Well, yesterday was great - I completed the seminar with little issues except being tired. I'm sure I passed. (It was a pass/fail class.) This morning went well in some ways in that I got most of my study notes caught up and an e-mail off to my career advisor which hopefully gets some wheels in motion for improving my current work situation.
I was very industrious this morning, I got my bathroom cleaned and did most of my normal weekend chores.
However both my air conditioner and my floor fan bit the dust. So I waited for the place here in town that sells a.c.'s to open and got me a new one. I also picked up a box fan that was on sale, so I will remain cool. But as anyone who has installed a window ac unit knows, it is pretty an all-afternoon process with the removal of one and installation of another. Especially since writing instructions at Amana seems to be a rousing game of 'how much can we mess with the consumer's head'...
If you'd like to take a fun online quiz, here's my results from one - you might get more than one result if you're tied like I was.
Truly a rare breed, you're calm and thoughtful
but still know how to live life. Things are taken slowly but your large list of experiences (yours as well
as others) can help you adapt to new situations with little trouble or people being hurt. Unfortunately,
you're the most likely to ignore yourself over other people. Emotions rule you, and though you are quick
to kindness, your anger could scare the fiercest of creatures. Learn to relax a bit and live your own life.
Best Match: Fire, they'll pull you out of your shell and teach you plenty of things in life.
Worst Match: Water, they're too intent on their emotions to notice yours.
Stuck between the sky and the ground, you lack
the sudden impulse that Air has but are unable to root yourself down like Earth. Though you have troubles
finishing projects, people can depend on you for the most part (even if it means pulling a few all-nighters).
On the plus side, you are extremely adaptable and thus can adjust to any situation. Sure, you might not like
it, but it doesn't weigh you down.
Best Match: Fire, just enough 'oomph' to keep your interest.
Worst Match: Spirit, you'll be out the door before they make up their minds.
Everyone's blog should have at least one entry with 'gas' in the title. Why? I don't know, but I can't come up with a reason for 'why not' and I'm sure you can't either. Besides, it grabs everyone's attention, don't you think? We all think flatuence is funny whether we admit it or not. (At least so long as it's not us who lets one at the most inopportune moment.)
But actually that's not the kind of gas I'm referring to. I meant the kind you get at the pump that everyone cries when they have to pay for it. (Instead of crying when you have to smell someone else's... sorry, I will try to curtail my fart references from here on out...) I should have gotten gas yesterday - it went up twenty cents again this morning. I did not cry, because experience should have already told me never to fuel up on a Friday. Friday, of course, is the start of the weekend. But I have this lovely habit of losing track of what day it is. Considering that I only work on Wednesdays, it makes my feel for the week quite odd. I don't have weekends, I have times where I'm not doing homework, studying, in class, or working. Those are video game days, going to the gym/tanning/getting hair done days, or hanging out (with family/friends) days.
Experience should have told the worker who was supposed to be at the gas station that she should have been there early for her manager's sake instead of being late. Whether that worker remains employed should be interesting. Probably, she has no fear if she hasn't been fired yet. lol. Ever notice that some people have jobs that they consider so bad they don't care if they get chewed out or fired? Those are the jobs that you usually don't have to worry about getting fired from because no one else wants the job. I can really relate to that. LOL. But I try my hardest no matter what I do.
It's why I'm growling at my computer right now because the ACCC site is down again. I need to get into the databases so I can wrap up this one section on my paper.
Experience in addition to your college coursework is necessary. What does that mean? I need to either find volunteer solutions or another job that reflect the course I'm working on. I also need to look into taking the ACT. All of the colleges I might need to transfer to require either ACT or SAT scores, so... yep. Phone calls in my future... I need to call Barb, actually, to see if there's any chance in the near future of getting hours again for housekeeping.
I need to get in next week to talk to my counselor, I think. I haven't spoken to him since start of classes. heh. Go me! So I guess I'll see if he's available Monday.
I scored a 58% on the "How Indian Are You?" Quizie! What about you?
That quiz is just wrong. lol. One of my friends who actually is full Indian scored lower on this than I did. (Indian as in India)... But have fun taking it, yeah?
I need to review and I need to do the laundry but do you see me doing either at the moment? LOL. Nope, I'm pounding away in my blog. Oh well, I'd better get some stuff done anyway, whether I want to or not.
Yesterday was probably the worst day as far as frustration / bad things happening than I've had in a long time. First off, someone ran into the back of the newspaper van (evidently) and dented the hatch. It's in the body shop getting fixed. I'm guessing my boss didn't call the police, which I can kinda understand because no one saw anything.
Okay, then I get lost trying to follow directions to a town I'd 1) never been to and 2) only knew of one route to. Next time I won't, but it just added to the pressure when I had to bring the van back so it could be taken to the shop then take my car to make that final run on the route I did know. I worked ten hours with no real break unless you count the time when I'm hanging around the Gazette back rooms in the morning, but no lunch.
In between all this, evidently my predecessor neglected to tell me of one subscription drop-off I was supposed to do in one town. So my boss was on the phone trying to smooth that over.
I had to go back this morning to finish up because everyone was gone by the time I got back.
Okay, I need to get back on my schoolwork. I'm meeting a friend for lunch, I've got to sign some paperwork, and I've got class again this afternoon/evening which will entail a lot more homework than we had Tuesday. LOL.
They really do - this doesn't feel like Monday, but instead like a repetition of Sunday. I suppose because Sunday was so frantic for me. I'm still tired. My weeks are strange. Thus far, no call regarding the housekeeping position. I'm thinking they may well have decided against hiring me for whatever reason.
For some reason a kitten decided wedging itself under the hood of the escape was a good idea. I put it back across the street for now which is where it seemed to have come from, but I'm keeping an eye on it. It's not feral, oddly enough, so someone's been taking care of it, but I'm not sure exactly where it's running to. We don't have a shelter for cats around here. It's just for dogs. We have a very large cat population around here. Manitou is just too high strung to trust him with a baby kitten alone for any length of time and since there are times when no one is here, i bring her inside as much as I wanted to. But, I am still keeping an eye on her. Someone's feeding her because she wasn't emaciated or anything. She just thought the engine of the suv was a good hidey-hole.
My great-aunt has taken an interest in what I'm doing with school and whether or not I like the classes, etc. So I'm e-mailing her back.
They will not have an answer as to her nerve endings in her neck causing the pain for another week. How can we have this much advanced technology and medical stuff takes so long to process? I don't know. Maybe I expect too much but then again it is my mother and I hate to see her in pain.
I really don't want to see anyone in pain, mostly because I want to make it go away for them. Of course we usually can't no matter how much want to.
Rather than edit the previous post to say how my first class went, I'm writing a new entry. It was... different to say the least, although I had fun. I'm trying to refrain from giving everyone mental nicknames... it's not working very well though. I could re-post the nicknames that came to mind for some of my classmates, but I decided even though I might not mean anything by them, I'd feel like mud (meaning crap or your synonym of choice) if one of them read it and took offense. They are all really good people and I like them, even if I am still trying to get to know / understand them as people. So yes, the original version of this post is bye-bye, at least the first half of it.
The coolest part of the class was still when someone said that if they had a pet, they would like a chicken. ^_^. That should be on a t-shirt. Yes, yes it should. PETA people could wear it in front of Chik-n-Fil-A.
I also got a few laughs for saying 'you're gonna die' or something of that nature when the professor asked what would happen to us if our bungee cord were to break or if our parachute were to break. That was not the answer sought, of course - it was to go down. We wouldn't all go up, after all. But no one can have an answer for the strange ways my mind ways.
Amberle, I'm gonna answer your question from your comments: Full time in summer of course is six credits, but I only have one class that's through the entire summer. The rest are weekend intensives for one or two saturdays or a saturday and a sunday. The reason I went that way was to get two requireds out of the way that my advisor told me would be good to get out of the way the first semester (First Aid Certification for my PE course and the College Career Success Seminar). I could have done the success seminar online but I'm hoping I actually get to meet some more people. I also have Drawing 1. CCS is not this Saturday but next Saturday and the Saturday following. Then the other two are in July.
The 'psychic' shirt is available through Things You Never Knew Existed catalog, but you should be able to find it in stores like Hot Topic or Spencer's Gifts I would think. I don't know who came up with that, but brilliant!
Well, my assignment for class this afternoon is done. I had to write like two or three sentences on . I saved my professor a headache and typed it. I also am supposed to choose my topic for my oral presentation / written paper. I'm hoping I've come up with something no one else is going to want to do. I'm going to cover the issue of animal abuse, specifically the matter of criminal sentences whether or not they are too lenient. I'm hoping I can actually interview some local animal cruelty officers and rescue workers for their opinions in addition to paper resources. And of course, as it is an objective paper, I have to get the other side of the story. I'm sure some either think that the limitations for sentencing in such crimes is correct as they take the stance that animals are not people. And some people simply believe that you can do whatever you want to an animal.
I'm not going to do animal rights per se because that's usually a 'why you shouldn't eat meat' argument and I have no doubt that someone else will do it. Genetically, we are omnivores which means we are made to eat both vegetables, grains, fruit, etc. and meat. However: I feel that the living conditions of some animals and the methods in which they are killed are not appropriate. We are kinder to people who are given the death penalty which perhaps speaks volumes for the majority's opinions or perhaps not. I always run into people who think the way I do about things but our ideas are never represented even by people who really should do it. Y'know - the ones we elect. I contact mine all the time about things and half the time they simply blow me off. Which really pisses me off when I voted for them. It's like 'forget it next time'... sheesh.
My mother's going to the doctor here in a few minutes to have her nerve endings tested. I guess they think that's what's causing the pain in her arm since they can't find much of anything else.
My meeting yesterday evening didn't happen, but I understood. I'd had a strange day also. I actually got stung by a bee on my left palm. It was on the steering wheel and I didn't see it. I was feeling the effects well before I got through following Blaine around to learn the delivery route. But I got back to Osage, grabbed a salad from Sonic then went home and took an allergy pill. It was actually one of the varieties of bees without a stinger for which I am glad because I probably would have had to stop and go to the ER. I surely don't need that extra expense. I think I might get some dissolvable alaverts to keep on hand should it happen again. Of course I've never been stung by a bee before but I have an allergy to ants. I think if you're allergic to one, you're bound to be allergic to the other. At least my toe where I ripped the skin off has healed somewhat so I don't walk with a semi-limp.
Well, I'll close there for now. I'm going to play gopets, do some e-mails and call my sister before I get back to studying.
Finally, the day I wasn't sure ever would get here has arrived: I go to my first class, Ethics, later this afternoon. I'm wearing my greek shirt, which fits despite being a medium. I didn't check the shirt size when I bought it - I just knew I had to buy it.
"I know I'm psychic because my underwear says medium" - as seen on another t-shirt.
I just have a strange feeling that the fictional traveling pants stories will have nothing on this shirt. Athena was the first goddess I connected with in childhood and I practically grew up on Greek mythology (among others). So I think it's fitting.
But this post is not about the shirt, more that I'm finally going to take the first major step towards my goal of getting a college education. It'll be fun, but I think it's going to help me turn into the person I'm trying to become.
Fans of Native American and prehistoric culture fiction should enjoy Hunting the Ghost Dancer. It's got enough of a mystical element to keep the most stalwart of spec-fic fans interested as well.
To me, FMA means Full Metal Alchemist, one of the best anime serieses out there to date. While the end of the series was an obvious lead-in to the movie releasing this summer, it was still good. For those unfamiliar with the series, it follows two young alchemists, Edward Elric "Full Metal" and his brother Al as they search for the philosopher's stone to undo the damage their attempts at human transmutation had wrought. It's definitely a tale of morality and not for little kids, but a very good story nonetheless.
We all know the 'FMA' on the news tonight will be the Federal Marriage Amendment. I would rather see Ed and Al give an animated speech on the abuses of power and doing the right thing. That would be a much more moral topic in my humble opinion. I don't see what is so moral about telling two people who love each other and live together that they cannot pay a marriage license fee to get married simply because they are the same gender. I think it's the ultimate discrimination. Who doesn't want to eventually marry and spend the rest of their life with the love of their life?
In previous generations, the line on the marriage issue was one of race and really, the arguments are mostly the same now as it was back then. I do see this action as yet another step backwards.
So I guess I'll see if he's available Monday. 
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