Check this out.... I managed to neuter the Vitruvian Man, and make it look ok :-) (Karen said no naked people in our lessons, but I really needed a picture of the Vitruvian Man)
grrr. I will never get to sleep. But, I'm not taking Linear this summer, which should help. let me explain... no, there is to much. Let me sum up. :-)
I wil never get any sleep becasue I am to dadgum busy for my own good. I have to leave the house at 7am every morning to get to work, which means getting up around 6am... And starting the 28th, I'll be in class until 9:45pm every night except Friday, which puts me home around 10:15pm, if I get out on time. Between those times I have to work 8+ hours, eat, do homework, and clean house... and of course, visit with my family (that's why I came home, right?). My weekends will mostly be spent traveling, or Chad will be in town, so I won't want to sleep the entire weekend away. And even when I don't have class, I have enough stuff to do for three people. Take, for instance, this weeks schedule.
Yesterday: Worked (or did random crap at work) from 8am-4pm. Went to leave, car stalled, had to get pushed back into the parking lot. *funny car/guy story* I tried to tell the guys that came to help me that the engine was turing over, but it wasn't getting gas. They were like, oh, yeah, whatever, you have no clue. So after 15 minutes of fiddling with the spark plugs, they were like, you know, I think the engine is turnging over, but it's not getting any gas. *Doh* (real problem: The emergancy cut-off for the fuel pump is flakey, something Daddy *forgot* to mention). *end of story* So, after getting my car fixed, I drove to church, my parents picked me up, we ate dinner, went to church, and got home around 9pm. But then I had to eat, and put dinner away, and get ready for bed, and talk to people, and.... I finally got in bed after 10pm, but couldn't sleep.
Today: Got up at 6am, browned hamburger meat, put stuff in crockpot for spagetti sauce. Talked to Mom for a minute, left 15 minutes late to go to work. I'm here until 4pm or so, then go home and cook spagetti and stuff to go with the sauce... and I will probably end up going out with Mom to Walmart or something.
Tomorrow: Work 7am-3pm (which means leaving the house by 6:30am). Get off Work, go help Aunt Dorinne With yardwork/housework at her house, eat with her, get home sometime around 9pm. Clean *my* house until I fall into bed exausted.
Saturday: Get up at 6am to go yard saleing with Mom... Yard sale until 1pm or so, then (if Henry has found the title to the bug) go meet Dad to get my car (an all-afternoon process). If Henry has not found the title, I might go swimming, but I think it may be to cold. If I go home, I'll end up doing housework. Oh yeah, I also need to go to Cingular and price a cellphone plan... sometime Saturday. And if I get my bug, I might try and find time to go to the VW parts shop and see about a floor pan. And mirrors.
If this is my life without class... how am I going to get everything done? I think I may spend a week between work and school recovering... from life! Oh well.... I'll get ever it. Plenty of time to sleep when I'm dead, right?
On a more interesting note, I get to go to a family reunion Sunday... My Dad's Father's family, or, more specificly, my Dad's Father's Mother's family :-) The Duncans. And they are all getting together at Anne's house (not sure if she's an Aunt or a cousin... never have figured that one out). So I get to go and see lots of people that share my blood, but I have no clue how or why or even who the hell they are. And lots of them will say things like, "I knew you when youe were *this* big", or "Are you Ray's Grandaughter? My you've grown up!", or "What's your major?", or "Are you dating/engaged/married?". But I've been promised good food... One can never pass up good food :-)
I got a raise... I got a raise :-) That's right, I know make *almost* $10.50 an hour. I think that that means that I make more than my mom does... Coolness, huh?
And what am I doing to earn this money? Nothing, today. Today was a totally wasted day. They should have paid me to sleep. Here's my schedule today:
Get to work at 8am. Be productive until 9:15am, when I get hustled out the door to do some walk for safety thing. Back to my office at 10:15am... be productive until 11am, when it's time to go to lunch with the other girls from the office. Get back about 1:30. Be productive until 2pm, when I have a meeting in Dawn's office. Back to my cube by 3pm. And I'm supposed to leave at 4pm. So that means that (not counting bathroom breaks and such) I will have actually worked 3 1/2 hours out of my 8 hours I'm clocked in.
But, I might add, I did get a few things accomplished. I aquired a CD burner for my workstation, I finished a set of lesson plans, and I made *some* progress on cataloging all the lessons we have that deal with models. Next week I get to beta test the new admin forms... by using them to update a year and a half's worth of articles one at a time (four a week, every week... that's more than 300!!). That is assuming I have a place to work, and they aren't tearing up my cube. Ho hum.
Chad gets to come home early... sort-of. He's going to Los Alamos to visit people for a day or two... then driveing home. But that puts him in Southaven three or four days earlier than expected. Which means his mom might not be nearly as pissed when I steal him away for the weekend :-)
Tonight is the last night of AWANA (my church's youth group program)... I'm going, though I'm not sure exactly why... it promises to be interesting. Maybe someone I know from high-school will show up. Ewww. High school. Yeah, those are fond memories. Or something. On second thought, maybe they won't.
My house is a wreak. I'm going to go insane. I managed to give myself a migraine last night, trying to get the hallway clean... THE HALLWAY... I don't even dream of being able to get to my closet anymore. Hell, getting to my bed is enough of a challenge. And my parents tell me it's cleaner than it was before I came home... they made the kids "clean" for me. Yeah. Great. I would have been swallowed up by the stuff monster that is constantly consuming my house. Since I've come home, I've gotten the kids to clean the bathroom... except for the counter and the sink, which they keep forgetting about. I cleaned the hallway and straightened up the bookshelves yesterday. And I'll be out tonight, so no cleaning will happen. In fact, while I've been at work, I'm sure un-cleaning has been happening. So I'll start tomorrow even further behind. *sigh* I get to leave in August. And I get to escape to Starkvegas for the weekend next weekend.
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Tuesday, May 14, 2002
Oh yeah, and if anyone wonders what I do at work..... Check out NASAexplores. Though my new stuff won't go up until the beginning of the summer... But a lot of the old stuff is stuff I wrote, coded, or revised. Interesting articles, most of the time. take a look! :-)
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Ho hum. Another day. So here I am at work, wondering when their going to come and make me move to another cube, or take away my cube for a week, or otherwise hinder my productiveness, when a delivery man comes in.... Yep, my cube is the storage place for bottled water. Not just little gallon jugs of water. Those big, industrial sized jugs that go in water dispansers. Yeah. There are 8 of them here. but's it's ok... by cube here is bigger than the one in the old building. This week. The "plan," as I'm told, is this... There are four intern cubes now, and four interns (nice how that works out, isn't it?). But Monday there will be two or three new interns, and no cubes for them (How sad). So, in an effort to give everybody workstations, "they" (the cube wall people) are supposed to come and tear down my cube and the other three intern cubes, and magically rearrange everything so that there are six or seven cubes, or at least six or seven workstations. And "they" tell me that my new cube will be biger than the one I have now. Right. I just can't see the math in that one. I could set the building on fire :-)
My dad's car is acting funny... It has a slow leak in the radiator, which I can deal with... it's doesn't make me happy, but I can deal with it... But then today, it started making hissing and bubbleing noises. Only one thing in that car hisses and bubbles. The radiator. This is why I don't like to drie cars with radiators. Because radiators crack and hiss and blow up. Fan belts occasionally wear or slip, but never blow up. I have a VW so that I don't have to deal with things that blow up and shoot steam.
And I'm still waiting on my Bug... It's bought and paid for, but I'm still waiting on the title. I don't want to pick it up before I get the title because maybe, if Henry sees the bug everytime he leaves the house, he'll remeber to look for the title. He better find it soon, though.... I'm getting frustrated. And I'm supposed to drive it to Memphis (Southaven) in the middle of June. Grr.
I finally nailed things to the wall last night. Two shelf sets, which should help my sister get her knick-knacks out of the floor... maybe.
Poor Chad... He's stuck in Boulder all by himself... No one to hang out with or anything... and He can't leave until the weekend. Poor Chad. But.... I get to see him next weekend. We're travelling to State together :-) Oh yeah, check out Chad's webpage. :-)
And, for the record, I prefer whipped cream. With strawberries.
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Monday, May 13, 2002
school is finally over. But somehow, I'm still behind. Blah. Ok, so this was my week last week:
Monday: I have no clue what I did, but I think it involved finals. Two, If I'm not mistaken. Oh yeah, i attempted to start packing and cleaning... and I have a vauge rememberance of being extremely busy, but i have no clue exactly why. hmmm.... Oh yeah, I went to Wal-mart, too.
Tuesday: Spent the morning coooking spagetti sauce. took a karate final (made an A) :-) Went to William's, made lasagna with the spagetti sauce i had made that morning (Yep, that's me... June Cleaver). Ate dinner, hung out with William, watched office space, stayed out late.
Wednesday: Took a final, and then packed and cleaned until I was (literally) sick. Went to dinner with Ian and ELisa, watched Ocean's 11. Went to bed. Elisa ran a red light :-)
Thursday: Got up early, Mom and mandie picked me up at school. We loaded all my crap into the van, went to lunch at Oby's, did some shopping, and headed home. As soon as I got home, turned around and left again to go to a baby shower for one of mom's friends.
Friday: Got up, organized dad's dvd collection. Woke the kids up, started unpacking my stuff out of the van, into the living room (because my sister took over my half of everything... the room, the closet, the dresser. grr). Mom and I went shopping... Then I did some laundry (after I dug my way into the laundry room... I swear, no one does it while I'm gone). Then it was time to get ready for Robbie's Varsity Banquet. So I showered, dressed, and we left for the banquet. Brag time: Rob completed his manuel and four electives... about 2 1/2 years work... all this year. :-) I ran into Joseph Bearden... Hadn't seen him in ages. College seems to have done him good... he doens't seem nearly as shy and frail as he used to. anyway... we had a good chat. Everyone told me I looked good, and how much they had missed me, and asked me how school was, yada yada. And I didn't even have to make a speech :-)
Saturday: More shopping, more laundry, and more Awards banquet. This time it was Mandie's Junior Varsity Banquet. Brag time: Mandie finished the requirements for her Meritorious Award this year... That means she's completed more than six years worth of handbooks. :-) Nothing terribly interesting happened that night...
Sunday: Mother's Day. Went to church, went to dinner with Mom and Granny and Grandmother, smiled till my face hurt. Came home, cleaned out closets, did *more* laundry, moved a second dresser into my room, so i would have a place to put my clothes... folded laundry while watching Fifth Element... contemplated hammering things into the wall, decided to go to be bed instead.
Today: Got up early for work... had to put water in the radiator of dad's car... it leaks. Again. grr. Had to stop by the hospital and pick up my lisence plate, which dad forgot to put on the car. Parked in the tower, only to find out that I couldn't get out without a validation or an employee badge... couldn't find daddy... had to go upstairs and get mom, who was just getting off a 12 hour shift and was pretty tried and a little short tempered... so she helped me get a screwdriver from dad's office, and let me out of the tower... but not before yelling at me and dad (when he showed up) for awhile. So I finally made it out, got to work, got caught up with what's happening here. My cube is in the back corner of the office now (yes, I still have a cube) and it's really quiet. They may move me again in a couple of days. And I htink someone took my stapler. :-) I've been working on a reading list all day long. Hopefully I'll finish the reasearch part of it tomorrow, and can start formatting and coding it.
FYI -- I'm putting a link to William's blog on my page for my benifit... but his page requires a user name and password. If you really want to read his blog, you can e-mail him and ask him for access. :-)
And on that note, I'm going to get back to work. Or something like that.
Oh yeah, for those enquiring minds: I actually did manage to pass everything this semester. Even my evil physics class. :-) Yay for me.
So last night, in an effort to avoid an argument, someone said something dumb that they didn't mean, without thinking the effect it might have on other people. Which, of course, in no way makes it right, but does make it somewhat more understandable... And people got offended (also understandably)... Several other things that could have added to the offence were pointed out by a person who happens to be able to see both side of the issue. So now someone is upset that they offended a friend, and said friend will probably hear from them in the next couple of days, and everything will (hopefully) be all flowers and sunshine.
Now that I have said that, I must study for my Physics test. blah.
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This is my brain..... in part, at least.
