More than you bargained for?

Pretty much, I've only come to conclude that I didn't realize until recently how much of a pushover I am.

It's not just for drivers anymore

Today, I was walking from class to my car and I walked up to a stop sign and stopped for a good 10 seconds before I realized I didn't know why I stopped and I didn't know what I was waiting for. Maybe it's because I got that ticket.

I feel like it has been non-stop being at school, booking it to work after school, and spending all my spare time studying, doing homework, catching up with work from work…

This is neat: Descartes says that with the question of whether mind and body are separate, “I” is established because if he can doubt his body, which he does, then there must be an “I” behind all that is doing the doubting (I think therefore I am, I doubt therefore I am). So there must be a mind that is separate from a body.

Living actively is real living for me

I know I've already mentioned this, but my Composition class, is such a joke. It's already halfway through the semester, and out of 4 papers and an impromptu essay (all in the class syllabus), our professor has not collected anything except for 3 drafts of the first paper, which we just got back last week. Either at the end of the semester, we will have a ridiculously large amount of papers and homework to do, or we will only turn in 1 or 2 papers that will make up our entire grade. 9/10 times, what we discuss or look at during class is completely irrelevant to anything our papers are supposed to be about.

I'm rebelling by not writing the outline she asked us to write for the 5th paper. Alright, I know this is bad, but common. I've worked hard up until now and it has gone to nothing. I even started and finished a 600 word scholarship essay during one class period. My advisor asked me today during our meeting why I didn't have a grade in that class, and before I finished my sentence explaining nothing has been collected, she said "let me guess... Professor ----" and then she said, "Man I should start counting how many students have told me this."

Annnyway.

This is interesting. A fisherman found a bag of 300 letters that were written to God dating as far back as 1973. I wonder where those people thought the letters went?

Got to catch up with my girly Anna over the weekend :) I can't believe how much things have changed from the days when I practically lived at her house over the summer (was it in 4th grade?) and we played "wedding" and ate homemade chocolate chips every day.

On Sunday, D and I went to Petco to look at puppy stuff and impulsively decided to revive my old, 25 gallon aquarium. It was empty and cleaned out with all the parts (filter, heater, etc.) just piled up inside the aquarium, so we bought new gravel, a water plant, and water conditioner and cleaned it up a little. After we finished everything, we realized the aerator doesn't work anymore. So tomorrow or Thursday, we're going to get airstones, some new fishy, and maybe another plant! Yayyy :) Oh and, Alandra's sister's guppies just muliplied so I might buy some baby guppies off of her too. Alandra said they're so small, they don't even have colors yet so it might be kinda cool to see what colors they grow into if I get some.

Yesterday was a real productive day at work. I feel real good about the fact that employees I work for/with know me well enough to trust me with projects I don't think most interns/co-ops have the privledge of receiving. The APS group at Ricardo is going to a Fuel Cell Seminar in Hawaii at the end of this week, and recently gave me an assignment. Pretty much, it rocks being one of two people who are familiary with InDesign (at least, one of two people in R-US).

We are going to a Home Depot home improvement clinic tonight. Tonight is a window treatment clinic, and hopefully it will give us ideas about a small kitchen window. There's this window in the kitchen that makes me nervous. I know that at night when the kitchen light is on, the people in the condo sub behind us can easily see into our kitchen, especially at us when we're doing dishes or cooking. Hopefully, we'll be able to figure out what type of curtains or curtain patterns we like by the end of the week and have it up and ready.

Starting next Monday, we're going to take puppy training classes with Romeo every week. Although I like to think he is an absolute angel, he has some behavioral problems with play biting (hard), tearing up toilet paper, and barking at the most random sounds. Hopefully this will help us get an idea of what we need to do differently or more.

Ahh gotta go to class - I'll post doggie pics later.

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Yep, she didn't collect the outlines today either. She returned a worksheet to us that we completed during class but didn't record points for these either. Grr, I'm going to be so behind next semester when I take the next level of Composition.

E n' Maggie's Wedding

Does it ever get easier?

Today...

I got pulled over for running a stop sign on my way to class (I'm still not 100% sure which stop sign he was talking about)

I locked my keys in my car when I got to work

Then, I pretty much got my butt kicked (to put it nicely) at work