Accomplishments or Lack Of

Things to do today:
1. Obtain Student ID
2. Have the remainder of Federal and Access Group loans held at financial aid offices so that I can open a checking account.
3. See the Toulouse Lautrec exhibit at the Art Institute of Chicago.
4. Find a good indie record shop.
5. Perhaps, make a friend.
6. Go see Broken Flowers.
7. Work out.
8. Cook dinner-not waste my money eating out- budgets blow.
Well I didn't get any of the fun stuff (3-6) done but I did get all the business stuff done. I also worked out and cooked dinner. Not bad for someone that would usually spend the first 12 hours of the day working and the last four hours drinking, heavily. Pretty all around boring day but I feel healthier and happier than I have in a while. I fucking love having some responsibility again. Not responsibility in the sense that I have to make sure the money at work is correct at the end of the night but responsibility in the sense that my day, week, month, semester, year and career is now in my hands. My success or my failure is based on very few outside factors and that really is a great feeling. My happiness will be a reflection of how hard I work for it. I have a great apartment, two roomates who seem to be quite cool, I'm in at a decent law school, financial aid is in place, I love the city. Everything else, the friends, perhaps a relationship, a profession-that will fall into place. I hope.