86 days and counting.....

I meant to do a "90 days and counting" post but completely slipped my mind as I am now starting preparations to move to Orlando. I have yet to figure out my school end of Disney as my meeting with the ONLY professor on my entire campus who knows how to do credits for Disney has postponed our meeting until this Friday. Once I get that squared away though I should be set paperwork wise with my school. The sad thing is that is the EXTREMELY easy part of this whole ordeal, after I square things away then I get to deal with Disney.

My Sisters wedding is on July 25th and I have to be there, seeing as how I'm a groomsmen. So I e-mailed Recruiting like a good camper and requested the days off........today is day 6 of them not e-mailing me back. Now I understand recruitment is extraordinarily busy right now, but I really need to know before I get disowned from my family for possibly missing the wedding. Regardless of when I hear from them I also need to start saving money together for some new dress clothes for Traditions and the class I'm debating on taking (HR Management). I've also started thinking about roommates...............

Now don't get me wrong, I'm extremely easy to get along with, but rooming with 2-7 strangers it is inevitable that something will go wrong eventually. So I am trying to prepare for it by getting together like 2 or 3 guys for a 2-3 bedroom in Chatham. How did I decide on Chatham you might ask?? Let me tell you, everybody knows that Vista Way is where the parties are at. Now I do like to meet new people but the chance that my roommates or my neighbors will throw a party when I have work at 6 in the morning or just got off of a 12 hour shift at 2:30 AM just doesn't sound that appealing to me. Patterson, from what I understand, is the complete opposite. Everyone is quite and reserved and barely anyone drinks, whether sociably or from an uncontrollable addiction to getting blacked out every weekend.

Chatham seems like a good middle ground. 2 guys that I'm talking to seem to be rather cool and like minded. We want to have neighbors come over for gatherings and themed parties, but by no stretch of the imagination are we alcoholics, nor will we be hosting any such nonsense. We're geeks, video game nerds, movie fanatics.......if this sounds like you are you are over 21 and moving in on May 18th shoot me a comment!! lol. Beyond that, Chatham has their own bus stop and "newer" renovations from what I'm told. This seems like a good place to hang my hat (which has mickey ears on it) for the 8 months while I'm down there.

Also I decided to start posting a random fact about Disney on all of my blogs from now on starting with this.

RANDOM FACT:
At the Walt Disney World Resort, more than 3,500 different designs make up a working wardrobe of about 2 1/2 million pieces.

The Emotional Rollercoaster that is Disney

ALRIGHT!!!!!!!

So the last couple of days have been pretty crazy. Last friday (2/11) I got my pended e-mail from Disney. I'm going to have to say that the feeling from a pended letter is worst then the actual rejection. With an actual rejection you know whats going on, with a pended e-mail everything is put on hold and you hang in the balance. To complicate matters my advisor has been hounding me about  my fall semester. "You need to know what you are doing this fall Michael", I got that line in 2 e-mails and during our meeting. Why I need to rush I'm not quite sure since I can't register for classes for another month. Annoying.

But then today I got the letter all of us are waiting for.....MY ACCEPTANCE LETTER!!!!!!! I have officially been accepted for Fall Advantage at Disney World as a Main Entrance Operator. so HA Mr. Shirley, I will be at Disney this fall. So my emotions have gone from depressed and utterly crushed to excited and pumped for this fall Semester all within the last 4 days......Ridiculous.

So this officially means that this blog will continue into the summer/fall. ::Puts on sunglasses:: I'll Be back

Waiting for acceptance (Star Trek Style)

Journal Log stardate 02.11.2011

This is day 17 with no contact from the mothership, I'm beginning to wonder if they are really out there. I've been going through the motions of my regular schedule with no hope of it easing the anxiety of when they'll beam me up. I hear rumors that today is the day that a lot of us Cadets will be chosen for our crew positions, but until that time I will keep all of my hailing frequencies open for any type of communication. I will not lose hope.

Disney Pictures

So in my wait for Disney I decided just to post some more pictures from my Disney trip this fall. Enjoy!!

Everyone Needs a photo like this 

This is where it ALLLLLLL begins

Door at the Vikings building in Epcot (I want this door frame)

Best ride in Epcot

Cool Night Photo

Performers doing a show in front of the castle

One of the best rides in Magic Kingdom

I never can get enough of the caste!!

Skipper Dan.......BEST SKIPPER EVER (sorry it's out of focus)

I have lots more but it's time to go to class so maybe I'll upload some more later, who knows. Untill then, keep on truckin.

Ice......natures way of trying to kill us off, but we're to stubborn

Well as everybody knows we had that huge storm a couple days ago that covered the ENTIRE midwest as well as northern east coast. I heard of places getting over 2 FEET of snow during the storm. Down here in Chuck town most of the snow went right over us (maybe 3 inches???) but what did hit us was ice.

Now I'm not one to normally complain about storms as the geek in me comes out whenever mother nature throws her weight around, but the weather man needs to learn to be a bit more accurate with his claims. "1/4 inch of ice" is what he called for, with as much sleet and ice as we got we EASILY were up to 3/4 if not 1 inch of ice. Cars were literally stuck in their spots in my parking lot. Ironically enough the power never went off untill after the storm had already passed. I'm still not quite sure what happened but some 10,000 people were without power on Thursday. Thats a huge amount saying we have a grand total of 12,000 people living in Charleston (not including students of course). Eastern was able to keep it's power somehow with only a few flickering lights that I noticed.

As many of you who follow my blog are fellow CP hopefuls you will undoubtedly already know that acceptance letters are starting to arrive in full effect. A large group of people who had their phone interviews a day before me have now been accepted, I'm hoping this means that my letter/e-mail will arrive early-ish next week (if not later today ::fingers crossed::). At this point it's almost time for me to sign up for fall classes so I just need to know if I need to signup for some actually classes or sign up for the "internship credit."

Hopefully my next post will have a picture of me with my acceptance letter!!