busy busy busy
well...
things have been very busy over in the world-o-Jon this past week...um let's see
Wed. Cake und I quite--yes Quite our jobs @ Panera Bread in order to (hopefully) get more $ doing the whole standardize test thingy (again for me...)
We went in for training Thurs morning...after getting up around 5:50am so that we could drop off some stuff to one of our friends (basically the ONLY one we're willing to keep speaking to) and then got us some McDonald's breakfast and headed on down the road to Indy!
There we were in a group together and then...they SPLIT the fuckin' group! (Already this day was Not going my way...i had previously stepped in cat barf and was not uber thrilled about the morning drive...but still...it would come out to about $400 a PIECE a Week)
So...Cake was in one group and I was in another and then...qualifying was excruciating and then...well...long story short--i didn't make the cut
I'll still get about $90 which is almost one week's paycheck @ Panera in just one day so, yeah...and I'll hopefully get another chance there later this month--we're trying desperately to get me into Cake's section, but we're running into red tape. If anything I'll get to focus on my writing and contests before I have to break from that again while getting settled in CO.
We're definitely going the end of July...so...yeah...I'll miss somethings but i think I'll really LOVE it there and I Need to get out of here soon (I mean that in the sweetest way possible)
ummm...
Friday Cake and I drove to Martinsville so Both of us could see Over the River and THrough the Woods and she laughed and laughed
Yesterday was Very bussy
seeing my sister graduate (Holla to Rebecca H., Sara P., and Ticha G. as Well!) and then we went to my parent's house in Anderson to do late birthdays/graduation dinner and cake
after catching up (i passed around pics of Cake and my trip to Houston and Grampa got to meet her--a funny story) we watched this Travel Channel show about gross foods in Asia...and man...i'm glad i now know that if i want to...i can go to Japan and eat...a beating...frog's heart...thank God...i will die...a happy man...now...
before we left we also caught and got into a Wonderful Discussion about how all the books and people getting all frazzled about The DaVinci Code are IDIOTS.
It is a Novel....A work of FICTION
sure it uses things that were real but what book doesn't? bah, that's a rant for another day :-p
I also got to hear a wonderful story via Cake's questions to my father: The reason he became a PhD in reading...he used to teach Biology and realized that while his students would pass the experiments with flying colours they could not read the text book and would therefore fail the written exam.
Today was church, as usual, but with a lil twist, we had a guest speaker--
David Horowitz's List of 100 Most Dangerous Professors in the U.S.
The Professor's Colleges and Universities
Arcadia University: Warren Haffar
Ball State University: George Wolfe
Baylor University: Marc Ellis
Boston University: Howard Zinn
Brandeis University: Gordon Fellman, Dessima Williams
Brooklyn College: Priya Parmar, Timothy Shortell
Cal State University, Fresno: Sasan Fayazmanesh
California State University, Long Beach: Ron (Maulana) Karenga
City University of New York: Stanley Aronowitz, Bell Hooks, Leonard Jeffries, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Columbia University: Lisa Anderson, Gil Anidjar, Hamid Dabashi, Nicholas De Genova, Eric Foner, Todd Gitlin, Manning Marable, Joseph Massad, Victor Navasky
Cornell University: Matthew Evangelista
De Paul University: Norman Finkelstein, Aminah Beverly McCloud
Duke University: Miriam Cooke, Frederic Jameson
Earlham College: Caroline Higgins
Emory University: Kathleen Cleaver
Foothill College: Leighton Armitage
Georgetown University: David Cole, John Esposito, Yvonne Haddad, Mari Matsuda
Holy Cross College: Jerry Lembcke
Kent State University: Patrick Coy
Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Noam Chomsky
Metropolitan State College, Denver: Oneida Meranto
Montclair State University: Grover Furr
New York University: Derrick Bell
North Carolina State University: Gregory Dawes
Northeastern University: M. Shahid Alam,
Northwestern University: Elizabeth M. Brumfiel, Bernardine Dohrn
Occidental College: Tom Hayden
Penn State University: Michael Berube, Sam Richards
Princeton University: Richard Falk
Purdue University: Harry Targ
Rochester Institute of Technology: Thomas Castellano
Rutgers University: H. Bruce Franklin, Michael Warner
Rutgers University, Stony Brook: Amiri Baraka
San Francisco State University: Anatole Anton
Saint Xavier University: Peter Kirstein
Stanford University: Joel Beinin, Paul Ehrlich
State University of New York, Binghamton: Ali al-Mazrui
State University of New York, Buffalo: James Holstun
State University of New York, Stony Brook: Michael Schwartz
Syracuse University: Greg Thomas
Temple University: Melissa Gilbert, Lewis Gordon
Texas A&M University: Joe Feagin
Truman State University: Marc Becker
University of California, Berkely: Hamid Algar, Hatem Bazian, Orville Schell
University of California, Irvine: Mark Le Vine
University of California, Los Angeles: Vinay Lal
University of California, Riverside: Armando Navarro
University of California, Santa Cruz: Bettina Aptheker, Angela Davis
University of Cincinnati: Marvin Berlowitz
University of Colorado, Boulder: Alison Jaggar, Emma Perez
University of Dayton: Mark Ensalaco
University of Denver: Dean Saitta
University of Hawaii, Manoa: Haunani-Kay Trask
University of Illinois, Chicago: Bill Ayers
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign: Robert McChesney
University of Kentucky: Ihsan Bagby
University of Michigan: Juan Cole
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor: Gayle Rubin
University of Northern Colorado: Robert Dunkley
University of Oregon, Eugene: John Bellamy Foster
University of Pennsylvania: Regina Austin, Mary Frances Berry, Michael Eric Dyson
University of Rhode Island: Michael Vocino University of South Florida: Sami al-Arian
University of Southern California: Laurie Brand
University of Texas, Arlington: Jose Angel Gutierrez
University of Texas, Austin: Dana Cloud, Robert Jensen
University of Washington: David Barash
Villanova University: Rick Eckstein, Suzanne Toton
Western Washington University: Larry Estrada
(http://info.interactivist.net/article.pl?sid=06/02/08/1417212). George Wolfe gave more of a lecture than a "sermon" about Civil Disobedience and Peaceful Demonstration--very informative, but I do not think the majority of the congregation's cup-o-tea (a little longwinded).
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Edit: 1:59pm
The pictures added to my new look can be found on http://www.imaginify.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=gallery&file=index the one on the right is by Alex Grey (you may know him from the Tool CD covers or if you've been reading my site for a Looooooong time) the one that's my profile pic currently is "Torn Between Worlds" by David Heskin.
...i felt like getting new-age/spiritaly artsy
P.S.
I'm getting my haircut today! Yike! It's getting kinda annoying being in my eyes all the time. I'm doing it somethinglike John Cusack in the scene from High Fidelity when he's in the nice dress shirt going to that snobby artsy party of one of his old ex-gfs.
things have been very busy over in the world-o-Jon this past week...um let's see
Wed. Cake und I quite--yes Quite our jobs @ Panera Bread in order to (hopefully) get more $ doing the whole standardize test thingy (again for me...)
We went in for training Thurs morning...after getting up around 5:50am so that we could drop off some stuff to one of our friends (basically the ONLY one we're willing to keep speaking to) and then got us some McDonald's breakfast and headed on down the road to Indy!
There we were in a group together and then...they SPLIT the fuckin' group! (Already this day was Not going my way...i had previously stepped in cat barf and was not uber thrilled about the morning drive...but still...it would come out to about $400 a PIECE a Week)
So...Cake was in one group and I was in another and then...qualifying was excruciating and then...well...long story short--i didn't make the cut
I'll still get about $90 which is almost one week's paycheck @ Panera in just one day so, yeah...and I'll hopefully get another chance there later this month--we're trying desperately to get me into Cake's section, but we're running into red tape. If anything I'll get to focus on my writing and contests before I have to break from that again while getting settled in CO.
We're definitely going the end of July...so...yeah...I'll miss somethings but i think I'll really LOVE it there and I Need to get out of here soon (I mean that in the sweetest way possible)
ummm...
Friday Cake and I drove to Martinsville so Both of us could see Over the River and THrough the Woods and she laughed and laughed
Yesterday was Very bussy
seeing my sister graduate (Holla to Rebecca H., Sara P., and Ticha G. as Well!) and then we went to my parent's house in Anderson to do late birthdays/graduation dinner and cake
after catching up (i passed around pics of Cake and my trip to Houston and Grampa got to meet her--a funny story) we watched this Travel Channel show about gross foods in Asia...and man...i'm glad i now know that if i want to...i can go to Japan and eat...a beating...frog's heart...thank God...i will die...a happy man...now...
before we left we also caught and got into a Wonderful Discussion about how all the books and people getting all frazzled about The DaVinci Code are IDIOTS.
It is a Novel....A work of FICTION
sure it uses things that were real but what book doesn't? bah, that's a rant for another day :-p
I also got to hear a wonderful story via Cake's questions to my father: The reason he became a PhD in reading...he used to teach Biology and realized that while his students would pass the experiments with flying colours they could not read the text book and would therefore fail the written exam.
Today was church, as usual, but with a lil twist, we had a guest speaker--
David Horowitz's List of 100 Most Dangerous Professors in the U.S.
The Professor's Colleges and Universities
Arcadia University: Warren Haffar
Ball State University: George Wolfe
Baylor University: Marc Ellis
Boston University: Howard Zinn
Brandeis University: Gordon Fellman, Dessima Williams
Brooklyn College: Priya Parmar, Timothy Shortell
Cal State University, Fresno: Sasan Fayazmanesh
California State University, Long Beach: Ron (Maulana) Karenga
City University of New York: Stanley Aronowitz, Bell Hooks, Leonard Jeffries, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Columbia University: Lisa Anderson, Gil Anidjar, Hamid Dabashi, Nicholas De Genova, Eric Foner, Todd Gitlin, Manning Marable, Joseph Massad, Victor Navasky
Cornell University: Matthew Evangelista
De Paul University: Norman Finkelstein, Aminah Beverly McCloud
Duke University: Miriam Cooke, Frederic Jameson
Earlham College: Caroline Higgins
Emory University: Kathleen Cleaver
Foothill College: Leighton Armitage
Georgetown University: David Cole, John Esposito, Yvonne Haddad, Mari Matsuda
Holy Cross College: Jerry Lembcke
Kent State University: Patrick Coy
Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Noam Chomsky
Metropolitan State College, Denver: Oneida Meranto
Montclair State University: Grover Furr
New York University: Derrick Bell
North Carolina State University: Gregory Dawes
Northeastern University: M. Shahid Alam,
Northwestern University: Elizabeth M. Brumfiel, Bernardine Dohrn
Occidental College: Tom Hayden
Penn State University: Michael Berube, Sam Richards
Princeton University: Richard Falk
Purdue University: Harry Targ
Rochester Institute of Technology: Thomas Castellano
Rutgers University: H. Bruce Franklin, Michael Warner
Rutgers University, Stony Brook: Amiri Baraka
San Francisco State University: Anatole Anton
Saint Xavier University: Peter Kirstein
Stanford University: Joel Beinin, Paul Ehrlich
State University of New York, Binghamton: Ali al-Mazrui
State University of New York, Buffalo: James Holstun
State University of New York, Stony Brook: Michael Schwartz
Syracuse University: Greg Thomas
Temple University: Melissa Gilbert, Lewis Gordon
Texas A&M University: Joe Feagin
Truman State University: Marc Becker
University of California, Berkely: Hamid Algar, Hatem Bazian, Orville Schell
University of California, Irvine: Mark Le Vine
University of California, Los Angeles: Vinay Lal
University of California, Riverside: Armando Navarro
University of California, Santa Cruz: Bettina Aptheker, Angela Davis
University of Cincinnati: Marvin Berlowitz
University of Colorado, Boulder: Alison Jaggar, Emma Perez
University of Dayton: Mark Ensalaco
University of Denver: Dean Saitta
University of Hawaii, Manoa: Haunani-Kay Trask
University of Illinois, Chicago: Bill Ayers
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign: Robert McChesney
University of Kentucky: Ihsan Bagby
University of Michigan: Juan Cole
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor: Gayle Rubin
University of Northern Colorado: Robert Dunkley
University of Oregon, Eugene: John Bellamy Foster
University of Pennsylvania: Regina Austin, Mary Frances Berry, Michael Eric Dyson
University of Rhode Island: Michael Vocino University of South Florida: Sami al-Arian
University of Southern California: Laurie Brand
University of Texas, Arlington: Jose Angel Gutierrez
University of Texas, Austin: Dana Cloud, Robert Jensen
University of Washington: David Barash
Villanova University: Rick Eckstein, Suzanne Toton
Western Washington University: Larry Estrada
(http://info.interactivist.net/article.pl?sid=06/02/08/1417212). George Wolfe gave more of a lecture than a "sermon" about Civil Disobedience and Peaceful Demonstration--very informative, but I do not think the majority of the congregation's cup-o-tea (a little longwinded).
---
Edit: 1:59pm
The pictures added to my new look can be found on http://www.imaginify.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=gallery&file=index the one on the right is by Alex Grey (you may know him from the Tool CD covers or if you've been reading my site for a Looooooong time) the one that's my profile pic currently is "Torn Between Worlds" by David Heskin.
...i felt like getting new-age/spiritaly artsy
P.S.
I'm getting my haircut today! Yike! It's getting kinda annoying being in my eyes all the time. I'm doing it somethinglike John Cusack in the scene from High Fidelity when he's in the nice dress shirt going to that snobby artsy party of one of his old ex-gfs.