Or for typing.

Life will hopefully be getting back into routine, except Friday we're going to spend all day with Justin's family, and then I work Sunday when I don't normally.  And then next weekend I won't have Justin.  And the week after, in texas, and then a month later in disney...

I like routine.  Any tips for making journaling more routine when there is so very little to talk about?

sorry!

this is what happens every time.  if i make it a routine, i post often.  if not, i just never get the push to do it.  also, i keep wanting to post about the disatrous way my project ended, but i got 10/10 points so i should really just let go.

speaking of grades, they were due Friday.  two of my classes: A minuses!  i got a 99 on my final in Operations.  it was the one I studied for the longest.  it really proves to me that if i just tried harder, i'd be back on the dean's list.  still, those are some of the highest grades i've got in awhile, it's gonna help the GPA, and i'm really excited. oh and that third class: still hasn't graded our multiple choice tests or the two group papers we turned in two weeks ago.  it's those teachers who can do a 12 hr grade turn around  that make her look bad (both my other teachers had grades up in 24 hours but took much longer to finalize grades), but really, its mostly just asking a TA to put forms through a machine.

while school is out though until the 11th, i am working my butt off, picking up every shift i can.

which is why i'm up so ungodly early on a saturday.  and need to get driving k bye.

School is winding down.  The last of the group projects will be turned in tomorrow night.  I am a little nuts over a twist one teacher gave us on our individual project, but I will cope.  Otherwise, exam studying is all thats left.

I'd like to compare contrast my three group projects this semester.  I've had some of the best and some of the worst, some based on teacher, and some based on student.

I knew day one in my Strategy class it was not going to be easy.  There was a group debate, individual project using a business simulator, three exams, participation (with a starting grade of 50), and a few homework assignments.  The reason I stuck with was I knew my group the first day of class.  I had a friend from my first FAU semester who I then was in a group with my second FAU semester, that didn't go great, but not bad either.  He had friends from another senior economics class, and I gotta say, we killed it.  I came up with a fantastic powerpoint, we knew our topic, the debate was a little messy, but it always is with ethics topics.  I actually went to my professor's office to say that when I gave everyone a 100% on group participation, I meant it.  Everyone followed through, everyone came to every meeting.  We worked over two weeks before the project was due.  Everyone came appropriately dressed.  I have never had such luck.


My Accounting Information Systems class is the most disorganized class I've ever had.  The syllabus listed homework assignments and a paper due 4/7.  The homework was never assigned.  The paper was maybe individual, maybe group, maybe optional, maybe not.  May require focusing on 5 different topics, may be focused on one.  Its gonna require a flowchart, but I don't know which chapter.  She finally clarified everything 4/14, a week after it's due date, changing the due date to 4/21.  And it had to be group.  In a class I don't attend.  By some strange hopefully fortiutious chance, someone with a finished paper asked if I would be in his group because he had a finished paper.  She had already explained papers would only be accepted from groups of three, no more no less.  She also said that we were responsible evenly for one product, meaning that even if the beginning of the paper is great and written by student A, the end is bad by student B, and student C just signs the finished product, everyone will get the same grade (completely unlike my other classes).  I, out of guilt mostly, contributed another page and three more cites to an okay paper, and hope it will help and not hurt my grade.

And then there was the Service Learning Project.  Let's throw together 8 people about an assigned topic, what plants should you plant in a community garden.   This one might require an entry of it's own since i have class to pay attention to, but it has been the most exhausting depressing annoying thing in my life.

Yes, I will put off the final review until tomorrow, just in case things get worse tonight.


Signing off

I bought a very pretty shirt on impulse (as a reward for not using my debit card for over a week! yay for mooching off the boyfriend and mother after a few weeks of buying lots of food).

In exchange, all of you lovelies get the chance for 10% off any shirtfight shirt in the next two weeks by using the discount code UPPERCUT.  free shipping, natch.

To be fair, I only found this shirt because of teemagnet which I only found because of shirt.woot.com so you see it's all a complete circle.  This all in contrast to roadriverrail 's post about suits, but really whats the better way to give an edge to a classy blazer than with a fun fitted graphic tee?  Can anyone tell me where to find a classy blazer?  I need one.

Also, you should check out woot.com today because I find the description highly amusing.  I really am over the new windows commercials and their idiotic reasoning for not buying Macs.  You don't want a Mac, that's great.  But trust me, you aren't "not cool enough for a Mac" in your damned volkswagen bug.  I'm still trying not to hate Justin for getting a Lenovo (who I have decided to compare to Volvo a la Crazy People and call "boxy, but good.") instead of a Macbook Pro, but at least I'm getting a Mac Mini hopefully with my tax return, in addition to car repairs.

At least we agree there: Toyota is good.  But if he beats me to getting a Prius, I'll pout.  And trust me, I got a good pout.

So you'd think I'd post way more on weekends than weekdays, not having work and all.  That would be false, since I try to find someway to spend all weekend attached to Justin at the hip.

We spent Saturday at Morikami and it was great.  I hadn't been there in a very long time and it was different to be there when the Hatsume Fair wasn't going on.  I do hope we make it to the Bon festival this year, but just being there on a regular weekend, it was great to have that kind of quiet time together.  Justin is the best person ever just to be quiet with, but we tend to fill our time with tv and movies and games that I can forget it.  He just calms me so much.  Or as I like to say, he "grounds" me, takes all the angry and crazy out of me, passes through him, and then dissipates.   

Sunday was a day of sleep and trying to get things done and not succeeding, kind of like now when I really need to be driving over to FAU instead of sitting at Eric's waiting for my pants to dry (I'm here alone!) because it was raining outside.

This morning was hectic even with sleep, because I never want to wake up.  I'm concerned because I haven't had a skin breakout since I started gluten free except for this still one open site on my right middle finger.  Most of the time its just still a little bumpy, but right now it's downright painful and washing dishes is excruciating.  I don't know whether I got flour there, or iodine, or maybe its just stress. It's very frustrating when they give that as a reason for something happening in your body.  I just want to be like "So would you like to pay my bills so I stress less?"

Oh, and since I'm trying to get more into the posty-posty, does anyone know of any good interesting communities to join?  I hate visiting and seeing no new posts, but all the communities I used to belong to I reviewed and ended up deleting them because they were pretty dead.  I did add some new friends so *wave* yay for livejournal.  

In the interest of avoiding all constructive work and remaining in a posty mood, why not do a friday five? I promised myself I would hold off on surveys as long as I could manage (although I really do find them fascinating to read and fun to fill out) but this doesn't count somehow, right?

When did you last sleep in a tent? It's bad I'm having trouble remembering. My mom has been doing a ton of camping this year, but not so much me as I haven't wanted to spend a night away from Justin yet. I believe it was going to Disney in April last year. We camped at Fort Wilderness with my mom and Paul. I spent most of the time taking pictures and uploading them to fubar and texting Crystal. I was not a good camper.

What comes to mind when you think about relieving yourself in the great outdoors? I am not above peeing on a tree. But I really do appreciate campgrounds with a bathroom. I won't normally shower when camping though. I wash it at home, braid it back, and don't deal with it til I'm home again. Depending on the distance to the bathroom though, we often bring a lil sit-upon one for midnight pees. (I'm afraid of the dark :( )

Where’s the best place you ever went camping? If I remembered the trip better, I'd probably say the Keys. Since I don't, I'd say Camp Nocatee in Clewiston, but that's cabin camping. Tent camping - Disney actually helps you do it pretty easily. I've never had the opportunity to go say, camping while doing a three day hike, or something, so ease of getting in getting setup getting pulled down getting out matters to me.

What’s your favorite camp food? Donuts! (I camp with boy scouts too much) Actually just plain old foil packs on a wood or charcoal fire have been some of the best meals I've ever had. I don't like cooking anything on a stick though really. It just takes too long and I'm a very impatient cook.

What’s your sleeping bag like? there's only one real way to put this. This is the inside of my tent. Yes those are cots, off the ground, with a table between them. Again, I've never backpacked :)


Okay, now back to my paper on XBRL

Sometimes I wonder why I try to watch regular television. If I was interested, I would have TiVo'd or Hulu'd it. I hated day-time TV growing up. Everyone was all "yay, staying home, watch tv all day". I'd rather take a bath and read. Really, who watches those judge shows [gowriteasong  ]??? Maury and stuff like that just confuse me.

But there was always TV Land. I loved watching The Sonny and Cher Show at noon whenever I could. And forget Nick at Nite. I'd stay up EVERY night to watch Get Smart, and then Mork and Mindy a few years later.

Then everything started going to hell. Brady Bunch reruns, Cosby reruns, Roseanne reruns, NOW freakin' Home Improvement reruns and George Lopez reruns. (Jesus, I just looked it up to find out Lopez's name and found they are doing 30 rock from the sun and Just Shoot Me and Scrubs. Who said copying TBS's lineup was the path to success???) But that's nothing compared to what they are doing for TV Land.

So apparently you need original content to keep up with the Joneses. Myths and Legends was kind of cool, a sort of I-Love-the-insert decade here-style, talking about old shows. High School Reunion and She's Got the Look were ignorable.

But The Cougar. THE COUGAR. They have a show for a 39-year old woman to find a 20-year old boyfriend. I don't disagree with the practice, but seriously. seriously. A dating show. called THE COUGAR. and it's on the station you can still find Green Acres and Gunsmoke if you hit it at the right time. Maybe it's unfair, but I'd be less disgusted if it was on VH1. I expect it.

Who is TV Land's audience?

Maybe I just hate change... but really, can't someone just get me Mork and Mindy on DVD?


[EDIT: My whining was rewarded by Rocky and Bullwinkle on WGN tonight! Fractured Fairytales yay]

Hm... this place is curiously empty...


Ok, so I deleted my whole journal.  I archived it first, but to be honest, it was depressing to me to try and view my own page and see entries I didn't want to see.  Many of them were locked, but I could read them, and sometimes there are reasons to hide things from yourself.

Actually, in archiving it (and my other online journals from earlier that I subsequently closed), I got to see a few snapshots of myself at different points in time.  Some were more depressing than I thought they would be, but some of it was good too.

I am going to try and post more often, although I'm nowhere near as miserable as I used to be, so hopefully it will be less about my emo emo feelings and maybe a little more content (did you know when I originally started this journal, I used to have link of the day, quote of the day, etc, EVERY day?).

Right now the only misery I have left is that I will most likely not be graduating Fall 09 as planned, but instead Spring 10.  I will be taking two classes over summer still, which is two classes to pay for.  But it's worth it because they are being offered by the teachers I want.  I'm highly frustrated, but I at some point exploded last night, and Justin gave me hugs and kisses, and it actually was better in the long run to get it out.

Oh, and finishing group papers.  So I should go do that now....