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elvenavariSoooooo…. In my last actual journal entry I had been out of school for a week and now I have been back in school for a week. XD
I had hoped this semester would be fairly easy and a good way to bring up my GPA but one class may keep that from happening. The following are the classes I’m taking this semester. Bonus points for you if you can guess which class I’m talking about (hint: it’s the one with the longest name).
Organismal Biology
Spanish I
Psychology of Human Development
Survey of Individuals with Exceptionalities
Drawing II
Okay, okay… maybe I should start waaaaaay back at the beginning of the summer. Yup, let’s test my memory and see if I can remember all the way back to the beginning of summer… course, how will you know if I don’t? XP Just don’t ask for organization in this entry, I just wrote as I thought of this stuff.
It took us a week but we got Mrs. B all packed up. The library, or what used to be the library, was now so horribly bare. So many fond memories are now only remembered in our minds -sad-. One of the students helping us did such an awful job packing boxes. She just threw them in! I told Mrs. B and she checked one of the boxes that wasn’t closed yet and she was appalled. She quickly gave the girl another task to keep her from packing anymore books.
Once we had finished the books I was put in charge of cleaning out cabinets in the back and packing up the movies. Mrs. B let me borrow Brigadoon when I found it on the shelf. –squee- I want eet! Mrs. B said I could have it and one of the old school projectors’s if they ever decided to replace them. I love her!
So I had said working in the public library was my dream job. It was a lot of fun sure but overall I now know why I want to be a high school library. I’d rather deal with kids and teachers than deal with everyday people. How sad is that? However, Joe (the main boss), said that I was welcome to come back and work over breaks which is really cool of him plus a little itty bit of bonus cash for me.
I had a lot of fun helping Suzanne with the summer reading program. The little kids were so cute and excited at the end when they got their prizes, well those that won prizes from the drawings. The teens were a lot of fun too… when they showed up XD.
Towards the beginning of the summer I took my cousin Emily to see a movie. I let her pick the movie; she picked Wall E. Oh my goodness! Wall E is one of Pixar’s BEST movies ever! The story was super sweet and funny but also had an underlying seriousness that could not be ignored. Emily, who’s ten, picked up on it and she exclaimed “why are the people so lazy?!” I just smiled and told her, “If we don’t change our direction that’s where we’re headed.” Everyone should watch Wall E, I highly recommend it.
Well I had about 26 books on my Summer Reading List… I read about 8 of them. I was much busier than I had anticipated and just didn’t have the time to read all I wanted. I didn’t read All Quiet on the Western Front because I just couldn’t get into it. I will have reviews of the books I did read, including some I hadn’t planned on, in a later entry.
This year was the second year I have been away from home over the 4th of July. The first time I was at my uncle’s in St. Louis and this time we were in Florida. Watching the fireworks on the beach and bay was truly amazing. We went up on the roof and there were fireworks all around us! My friend Kelly got to come with us, which was really exciting. We had a lot of fun and it was great to really spend some time with her again. We got into one major fight the night before we came home but the next morning everything was okay.
Twilight by Stephanie Myer was published in 2006, I own a copy of this book, but I have not yet read it. I bought my copy before all the hype started and since all the hype I have been kinda turned off. I’m a big fan of vampire novels. Anne Rice, Tanya Huff, P.N. Elrod & Mark A. Roeder = pure love when it comes to vampire novels. I’m a big fan of vampire novels; however, I am NOT a big fan of my vampire terminology being played with. Vampires are not supposed to fucking sparkle/glitter in sunlight! Not only that but Edward is 300, he’s a baby in vampire years! A BABY!
Someone I was talking to about it once told me that Twilight is one of the top selling books of all time. As a future librarian I know this to be untrue. I’m sure they prolly meant that it is one of the best selling book of the year or perhaps that it is one of the best selling series, but it is not one of the best selling books or series of all time. The entire series has sold 50 million copies around the world and over 7.7 million in the U.S. The 50 million standing puts all 4 books in the same league as The Catcher in the Rye (65 million) and Black Beauty (50 million), both of which are single books. The 7.7 million puts it below The Outsiders (13 million) and The Cat in the Hat (10 million). As far as series go, the U.S. standings of 7.7 million put it far below Harry Potter’s 400 million. Actually the closest standing to Twilight is Der Regenbogenfisch (Rainbow Fish) by Marcus Pfister at 15 million copies.
Let me make myself perfectly clear RIGHT NOW. I am NOT looking for an argument with anyone on whether or not the books are any good, etc. I merely had to straighten out some facts that were urking the librarian in me. I will get around the reading the books and forming my own opinion about them but they are not in my top priorities right now.
Alrighty then, moving on. I think that for my 21st birthday my mom was expecting me to ask for a long weekend trip to New York City, which I have always wanted to go to and still do. However, she was surprised that when she asked I said that I wanted to go horseback riding. I looooove horses more than just about any animal, except for wolves. I love going horseback riding, especially since I don’t get to do it very often. So a couple of weekends before I had to move back into school my mom, dad, my friend Hallie and I all went to Carter Caves.
The night before we went horseback riding, and by “we” I mean Hallie and I as my parents refuse to go, the four of us played and wacked out version of the card game Screw Your Buddy. It was so much fun, defiantly the best part of the entire weekend. The next day Hallie and I went on a guided trail ride. It was a lot of fun except for the fact that Hallie’s saddle was loose and it practically came off and she fell. Poor Hal’s was all bruised up and sore that night and the next day… and I’m sure a few days after. We had planned to go canoeing and do a cave tour but with Hallie being so sore and thinking of my parents who have back and knee problems, but were still going to do it if I had wanted to… I said that I didn’t because I didn’t want them to be in any more pain than they already had. I hope to get to go back sometime and do those things we missed out on.
I moved back into school on Aug. 24th. It was a week later than I expected but I was/am so glad to be back at school. I missed all these people so much! The week after moving in I celebrated my 21st b-day by… going to class. Yay me. Luckily Mr. Weedman let us out of our two and a half hour drawing class almost an hour early. He usually doesn’t let us out early, even if it is the first day.
I’m back in Suite 18 with Katie and Laura. There are three other girls, one of which I had had class with and the other two I had never met. So far we are getting along fairly well. We’ll see what I have to say about that at the end of this semester :P.
Mom drove down on Thursday, even though she was SUPER busy, to have supper with me and a few of my friends. We went to Shiloh’s in London, which has some of the most awesome steak EVER. I was so glad mom came down, it really warmed my heart.
The next day I went home and started helping my mom get ready for the big party she was throwing for my b-day. We were so busy getting stuff ready… and my gran was having Emily’s b-day on Saturday, it was just a lot. But overall it was fun. We had a hayride! I know, total country, but it was soooo much fun.
So one of my professor’s annoy me, and another professor that I don’t have annoys me (yeah I know, how is that possible huh?) First of all, the professor I have, has assigned us two articles reviews, both due this Thursday. I know they are supposed to be in the APA style but that’s about all I know. I asked him if I could find some articles that had to do with Emotional/Behavior Disorders that had to do with grief, he said I could. One of the limitations of our reviews is that the articles are supposed to be published in 2006-recently but only one of the articles I could find was published in 2008. The other articles were all published between 2003-2005. I emailed him to asked if that was okay, if he had any time where I could come to his office and go over them… but guess what? He had time to email the ENTIRE class the slide notes and review questions but he did not have time to reply to my email.
The professor that I don’t have is one that has helped me before try to bring up my ACT score for some of my education classes. My score didn’t come up so now I have to take a test called the PPST, also known as the Praxis, who’s score can stand in for my ACT score. The previously mentioned professor also helps with the PPST so I emailed her asking for a web link where I could sign up for it. She emails me back and tells me to call her cell and she will give me the web link. Hold up, wait a minute, call her? Call here? WHY could she not just include the web link in the email? Would that not have been easier? GRRRR! Professors annoy me!
Now, as far as the presidential election goes… I hate both candidates. Plain and simple. I’ll vote but I guess it’ll have to be for the one I hate less, which will be Obama.
My college now has an official anime club. I’m so excited! We’re gonna meet every other Monday to watch anime movies and perhaps a episode of a series just to broaden our horizon’s. This coming Monday we’re watching Howl’s Moving Castle. I hope people show up.
-Takes a breath- Well almost 4 months since my last true journal update I hit ya’ll with this whopper. It’s 1:10am now and I have to be up at 7 but Nikki is in the shower and I still need to take one. -sigh- I’m supposed to be the only one up now.
And this concludes this journal entry! -curtain closes-
I had hoped this semester would be fairly easy and a good way to bring up my GPA but one class may keep that from happening. The following are the classes I’m taking this semester. Bonus points for you if you can guess which class I’m talking about (hint: it’s the one with the longest name).
Organismal Biology
Spanish I
Psychology of Human Development
Survey of Individuals with Exceptionalities
Drawing II
Okay, okay… maybe I should start waaaaaay back at the beginning of the summer. Yup, let’s test my memory and see if I can remember all the way back to the beginning of summer… course, how will you know if I don’t? XP Just don’t ask for organization in this entry, I just wrote as I thought of this stuff.
It took us a week but we got Mrs. B all packed up. The library, or what used to be the library, was now so horribly bare. So many fond memories are now only remembered in our minds -sad-. One of the students helping us did such an awful job packing boxes. She just threw them in! I told Mrs. B and she checked one of the boxes that wasn’t closed yet and she was appalled. She quickly gave the girl another task to keep her from packing anymore books.
Once we had finished the books I was put in charge of cleaning out cabinets in the back and packing up the movies. Mrs. B let me borrow Brigadoon when I found it on the shelf. –squee- I want eet! Mrs. B said I could have it and one of the old school projectors’s if they ever decided to replace them. I love her!
So I had said working in the public library was my dream job. It was a lot of fun sure but overall I now know why I want to be a high school library. I’d rather deal with kids and teachers than deal with everyday people. How sad is that? However, Joe (the main boss), said that I was welcome to come back and work over breaks which is really cool of him plus a little itty bit of bonus cash for me.
I had a lot of fun helping Suzanne with the summer reading program. The little kids were so cute and excited at the end when they got their prizes, well those that won prizes from the drawings. The teens were a lot of fun too… when they showed up XD.
Towards the beginning of the summer I took my cousin Emily to see a movie. I let her pick the movie; she picked Wall E. Oh my goodness! Wall E is one of Pixar’s BEST movies ever! The story was super sweet and funny but also had an underlying seriousness that could not be ignored. Emily, who’s ten, picked up on it and she exclaimed “why are the people so lazy?!” I just smiled and told her, “If we don’t change our direction that’s where we’re headed.” Everyone should watch Wall E, I highly recommend it.
Well I had about 26 books on my Summer Reading List… I read about 8 of them. I was much busier than I had anticipated and just didn’t have the time to read all I wanted. I didn’t read All Quiet on the Western Front because I just couldn’t get into it. I will have reviews of the books I did read, including some I hadn’t planned on, in a later entry.
This year was the second year I have been away from home over the 4th of July. The first time I was at my uncle’s in St. Louis and this time we were in Florida. Watching the fireworks on the beach and bay was truly amazing. We went up on the roof and there were fireworks all around us! My friend Kelly got to come with us, which was really exciting. We had a lot of fun and it was great to really spend some time with her again. We got into one major fight the night before we came home but the next morning everything was okay.
Twilight by Stephanie Myer was published in 2006, I own a copy of this book, but I have not yet read it. I bought my copy before all the hype started and since all the hype I have been kinda turned off. I’m a big fan of vampire novels. Anne Rice, Tanya Huff, P.N. Elrod & Mark A. Roeder = pure love when it comes to vampire novels. I’m a big fan of vampire novels; however, I am NOT a big fan of my vampire terminology being played with. Vampires are not supposed to fucking sparkle/glitter in sunlight! Not only that but Edward is 300, he’s a baby in vampire years! A BABY!
Someone I was talking to about it once told me that Twilight is one of the top selling books of all time. As a future librarian I know this to be untrue. I’m sure they prolly meant that it is one of the best selling book of the year or perhaps that it is one of the best selling series, but it is not one of the best selling books or series of all time. The entire series has sold 50 million copies around the world and over 7.7 million in the U.S. The 50 million standing puts all 4 books in the same league as The Catcher in the Rye (65 million) and Black Beauty (50 million), both of which are single books. The 7.7 million puts it below The Outsiders (13 million) and The Cat in the Hat (10 million). As far as series go, the U.S. standings of 7.7 million put it far below Harry Potter’s 400 million. Actually the closest standing to Twilight is Der Regenbogenfisch (Rainbow Fish) by Marcus Pfister at 15 million copies.
Let me make myself perfectly clear RIGHT NOW. I am NOT looking for an argument with anyone on whether or not the books are any good, etc. I merely had to straighten out some facts that were urking the librarian in me. I will get around the reading the books and forming my own opinion about them but they are not in my top priorities right now.
Alrighty then, moving on. I think that for my 21st birthday my mom was expecting me to ask for a long weekend trip to New York City, which I have always wanted to go to and still do. However, she was surprised that when she asked I said that I wanted to go horseback riding. I looooove horses more than just about any animal, except for wolves. I love going horseback riding, especially since I don’t get to do it very often. So a couple of weekends before I had to move back into school my mom, dad, my friend Hallie and I all went to Carter Caves.
The night before we went horseback riding, and by “we” I mean Hallie and I as my parents refuse to go, the four of us played and wacked out version of the card game Screw Your Buddy. It was so much fun, defiantly the best part of the entire weekend. The next day Hallie and I went on a guided trail ride. It was a lot of fun except for the fact that Hallie’s saddle was loose and it practically came off and she fell. Poor Hal’s was all bruised up and sore that night and the next day… and I’m sure a few days after. We had planned to go canoeing and do a cave tour but with Hallie being so sore and thinking of my parents who have back and knee problems, but were still going to do it if I had wanted to… I said that I didn’t because I didn’t want them to be in any more pain than they already had. I hope to get to go back sometime and do those things we missed out on.
I moved back into school on Aug. 24th. It was a week later than I expected but I was/am so glad to be back at school. I missed all these people so much! The week after moving in I celebrated my 21st b-day by… going to class. Yay me. Luckily Mr. Weedman let us out of our two and a half hour drawing class almost an hour early. He usually doesn’t let us out early, even if it is the first day.
I’m back in Suite 18 with Katie and Laura. There are three other girls, one of which I had had class with and the other two I had never met. So far we are getting along fairly well. We’ll see what I have to say about that at the end of this semester :P.
Mom drove down on Thursday, even though she was SUPER busy, to have supper with me and a few of my friends. We went to Shiloh’s in London, which has some of the most awesome steak EVER. I was so glad mom came down, it really warmed my heart.
The next day I went home and started helping my mom get ready for the big party she was throwing for my b-day. We were so busy getting stuff ready… and my gran was having Emily’s b-day on Saturday, it was just a lot. But overall it was fun. We had a hayride! I know, total country, but it was soooo much fun.
So one of my professor’s annoy me, and another professor that I don’t have annoys me (yeah I know, how is that possible huh?) First of all, the professor I have, has assigned us two articles reviews, both due this Thursday. I know they are supposed to be in the APA style but that’s about all I know. I asked him if I could find some articles that had to do with Emotional/Behavior Disorders that had to do with grief, he said I could. One of the limitations of our reviews is that the articles are supposed to be published in 2006-recently but only one of the articles I could find was published in 2008. The other articles were all published between 2003-2005. I emailed him to asked if that was okay, if he had any time where I could come to his office and go over them… but guess what? He had time to email the ENTIRE class the slide notes and review questions but he did not have time to reply to my email.
The professor that I don’t have is one that has helped me before try to bring up my ACT score for some of my education classes. My score didn’t come up so now I have to take a test called the PPST, also known as the Praxis, who’s score can stand in for my ACT score. The previously mentioned professor also helps with the PPST so I emailed her asking for a web link where I could sign up for it. She emails me back and tells me to call her cell and she will give me the web link. Hold up, wait a minute, call her? Call here? WHY could she not just include the web link in the email? Would that not have been easier? GRRRR! Professors annoy me!
Now, as far as the presidential election goes… I hate both candidates. Plain and simple. I’ll vote but I guess it’ll have to be for the one I hate less, which will be Obama.
My college now has an official anime club. I’m so excited! We’re gonna meet every other Monday to watch anime movies and perhaps a episode of a series just to broaden our horizon’s. This coming Monday we’re watching Howl’s Moving Castle. I hope people show up.
-Takes a breath- Well almost 4 months since my last true journal update I hit ya’ll with this whopper. It’s 1:10am now and I have to be up at 7 but Nikki is in the shower and I still need to take one. -sigh- I’m supposed to be the only one up now.
And this concludes this journal entry! -curtain closes-
