• 30th January
    2012
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School and reading…

I always feel accomplished when I get a lot of homework done in one day. It’s 1am and I am finally done with all the readings I needed done by tomorrow.

Being a Liberal Studies (Education) major is always…interesting…since the subject matter varies so much. I started off reading my economics book and doing an assignment that had to do with creating an economics lesson for 6th graders that tied into the language arts content standards. Then from that I went onto reading my physical education textbook and then to reading my Portuguese textbook. That was followed by downloading documents for Quo Vadis and Tacitus:Annals. Then lastly going back to reading another chapter in the physical education textbook regarding lesson plans. It seems like such a random mix of subject matter…

All I can say is that I’m glad I got a bunch of reading out of the way tonight. It means less stress for the following days. Most of my classes aren’t very stressful so far. The only one that is causing me distress is my Honor 101 class…ugh. I hate classes where the grade is based entirely on very time consuming papers that you must write that will then be graded meticulously. ><  Ok, ok…I’ll stop my uninteresting school rambling and go to sleep before I start stressing out more on my Honor 101 class.

  • 29th January
    2012
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  • 28th January
    2012
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Did my nails, sparkly, yay :)

Now I’m off to my cousin Danny’s 21st birthday party with my family. Woot woot. It’s craziness, I can’t believe we’re both 21 now. I still remember the days when my brother and I would ride our bikes over to his house as little kids. Hehe, aww look at us all tiny and whatnot. My bro on the left smiling like a little cutie and Danny and I to the right with our serious faces, hehe :)

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  • 27th January
    2012
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&#8220;How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach but in the wretched bellies of his children? You can&#8217;t scare him&#8212;he has known a fear beyond every other.&#8221;- John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath I just finished watching The Grapes of Wrath. I didn&#8217;t think it was as powerful as the book- probably because it left out some parts- but I still enjoyed watching it. Also, I must say that I thought the beginning was pretty dang spot on with the book, nice. sidenote: It had been quite a while since I saw a black-and-white film.

“How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach but in the wretched bellies of his children? You can’t scare him—he has known a fear beyond every other.”
- John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

I just finished watching The Grapes of Wrath. I didn’t think it was as powerful as the book- probably because it left out some parts- but I still enjoyed watching it. Also, I must say that I thought the beginning was pretty dang spot on with the book, nice.

sidenote: It had been quite a while since I saw a black-and-white film.

  • 26th January
    2012
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  • 26th January
    2012
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Sometimes when I’m going through things in my house I find old school work.

LOL…oh man. Yeah, I definitely wasn’t very good at spelling when I was 7…

Today I am 7. I can play with my trdoul read. Play backbal skate and mack stof and drass up with my bog. I can sorm and I can rat and play. alt of stof Prten cook with my tosy. When I am 100 years old I can rad and coock food and put on old stof.

:)

But hey, somehow I predicted that I would have glasses :p …where the blue eyes came from in the first drawing I have no idea…

  • 26th January
    2012
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  • 25th January
    2012
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Things Professor Dunn said today that made me smile or giggle:

“What man does not respond to a woman that smells good and smiles?”

“It’s like fighting with the devil trying to resist that maple bar.”

“Did I iron my slacks? No. I’m lucky to put them on.”

“My granddaughter says she wants to be a princess. I slap her and tell her she needs to be the queen. Princesses just sit and look pretty, the queen makes decisions.”   (fyi, he doesn’t actually slap her…it’s just an expression he uses often)

“…and as ugly as that dude was, he needed a big ratio.” (referring to a friend he had that looked at the male to female ratios in order to pick the college he would go to)

  • 24th January
    2012
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  • 23rd January
    2012
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:) Friendly interactions

My kinesiology class was canceled today so I began walking all the way back to the other side of campus where my car was located. It was starting to rain pretty hard so I began to walk briskly and so did everyone else (I walk quickly regardless, lol, but today everyone else did too).

Anyway, I had to pause every couple of steps and take off my glasses and wipe them down with my shirt because the water droplets would cover the lense— it made me feel kinda nerdy, haha, oh well. Water droplets and constantly having to wipe down is definitely one of the negatives of deciding to wear glasses instead of contacts to school when it’s raining. I have to remember to keep that in mind.

Well, I was walking down the path near the Education building and I saw this lady holding hands with a little girl and they were walking quickly towards my direction. The lady was gently pulling the little girl along and the little girl had the biggest smile as she was almost jogging to keep up with her mom’s (?)quick pace. (The little girl seemed so happy. I guess she must like the rain or maybe she was excited about wherever she was headed to…or maybe she’s just a very happy and excited child). It was funny because from a distance I could see that the little girl was waving her free hand to nobody the whole time as she jogged forward. So once they got closer to me I decided I would smile and wave back to the little girl (I figured someone should wave back to her eventually :p) When I did so, she got the cutest and biggest smile. It was so sweet and she kept on telling her mom, “She waved back! She waved back!” :) It kinda made my day. Little things like that make me happy…

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Little kids are awesome. I always see them on my way back to my car since I park near  the Education building and they have some sort of preschool program there. So there’s always random little kids inside or outside the building getting dropped off or picked up.

  • 23rd January
    2012
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  • 22nd January
    2012
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Oh my goodnesss :D He sang one of my favorite songs soooo gooood :) I’m pretty sure he must woo a lot of ladies with his singing :p I get too excited with American Idol.