Posts (page 2)
It's Election Day! How was your voting experience?
I was number 580 to vote this morning. Which my 9:00 this morning, my voting place had 600 voters, which means, 300 an hour! What a turn out. It was quite busy, and all parking was full.
I can't wait for the results. Change is coming.
I recently met with my department advisor and he made me fear that I would not be able to graduate. He had stated that he didn't think I had enough foreign language credits, and was also concerned about my public speaking class credits that I earned while at Boise State. He said it was entered as a general communication credit but was not able to go towards my public speaking comm credit that I needed. I am also going for my B.A and they had be as a B.S. I was finally able to meet with an academic advisor, and she was so incredibly helpful. She changed me to a B.A, showed me that I did have my foreign language credits, and explained how to get my public speaking class to count towards my major. She also helped me get into a day class so, I could take a night class (they need to be taken at the same time, but one is offered at night, and the other during the day, but as a weekend college student, I am not allowed to take day classes). After my meeting with her, I went to the financial aid office and Office of the Registra and got everything taken care of. I need to fill out a change of address and a form to take more than 12 credits for the winter term. It was such a relief to have everything taken care of and as long as they accept my public speaking class, I will be graduating in May!
The advisor that helped me was also my first ever professor ay school. She even remembered me and said it was nice to help me start my first year of school, and help me end it as well. She even complimented my writing (imagine that!) and said she remembered I did my final project on the death penalty. I was really impressed because I took my first class at the college in January of 2004, almost 5 years ago, and she still remembered me. We talked about what I planned on doing after graduation and how my experience at the college has been for me. It was a quick reflection on my experience, but on the way home, I thought more on my 5 year journey at the college. It is amazing how much my life has changed in 5 years, and all the stuff that has happened along the way. I get a little emotional just thinking about graduating, but what a relief it will be to have my undergrad. Only about 7 more months left! Wish me luck!
Happy Birthday Maxwell
I just read this at Pretty in the City and found it interesting. I checked it out on my gmail and the option is there.
Hey Jodi maybe Vox will get this for you!
Google Mail has just launched a new feature called "Mail Goggles," a program that hopes to help prevent you from sending those late-night drunk emails that you might regret in the morning.
From Gmail...
Google strives to make the world's information useful. Mail you send late night on the weekends may be useful but you may regret it the next morning. Solve some simple math problems and you're good to go. Otherwise, get a good night's sleep and try again in the morning. After enabling this feature, you can adjust the schedule in the "General" settings page."
So,
if you get better at math when you're drunk, then this program probably
won't help you. Or, if you're sober and working late one night and just
really bad at math, then this program might make sending that important
email more difficult and could cause you to lose your job.
Look, I'm just saying you've got some loopholes, here, Google.
You might have more luck flagging and refusing to send messages that contain the phrases "I still love you" and "Why won't you take my phone calls?" At least that would be more effective with regards to me.
I kid, really. But anywho...
In case you're interested in enabling Mail Goggles, it's under the "Lab" tab of your Gmail settings.
Have you ever volunteered for something? If so, what?
Being one of my resolutions for 2008, I have put in an effort this year. I have volunteered to speak at a local high school for a career day. It was interesting. I spoke on being an insurance producer. It's not an exciting career, but if you are a good sales person, there is money to be made. My classes were small, and the people seemed uninterested. But I also spoke on the importance of teen safe driving, which is far more interesting.
I also volunteered once for the DFL. I did some data entry for them, and then they asked me to make phone calls, that was a big no. I am or was, on the phones all day for work, trying to sell insurance products. Making phone calls in my spare time was the last thing I wanted to do! I have offered to come back any time and do data entry, but have not received a phone call or e-mail.
And now, I am currently "volunteering" at my old job. I recently quit my full time job, but am going to be training in the new person. I am not sure if it is technically volunteering, I won't be paid for it, but it is considered "paying off my debt". I was given a bonus not to quit a few months back, and things have since changed, and I chose to leave there and just work part time, since school has been so overwhelming, among other chaotic work stuff. Anyway, I am training in my replacement free of charge. I'm a nice gal.
I have a few more months to volunteer, but I am not sure that I will be able to do much more. I am proud of what I have done, but do wish it could have been more. I feel that I have fulfilled this resolution!
Happy Birthday to my favorite niece
It's rainy here in Minnesota, at least the part that I am and sometimes I love the rain. Five years ago today my grandma St. Martin died...grandma Minnie. It rained on her funeral too. I have written before that the day grandma died, a piece of me died and I will never be the same. I can honestly say that I think of her every day, I miss her so much, it hurts. My grandma dying has been my greatest loss. There are so many things in my life that she will miss out on, my upcoming college graduation, my wedding, and my kids. And, although, that makes me incredibly sad, my heart breaks for my niece and nephews, and my kids. They will never really "know" Great Grandma Minnie. They may know her through our memories, but will never create memories of their own.
They won't know how fun it was to play cards with Grandma. It was a part of growing up, to be able to come up from out of the basement and to be able to sit at the table and play cards. They won't know why, "you assholes", "mutts and monkeys", "tree, tree, tree and box it" or any other funny Minnie saying. They can't sit at the table, and hear stories of when she was little, and how when some time after she got her license, she drove on the sidewalk, and never drove again. Or how, the day she first saw my grandpa, she turned to her friends and said, "that is the man I am going to marry", even though she had never met him. She did marry him, and had 7 kids. They will never be able to just sit and talk with her, after all, she was the cool grandma.
I find the rain fitting today. The rain can be seen as so many things, cleansing, mourning, good sleeping weather, lazy, or if it rains on your wedding day, it could mean you'll be rich. Grandma can be seen as many things, wife, mom, grandma, great grandma, story teller, poet. The last, a poet, she never got to live out that dream. Hopefully....I live out all mine, and grandma will be watching and guiding me throughout the way.
Show us something that always makes you laugh.
What were you afraid of when you were younger that seems silly to you now?
Submitted by wandie
I was always scared that my dad would kidnap me. He gave me no reason to think this, my parents are still married, but almost every time we would drive some where alone, I would literally hug the door, so I could jump out if needed. I would constantly ask why he was taking the way he was going, and I would memorize all the lefts and rights, in case of an emergency. Being kidnapped by my dad would not have been that bad, after all, he would take me to Country Kitchen almost everyday. I never understood why he I felt this way, my dad may have a bad temper, but a kidnapper he is not.
To this day, I still don't like when people take weird ways to places, and if paying close attention, I can remember how to get some where that I may not have visited for years. But I still ask for directions,carry them with me, and stress about getting lost...just in case.
What is the one word that perfectly describes your day today?
submitted by [this is connie]
Depressing.
