| (no subject) |
[Jul. 15th, 2009|01:19 pm] |
So that paper that I worked on quite a lot consider it was only supposed to be 5 pages and thought was awful?
My professor thought it was great and i got 15/15 points on it ^_^ |
|
|
| (no subject) |
[Jul. 13th, 2009|01:21 am] |
I hate writing papers. I'm going to suck at grad school.
i prefer just taking tests.
I've been working on this 5-6 page paper for the past couple days, that's due in the morning, and am still working on it, and getting into that point where I'm doing things other than work on it more than working on it.
It's only 5-6 pages, but that actually makes it harder because I'm trying to figure out how to cover all the information asked for within such a small number of pages. I've actually got 6 pages right now, but I'm missing information that needs to be in there.
I know I'm going to end up turning in something that is over 6 pages and hope he is ok with that.
EDIT:
It ended up being I think 10 pages including cover page, and sources.
I was supposed to include pictures, so that bumped it up a ton.
My pictures suck. My piece on Detroit sucks. I could have written the whole paper on planning in Detroit if I could have, and that would have been better in my opinion.
I hope it goes well. 15% of my grade. I feel like it's horrible. I'm not used to writing short papers. I feel like I didn't go into anything in enough detail. |
|
|
| (no subject) |
[Jul. 12th, 2009|10:32 pm] |
Facebook is officially out of control.
My dad just added me on facebook.
EDIT: my dad did not add me on facebook.
My grandfather did. o.0
(it's a same name thing) |
|
|
| (no subject) |
[Jun. 29th, 2009|04:55 pm] |
So, today i got up feeling good actually, got a lot of sleep last night, went to work, started feeling crappy. Forgot to bring anything to eat and worried about all I had to do today and my lack of time to eat instead of going straight to the gym after work like i planned, I went back to my apartment and ordered a pizza. Ate pizza for lunch. Went to meet for group at the gym (he said we would start meeting there) and go pissed because no one showed up even though he very clearly said last wekk we would meet this place there, but apparently he didn't meet there.
I won't be there next week because I just learned I have monday off work as well.
So while I was there I decided to work out, spent about 70 minutes working out at a very low intensity because I felt like I was going to die.
now i'm at the library about to head home.
There is a meeting at 7 tonight, I should leave around 6 because i plan to walk. We only have meetings every other week and I want to go, but I feel so shitty today I feel like just staying home and sleeping more.
I'm definitely coming down with something.
So that's my day.... I really, really hate not having a working computer. I feel so disconnected when i can't check my email daily et cetera. |
|
|
| (no subject) |
[Jun. 23rd, 2009|04:41 pm] |
my damn computer is broke AGAIN, and I'm at the library AGAIN.
I fucking hate dell.
I feel like i just got my computer back from them, which btw I never got the headphone port fixed which was broken when they returned it.
Anyone want to donate to my "buy a computer that isn't a peice of shit dell" funds?
I'm just so fucking sick of this. This computer has been nothing but problems since I got it and it's under warranty but dell has been nothing but assholes about every problem. |
|
|
| (no subject) |
[Jun. 16th, 2009|11:27 pm] |
So I'm feeling really nauseous so I decided to take one of the anti-nausea pills I got at the ER last year. Then I looked up the info about it and it says to tell your doctor first if you take a diuretic, which I do.
Hopefully this is not a deadly combination because I already took it.
It says it can make you urinate less frequently so I'm thinking it just counter-acts the effects of the diuretic.
I didn't expect anti-nausea medication to have such serious side affects associated with it.
oh, and this is the medication:
http://www.drugs.com/mtm/prochlorperazine.html
It's not even working right now- though, I guess no pill is immediate. |
|
|
| (no subject) |
[Jun. 10th, 2009|06:07 pm] |
Well, today was another day working at AOP. Two more days of "intensive week". That is, set-up week. Meaning I work 4 hours each day, standing the whole time, while I put books & planners in bags.
We do it in an assembly line way. We completed over 1,000 bags in under 4 hours!
1,000 novels is a lot of books.
Every bag gets a novel for the one book, one community thing they do with freshman every year.
It's amazing, because I'll get a cart filled with piles of books. And it will be empty in an hour. I never get to see all 1,000 books at once, because they bring more, we bag them, bags get taken away. But, damn that is a lot of books.
My back really hurts when standing that long, it gets really frustrating.
But it's not bad. And we get to just chat about random stuff while we are standing around stuffing the bags.
One girl mentioned how McDonald's ice cream isn't really ice cream but "whipped beef fat" which she learned from a friend of hers who became a nutrition science major and promptly became a vegetarian after declaring that major.
(she said you can tell it's not ice cream because it never "separates" I don't know what that means, my ice cream never seems to "separate" either?
This sounded like an urban myth to me, but I said nothing then and decided to google.
"whipped beef fat" brought up nothing, which makes it seem highly unlikely. Googling "what is mcdonald's ice cream made of" brought up this snopes article.
It just seems to unbelievable to me. It seems beef fat would have to be massively processed to make it taste like icecream rather than beef, so much so that it would seem to not be a very efficient, or cost-effective way to make "ice cream" |
|
|
| LOL! |
[Jun. 9th, 2009|09:17 pm] |
Email I just got:
Dear Member,
We would like to inform you that we are currently carrying out
scheduled maintenance and upgrade of our webmail service and
as a result of this; our e-mail client has been changed and your
original password will be reset.
We are sorry for any inconvenience caused.
To maintain your e-mail account, you must reply to this email
immediately, and provide the the following details of your account:
Account Name:
Current Password:
Contact Phone:
Failure to do this within the next forty-eight hours will immediately
render your email account deactivated from our database.
For Help and Support, contact the Technical Support help desk at:
technicalsuport@mailier.com
Thank you for using our webmail.
Webmail Service,
Technical Team.
©Networks All Rights Reserved.
No way that could be a scam! I better hurry up and send them my password! |
|
|
| (no subject) |
[May. 28th, 2009|02:47 pm] |
|
Well, I got a response on allmsu to my post about a workout buddy. Even though there is no guarantee that the people on there are even msu students, I'm thinking this is probably something that's fairly safe to meet someone for without knowing much about them first. I mean, it's not like I'm planning to date the person, just go to a gym, with all sorts of other people there, together. |
|
|
| (no subject) |
[May. 21st, 2009|03:15 pm] |
there is a beginner cycling group exercise tonight I want to go to.
But really I just want to sleep. It's just that if I don't go tonight, and wait till next week, then I will look more awkward not knowing anything.
I don't know, we will see... |
|
|
| (no subject) |
[May. 12th, 2009|10:21 pm] |
Which is really stupid. You can't go in the get your new license until you are 21. But they don't print off new licenses right there, you have to wait a month for it.
In the meantime they staple a document to the expired license stating it was renewed blah blah blah, making it legal for the next month.
That really should matter more for driving purposes, but for alcohol they also usually require that.
But this place said she couldn't be served until she had the horizontal ID despite being 21 and having valid, current, legal documentation with a picture that she is 21.
It's just stupid and I feel bad for her, because I never had that many issues when I turned 21 with buying.
We should have known better looking back than to go to a restaurant that has just gotten its liquor liscense and fought for a long ass time to get it (they were denied for being too close to a church, which is also bs in my opinion.) But since no one else in the family has ever had a problem when turning 21 with places refusing to serve them with the temporary license, it just kind of didn't occur to us. |
|
|
| (no subject) |
[May. 10th, 2009|11:13 pm] |
I hate not having a cell phone.
No cell phone until tomorrow evening.
So my brother left for lansing with a bag of my clothing, including clothes for jury duty tomorrow. I dug out a sweater dress, bought nylons, and borrowed shoes from my mom.
So no clothes.
So I have to go buy the nylons.
On the way to the store some dude pulls into in my lane as if I am not there.
I'm so stressed out. |
|
|
| Being home is nice |
[May. 7th, 2009|08:07 pm] |
lol, so I've just been updating lj all day.
Anyways, it's nice to be back home where people kind of get what is going on here. I was talking with my mom and sister last night about American Axle closing down and talking about everything going on with the big 3. (Ford isn't doing that bad actually, lol.)
But it gets frustrating watching tv and listening to arguments on the internet, which really, I've mostly not said anything about this until now because it's so frustrating because people outside MI just don't seem to get that this is our lives.
Even people who aren't asses about it, I hear people say things like "it's not just the car companies, it's the companies that make the parts for the cars too" but it's so, so, so not even that! it's everyone here. Everyone. My mom works in insurance and everytime a car company lays off, there is a big chance she will be too. Cause who pays for insurance for most people? Employers. Who are the biggest employers round here? Car companies. And the companies that make parts for car companies. And most other companies who buy insurance through them are also connected to the car companies in their own way. Service jobs are obviously affected when so many people don't have the money for them. Entertainment industries are affected. Social Services, my field is completely affected. On the surface people it doesn't seem like domestic violence advocacy or other social service agencies have much connection to the car industry, but when people can't pay taxes in large numbers, the state loses money, and all those social service agencies lose money. If the big three just went under, I can't even describe how totally screwed this state would be. The whole state, everyone here. We are all very connected to it, even those of us who don't work for the company. And the rest of the country would feel it too, but the worst would be here in Michigan.
I just get so frustrated with people on this topic, who act like this doesn't matter, isn't that big of a deal, and we should just let these companies "die", and screw all the families fucked over by that.
My mom and my sister were telling me about this song that has been on the radio around here (I don't normally listen to the country stations, and haven't been in the metro-detroit area specifically in a while)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8wWOShrbmQ
So I've been listening to that. |
|
|
| (no subject) |
[May. 7th, 2009|06:29 pm] |
btw I got my computer back. The outside it all nice and fixed, this weekend I am reinstalling the operating system in order to fix any leftover problems with the functioning of it. (I couldn't do that before though because my cd-drive was broken, so I couldn't run the operating system cd.
And there is probably a warrant out for my arrest for skipping jury duty. I got something monday here that said I needed to call within two days or face fines or imprisonment. But I wasn't home. So I have to call and hope I can get out of it because I haven't been home to get all these notices since I was living, going to school and working in the Lasning/East Lansing area. |
|
|
| (no subject) |
[May. 7th, 2009|01:39 am] |
Other things I need to spend money I don't have on that I forot about:
Medical expenses I have about $65 in co-pays coming up, as well as unknown prescription costs.
I want to get another gym pass which will be $210 for 3 semesters (summer, fall, spring) it's cheaper in the long run to purchase 3 semesters at once
And I have to renew my norton anti-virus.
ugh. So many costs, no money.... |
|
|
| (no subject) |
[May. 6th, 2009|01:44 pm] |
Well, I got a 4.0 in my one class. I expect to pass the Pass/Fail class. An then there is just the one other class... I had a 3.0 without the final group project, which sucks. I really needed to get a 3.5 or better in that class, but it doesn't look likely right now.
My cumulitive GPA right now is a 3.1146, it actually has the cumulitive for after spring 10 as 3.2961 which didn't make sense to me at first, but I realized that must be what my current grade would be if I had just passed the two classes I failed. Which I can't retake until spring 10 and I am scheduled to retake spring 10.
I feel I need a minimum of a 3.25 for grad school applications. 3.25 if the minimum gpa for accelerated MSW programs. The thing is I really want to go to wayne state which would only accept me into the accelerated MSW program, since I will have a BSW i cannot apply for the non-accelerated program. Wayne State is also supposed to be very competetive for MSWs, so I want to go there, I will apply, but I keep feeling like I'm chasing something that has no hope of happening.
i'm frustrated that I cannot retake those classes until my last semester by which time i'll have already applied and probably been accepted/denied for any grad schools. In the long run, it seems worth it to retake those courses anyways, but I wish they were offered in the fall at least.
For the summer right now i am enrolled just in a 200 level psychology class (abnormal psych) and a 200 level Urban Planning class. I might drop one or both. They are basically to just boost my gpa but it's not like 200 level classes even look hard on a transcript. It looks sort of like BS classes. I'd be more likely to drop the psych though because I think going for a community focused MSW having some urban planning knowledge would be more useful than another psych class. Abnormal psych would be good if I wanted to go into mental health... but I really don't.
I got an AOP job. I don't yet know what I will be doing except that it won't be a tour guide I guess. I get paid $7.40 an hour, which is less than I make at the shelter (by $.95/hr). It's seems like crappy pay to me now that I am used to making around $8/hr. But I can walk to work so it saves gas money.
But I don't really start that until June 15th. So now i have only 16 hrs a week until then, which is no where near enough to cover rent and other stuff. So i'm stressed with money, I don't know what to do. My cell phone just broke so I have to buy a new one.
I have to buy kakis for my AOP job.
I have to buy books for my summer classes.
All that on top of the montly rent/bills/groceries that I cannot afford. |
|
|
| (no subject) |
[May. 3rd, 2009|05:41 pm] |
so much for the idea that it would be easier to get online now that my schedule is more open. I have the time to get to the library and spend significant time here, but it is a pain in the ass trying to find an empty computer because everyone else has finals this week and apparently people think the library is a good place to study for those (who knew?)
I came yesterday morning and it was empty, I watched some heroes and by mid-afternoon when I left it was packed.
So I won't watch heroes today because now I feel bad hogging a computer for entertainment reasons.
I hope dell fixes my computer soon.
Even though it hasn't been gone long, the fact that it took so long to get them to agree to fix it makes it feel longer because it's been months now since I've had it working for internet purposes at my apartment. |
|
|
| Stupid People on OkCupid |
[Apr. 30th, 2009|04:12 pm] |
Ugh, I just got some racist asshole IMing me on okcupid about how I'm hatefule and evil. He starts with "Kill... kill... kill the white man"
I said "good idea". Then he says some shit uses a racial slur and I closed the window. Dude keeps talking to no one which gets sent to me as a message instead. He goes on and on about how I am so hateful because I think all white men should be killed and how I can't see how I'm just like white supremecists and will just end up directing my rage at him.
I replied, told him he was way to full of himself, that I have more important shit to be concerned with than racist jackasses on the internet and then blocked him.
his username is skyrlok, but he is from MI so I doubt any of you on OKcupid will run into him. But just incase, heads up to that. |
|
|
| (no subject) |
[Apr. 30th, 2009|02:42 pm] |
Well, the interview went well I suppose.
Except the position I wanted is filled, because they give preference to RAs, former RAs and people who have done it before and only then hire new people.
The rest of the positions are basically just busy work sort of. Which is fine I guess. It's a job, it would pay, it would be on campus which would be convienent.
Just that it wouldn't be good social work resume experience. The tour group thing wouldn't really be, but I would be interacting with people which I could spin as being related I think.
also I went to put on makeup for it and noticed around left eye it looks like I have a rash around it. Like not enough that from a few feet away I can't see it. But I know that is unusual. I've seen my face close up for makeup before it is definitely something odd. But it doesn't itch or hurt like a rash. I'm worried there is issues with my eyes now so over break I am going to get my eyes checked again.
My mom had to have a bunch of surgeries and stuff done on her eye just recently (just yesterday had more done, might be done now, but they have been saying that everytime) because her retina was detached I guess.
On top of that is that my eyes have been hurting some for quite awhile now. Like nothing major. Scale of 1-10 it's a 3. Just this little pain/pressure behind my eyes.
Then the other day I had flashes of light, could have been a lighting issue in the room I was in but it didn't seem like it.
All of that together has me really freaked out that my eyes are really fucked up and I'm going to wake up completely blind one day. |
|
|
![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small}
lil_elf's journal