The Late September Catch-up
I suppose I haven't really written a decent post in a long time.
I've gotten roped into joining the renewly reinstated Philosophy Club and brought my laptop with me on campus in order to make the three hours I need to wait for the meeting go by occupied. If Marion wasn't one of my best friends and if she wasn't the new president of the Philosphy club, this would not be happening. I hate philosophy, a lot of it is just a bunch of bullshit after a while. And it's boring as all fuck. And I HATE having to stay on campus on a Thursday (being it's my last day of classes for the week) when I could leave at 12:20 and be home by 1. The club meeting is at 3:30, so I won't get home until at least 5:15/5:30 EARLIEST. And the traffic is going to be murder.
This semester is much easier than I thought it was going to be. I only took four classes because I was wary of how Honors Geology and Elementary Japanese would go over. Honestly, I could have handled a fifth class easily. The workload isn't bad by any stretch of the word; I find myself getting the most work from JAP because it's all memorization. I don't really care for any of my professors. The guy for GLY teaches just fine, but puts me to sleep as lecture goes on and on. My professor for Grammar reminds me of a drunk who tottered off the street one day and decided to teach. I remember my first class with him----he came in with his shirt all untucked and hair messy. How is that professional at all? And he goes off on tangents (the only saving grace of the class) and assigns random assignment and forgets about them while we do the work. For example, today he was going on and on about defining Pornography and made us write down defintions for the word. Then he went into the "Shit Dictionary" and the "Fuck Dictionary" before finally concluding with murder.
Takahashi-sensei for Japanese is a good professor overall, I find. She's a very fair grader and doesn't try and dump so much stuff on us and expect us to know it all. I really don't like the class though since I've found over the years that I don't have a knack for foreign languages. I hate having to speak in a language other than English because I always feel like I sound like a retard. But I needed a language requirement fufilled as part of getting my degree, so....
And my education class is a joke. My professor makes us do group work EVERY class and spends more time concentrating on mixing up groups so we can "meet new people" rather than teaching us some solid material. I'm worried about how her exams are going to be, I feel like I've learned absolutely nothing in that class except what I remember from reading the textbook.
I have to drive here tomorrow in order to register for a day to come in and flesh out my spring '09 semester with my academic conselour. My MonWed will pretty much be the same---I have to take GLY 2 and JAP 2 for the second half of the needed credits and the timeslots for those classes hasn't changed. What's annoying is that I wanted to take two education classes and an english class to round out my schedule but EDU 17 stands in my way. I need to have taken EDU 17 in order to take 44 or 75. I thought I would be able to take 44 while taking 17 at the same time, but it turns out that I can't do that. ><;
Marion was telling me about a Psychology class that dealt with Human sexuality, sex and romance. Normally I don't go for Psych classes because they really aren't my sort of thing, but this class sounds very interesting. Steve said that it was probably only given once in a while, so I have to look into it. I have approximately 67-69 credits right now (counting the classes I'm taking at the moment) and my counselor says that I'm very well off credit-wise. I'm technically a junior credit-wise.
Traffic has been the biggest bitch this semester. All of my classes start at 9:30, so I knew to expect the volume to be higher due to people going to work at 8:15 in the morning in addition to students trying to get to class. But there's this one spot where four lanes turn into two which eventually turns into one where the traffic goes down the shitter. I could be stuck going down a normally 5min road to Post for 20 minutes. And parking? Don't even get me started. The difference between arriving at 9:00 and 9:10 is appalling. I'm not sure why the traffic volume has increased so much, but it's becoming a huge pain in the ass. Even if I took the highway (which I plan on soon), I couldn't escape this. You need to go down the one-lane road into order to get to Post, highway or no highway.
And I'm reminded all the time that people suck at driving. Coming home is a breeze when I get to leave at 12:30 or 1:30---I weave in and out of traffic and speed up and cut off all the elderly drivers who won't pass the speed of 30. Just gotta watch out for the popo while doing that or I could find myself with a ticket.
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I no longer work at Ideal Consulting. Actually, I'm currently unemployed. I planned on finding a job on campus, but I haven't insipired myself enough to actually look into it. Leaving Ideal was a mix of being laid off/quitting. Wendy sat me down in her office a couple of fridays ago and basically told me because I couldn't get an appointment they couldn't keep me on any longer. Understandable, I know, but I wish they had told me a couple of weeks before that my job was in danger instead of just axing me. It was incrediably awkward since I didn't know what to say/was in shock/was trying not to get upset and Wendy and Sase just sat there staring at me. They mentioned that they tried to give me Client Support but I "turned it down." I told them that it was because Michele had made it sound like I had to work 25+ hours a week at Ideal and I was just starting summer rec at the time, hence why I turned it down. Wendy was all like "well, we didn't know that" and offered, instead of laying me off flat, if I wanted to take over Client Support from Marion on the specific days of Monday and Thursdays.
After thinking about it, I ended up calling Mallory that Sunday and quitting. I didn't like how Wendy had told me that 'I hope we don't have this conversation again about laying you off" ---- I don't need to work with the threat/fear of being fired if I'm not performing their sympathy job to a T. Plus, I never planned on working mondays or thursdays, but they were the only days that Wendy offered. Finally, client support does not take three hours (the min I would work a day) and they didn't want me on the phones anymore. How was I going to spend my time when client support stuff ran out? Knit?
It doesn't help that the entire main staff were hardcore Scientologists. Mega-hardcore.
So now I'm just having to regular my spending a bit more. Ideal bought me my beloved new laptop, a wii, super smash brothers brawl as well as a random assortment of books/dvds while allowing me to put a good amount of money in the bank.
Thank you, Ideal. Money in the bank for the Li.
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I'm so glad that I've turned into a Heroes junkie. I really liked the premeire of season three this past monday, despite some flaws. Scott, on the other hand, not so much. While I'm thrilled with the darkness and the twists, he's not ^^; We barely finished watching the end of season 2 before Villians started up, but it was so worth it. That show is made of win.
And Survivor: Gabon begins tonight!!! Scott's coming over to watch it with me. I'm excited about it (though I doubt this season can be as good/entertaining as last season's), but Scott really could care less. He thinks the show is retarded and is only coming over before it's an excuse to see me :D
I should make an effort to make a 'scott entry' soon---next time i'm on lj. I don't want to do it in this entry because it would make it too long. I like splitting stuff up and making it organized.
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I've fallen prey to the love of Akuroku from Kingdom Hearts and The Sims 2: Castaway Stories again, I'm afraid. I suppose I'm just in a constant cycle of obession.
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I can't wait for October to finally roll in--it's one of my favorite months. The weather, first of all, is the best in all of fall. September doesn't have that 'crisp' feel that autumn should have until the very end of the month and November can be very cold. And the foliage is gorgeous with the leaves and the crunching. Marion, Steve, Andrew and i all want to go pumpkin picking soon though Scott remains reluctant. As he told me on the phone last night, he would doesn't want to buy "real pumpkins" because "he can't eat them the way he could with already-made pumpkin pie. And because he can't eat them, he doesn't see the point. He can be such a pain in the butt sometimes...I had to promise that I would get him some pie in order to persuade him to come.
I also wanted to go to one of those haunted houses around here, you know, like Schmidt's or Bayville. It tooks loads of coaxing to get Marion to agree, but Scott remains stubborn. Pete says that he and Scott went to Bayville for the last two years and he thought that they would be going again, but according to Scott that 's not happening. I guess it'll take more than a pumpkin pie to get the grump to go and do stuff that could be moderately scary. Regardless, I'm going to make sure that Steve, Marion and I at least get to go. And I bet Pete would go with us if we went. (perhaps peer pressure will cave Scott?)
I also bought tickets to see guys from Who's Line is it Anyway? at the Tilles center here at Post. It's in November, but Marion, Andrew, Scott and I are all going together. If anything, it's a different way to spend the evening.
I'm going with Scott and his family to a Christening this Sunday, so I hope they dont eat me. I bought a nice new dress for it, nothing too fancy since it's a noon thing in NJ. Mom's worried that I'm going to kill/trip/fall/embarass myself in the new pair of heels I got, and she's not without good reason. My reputation as a klutz and unable to work in high heels without looking awkward proceeds me.
Speaking of being eaten, I firmly believe that Illinois has swallowed Amanda up. I just left her a voicemail an hour ago in my most recent effort to get in touch with her. That girl is never online nor does she respond on FB (though I'm just as bad when it comes to responding on FB, so I really shouldn't talk). I got to speak a while with Pam online last night; I find that I keep in touch with her the most out of everyone.
I need to go Icon-hunting soon, I'm getting bored of a lot of the old ones that I've had since the begining of my time here on livejournal. Perhaps I can persuade Marielle into making me more if I give her pictures, I loved what she did with the oher ones she gave me.
Anyways, now I'm just rambling with whatever pops into my head. There's still a good amount I haven't mentioned in here, but that's a decent catch up for now. My nimble fingers hurt .-.