Tessie D

It’s Wednesday. It’s April. 

What I really mean is “Crap, it’s April.” I graduate next month, and I needed to send out my college applications already. 

I haven’t sent anything out. 

I am going to graduate in a month.

I have no idea where I’ll be next year. 

I’ve been thinking and I’m just going to apply to the university. Everyone at work goes to school there and they really like it. Besides, it’d be silly to think that I’d be able to go away to college somewhere. We can barely afford groceries and electricity in the same month. How could I afford to move away from home to go to college? Paying for college will be hard enough as it is but to also have to pay to live in the dorms would probably be impossible. 

Maybe there might be some scholarships or something that I could’ve applied for… if I could’ve afforded the application costs. Or, the entrance exams. The SAT and ACT aren’t cheap, people, and if you want to get a good score, you need to take it more than once. All that testing costs money. Money we didn’t have. 

That’s fine. I’ll figure it out later. This summer. 

Right now, I’m going to focus on the positive: I have the next two nights off from work, I gave Momma some money from Monday and Tuesday nights’ tips, and I still have some stashed away in my drawer. I worked Monday and Tuesday night, and I’m off for the next two nights. Amy, Lisa, and Jennifer came into the restaurant for dinner, and I got to wait on them and chat for a bit. We decided to hang out tonight and study for our Pre-Cal test tomorrow (I’m so behind on homework—my grades aren’t bad, but they aren’t great). I think we might also go to the JV football game on Thursday night.