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So, I am excited about November and it may be completely based on some of the CD’s that are coming out this month. I will give you all the run down, just in case you weren’t up to date. November 14th will bring Damien Rice, Tenacious D, and ‘Trail of Dead’s’ new CD’s. November 21st will bring Sufjan Stevens Christmas CD and Brand New’s brand new CD. Last but certainly no where near least - November 28th heeds the return of Incubus. Oh how I am excited! Incubus’ new single “Anna Mollie” sounds really good and that makes Nov. 28th so so far away.
If you can’t wait till November 14th the hear Tenacious D’s new material, you could head over to Normal, IL this Monday to check out the advance screening of JB and KG’s new movie “The Pick of Destiny!” The Redbird Cinema committee has been granted the opportunity/burden of prescreening their movie for free to the public. So come check it out and enjoy a night of laughter! Give me a call if you actually want to come so I can grab some tickets for you!
Ok, now that I have advertised my little heart out, we can continue with real LJ business. First off, I wanted to announce that I have been selected to attend the ISRAA 2007 retreat. ISRAA stands for Illinois State Resident Assistants Association. It’s basically a convention for a select few out of all of the RA’s in Illinois to attend. We do RA related stuff/activities/hubbub/hoopla and have a ton of fun by what I hear. I was one of 4 RA’s in my building and one of 19 out of my whole campus. I am really excited too because two of the other three going from my building are some of my favorite people, and now we get to rock ISRAA together! The only bummer is the conference isn’t until next semester.
Speaking of next semester, I was finally able to register for classes yesterday. It seems like there is always some sort of problem with me registering for classes when the time comes. This semester, my father decided he would repay the favor of me saving him from paying half of my housing by getting the RA position by forgetting to pay his half of tuition on time causing me to not be able to register on time and miss out on getting into a couple of classes that I need. I tried to register for a biology 111 class to get my last gen ed out of the way, but it said that I have to have taken LESS than 21 credit hours to register for that class. Apparently Illinois State thinks that I am TOO educated to be in some of their classes. Finally they are recognizing that I should probably just be running this school instead of taking classes. So far I am registered for two film classes, if I get my internship with the UPB that I am hoping for and if I T.A. for Jared, then I will have 12 credit hours and will still be a full time student. I have a meeting with a councilor to try to get me an override or two into a couple more classes that I might need.
Next semester is going to be very interesting! I am also stepping down as Multimedia Director for WZND. I am mostly doing it because there is an opening to work with the UPB doing almost the exact same thing that I was doing at WZND. The radio station was a lot more website work that I would prefer. I don’t mind working on websites, but I definitely don’t know nearly enough about web design and production to go any further with the WZND website. I did launch the new WZND website and its looks alright, but it’s nothing too fancy or professional.
I knew next to nothing about websites when I started the position there, the only thing I knew about the web was some basic html to make my LJ look cool and some random things from the OverUnderStanding website when I would help Richard work on it. Since I was filling a hole I was bumped to Multimedia Director without ever being on the staff or getting any real training. So everything I know about websites I had to teach myself. The problem is that I can only teach myself so much and now I am to a point where I am not learning anything new, and I can’t really offer a whole lot more to the station. So I will be leaving to work mainly on flyers for the University Program Board. I do more graphic art work than most graphic design majors on campus! I also enjoy the University Program Board a lot.
Working with college programming boards or just student personnel in general is actually what I want to do with my college education. I have already looked into going to grad school to study CSPA (College Student Personnel and Administration). I constantly say to myself that college would be so much better without classes. Now I am finding a way to stay around colleges for the rest of my life! I have always been told by my mom that I am a very personable person and it would be a crime for me to sit behind a desk for the rest of my life. I have always had an interest in exploring avenues that would showcase my artistic or musical side, and this is really the first time that I have thought about doing something that would be more people oriented and I feel a lot more comfortable with that than anything else I have thought about.
I would still love to be an airplane pilot though, or maybe a masseuse.
As much as I love college and the college life, I wish sometimes that I could take a year off from everything to improve my relationships with my friends. I have noticed lately that I really suck keeping in touch with people. I was chatting the other day with Dan and Tony and I really miss those guys sometimes. The same goes for Jimmy - he called me and asked what he should be for Halloween and we talked for a couple of minutes and I realized that I hadn’t really talked to most of the white boys since summer. Needless to say even when I am home I still don’t ever get to see Richard as much as I wish. What’s really sad is that I have even lost touch with a lot of people that are even here on campus. I was talking to Fork the other day and I think the conversation went something a long the lines of “hey look, I didn’t even know you still existed!” I haven’t even seen Chris is forever. Or Todd who lives like 2 seconds away from me. TIM LIVES IN MY BUILDING and I ran into him on the elevator for the first time in a while and I felt like such a horrible friend. My November 2, 2006 resolution is that I am going to try to keep in better contact with my friends. (note: If you didn’t get mentioned in this paragraph - I really do love you and miss being in contact with you too, so give me a call or IM me sometime. I can make time for us to do lunch or something.)
Alright, well I am going to head out into the world for the day. I will see all of you later. I am so glad that I can write to you electronically because by now my handwriting would be simply revolting and next to unreadable anyways. So count your blessings for your keyboards - sometimes you never know where you would be without something until it is gone. Have a good day.
Love
your_favorite_airplane-pilot
If you can’t wait till November 14th the hear Tenacious D’s new material, you could head over to Normal, IL this Monday to check out the advance screening of JB and KG’s new movie “The Pick of Destiny!” The Redbird Cinema committee has been granted the opportunity/burden of prescreening their movie for free to the public. So come check it out and enjoy a night of laughter! Give me a call if you actually want to come so I can grab some tickets for you!
Ok, now that I have advertised my little heart out, we can continue with real LJ business. First off, I wanted to announce that I have been selected to attend the ISRAA 2007 retreat. ISRAA stands for Illinois State Resident Assistants Association. It’s basically a convention for a select few out of all of the RA’s in Illinois to attend. We do RA related stuff/activities/hubbub/hoopla and have a ton of fun by what I hear. I was one of 4 RA’s in my building and one of 19 out of my whole campus. I am really excited too because two of the other three going from my building are some of my favorite people, and now we get to rock ISRAA together! The only bummer is the conference isn’t until next semester.
Speaking of next semester, I was finally able to register for classes yesterday. It seems like there is always some sort of problem with me registering for classes when the time comes. This semester, my father decided he would repay the favor of me saving him from paying half of my housing by getting the RA position by forgetting to pay his half of tuition on time causing me to not be able to register on time and miss out on getting into a couple of classes that I need. I tried to register for a biology 111 class to get my last gen ed out of the way, but it said that I have to have taken LESS than 21 credit hours to register for that class. Apparently Illinois State thinks that I am TOO educated to be in some of their classes. Finally they are recognizing that I should probably just be running this school instead of taking classes. So far I am registered for two film classes, if I get my internship with the UPB that I am hoping for and if I T.A. for Jared, then I will have 12 credit hours and will still be a full time student. I have a meeting with a councilor to try to get me an override or two into a couple more classes that I might need.
Next semester is going to be very interesting! I am also stepping down as Multimedia Director for WZND. I am mostly doing it because there is an opening to work with the UPB doing almost the exact same thing that I was doing at WZND. The radio station was a lot more website work that I would prefer. I don’t mind working on websites, but I definitely don’t know nearly enough about web design and production to go any further with the WZND website. I did launch the new WZND website and its looks alright, but it’s nothing too fancy or professional.
I knew next to nothing about websites when I started the position there, the only thing I knew about the web was some basic html to make my LJ look cool and some random things from the OverUnderStanding website when I would help Richard work on it. Since I was filling a hole I was bumped to Multimedia Director without ever being on the staff or getting any real training. So everything I know about websites I had to teach myself. The problem is that I can only teach myself so much and now I am to a point where I am not learning anything new, and I can’t really offer a whole lot more to the station. So I will be leaving to work mainly on flyers for the University Program Board. I do more graphic art work than most graphic design majors on campus! I also enjoy the University Program Board a lot.
Working with college programming boards or just student personnel in general is actually what I want to do with my college education. I have already looked into going to grad school to study CSPA (College Student Personnel and Administration). I constantly say to myself that college would be so much better without classes. Now I am finding a way to stay around colleges for the rest of my life! I have always been told by my mom that I am a very personable person and it would be a crime for me to sit behind a desk for the rest of my life. I have always had an interest in exploring avenues that would showcase my artistic or musical side, and this is really the first time that I have thought about doing something that would be more people oriented and I feel a lot more comfortable with that than anything else I have thought about.
I would still love to be an airplane pilot though, or maybe a masseuse.
As much as I love college and the college life, I wish sometimes that I could take a year off from everything to improve my relationships with my friends. I have noticed lately that I really suck keeping in touch with people. I was chatting the other day with Dan and Tony and I really miss those guys sometimes. The same goes for Jimmy - he called me and asked what he should be for Halloween and we talked for a couple of minutes and I realized that I hadn’t really talked to most of the white boys since summer. Needless to say even when I am home I still don’t ever get to see Richard as much as I wish. What’s really sad is that I have even lost touch with a lot of people that are even here on campus. I was talking to Fork the other day and I think the conversation went something a long the lines of “hey look, I didn’t even know you still existed!” I haven’t even seen Chris is forever. Or Todd who lives like 2 seconds away from me. TIM LIVES IN MY BUILDING and I ran into him on the elevator for the first time in a while and I felt like such a horrible friend. My November 2, 2006 resolution is that I am going to try to keep in better contact with my friends. (note: If you didn’t get mentioned in this paragraph - I really do love you and miss being in contact with you too, so give me a call or IM me sometime. I can make time for us to do lunch or something.)
Alright, well I am going to head out into the world for the day. I will see all of you later. I am so glad that I can write to you electronically because by now my handwriting would be simply revolting and next to unreadable anyways. So count your blessings for your keyboards - sometimes you never know where you would be without something until it is gone. Have a good day.
Love
your_favorite_airplane-pilot