The Royal Knighting, Tropical Storm Fay-ker, and Pumpkin Spice Lattes!

I'm finally a UCF Knight! It took 2 years of crappy community college, but it all worked out! I just had orientation yesterday, and somehow got into the 2 classes I needed/ wanted to take this semester. I'm gonna try to add maybe on more this semester during the add/drop period, but I don't want to over do it this semester. UCF is about 45 minutes away from my apartment and I am really aiming at a 4.0 this semester so I can raise my overall GPA. Right now my major is Journalism Pending, because I haven't applied for the Nicholson School of Communication yet. They only accept 25 students a semester and they look at your GPA, admission essay, and 3 writing samples. At first I was sure I was never going to get in a I'd have to change my major, but I think I'll be OK in the end. Only 50 students applied in the fall, which is a lot less than I thought, and those numbers go down in the spring and summer semesters. The fact that they don't look at just GPA is in my favor, as well. The professor we spoke to said they admitted a student with only a 2.8 because he had great samples and an awesome essay, and they denied a girl with a 4.0 because she had no experience and her essay was terrible.
So I'm happy! We also got a $1.25 raise at work last week which will be nice, too!
One more month and Halloween will be here, well at least for the theme parks, Universal's Halloween Horror Nights starts the last week of September and runs til then end of October. I auditioned for (and got) active back-up for HHN, so I'll just show up the night of one the events and fill in where they need me, and hopefully I'll get to work with Joel (this boy. That I like.)
:-)

Tropical Storm Fay was so freaking stupid. Everyone freaked out because its the first storm to come to Florida, it wasn't even a Hurricane level winds and rain, it's a Tropical Storm! It's just a larger, longer rain cloud, which we've had hundreds of this summer, hello! It's Florida! It rains! A lot! So, all the storm did was close schools, got rid of tolls, cancelled my orientation originally scheduled for Tuesday, and it was rainy and windy. That's it. I went to lunch with Joel and went shopping with Leah. Then, the storm stayed around for a few days, so the next day at work I literally didn't have one set. I stayed inside for 8 hours and got paid to watch movies and take a nap in the break room. It was pretty sweet!
So I'm really looking forward to fall. Mom is visiting next weekend, I'm going to visit Joel sometime during September, HHN will be in October, then the nice weather will come for winter and the holidays and I can't! I'll be drinkin' pumpkin spice lattes in no time! :-D