lost in a sea of forms…

… or soon to be, at least.

1) i’ve made a decision for housing, but need to fill out applications. that’s painless.

but not so painless…

2) FAFSA. ugh. it’s that time of year again. even though getting any decent federal financial aid is pretty unlikely, i still have to fill out this form so my school can have the information. i really wish the school had it’s own form – the fewer government forms to deal with, the better! the deadline is march 1st (2 days from now) and even worse, to fill this out, you must have also worked on…

3) TAXES, because you need some info from your tax forms. and guess what? i get to pay taxes for the first time this year! i’ve never had to pay taxes before, so it’s a new (and intimidating/overwhelming/scary/frustrating, etc) experience for me. and it’s an experience i’m going to have today, if i am going to fill out the fafsa by march 1st. i feel quite clueless about filling out tax forms at the moment, but i guess i’m about to learn all about it. but the thought of paying taxes (however painful that might be) kind of makes me feel more ‘grown up’ (which i don’t feel very often) in a weird way. kind of like voting. (which i would also like to do today…not sure it will happen. so much for early voting.)  but first i’ve got to be confused and feel like my brain will explode while making confusing calculations and answering 284923847 seemingly contradictory (or just redundant) questions.

but it’s all good.

my token word of encouragement: everything’s going to be okay.

1st post!

so, i finally have a blog. no more hijacking of my friends’ blog, either by leaving insane, unrelated comments or by actually logging in as them and writing something.

first, getting a blog of my own was a “new school year resolution,” which became a “start a blog by the beginning of the new year” resolution. of course, that became just a plain old “new year’s resolution,” allowing me to procrastinate until any time in 2008.

why did it take me so long? well, i couldn’t figure out what to name it. i know you can change the name in the header, but what about the url? you can’t change that. you see, i have this weird problem of not being able to name things. i still haven’t named the stuffed iguana (long story) that i got as a graduation present, and that was almost a year ago! i just can’t come up with anything good enough.

so, Adrienne suggested that i should be the music nerd that i am and use some random music term as the name of my blog. for some reason, ‘compound melody’ was the first thing that came to mind. it’s a melody within a melody, basically. the 2nd melody is usually harder to recognize – but it’s still very important. i thought i could take this and run with it by making it some analogy to life. we judge things by the way they appear, thinking that is the way things are. but there’s more behind it all. i can apply this to my life right now (and probably always) – despite how things appear to me, God is working in my life, even though it can seem pretty mundane and useless to me. see? i really did take it and run with it.

so, now i finally have a blog. yay!