ecstatic. this is me. for a few reasons.

1. i wrote and posted a new story, germaine’s poor. this is always exciting for me…filling up my site with stories makes me feel like i have worth; that i’m accomplishing something. writing something also gets that special something out of me that keeps me sane. for some reason i see this story as more of an experiment for me…i think i tried to write it a bit more consciously than other stories, and i think it worked out well for once. i wrote it in about fifteen or twenty minutes while my mom was listening to African acapella in the kitchen.

2. before giving the next piece of information, to fully appreciate it some background information must be given.

2.a. my freshman year in college i made two Ds, four Cs, two Bs, and one A. basically you can throw the A out, because virtually anyone who takes that course (a “welcome to college” six week course that everyone must take) is guaranteed an A, even if said person is comatose or partly comatose. so after leaving my freshman year, my gpa was at 2.08. i think we get put on some kind of academic probabtion if we go below 2.00. (this wasn’t a big threat…my neighbor had a gpa of .50. i’m not exaggerating. she had been enrolled in college for three years (couldn’t enroll for one semester i think) and was still considered a freshman. she dropped out and got pregnant. so “probabtion” is just a made up word trying to sound scary. but still…i didn’t want my grade to be so crappy.

2.b. the first semester of my sophomore year had me in better spirits. i made four Bs and one A, making my gpa 2.50. there was much rejoicing.

3. now we come to the new news. i just checked my grades: two Bs and three As (i dropped one class, computer science, and dropped that major because i’m not a computer scientist. i’m a writer. so now i’m just an english/creative writing major). i’ve checked several times to make sure i’m logging in correctly, if maybe someone has taken the exact same courses as me and i’m just looking at their grades. but i’m not. and it’s mine. all mine. my gpa now stands at 2.75. i’m not just here to burn money anymore!!

4. i used to think that only extremely inteligent people, or people willing to trade sex acts for grades, or people with enough money, or people who had no life outside of studying, or people who belonged to the mexican mafia could possibly make so many As. now i realize that any underachiever who often believes they have better things to do than to study can make such grades. this is possibly the best and most rewarding news i’ve learned all day.