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So, it's been a few days... Some message board I kept posting on exceeded its bandwidth limit just now, so it's temporarily down and so we have to wait to resume our lovely discussions, and then I got an idea: write a journal entry. LoL.

So, yes... uhm. I *have* signed up for my courses... the 2 psychs, 2 phils and 1 engl. But, I still haven't told my dad... but no biggie. I do plan to stick with this. And besides, Cyntha told me that I can sign up for the arts courses and then if I change my mind later this term, she can add me into the St.Jerome's math sections for next term. So, it really doesn't matter. Although I REALLY don't plan to take math... I just plan to convince my parents that it IS okay. "You'll never find a job with a PhD in psychology". Right, mom. Sure thing. I mean, true, if I wanted to start up my own clinic or something like that, it'd take money I wouldn't have at that point, and maaybe I wouldn't be able to find a teaching job at a University. But you know what, I'd find SOME sort of job..and I'm thinking most likely in a school setting. So, there... I could get some experience, do some work independently (ie. research) and eventually I'd find a job at a university. And I mean, this is talking about ANYWHERE in the world where they have a psychology program. So her little issue with there being opportunities globally, this holds up...

Anyway... guess what? After I'm done my exams I'll be flying over to Bosnia and spending the holidays w/ my sis and a gazillion other family members. Leaving on the 15th, flying back on the 2nd. Then when I finish my exams after next term (late april), I'll be flying over there again and be spending about 4 months there.

I'm currently trying to figure out if there's some way to ship my drums over there without it costing too much... taking into account that I'd also have to ship them back at the end of my 4-month stay... which would likely mean that the last 2 months before going there, and the first 2 months back, I'd be drum-less, because that's roughly how long those boat-shipments take... pah.

But I mean... while I'm in school, I don't drum that often... and if I'm gonna spend all of my holidays over there, the drums would be more useful during the four months there than the 8 months here. So maybe I should just ship them over there and just leave them there. But then I worry that at some point one of them evil kids (also known as my cousins) might wreck them... while I'm there, I'll be able to watch over them, but if I'm gone... I dunno... I suppose I'd leave the responsibility to my sister... but while I'm there, there's 2 of us who can stop one of them evil kids... plus the fact that she'd have the responsibility for 8 months, and the two of us would for only 4 months... that makes it much more likely for the drums to be destroyed while I'm gone.

And... would my grandma even appreciate having the drum-set in her house? I mean, while I'm there, I wouldn't drum while she's in the house unless she tells me I can... I just worry about anyone else getting their hands on them and drumming and that bothering her and then her being all "damn that arijana for bringing her drums" or something...

Hmmm..... there's an easy solution to all this: leave the drums here. But dammit, I don't want to... what to do, what to do? I'm pretty sure it'll be either a) just leave the drums here, or b) take them there and leave them there. Doing the back-and-forth thing would be a real hassle... Or maybe I should just get another set and have one there one here =P Actually, I'd like that the most, but... I don't have that much money to throw around. Maybe if I found a really cheap set for a few hundred bucks... Up to $400 or something... then I could ship it over there and if anything happened to them, it wouldn't be as big a deal... I saved up my allowance money for SOOO long to get these drums... and they're BEEEAAAUUTIFUL... so I'd hate to see anything happen to them..

Hmm.. so maybe I should try that...look for the cheapest piece of junk I can find and ship it over there. My parents would hate that idea... they'd probably suggest that we could invest that money elsewhere, especially since it's not like I play my drums THAT frequently that I can't possibly have them JUST here or JUST there... Ssee, this is me dodging a decision... option a) drums stay here, 4 free months drum-less, option b) drums go there, 8 busy months drum-less... I can't pick, so I come up with option c) have TWO drum-sets. Tsk, tsk. Let's start making decisions, dammit.

Okay, so, let's examine this... I probably don't drum more than about 5 hours a month or something while in school nowadays... so, they're barely useful now. So, 8*5=40... 40 hours of drumming. In the summer, let's say it doesn't increase TOO much because I will have other things to do... so, let's say 10 hours a month... that's... 40 hours... DAMMIT! This doesn't make things easier. But then... wait. Since school started how much have I drummed? Probably in the area of 6 or so hours... which actually translates into THREE hours a month or so... and THAT is only 24 hours while I'm here. And so, yes, better over there than here. So, send? Send. I'll see with my 'rents if that's a possibility at all. We'll probably have to discuss it w/ my sis and grandma though - they're the ones that'll be living w/ the drums for the 8 months I'm gone.

Anyway... I feel like going downstairs now. Getting a drink. Maybe watching some TV. Of course, it'd be absurd to even CONSIDER going to sleep at 2am. Oh, of course! LoL, Later.

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