Meditations

Well. I'm still awake. I'm cultivating my insomniac tendencies nicely. Those thoughts running through my head has not made sleep come easily, at all. In a month, everyone will be returning to college, a few thousand dollars deeper in debt, a little older and more excited about the future. I'm wondering if I'll return to that image come August, or January. Or at all. So far, here's what I've gotten planned for myself:By August 1st:Clear up the financial situation with VR and Gallaudet; Get transcriptEnroll in one of those community colleges around hereGet hired. Hopefully, not at a dinky-ass fast-food place. Bye, pride.By January 1st:Visit Jon and Jennie. I know, I know, but I'll get to Chicago, I promise!Ace my community college classesFind a place to live in DCRe-enroll at Gallaudet; Tear up campus, imprison administration for treason, and reign over said university.Mend ties with certain friends. Again. And make new ones!My yellow brick road is not so yellow right now, but the roses are good enough. I also think about this: We had DPN roughly 15 years ago, and at the time it was hailed as the end of one of the last oppressive instituions in America. Mandela commended the leaders, the world gazed upon DPNers with awe. The students of 1988 were battling for a deaf president and for a majority of the board control to be allocated to deaf members, but my question is, "Is that the only thing you really wanted?"Three semesters at Gallaudet only made me feel that DPN was essentially a Pyrrhic victory. We haven't had a new president ever since. The quality of education has steadly declined as costs have gone up. Students and faculty alike are disgruntled and very unhappy with the way things are progressing. The atmosphere between students and administration is rather hostile, and Gallaudet has resorted to paramilitary actions to control the populace. Then again, the majority of the students seems to be akin to headless chickens; constantly running around and making noises, but in the end it just fizzles. Keep in mind, I'm basing this section on what I saw up to mid-February, though I doubt much changed during the Spring. I personally feel that Dr. Jordan isn't doing such a good job as he used to, and maybe it would be in the best interest of all of Gallaudet if he stepped down. Along with most of the administration.Let a couple of the morale-sapping professors go. Definitely Sutherland and Myers, at least.The entire accounting office, too. What kind of morons bill you for a refund? Jackasses. I think I'll execute them instead.Now, I sleep.

Thanks

Huh. I guess I'm finally opening up a LiveJournal after all. All those kickbacks, grafts, scams and cement boots sure have paid off for themselves! I naturally have to thank charmenders for the code needed to break into this place, as well as lumenluna for his incessant non-prodding. Thanks, guys, and hand me that sledgehammer.