Signal 46

Not really. I don’t dive. After some consideration and thought – which included several spreadsheets and many hours – I decided to apply to transfer from Embry-Riddle to Penn State. It’s not that I dislike ERAU, I just like Penn State better. Part of it is because I’m from PA, the other part is I just feel it’d be a more credible institution for what I intend to do with my career and the rest of my working life. I’m not pursuing a flying career, and the A in ERAU is Aeronautical. ERAU did accept many of my credits earned with the Air Force (CCAF and tech training), and I’m hoping PSU will take many of them as well. Or at least a comparable amount. I have 57 credits with ERAU, and I’m not so foolish to think that all of them will transfer to Penn State, but I’m hoping a good amount will!

The downside is that I won’t make any money off my GI Bill as I was with ERAU, who was about $200 cheaper per credit hour. In fact, in order to make the most of it, I have to convert my Chapter 30 entitlement to Chapter 33, and due to the fact that I didn’t do a minimum of 36 months after 11 Sep 01 (21 months and some change), I am entitled to 70% of actual tuition and fees instead of the 100% that someone who did 36 or more months would get. While I think that’s sort of a slap in the face for those of us who happened to enlist prior to 11 Sep (showing we did so without an incentive – albeit a morbid sort – of an impending military engagement) and had our enlistment end short of 36 months – beggars can’t be choosers and the 70% is far better than the flat rate per month that the Chapter 30 version of the GI Bill pays (around $1300/mo for full time). All in all looks like I will be responsible for between $1000-1700/semester if I go 9 to 12 credits per semester, hoping to defray that with some financial aid if I have to (and I am sure I will have to). In the best-case scenario it would take a touch over two years to finish the degree (BS in Pyschology).

As of today my HS transcript has been sent off to Penn State, the CLEP/DANTES transcript will be printed and mailed tomorrow. The CCAF and ERAU transcripts should be sent off shortly and I guess after all is received I’ll find out if I get accepted. The wait is sort of killing me a little…haha.

…writing a lot of posts I could start with ‘it’s been a while.’ I have been far from diligent in posting anything at all in the last six months if not longer. In recent history I’ve moved into my house and have just been doing the work thing. Last night I went to the Dining With Friends benefit for the Lowcountry Aids Services and ran into Joan there.

Today I’m totally relaxing and just watching TV, trying to get my  $140 worth of cable I pay for each month. It’s not working.

Holy crap! There’s a whole article on it!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lie

…house. In Goose Creek about four minutes from work. Closing is near the end of March… woohoo.

Everything happens for a reason. I don’t know if that has religious roots or not, but I think it applies regardless. This has been a rough couple of weeks, specifically the last seven days or so. Yes, personal information divulgence that I don’t do often on this particular site – but: J and I are over – yes, again – but this time more or less initiated by yours truly. I had enough of being ‘seconded’ to everything and everyone else all the time, and when I was sick in bed the other weekend I had gotten scarcely a ‘how are you feeling?’ from the person I’d been dating the better part of nearly 18 months. That was it for me. I told him when he came home from a trip to Beaufort (the third out of six weekends…) that I deserve someone who cares, someone who will make a little sacrifice for their other half and not think twice about it, someone who will express concern when it’s warranted whether they really care or not (and if they don’t, never letting you know it!) and someone who makes an effort. I said if he can’t do that, then I’m done. I got a flippant ‘okay’ in response and that was it. It summed up just about the entire last six weeks.

He moved out today. Valentine’s Day. The irony is not lost on me. I had plans for today – he loves pizza so there was a heart shaped pizza I was going to get, among other things. I thought I was particularly clever with that idea. But whatever. There was and is to be no Valentine’s Day anything. Just some TV and quiet time in an apartment that now seems to have half the soul it did only a day ago. This was supposed to be ‘our’ apartment, and now it’s not. It’s just an apartment that I live in. But, everything happens for a reason. So let’s see what happens next.