Graduating with High Honors!!

I am so excited. I have been checking the mail every day looking for graduation information. I applied in December for Graduation this May. Finally, I got the info yesterday. YES!! I will be graduating this year, but the best part is I will be graduating with HONORS! WOOHOO! The letter states "The faculty and administration of Mott Community College are pleased to congratulate you on graduating with high honors." I am ecstatic! I thought I would need a 4.0 GPA or something to gradutate with honors but I guess my GPA of 3.53 (and rising  ) is good enough. I nearly cried when I got the letter – I have worked my butt off. I get to go to a special banquet a few days before graduation to get an award and I hope some special chord or sash to wear at graduation. I sm so happy, happy, happy… Yeah!!

Published in: on April 10, 2008 at 1:46 am  Leave a Comment  

So many books, so little time…

I love to read! I have felt like reading the last few days. I used to read a book a day but I don’t have time for that anymore. For one thing, every time I start reading I find myself falling asleep. It is not because the book is boring; I am not sure why this happens. Also, I think reading news and playing "The Sims" on the computer has taken up a lot of my free time. Well, that and having a husband and stepson. My husband said I used to read a book a day because I had no life. Gee thanks honey! I had a life then, I just made time for books. He is not a reader and neither is my stepson. I wish they had a passion for books like I do. I love the smell of a new book. I love the bookstore, but I am always overwhelmed when I go in one. So much to choose from! My husband and stepson dread it when I am in a bookstore or a place that has books. They know I will be in there forever.

 

I have a ton of books – some of them I have not read yet. We are going to build a built-in shelving unit in our living room for my collection of books. I am so excited – it will be like my very own library, hehe. I have all kinds of books – I like collecting them. My favorite books to collect are art books, books about flowers, and books on history and the classics. I want to read more of the classics but again, time is my enemy. A romance or mystery novel goes down much quicker and easier. I have read some of the classics but I have merely scratched the surface.

 

I love Jane Austen. I have read all of her major books. I am dying to read “Sense and Sensibility” again. I just saw the movie on PBS (which was wonderful BTW) so that is what brought all this on. I cannot find my copy of the book. I could read it online but I love to have the actual book in my hands. Ebooks are convenient but it is not the same as reading a real life book. Books are magical in my opinion. They give you the ability to travel back in time or become part of a story/experience you might not ever know yourself. Does everyone who loves to read and loves books feel this way? I think so.

 

Sometimes I think I should be a librarian. I don’t think the job outlook for librarians is good. You have to have a masters degree too. It would be silly to get a masters in a career that is not growing. I do love books, and being around books though. Yes, I am a nerd!

 

http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos068.htm

 

Online Books http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page

Published in: on April 8, 2008 at 12:32 pm  Leave a Comment  

Talking about Elephant Paints Self-Portrait

  WOW! This is crazy.

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Elephant Paints Self-Portrait


An elephant puts non-artist humans to shame by effortlessly painting a self-portrait.

Published in: on April 2, 2008 at 10:11 pm  Leave a Comment  

Talking about Facebook Addiction

  Or MSN Spaces or MySpace or Friendster; hehehe  I thought this was cute.

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Facebook Addiction


Facebook is one of the most addictive social phenomena to have ever swept the world! Learn about the common signs of Facebook addiction.

Published in: on April 2, 2008 at 2:33 am  Leave a Comment  

Sore and Annoyed

I am so sore! I went to rehearsal Thursday night. I am a soldier in the play "Titus Andronicus". I thought it would be easy – walk on stage, stand a little bit, walk off. UM no. We have heavy swords we have to carry and all these movements/salutes we have to do. Yikes! The swords are like 10 – 15 pounds. My right arm hurts and my rectus femoris muscles (we have to kneel in one of the salutes). There are three other females in the army and we were joking that we are going to have some big right arms when all this is done. We are going to look crazy – out of proportion. A Popeye arm on the right and a little left arm.  I will have to start working out. It is fun though. The director keeps saying we are going to look badass. hahaha. I know we are going to get chain mail. Awesome!
 
Today I am trying to figure out what the hell Jean Baudrillard means when he is talking about Simulation. It is for the class that I hate. I am so annoyed with this crap. I guess I am not the deep thinker I thought I was.  This shit is philosophical BS. I tried to take a philosophy class last winter semester, "Lies, Deception, and Bullshit", to get a better grip on why so many people lie and BS their way through life. I ended up dropping the class because we spent too long trying to define exactly what lies, deception and bullshit are. It made my brain hurt, plus I was bored. Plus there were a lot of people in the class that talked just to hear the sound of their own voice – that is my definition of bullshit. Haha, well one of them anyway. So this class, "Reading Pop Culture" is reminding me of that. UGH! Not what I signed up for. This Baudrillard guy is trying to say that nothing is real, we are all just simulations and our world is a simulation. OK, certainly some of our lives are simulated – maybe quite a bit but sickness (most of the time) and death are real aren’t they? If you get hit by a bus – that’s real isn’t it? And he is talking about signs. Aah geez, I don’t even want to get into that. I am frustrated, needless to say. This class is going to Flub (you know I meant another F word) me up. I wanted all 4.O this semester. Dammit. Not with this class.
 
One bright spot – I got an 89 on my psych test. Awesome! The class average is around 69%. That sucks, but it is getting a little better. Did I stress how hard Dr. McCain’s tests are? I feel drained of everything after I take her tests. I hope my study buddy did well.
 
Published in: on March 29, 2008 at 4:24 pm  Leave a Comment  

My excitement for today…

I had lunch today at the cafe at school. There was some special event going on and the cafe was packed. I got a table but I ended up sharing my table with a speech professor, the Dean of the Business Dept and his secretary. That was interesting. It was a fixed menu so you had to take what you got. It was a spinach chicken salad with bacon and vinagrette dressing. It also had cavier. I do not eat seafood but I did try the cavier out of curiosity. It wasn’t bad but it wasn’t anything special. The salad was very good.
 
I had a psychology test today. It was very hard. I hope I did all right. There were a few things that I saw on the test that I did not study very well. Dammit! I am so drained now.
Published in: on March 26, 2008 at 11:54 pm  Leave a Comment  
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