OMG...Return from the Beyound!
Hmmm...where to begin?! I would say that I should try to catch up from the last entry that I made, but, since so much time elapsed, I would only get stressed out because the historian in me would be worried about missing details. So, let's just start off with today!
8:30 am (EST) Work up, caught John Mayer on the Today show (why is it that I think we would actually be a compatable couple?!), had breakefast in the Econo Lodge breakfast room (commentary on my life: in Terre Haute, the person who recognizes me most often is the hostess at the EC....ah for moving to a place where no one knows you!)
12:00 Headed to the campus of Rose Hulman Institute of Technology to meet with Donna G and to walk around campus. It is very intersting how their student affairs office is set up. Since they are such a small school, their Office of Student Life is intertwined with thier Housing and Residence Life. For example, there are three grad students and they also serve as housing grads. Also, housing is intertwined with orientation and greek life. I chatted with one of the grads for a while and then walked about the campus. It's odd to be in this position. I mean, I think at times where I would be if I had gone to USC. I think that I could have been happy there, but I think that there are two reasons why I am not there:
1. I would have been too cocky if I had received the assistantship that I wanted
2. As much as I love student affairs, I just don't think that I could do it for the rest of my life. As an involved student, I know that the experiences that I had outside of the classroom shpaed me into the person who I am today. However, having read Brett Seaman's text Binge: What Your College Student is Not Telling You, I have a whole new perspective. As odd as it may sound, I feel that I need to work in field that has immediate life changing results for a while. This is what I think is drawing me toward family and special vistims law. In that field, I know that lives will be forever changed because of the decisions that I make. Is there a draw to that amount of power, of course, but I think that I like the creativity and the opportunity to work in field in which each situation can ripple for eternity. It's the Judging Amy hope that I will eventually sit on the bench and make these amazing speechs and challenge the system.
But I digress.
2:00-3:00: I retunred to the motel and sent some emails. Called Frank and Bloom to see how Convocation and Transitions went/are going. Oh how I yearn to see Joe Martin again!
3:15-4:00: Headed to Fazoli's to grab dinner.
4:00-6:00: Oprah and then Home Improvement (can I just say how much I love Home Improvement. One of the episodes centered on a Red Wings game, and yes they mentioned Yzereman. How could they not?! Tim Allen is a genius in how he was able to capture the essence of suburban metro )Detroit. It's like being home again!)
6:00-7:30: Ran to the Dollar General and had a bit of a relapse. Then I did some research on the US presidents. Lately I have been really getting into American history. While I traditionally focus on Tudor England, I have been reading a text for a while about the mothers of the president that has provided some unique insight (let's just say that Elizabeth Jackson was so cool!) in addition to a text with the greatest speeches of all time. It has been so intersting to read the words of the men and women who formed this country. I have been reading the the speeches outloud to get a more fuller effect (if I did the speeches in the proper accent, that would be more to form, but...). Additionally, I have been hyptonized with The History Channel's series The Revolution. George Washington was such an amazing leader. He had his faults no doubt, but one of the things that I find so intersting abaout him is how much he wanted to retire. All he wanted to do was go to Mount Vernon, but he replied to a call to form the nation. Maybe (huge maybe) with the exception of the post second Civil War era, I do not think that the actions of any set of individiuals in American government will ever have as drastic of an impact as those who started the first Civil War on what would be American soil. As I am reading John Kerry's A Call to Service, I compare the issues that he wanted to deal with with the ones of early America and there is just no comparison. What is so facinating is that fact that a lot of the great orators of the time had to "sell" some ideas that they knew would be unpopular, and looking back now, we can see that they were right to sell the compromises, but were also right in seeing the ramifications of the actions.
7:30-8:00: Jeopardy
8:00-10:00: More research, only this time about, oddly, series that I read as a child and a young adult. This summer I read a book about the histoy of Nancy Drew and it made me realize how much we are shaped by what we read, especially in our formative years. I always had a book in my hand for as far back as I could remember; it was a visidual appendix for me. I was to the point that I would wake up, grab the book, and only put it down when I got dressed. I could brush my teeth and read! So I did some research on The Baby Sitters Club, Sweet Valley High, and Girl Talk. So many memories came rushing back to me. To this day, cocaine scares me because Regina King died in SVH book #40. These books provided such positive role models for young women. Hmmm...maybe I'll do my masters thesis about the impact of children's literature.
So now, here I am, remembering how much I love LJ...I get to rant and clear my brain and document my life at this point.
Anyways, I have to get up super early tomorrow!, so....
8:30 am (EST) Work up, caught John Mayer on the Today show (why is it that I think we would actually be a compatable couple?!), had breakefast in the Econo Lodge breakfast room (commentary on my life: in Terre Haute, the person who recognizes me most often is the hostess at the EC....ah for moving to a place where no one knows you!)
12:00 Headed to the campus of Rose Hulman Institute of Technology to meet with Donna G and to walk around campus. It is very intersting how their student affairs office is set up. Since they are such a small school, their Office of Student Life is intertwined with thier Housing and Residence Life. For example, there are three grad students and they also serve as housing grads. Also, housing is intertwined with orientation and greek life. I chatted with one of the grads for a while and then walked about the campus. It's odd to be in this position. I mean, I think at times where I would be if I had gone to USC. I think that I could have been happy there, but I think that there are two reasons why I am not there:
1. I would have been too cocky if I had received the assistantship that I wanted
2. As much as I love student affairs, I just don't think that I could do it for the rest of my life. As an involved student, I know that the experiences that I had outside of the classroom shpaed me into the person who I am today. However, having read Brett Seaman's text Binge: What Your College Student is Not Telling You, I have a whole new perspective. As odd as it may sound, I feel that I need to work in field that has immediate life changing results for a while. This is what I think is drawing me toward family and special vistims law. In that field, I know that lives will be forever changed because of the decisions that I make. Is there a draw to that amount of power, of course, but I think that I like the creativity and the opportunity to work in field in which each situation can ripple for eternity. It's the Judging Amy hope that I will eventually sit on the bench and make these amazing speechs and challenge the system.
But I digress.
2:00-3:00: I retunred to the motel and sent some emails. Called Frank and Bloom to see how Convocation and Transitions went/are going. Oh how I yearn to see Joe Martin again!
3:15-4:00: Headed to Fazoli's to grab dinner.
4:00-6:00: Oprah and then Home Improvement (can I just say how much I love Home Improvement. One of the episodes centered on a Red Wings game, and yes they mentioned Yzereman. How could they not?! Tim Allen is a genius in how he was able to capture the essence of suburban metro )Detroit. It's like being home again!)
6:00-7:30: Ran to the Dollar General and had a bit of a relapse. Then I did some research on the US presidents. Lately I have been really getting into American history. While I traditionally focus on Tudor England, I have been reading a text for a while about the mothers of the president that has provided some unique insight (let's just say that Elizabeth Jackson was so cool!) in addition to a text with the greatest speeches of all time. It has been so intersting to read the words of the men and women who formed this country. I have been reading the the speeches outloud to get a more fuller effect (if I did the speeches in the proper accent, that would be more to form, but...). Additionally, I have been hyptonized with The History Channel's series The Revolution. George Washington was such an amazing leader. He had his faults no doubt, but one of the things that I find so intersting abaout him is how much he wanted to retire. All he wanted to do was go to Mount Vernon, but he replied to a call to form the nation. Maybe (huge maybe) with the exception of the post second Civil War era, I do not think that the actions of any set of individiuals in American government will ever have as drastic of an impact as those who started the first Civil War on what would be American soil. As I am reading John Kerry's A Call to Service, I compare the issues that he wanted to deal with with the ones of early America and there is just no comparison. What is so facinating is that fact that a lot of the great orators of the time had to "sell" some ideas that they knew would be unpopular, and looking back now, we can see that they were right to sell the compromises, but were also right in seeing the ramifications of the actions.
7:30-8:00: Jeopardy
8:00-10:00: More research, only this time about, oddly, series that I read as a child and a young adult. This summer I read a book about the histoy of Nancy Drew and it made me realize how much we are shaped by what we read, especially in our formative years. I always had a book in my hand for as far back as I could remember; it was a visidual appendix for me. I was to the point that I would wake up, grab the book, and only put it down when I got dressed. I could brush my teeth and read! So I did some research on The Baby Sitters Club, Sweet Valley High, and Girl Talk. So many memories came rushing back to me. To this day, cocaine scares me because Regina King died in SVH book #40. These books provided such positive role models for young women. Hmmm...maybe I'll do my masters thesis about the impact of children's literature.
So now, here I am, remembering how much I love LJ...I get to rant and clear my brain and document my life at this point.
Anyways, I have to get up super early tomorrow!, so....