Saturday, October 25, 2008

Dreaming of the economy of Gilmores if they were felons and not my lab partner.

Get ready for a brain dump because that is all this blog can be described as.

First if I haven't mentioned it already I HATE ECONOMICS!!!
It isn't just the material, it's the fact that nothing is simple, NOTHING.
My grade for my first test was posted for a week before I found it. I was going crazy looking and worrying about what I got and there it was just sitting there, laughing at me for not being able to find it.
Next, the test, our teacher gives us the test to work on during the time between the last one and the next one so we can be as ready as possible for the big one. It sounds easy right, you have 5 weeks to figure the thing out at home and then you just have to go fill it in during the testing period. Well, it isn't that simple. But then again I wasn't going to make this about the material so I wont. The test itself is all messed up. There is answer lines at the top the a term printed at the bottom of them. No explanation of whether we are supposed to define the term, draw something, or what. It isn't just there either it happened in a few other places. The whole thing is just a mess and while I have asked the instructor a few questions I don’t know when I will hear back from him.

Moving on, I had the weirdest dream last night. I always forget the best details of a dream but lets just say there was a cross between Gilmore Girls and Smallville. (I know right?) So anyway Kirk (of all people) was shopping at Macys with a female character from Gilmore Girls (though I can’t remember who now). It was there annual charity thing where you donate 5 dollars to a local charity and get an all day shopping pass for 20% off. Kirk is way more into this think then the woman is and she is just browsing around. Now this next part is where it gets weird. This specific Macys has this incredible layout. It is like one of those McDonalds that are way fancier then any other MickyDs. It has the whole store built up like on a cliff or something and below is some sort of fake riving or something. The dumb part is it isn’t roped off and so off course the woman in my dream falls in. As Kirk is trying to figure out what to do in his usual odd manor she shouts, call Clark. He does but there is no answer. Now here it’s a little fuzzy too because I remember that Clark was busy I just don’t remember with what. So anyway Kirk ends up jumping in the river, going down a whirlpool with the woman and rescuing her when they are flushed out into a water filtering zone by having her hold onto his legs as he swam out (she was injured and unable to swim).

Welp, that’s it. good luck interrupting that one.

Finally I thought I would end this on a good note.

God answers prayers even when all you do is complain them and not really pray them. That guy I mentioned in a previous blog that I was having trouble with as a lab partner didn’t come to class last week. I mean I was almost so stress about having to work with him again that I just about didn’t go. I hope he is ok and all because he never misses and I would feel just awful if I found out he wasn’t there because he was injured. Assuming nothing like that happened YIPPPPIE. I gone done with my lab and nothing had to be redone because of my partner working ahead. I ended up with felon girl. I’m not being mean there, she is a felon and for some reason brings it up every week, like she’s proud on it. So anyway I had her for my partner and while morally and politically we are worlds apart we do work better together then I have with a couple of the other partners I’ve had.

So anyway that’s it for now. I really should have been trying to work out this econ instead of writing this but I needed an outlet.

Love yall
Later


Monday, October 20, 2008

So just because we have newer and better do we have to throw out the tried and true.

What is up with finding 13" tvs. I am trying to replace my baby, the tv I got at the same time as you guys. It went out on me about a week ago. I miss it so much. I love my cheap little tv, it work so well and unlike most of today's flat panel tvs I can leave it paused on something for hours without have the image burn in. I still don't under stand that. Why can I leave something up on my lap top screen all day but if I do on the plasma screen for like 20 mins it starts ghosting.
So anyway I thought finding a cheap 13" tube tv would be easy with all the bigger tvs starting to come down in price.  Instead it apears that they have stopped making them almost all together. I have found 1 or 2 online but even they are all over a hundred bucks. I don't even think mom and dad spent that on mine. So now because the bigger fancier flat panel LCD and Plasmas are so popular I am being penalized for wanting the small old technology. NOT FAIR.

Ok, I guess I am done ranting for now. I just hope I can find a better deal out there. Wish me luck.

Thursday, October 16, 2008

Man, I gotta get a profile Pic on here

I mean really. It has been forever since I have felt like I have had a good enough pic to post. Part of that has to do with the fact that I am in major need of a hair cut and until I do that my bangs just look stringy. I keep trying to get creative but somehow those just always look scary. Maybe I will get a good one tomorrow when we go to the covered bridge festival. I am really looking forward to it. I love these fall temps we are having and tomorrow it is supposed to be like 60. Perfect for a light jacket or maybe just my long sleeves. I love this trip. I don't know why, last year we got so lost and half the things we went looking for were no where to be found but there is just something fun about getting lost out in the middle of tons of booths and shopping that makes everything ok.

My mom's cousin is going with us this year. She is so nice and lots of fun. We went up north to Zionsville today and ate lunch at the cool old church that had been turned into an art gallery. Beautiful stuff in there. I just can't afford any of it.

So any way my best news right now is I am done with my first class. It was an 8 week format and is now all done. I am sure I got an A too. He hasn't posted them yet but I just aced my last two quizzes and am on quite a buzz right now.

I wish my other classes were going as well. I still don't know what I got on my first econ test that I took over a week ago. It is driving me crazy. I haven't even started studying for the next one yet, I just hate this class. I don't want to think about it anymore.

Now, hardware should be my breezy class. I have already read the whole book and done all the labsims. All I have is the test (really easy), homework, and in class labs. That last one is the problem. The hard part isn't the lab, it's learning to work with someone else. The first week I had this sweet old man that is apart of this senior studies program. He was nice but really slow. We got down to the last 20 mins of class and still had one whole lab to do. I had to take control and do it really quick which isn't exactly my specialty but I had no choice. The next week I got a really great partner who not only knew what he was doing but was good at working with me instead of against me.

The real problem has been the last two labs. Normally Sean, my teacher, is really good about making sure we don't have the same partner two weeks in a row. However, he slipped and I got this same guy twice. I hate to talk bad about him, especially if there is really something wrong with him but he is driving me nuts. He is super hyper and impatient, like he is ADHD or something but is also a little condescending in a wired sort of way. He takes full control and works way ahead of where there teacher is tell us what to do and therefore sometimes messes things up. We had to redo this one thing 3 times yesterday. He is tough on the equipment and forces things out when they aren't ready to come out. He even hit the CD drive repeatedly with his screwdriver trying to get it out. I’m always afraid he is going to break something. He acts like he might be autistic or something but I just don't know. I can't slow him down and I don't know what to do. The worst part is I am going to have him again next week because this lab was a two parter. I don't even want to go to class. I can't handle him. He makes me want to scream. Oh, and one other weird thing, he acts like a wimp when it comes to pain. One week he was doing a lot of screw driving and kept going on about his hand hurt. Then last time he pokes his forearm a little (didn't even leave a mark) into the corner of the computer case and jumped and said ouch like he had just cut himself. Then he rubbed it for sometime like it was really hurt or something. Like I said I really think there is something wrong with him which makes me feel guilty but since I don't know what it is it just makes my life more complicated. Pray for me next week. If he messes something up here it will take forever to fix. Not looking forward to that.

Well, I have to get up in like 5 hours so I had better go to bed. Night all, love you.