a very happy un-birthday to you!
Well, Hi!
I did not go to my volunteering job this morning because I really was not feeling very well when I woke to feed the dog. So, I emailed them and let them know and went back to sleep to see if that could help. I guess I was feeling worse than I even thought I was because I didn't wake up again until 1230! Yah. As it is I still have a headache and am stiff...but the stomach is feeling better for the most part.
I had class in the rain yesterday and so trudged through all the wetness to get to the bus early in the morning as I had a meeting with a fellow student about a project before hand. It is our week to lead the online discussion and so we had to come up with questions to do this. There were supposed to be 4 of us and I guess the other two dropped the class along the way. Oh well. It was good to put a face on someone I have been emailing back and forth with for a week. I cam up with 6 questions and so did she. We posted them last night and someone has answered one already! I am oddly excited by this, like my little baby questions are getting out there in the world and people are responding! hehehe, I am weird I know.
Class was boring as hell and I did as much of the free crossword and sudoku as I could, but had to give up on the sudoku. I then switched to reading through my research book for my literature review in a different class and taking notes on that. The "lecture" was on everything I had read and listened to in preparation for my discussion questions so there was nothing new to learn from the prof. As usual. Two things so were funny in class. The guy who sits in the first row and plays with transformers the whole time (no joke) dropped them at some point and they were really loud and it was amusing. The other funny thing was the prof telling a story of how we will see that Pittsburgh takes all our money and doesn't use for civil service projects in 3 months when we break an axle on "chuck" holes that have not been repaired. He said this and then two minutes later, a kid raised his hand and asked, "did you say 'chuck' holes?!" The prof went into this explanation that he refuses to use Pittsburghese and say pothole. He is from ohio and so he uses "chuck" holes. Then this girl raised her hand and replied, "I am sorry to call you out, but I am from Texas and we say pothole." We all laughed heartily at this and the prof tried to save face and for some reason asked everyone what does a dog say. We all said, woof, arf, bark...he had to give up as the other prof that teaches the class reminded him he was stupid and to get on with it. hehehehe
I will have you know that the dog just audibly farted as she was getting up on the couch. HAHA! ew
Patrick has been gone all week to the south to visit his kin and whatnot. I am to pick him up at the train station saturday night at 11 something? I think that is right, I will have to ask him, later. It has been all quiet and boring around here without him. Although I do enjoy not having to drive out to Trader joes and back many times a week. Also that saves on gas as I have no money and barely any gas in the car. lalala.
The oven repair guy came yesterday late afternoon, so I spent the time after coming home from class cleaning up as much as I could. The living-room is presentable and the dinging room also. I threw all the trash away in the basement/kitchen, so it looks good too, now. He was down there for like 15 minutes tops, and needed to borrow our flashlight. Apparently the thermostat on the oven was whack. that is the knobby thing and whatever it connects to that you turn o turn the oven on and whatnot. Well, the problem was I as having trouble getting it to turn on at all. I would turn the dial and nothing would happen in the oven. Or I would turn it on, it would come on, and then just shut off on its own. Or worst, was when I would have the thing off, go downstairs to do something, and notice that the oven had turned it self on at some point, and was just heating away, with its gas fire going strong. safe. So the guy said he needed to find out how much a replacement part is. He said it might actually be quite expensive to replace, like more than a new oven altogether. I kinda hope it is so we can get a new one anyway, as this one is pretty sucky all around. And Ray (the landlord) would have to pay for it so yay! The guy says he turned off the ignition for the oven so it wouldn't turn on on its own and burn the house down and all that fun stuff.
hmm...maybe I will go make myself a sandwich or something now, as I am hungry and whatnot
Bye LJ World!
I did not go to my volunteering job this morning because I really was not feeling very well when I woke to feed the dog. So, I emailed them and let them know and went back to sleep to see if that could help. I guess I was feeling worse than I even thought I was because I didn't wake up again until 1230! Yah. As it is I still have a headache and am stiff...but the stomach is feeling better for the most part.
I had class in the rain yesterday and so trudged through all the wetness to get to the bus early in the morning as I had a meeting with a fellow student about a project before hand. It is our week to lead the online discussion and so we had to come up with questions to do this. There were supposed to be 4 of us and I guess the other two dropped the class along the way. Oh well. It was good to put a face on someone I have been emailing back and forth with for a week. I cam up with 6 questions and so did she. We posted them last night and someone has answered one already! I am oddly excited by this, like my little baby questions are getting out there in the world and people are responding! hehehe, I am weird I know.
Class was boring as hell and I did as much of the free crossword and sudoku as I could, but had to give up on the sudoku. I then switched to reading through my research book for my literature review in a different class and taking notes on that. The "lecture" was on everything I had read and listened to in preparation for my discussion questions so there was nothing new to learn from the prof. As usual. Two things so were funny in class. The guy who sits in the first row and plays with transformers the whole time (no joke) dropped them at some point and they were really loud and it was amusing. The other funny thing was the prof telling a story of how we will see that Pittsburgh takes all our money and doesn't use for civil service projects in 3 months when we break an axle on "chuck" holes that have not been repaired. He said this and then two minutes later, a kid raised his hand and asked, "did you say 'chuck' holes?!" The prof went into this explanation that he refuses to use Pittsburghese and say pothole. He is from ohio and so he uses "chuck" holes. Then this girl raised her hand and replied, "I am sorry to call you out, but I am from Texas and we say pothole." We all laughed heartily at this and the prof tried to save face and for some reason asked everyone what does a dog say. We all said, woof, arf, bark...he had to give up as the other prof that teaches the class reminded him he was stupid and to get on with it. hehehehe
I will have you know that the dog just audibly farted as she was getting up on the couch. HAHA! ew
Patrick has been gone all week to the south to visit his kin and whatnot. I am to pick him up at the train station saturday night at 11 something? I think that is right, I will have to ask him, later. It has been all quiet and boring around here without him. Although I do enjoy not having to drive out to Trader joes and back many times a week. Also that saves on gas as I have no money and barely any gas in the car. lalala.
The oven repair guy came yesterday late afternoon, so I spent the time after coming home from class cleaning up as much as I could. The living-room is presentable and the dinging room also. I threw all the trash away in the basement/kitchen, so it looks good too, now. He was down there for like 15 minutes tops, and needed to borrow our flashlight. Apparently the thermostat on the oven was whack. that is the knobby thing and whatever it connects to that you turn o turn the oven on and whatnot. Well, the problem was I as having trouble getting it to turn on at all. I would turn the dial and nothing would happen in the oven. Or I would turn it on, it would come on, and then just shut off on its own. Or worst, was when I would have the thing off, go downstairs to do something, and notice that the oven had turned it self on at some point, and was just heating away, with its gas fire going strong. safe. So the guy said he needed to find out how much a replacement part is. He said it might actually be quite expensive to replace, like more than a new oven altogether. I kinda hope it is so we can get a new one anyway, as this one is pretty sucky all around. And Ray (the landlord) would have to pay for it so yay! The guy says he turned off the ignition for the oven so it wouldn't turn on on its own and burn the house down and all that fun stuff.
hmm...maybe I will go make myself a sandwich or something now, as I am hungry and whatnot
Bye LJ World!