Eskimos. Management might make more sense. But then I was wanting to back off from all the business stuff. It had lost all appeal. That took a little longer. However, I did dive into the project of finding an off-campus residence and that happened about the end of this semester.
Pictures? That is a challenge here. Looking back to the same period a year before, I think how different my life had become in just twelve months. I remember helping Mary pack her things which she sent ahead to Tucson on the bus. Morton Hall had been home since September 8, two different rooms and roommates.
Then a night or two before or after that, I had gone out with Dusty, little knowing it would be the last time I would. The Little Bluebird--so many good memories but some sadness too. "Never" is such a dark, hard, final word when it covers a keen pain of loss. Some you can never forget.
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