Education Idiots

What is with the people in charge of education being stupid these days?  You would think they would be a lot happier with students NOT vandalizing the school or getting someone hurt... I guess that's not the case.

One I heard this morning was about a couple dozen students in Michigan deciding to ride their bikes to school that last day of classes.  The principal freaked out and suspended them. Also threatened to not let the seniors walk next week for graduation.  You can read the story here and I believe there is a link to the same page, but you can click here or here for that.

The other was in Indiana and is about 5 students, a janitor and some sticky notes. The link to that story is here.  The seniors put up sticky notes around the school to "decorate" the hallways.  Some of their artwork is displayed with the story (the link I have above).  The janitor was fired and the students were suspended. I just have to say that at least they didn't use spray paint! Maybe they should've. The punishment might not have been so severe...? *roll my eyes*

There was another where a little 4 year old girl was not allowed to take part in school photos because her hair was "against school policy."  The link to that is here. She has her hair shaped into a bow, but the school in the UK says that braids are against the school's policy.

Any other "boners" you and your's have heard about lately?  Let me know!

Beginner Crochet Kit

Still having technical difficulties getting my pictures to upload...
Maybe I will have to put them on my little memory chip and then put that in the computer. Hmm....

In the mean time, I am supposed to be doing my homework (which I have been shamefully putting off).  I think, right now, I would rather clean the apartment than write my papers... Ugh.

Car Cozy

I have been brainstorming ideas for putting together a beginner's kit for crochet for my cute little cousin Dana!  I pretty much know what I want to do with it.

Crochet hooks turned into bracelet!
How cool is this!?

1.  Get a good sized crochet hook(s)  (probably a G, H or I size would be good. F would be the smallest I'd go. Them smaller hook sizes are hard when you are just starting out!)

2.  Find some good yarn colors for her (I'm probably going to use some that I already have and make them into smaller yarnballs for her).

3.  Find some super easy patterns (I've already found a few) and print them out for her.

4.  Maybe put a few stitch markers and/or a needle (a big plastic one)  and/or safety scissors... I'm sure her mother has some scissors, so I might leave it at that.

5. Find a cute bag pattern and make it for her and put all the stuff in it.  I'll probably find a flower to attach to it, too.  Make it that much cuter!    <(^-^)>

Something like this:

Seems like a good plan to me....

Any ideas/suggestions?

I also found a really cool way to make your plain o' hooks into comfy comfort grip hooks! Super easy, too!

Wouldn't this be cool to make?! Here is a link for ideas on how to store your craft/crochet/knit stuff!

“Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, existence is simply illusion.”

--Mr. Rogers/King Friday XIIII know.... The picture and the title/quote have nothing to do with anything else I'm writing about, but they are funny so I don't care. (^_^)

I've been doing a lot of crafting lately. I've crochet'd a lot of stuff. As soon as I can get the pictures to upload I will post what I've done. :)

I'll have to show some of the stuff I've done for my art class too....

I've had some fun classes so far this semester: psychology 1100 and intro to drawing. I like the professors.

Depending on the day and the people I talk to, I like work. I really like the easier days when I don't have every-other person mad for no reason. When I don't have really complicated orders and the people I talk to are fun/entertaining/nice.

I have been feeling really tired/lazy lately. I kinda hate it. I don't like mornings and I get to get up at 6:30 every day. (Tomorrow it will be earlier because I have to be there at 6:45 instead of 8.)

Tonight I have my brothers over (Amber didn't feel like coming). We (me and Cameron) made mac & cheese and pigs in a blanket!

I think I'm going to go to bed soon, now. Gotta be up earrrrly.... :/ I hope it's really slow tomorrow. *Hopehopehope*

Good night world!

busy_busy_busy

Changing my name at work and everywhere else (I haven't gotten school yet), working, school and moving/organizing the apartment has kept me busy!

The bug guy came here and sprayed for a whole 20 minutes tops. All he got was the seams on the couches, the bed and the recliner, the baseboards and the edges of the dresser. That's it. Mrs. Manager lady at the complex was freaking out because we weren't ready for him a whole 3 days after we signed the lease. Uh.... Trying to move from 2 houses & get the one semi-clean while moving to this one, going to school and work and trying to organize the place enough so he can come and spray the place will take longer than 3 days! Pfttt! All well. We got it done.

I am not doing so great at the school portion of my life right now. I am getting so burned out. None of my classes are very fun. (Although the immune system and how diseases work is finally getting interesting. Before that I would fall asleep in class... but part of it could be that I had a pretty bad cold-thingy and work in the morning and class late at night. Yeah...)

Also, as soon as I get the pictures of the wedding/reception I will post some. :)

And now for something random!

I still need to decide a costume for Monday!! I've been so busy I haven't actually decided on one. I did get candy for work and whatever. . . So I have done something. So you have to give me that. I wonder how many kiddies will actually be brought to work to trick-or-treat the cubies before I get off?? Hmmm.....

I think a Harley Quinn costume would be amazing but I think that will have to wait until next year. I have been way too busy this year. I think I will just round stuff up from years past... OR use what I have and do like a masquerade thing.... THAT would be fun. Paint a mask on my face?? :D

any of these would be fun! Or doing a rag doll of some sort. Like Sally or Raggedy Ann.... Hmmm

skool an' stuff

Today was the day. What, do you ask, is this the day for?!
Well, my fine furry (or non-furry, as the case may very well be) friends... The day my last bits of homework were due!!

Anything I had not turned in for psychology was due by midnight (which happens to be 13 minutes ago), so she better have received everything I sent her via email. I sent it to her AND put it in my ePortfolio which is linked to my school page. If she didn't get it, it is not my fault. Ha!
Yesterday was my chemistry final, and I *hopehopehope* that I passed the stupid class. The last time I took it, it was so very difficult to follow the professor. He is sooo ADHD that he was bouncing off the walls. By the nearly end of the semester I was tuning him out when I went to class. Bad. I know. But you would totally understand if you went to that class. Not only was he uber hard to follow on his adventurings of random thought and tangents, he reminded me of a emo/skater Spock. o_O And he was like 50 years old. And from New Orleans. (I say Spock because he totally has the Vulcan haircut and black hair.) Don't get me wrong. He was nice. It was just so hard to pay attention in class when he starts talking about "making sure that when you buy a house, you get it checked for meth or other drugs" or talking about some book/movie that he really really likes. He also really likes dirtbiking or something like that. Heaven forbid you get him off subject. If he was actually talking about class material, chances are he will do it himself. You really want to get as much actual class time during class as humanly possible for him....
And then there's the lab professor I had. She had a very thick Spanish accent. There were even a few chemistry terms she didn't know how to say in English. So she would say them in Spanish and hope someone in the class could translate for her. :@

I was shocked when I got an A in her class. We never knew when things were due either.

So back to what I was saying. . . The professor I had this time around was much better! She made sure the class understood before moving on to the next topic. The only problem I had was that class got cancelled SO. MUCH. this semester. Both chem AND psychology were cancelled a ton! Either the professor was sick, or their kid was sick, or something came up (with the chem prof. it was usually her other job had something come up (like the judge ordered a court thing at the same time as class...) or her kid/she was sick). I think psyc she was sick a lot.

That reminds me of my dental assisting class. Carma was sick a lot or had things come up, like they thought her dad was going to die like 4 times, so she went out of state to see him. (The last time this happened he really did, though.)
Maybe that was getting me ready for professors that do that, too?? Hmmmmmm.....

Boyfriend

So boyfriend gets to go in on the 16th to get his lipomas taken out. Doesn't that sound like SO much fun?! Haha... so I think I will ask for that day off work so I can go up with him. Plus, he wants me with him.

Also, for those of you that don't know (cuz I haven't really talked about it a whole lot) boyfriend has become to fiancée, but it sounds funny to call him that. I still call him boyfriend. It's like a nickname... haha :)

(he got a moonstone instead of a diamond, so it wouldn't be typical, but still be pretty for a temporary... until we get the actual rings)

We just haven't decided on when, yet.

We will get everything decided on eventually. :)

Stupid Tranny!

If you can't tell by the picture, I'm not talking about a cross-dresser. The transmission in the Suburban went out on my way between work and class.

It was fine in the parking lot, but when I got out on the road it just wouldn't change gears or anything. It would rev. I pulled over and turned it off, then tried turning it on and driving again. It would still turn on, but it wouldn't move. :(

So I got to take a very exciting trip in the tow truck! Can I just tell you that riding in a flat-nosed tow truck on the freeway is scary?! Plus the driver kept getting calls. Not cool, man! It sounded like HIS truck didn't wanna shift much either....

I missed my class, and I have to go back to work at 4 for a meeting. The shop just called up not too long ago and told Dad what was wrong with it. Ugh... Something in the transmission went out. So it looks like we're down to 1 car for the time being & I really hope that the bus is not ridiculous. *hope hope* At least I only really need to get to work and school, so that shouldn't be too hard. I just need to tell the boss-man (-woman? "man" sounds better) that I can't close certain days or I'll be screwed. o_O

All that said, we WERE going to go bowling for my dad's birfday today.... BUT it doesn't look like that's going to happen. We won't be able to fit everyone in the Crown.

I also have to write down a list of 10 things in my life right now that are sources of stress. I have to put them in the order I think they should go in for what causes me the most stress. (There is good and bad stress out there, just fyi for those that don't know!) This list is for my Psychology class tomorrow. I'm def putting work, car issues, my sore neck (that still feels stiff from my accident last year!) and other parts (like my knee), and a few other things.

How's about this?! Put YOUR stress list up and make sure you rank them!

We've been talking about stress in that class. We talked mostly about how it affects your body. Like how you are tired even though you got plenty of sleep, you cry a lot for no apparent reason, dry skin & hair, cold hands & feet all the time.... that's all I remember off the top of my head.

The prof was saying that sometimes stress gets misdiagnosed as depression and so they give you antidepressants. Then your thyroid (pretty sure that's what it was...?) tried to compensate for the drugs and you swing the other way and you get aggravated easily and stuff. Then they misdiagnose AGAIN and give you anti-anxiety drugs... Now doesn't that sound fun??

Anywho, I think that could explain a ton! It would explain why my hands and feet are cold all the time when they never used to be. And why my skin feels dry-er than usual. And how little things will set me off and I tear up... It's like all of those stress symptoms! ACK! ( -_-)

I don't like it....stupid stress. And stresses --like she told us in class-- don't stay in their own little files. They pile up. I suppose the car decided it wanted to be another lump in the pile today... :\

I don't know about you, but I could really use one of these buttons right now...

Psycho-logy

So I have to do a paper and presentation for my psychology class. I found a topic (it's for psychology in the media) about germs/germaphobes when it comes to staying in hotels from CNN. But I think I am going to get a lot more out of a different article from the NY Times about eating disorders. Although when I read it it seemed to be more about how so-and-so M.D. or Mr. Ph.D can change America's eating habits virtually over night by, for example, saying that meat is very bad for you and will kill you if you eat too much of it. When in the first place people have been eating tons of meat for years and never had much of a problem with it. *sigh*

I'm getting kind of bored of classes... Sometimes psychology is cool. I really liked the other day talking about memory. She talked about ways to make your memory better. She said that you have to sleep because that's the only time the hippocampus really starts doing it's thing. It's the one that does the sorting and storing and remembering bits. If you don't sleep you don't really store any new information. What you store in your memory is only about 7 items (plus or minus 2). There are ways of "cheating" like with phone numbers. You chunk.

Chunking would be like remembering a phone number. Instead of remembering them all as separate numbers (ex 8017463524) you put them into groups which make them all units of info. So with 801-555-1234 it's a group of 3= 1 item. So with the phone number you are only remembering 3 items. See?

I have to finish my paper thingy cuz it's due this week. I also have to have a list of minerals memorized using a method my group picked out... We have to use the same method and we have to have all of them memorized. I think by Tuesday? I have been procrastinating...

I have a feeling this week will be busy. I work pretty much every other day, I have school Monday-Thursday, and I have a few other things I have to do outside of school. Busy, busy, busy.

Psychology

I just finished writing my journal post #2 for psychology and emailed it in! It's due in about 23 hours, so now I don't have to hurry and write it all tomorrow morning before class. Woot!

I (hopefully) am getting paid tomorrow (and getting w2s??). I should be getting my certificates (finally!) for dental assisting. My mom has been bugging me about seeing Carma for the past almost 2 years, and Zac for most of the time we have been dating (which will be 6 months on the 9th!!!!)

Cameron wanted to go back to GTI after his field trip thingy to Sundance got over early. He thought it would take all day, but it didn't and so he wanted me to give him a ride up there. (He wanted to go to the last little bit of class.) Zac told me since I was already going to be up there, I might as well see if I could talk to her about it. She was still there and I found my stuff and she said she would finish the last bit of paperwork and submit it to the state. I should be getting it by Friday. That should make it lots easier to get a dental assisting job! :) (don't need the certificate to actually be an assistant, but I'd rather have it. Zac says he'd feel better if I had it than working without it.)

I have to wake up and read about my part of the neuron (the release, binding, and up-take) for our "interpretive dance" we are supposed to be doing in our groups tomorrow for psychology. Interpretive dance... weird.

Also, on Tuesday I found out that the chemicals at work in your brain when you are in the first stages of love (aka infatuation/lust) are very similar in composition to certain drugs... the chemicals at work are dopamine (similar structure to cocaine), norepinephrine (vid said noradrenaline, similar structure to meth), and phenylethylamine (similar to chocolate). So it's like you are on cocaine, meth and chocolate when you are infatuated with someone. How weird!?!? hahaha...

This state of mind can last for up to 4 years! When it wears off, if it's not really love, then you get the "what the heck was I thinking" situation. When it's really love, you have oxytocin and dopamine working in your frontal lobes!

A guy in class asked that if that was the case, that couldn't you hypothetically make a love potion out of those drugs? The instructor decided that that class could get dangerous. Hahaha


Well, good night all you coke-meth-choco heads!

Steve...

So Zac and I were watching Dinner for Schmucks the other day. I had to show him some Flight of the Concords stuff... He decided he liked Jemaine more with the beard and long hair. Haha!

He also told me some of my sense of humor is a little weird. (For example I like them, and Mr. Bean... among other things.) However, there are plenty of things I like that he does, too. Then some stuff he likes that I think is kinda.... blah?



I found out today that I don't have to take the chem lab with the lecture. They are "separate" and I can take them at different times. Considering I took it before and I passed the lab with an A-, but the lecture I needed a C+ and got a C... I have to take the lecture anyway. I think it's kind of stupid to take the lab again if I don't have to. Don't you?



Alie sent me a text today after I got out of class saying she needs me to work on Saturday morning at 7:45... in the MoRnInG o.O On the schedule it says 11am. I have to be there 3 1/4 hours early! She wants me to control the scoreboard for hockey, when the only thing I know is (kind of) how to change it back to the clock setting. And that takes a bit of time for me to remember what to do.

She says they'll tell me what to do. They better be patient. Especially considering I don't wake up that early anymore. Ever. (Ok.. the rare occasion when I randomly wake up at, say, 4am. But I go back to sleep!) It's a good thing I didn't have anything planned in the morning that day, huh?

At least more hours = more green in the pink bunny wallet.



And now I should probably go to bed so I will wake up for my 12 o' clock class tomorrow, huh? :P

hugs&kisses <3

i'm dreaming of a.... blizzard?

it's snowing.... A LOT!!! i swear we've gotten, like 6 inches in the past hour!! :S the other day the suburban kept trying to drift on EVERY turn... talk about scary!! i almost got totally stuck in the neighborhoods taking Amber to school this morning. not to mention there were TONS of cars lined up from the school to where our house is (about a mile up the street!) I was just happy that there wasn't tons of ICE to chip off the car this morning... :\

i forgot to mail in my phone bill, so now i get to go the to shop and pay it... *rme*

going to work is gonna be loads of fun. i just hope that everyone stays home and that i don't have to do ANYTHING today... that would be nice. not to mention i've got dance finals tomorrow and then a party thingy after that... so i should go get some sort of treat... ("if you bring it, you eat it... if you don't bring it, you don't eat it" it think it's a good idea... no pigging out if you don't contribute)

i've got an appointment to go talk to my counselor for school on the 22nd... that should be loads of fun... not. at least i'll get it over with and hopefully she'll be helpful... and not condesending like usual... >:[

School

So I took my in-class exam today. I actually got every question answered this time too!!! I also think I did way better on this one than on the last one. :D I sure hope so anyway.

Now to do the extra credit from the last test. (It's due on Monday).

AND I've got the finals for one class next week and for all the others in 2 weeks. Cross your fingers everybody... I really wanna pass these! ;)

Also, I have to decide if I really wanna take all those hard classes next semester. I don't really wanna get all burned out... or die carrying all those books around on the same day. Maybe I'll drop the bio class for now? I need to take the chem and math before I forget everything I learned THIS semester.

We'll see what happens.

AAAAGGGRRRAAAAJJJJAAAAGGGGG!!!!!!

Alright!! I FINALLY got the stupid classes all registered for! :@ I didn't get the biology one I originally wanted, but I guess I get to go with anatomy.... Yay.... *rme*

What, you might ask, am I doing awake at this time in the morning? It's quite simple, really. Listening to MJ, writing in my blog... the real REASON for my still being up is that I just got my classes all registered for!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Lucky little me had to wait til now to register cuz I don't have as many credit hours as the (asumingly) many other SLCC students... my "peers." They got to sign up earlier if they had more credits.... so what I was originally going to take were already gone when I checked at around 9pm today/yesterday... whatever you wanna call it. Considering I haven't slept yet, I'm going to say tonight. :)

I still have a takehome test and stuff to do. I'm going to go catch a few Zs.... or try to. (they can run surprisingly fast! it's crazy considering they don't have legs or anything.... they're not even among the living and they can do a pretty swell job of it. elusive Zs.... I curse you! at least tonight... any other night, it's just fine. that is, if it's not all hot and humid. those nights I can't seem to catch the little buggers either.)

Well.... I bid a a bitter sweet Aloha...er.... adeu? hmmm..... :\ Good night!! t(^-^t)



(ps... did any of you catch the title? :P it's the name of the weird bat thing that wants to kill arthur cuz he's always there when the reincarnation of him dies!! bwahahaha!!!! ahh... hitchhiker's humor! ....or something like it.)