Ok, here's a "happy" update about my life. Note the sarcastically placed quotation marks around happy.
I could go into some intense details about the drama and adventure that is my life, but I will spare you all the long story and simply share the short. I am no longer in New Mexico. I have relocated back to Ohio. Not willingly, mind you.
Due to an EPIC FAIL by my university (which, strangely, I still love despite all this), I cannot get a copy of my official transcripts. No officials means no transferring my teaching license (which, by the way, I shouldn't have according to university policy. Fail #217) from Ohio to New Mexico. No NM license means no teaching after 90 days in NM. So, for the last week before Thanksgiving, I was a LONG TERM SUB in my own classroom... wow, does that sound fun! (sarcasm alert). I came back over break to try and work things out with the university, but fat lot of good that did since each and every office/department I talked to saw fit to blame everyone else but themselves. I would just like to take this moment to say how proud I am of my university for owning up to their mistakes... oh wait, they didn't. I own up to mine, I do. I failed to obtain a loan my senior year to pay off that remaining balance due to the fact that I paid for my education myself (excepting help one year from my grandmother and dad) and due to the fact that I have NO credit and therefore could not get a loan to save my life.
And so now, the circle of death: step 1- graduate owing the university $13,000.00. Step 2- Come to find I cannot keep/obtain a job without official transcripts. Step 3- Cannot get official transcripts without money/credit gained through having a job. Step 4- Cannot get job w/o transcripts... See how this begins to spiral into an eternal circle of death? Welcome to my life. So, if you, or anyone, knows where a broke girl with no official transcripts can either get $15,000 (got to love 1.5% interest per MONTH) or a job which will pay enough to enable me to make payments/get a loan, please let me know. Seriously.
