.322 x is sloooow
Okay so. I'll try to make this a long update post. I'll also try to separate it into sections of, you know, interest. So if you feel like reading something in particular, you know where to go. Lol.
Outside the cut: bigger events. Such as.
Job Interview: I have a casual interview on Monday at noon (on campus) for a tutoring position that starts at $12/hour. I'm excited about it. They got back to me right away after I submitted my info. I figured I was a ringer for the position; it required a 3.5 or higher, and I have a 3.633, plus I'm an Elementary Education major. Despite that, I wasn't really expecting to hear back. I am always suspicious of online applications. I also listed my experience tutoring my brother when he was homeschooled, my experience critiquing creative writing, and the student who just asked me to tutor her in MATH212. (I'm meeting her Monday too.) All I'm really worried about is the fact that it probably doesn't offer that many hours. I'm not sure what I'll do. I'd need twenty a week for it to be a standalone job. I could apply to drive the buses on campus, which pays $10 an hour and pays you to train for your CDL, but I'm a terrible driver and I'm not sure I want to subject the campus to that. On the plus side, they run pretty much all the time, so I'd probably have very flexible hours. And I don't think they require more than ten hours a week.
I'd love to get away from Country Boy (my current cashiering job). I don't mind them as much as I should considering they're angry old men who call us idiots, yell at the men and grumble at the women, and throw our food away when they're in bad moods... but still. They're only open til 8, which really limits the hours I can work. I only get $8.50 an hour. Could be worse, of course, but as you can see it could also be better. Plus I'm stuck in a fixed schedule. There aren't people to trade shifts with. There are only about 12 people who work there. Of those, four are the owning family. 6 (and a half?) are morning people who just don't close, period. Four are managers. Only five (including me) are cashiers, although two others can run the register if it gets busy (but they're strictly morning workers). I dunno. When you work is when you work, and that's that.
But, lest I forget, the nice things: Almost zero dress code (just don't wear flip flops), get paid every week, the evening shift is fairly relaxed... Okay, I'm out, I think. Although it is nice that if you really need a day off--and you don't abuse the privilege by requesting off all the time--there's no huge fuss over making sure you find coverage, they just deal with missing a person or tell someone to come in at a different time.
And, in the end, I might still consider Safeway if they're hiring. Which may not be the case. I hear the job crisis is still really bad.
Writers of the Future: No big news. I submitted, though, to the quarter ending September 30th. I submitted an edited version of Unjoined. I'm having all these doubts about it now, but I'm also very hopeful. I think in a lot of ways it's better than Moonfall, and that one got Honorable Mention. To be honest, I'd be pleased with semi-finalist or finalist (whichever one gets their manuscripts edited by the judges), though of course I'm really hoping to win overall. Who isn't? I just found out that in addition to the prize money, they pay you a pro rate for being published in the anthology! How nice is that? Even being a published finalist would be nice. No prize money, but you get paid the pro rate and they fly you out to the weeklong workshop in August.
Umso yes. I'm trying to keep myself writing. I signed up for the first workshop in Writers' House, but I can't decide whether to write something new for it or bring in one of my summer pieces. I might have considered Unjoined if I wasn't submitting it and it wasn't too long. She gave us a limit of around ten manuscript pages. Not very long at all.
I also challenged Kat on Stories to a member battle, and I'm involved in the weekly brigits_flame competitions, so hopefully that will provide motivation. Until November when I will try (hopefully!) to participate in NaNoWriMo for real for the first time since I was homeschooled D: Which is like cheating, really.
I need to write something for Kat and my challenge, though. It's due tomorrow. Doesn't have to be long though.
And on to school. As I said, I was asked to tutor someone in MATH212. Which is kind of silly since the class is ridiculous easy. It's basic arithmetic, only we're learning methods for teaching it to kids. I made a stupid mistake on the first quiz already. I should get most of the credit since I explained everything right--I just left out two of the factors of 441, one of which was the GCF required for the second question, so that one was screwed up too. Could've kicked myself, though.
EDCI443: Children's Literature. Not a hard class, but the workload is pretty enormous. We'll be reading Holes, Esperanza Rising, The Giver, Harry Potter 1 (lucky I've read that already), and a Newberry Award winner in addition to the texts and a lot of different articles. We already read Charlotte's Web. Yeah. That was the first week of school. It should be fun if I can keep abreast of all the assignments. I've put them all in my assignment planner and I've picked earlier deadlines for projects where possible, so hopefully it'll mean I'm not scrunched for time at the end of the semester.
MUED155: This class is ridiculous. It's integrating music into the classroom curriculum. She likes to teach us like we're the third graders, though, and it gets pretty silly. She's very nice though, so I don't hold it against her, it just gets tiring. It's funny though, for the class being so easy she sure makes the 'in class checkups' hard. They're supposed to make sure we've done the reading and paid attention in class, but they're awfully specific. Hopefully she'll key them down in the future. She said she's trying to find the right level.
EDPS301: Basically history of public schools/curriculum. The professor for this class is absolutely ridiculously hilarious. The first day he pretended to be a student until everyone started wondering where the prof was, then he said, "Maybe I'll just teach today." The book he has us reading along with the text seems to have nothing to do with school though. It's about a Native American-Irish mix who's been shuttled between foster homes since he was six and is on the verge of committing a horrible crime when he starts skipping through time to all these major events in American history that involve Native Americans. Custer's Last Stand, for example. Very strange. I'm maybe a quarter, a third of the way through so far.
Writers' House Workshop: Much more scholarly and organized than last semester. A lot more work too, but hopefully it'll be more rewarding. The professor is the normal one for the course, not a sub like last year, and she was pretty appalled at our reports on last year's temporary prof.
EDCI280: kind of an intro to the Ed major. I'll be at a public school for four hours one day a week. Negatives: I got a school that starts at 7:45am, and I have to pick up two of my group mates who lives on campus because they're on my way to the school so I have to leave even earlier to get there.
I think that's it, and good thing because Dennis and Heather are here to get their party on. Lol.
Outside the cut: bigger events. Such as.
Job Interview: I have a casual interview on Monday at noon (on campus) for a tutoring position that starts at $12/hour. I'm excited about it. They got back to me right away after I submitted my info. I figured I was a ringer for the position; it required a 3.5 or higher, and I have a 3.633, plus I'm an Elementary Education major. Despite that, I wasn't really expecting to hear back. I am always suspicious of online applications. I also listed my experience tutoring my brother when he was homeschooled, my experience critiquing creative writing, and the student who just asked me to tutor her in MATH212. (I'm meeting her Monday too.) All I'm really worried about is the fact that it probably doesn't offer that many hours. I'm not sure what I'll do. I'd need twenty a week for it to be a standalone job. I could apply to drive the buses on campus, which pays $10 an hour and pays you to train for your CDL, but I'm a terrible driver and I'm not sure I want to subject the campus to that. On the plus side, they run pretty much all the time, so I'd probably have very flexible hours. And I don't think they require more than ten hours a week.
I'd love to get away from Country Boy (my current cashiering job). I don't mind them as much as I should considering they're angry old men who call us idiots, yell at the men and grumble at the women, and throw our food away when they're in bad moods... but still. They're only open til 8, which really limits the hours I can work. I only get $8.50 an hour. Could be worse, of course, but as you can see it could also be better. Plus I'm stuck in a fixed schedule. There aren't people to trade shifts with. There are only about 12 people who work there. Of those, four are the owning family. 6 (and a half?) are morning people who just don't close, period. Four are managers. Only five (including me) are cashiers, although two others can run the register if it gets busy (but they're strictly morning workers). I dunno. When you work is when you work, and that's that.
But, lest I forget, the nice things: Almost zero dress code (just don't wear flip flops), get paid every week, the evening shift is fairly relaxed... Okay, I'm out, I think. Although it is nice that if you really need a day off--and you don't abuse the privilege by requesting off all the time--there's no huge fuss over making sure you find coverage, they just deal with missing a person or tell someone to come in at a different time.
And, in the end, I might still consider Safeway if they're hiring. Which may not be the case. I hear the job crisis is still really bad.
Writers of the Future: No big news. I submitted, though, to the quarter ending September 30th. I submitted an edited version of Unjoined. I'm having all these doubts about it now, but I'm also very hopeful. I think in a lot of ways it's better than Moonfall, and that one got Honorable Mention. To be honest, I'd be pleased with semi-finalist or finalist (whichever one gets their manuscripts edited by the judges), though of course I'm really hoping to win overall. Who isn't? I just found out that in addition to the prize money, they pay you a pro rate for being published in the anthology! How nice is that? Even being a published finalist would be nice. No prize money, but you get paid the pro rate and they fly you out to the weeklong workshop in August.
Umso yes. I'm trying to keep myself writing. I signed up for the first workshop in Writers' House, but I can't decide whether to write something new for it or bring in one of my summer pieces. I might have considered Unjoined if I wasn't submitting it and it wasn't too long. She gave us a limit of around ten manuscript pages. Not very long at all.
I also challenged Kat on Stories to a member battle, and I'm involved in the weekly brigits_flame competitions, so hopefully that will provide motivation. Until November when I will try (hopefully!) to participate in NaNoWriMo for real for the first time since I was homeschooled D: Which is like cheating, really.
I need to write something for Kat and my challenge, though. It's due tomorrow. Doesn't have to be long though.
And on to school. As I said, I was asked to tutor someone in MATH212. Which is kind of silly since the class is ridiculous easy. It's basic arithmetic, only we're learning methods for teaching it to kids. I made a stupid mistake on the first quiz already. I should get most of the credit since I explained everything right--I just left out two of the factors of 441, one of which was the GCF required for the second question, so that one was screwed up too. Could've kicked myself, though.
EDCI443: Children's Literature. Not a hard class, but the workload is pretty enormous. We'll be reading Holes, Esperanza Rising, The Giver, Harry Potter 1 (lucky I've read that already), and a Newberry Award winner in addition to the texts and a lot of different articles. We already read Charlotte's Web. Yeah. That was the first week of school. It should be fun if I can keep abreast of all the assignments. I've put them all in my assignment planner and I've picked earlier deadlines for projects where possible, so hopefully it'll mean I'm not scrunched for time at the end of the semester.
MUED155: This class is ridiculous. It's integrating music into the classroom curriculum. She likes to teach us like we're the third graders, though, and it gets pretty silly. She's very nice though, so I don't hold it against her, it just gets tiring. It's funny though, for the class being so easy she sure makes the 'in class checkups' hard. They're supposed to make sure we've done the reading and paid attention in class, but they're awfully specific. Hopefully she'll key them down in the future. She said she's trying to find the right level.
EDPS301: Basically history of public schools/curriculum. The professor for this class is absolutely ridiculously hilarious. The first day he pretended to be a student until everyone started wondering where the prof was, then he said, "Maybe I'll just teach today." The book he has us reading along with the text seems to have nothing to do with school though. It's about a Native American-Irish mix who's been shuttled between foster homes since he was six and is on the verge of committing a horrible crime when he starts skipping through time to all these major events in American history that involve Native Americans. Custer's Last Stand, for example. Very strange. I'm maybe a quarter, a third of the way through so far.
Writers' House Workshop: Much more scholarly and organized than last semester. A lot more work too, but hopefully it'll be more rewarding. The professor is the normal one for the course, not a sub like last year, and she was pretty appalled at our reports on last year's temporary prof.
EDCI280: kind of an intro to the Ed major. I'll be at a public school for four hours one day a week. Negatives: I got a school that starts at 7:45am, and I have to pick up two of my group mates who lives on campus because they're on my way to the school so I have to leave even earlier to get there.
I think that's it, and good thing because Dennis and Heather are here to get their party on. Lol.