Sunday, February 22, 2009
Friday, February 20, 2009
weapons of math destruction
(lol... yea, I think I'm funny.)
I was up way too late last night studying for today's math exam. Part of it was a take home portion that was distributed yesterday, and had to be turned in today. The teacher mentioned we are allowed to work in groups on the take home part, and proves his intellect by saying, "you were all going to anyways." This is entirely true.
Now that working in groups is technically legal, I think we pushed it farther than my instructor anticipated. His one request was that we write the names of whoever we worked with at the top of the take home portion.
The top of my page read something like, "Worked with Micheal, Casey, Tanner, Kevin, my friend Rylan who isn't in this class, and his neighbor Patrick."
I'm hopeful that the group effort prevailed and secured at least the 15 points off that portion. The in-class portion today definitely left me feeling a little less than confident. But still, I think I *might* have passed. This is shocking. It's a rare sight indeed when I receive a math exam score higher than %64. The professor doesn't seem to buy the excuse that I'm just too right-brained for this junk.
You can tell my life isn't exactly exciting when all I have to write about are math room scandals haha.
The good news is that this quarter only has three weeks of instruction left, then finals the following week. And then... who knows. Things are often more uncertain than certain for me. I want to be able to take next quarter off and leave for awhile, but there's always that whole money thing... ugh. I still have a lot of thinking (and scheming) to do before I can come up with a new solution for the ill that plagues me. Dramatic, I know.
I was up way too late last night studying for today's math exam. Part of it was a take home portion that was distributed yesterday, and had to be turned in today. The teacher mentioned we are allowed to work in groups on the take home part, and proves his intellect by saying, "you were all going to anyways." This is entirely true.
Now that working in groups is technically legal, I think we pushed it farther than my instructor anticipated. His one request was that we write the names of whoever we worked with at the top of the take home portion.
The top of my page read something like, "Worked with Micheal, Casey, Tanner, Kevin, my friend Rylan who isn't in this class, and his neighbor Patrick."
I'm hopeful that the group effort prevailed and secured at least the 15 points off that portion. The in-class portion today definitely left me feeling a little less than confident. But still, I think I *might* have passed. This is shocking. It's a rare sight indeed when I receive a math exam score higher than %64. The professor doesn't seem to buy the excuse that I'm just too right-brained for this junk.
You can tell my life isn't exactly exciting when all I have to write about are math room scandals haha.
The good news is that this quarter only has three weeks of instruction left, then finals the following week. And then... who knows. Things are often more uncertain than certain for me. I want to be able to take next quarter off and leave for awhile, but there's always that whole money thing... ugh. I still have a lot of thinking (and scheming) to do before I can come up with a new solution for the ill that plagues me. Dramatic, I know.
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Budgeting with a swollen face.
Today is one of those days where I have too much to say and not enough time to say it. Please forgive the choppy writing because I'm just trying to get it all out there. First off, I'm kind of flattered since it has come to my attention that I have other readers besides my family and myspace friends... Maybe my blog is finally prestigious enough to come up on search engines if the right combination of words are entered lol. Anyways, to the commentor on yesterday's post, if you read this, please send me a way to contact you!
Anyways, things were looking good for my fundraiser idea. I have an appointment with someone tomorrow at 11:00am to check out the theater and talk about availability and everything that is included in the price. I find the theater itself highly affordable, but the comedy group I want is wayyyy out of the price range. Even if I sold out the theater (200 seats), I'd have to charge people upwards of $20 for entry, and that is just not feasible for students. I'm now in the market for cheap(er) entertainment. Hopefully something pans out in the near future.
In other news, yesterday I realized that my life has been lacking of a certain annoyance for the last few weeks... yea, you guessed it, a certain ex-boyfriend that is constantly creating new myspaces and instant messager names in order to contact me. Lo and behold, I checked the Snohomish county jail register and looks like he was recently taken in. That's always a good feeling.
And this is kind of a weird thing to throw out there but hey might as well. For weeks now, the lower right side of my jaw has been tender and a bit swollen. Assuming it had something to do with my wisdom teeth extraction in December, I ignored it for a bit and hoped it would go away. Yesterday I finally went back to the dentist. Apparently, my jaw is incredibly infected and she has no idea why- claiming it's unrelated to my wisdom teeth coming out. I left the office with a prescription for antibiotics and a referral to an oral surgeon. Hopefully these antibiotics work out for me though, because I am entirely determined that I will cut that thing open myself before shelling out the cash to see an oral surgeon. Let's hope I'm not pushed to that. Ugh.
Time to tie this up though. I'm at work right now, have to take the cat to the vet in an hour (she gets better treatment than I do), have to work on the take home portion of my math exam, and fill out the notecard I'm allowed to use on the exam tomorrow. Good times.
Cheers.
Anyways, things were looking good for my fundraiser idea. I have an appointment with someone tomorrow at 11:00am to check out the theater and talk about availability and everything that is included in the price. I find the theater itself highly affordable, but the comedy group I want is wayyyy out of the price range. Even if I sold out the theater (200 seats), I'd have to charge people upwards of $20 for entry, and that is just not feasible for students. I'm now in the market for cheap(er) entertainment. Hopefully something pans out in the near future.
In other news, yesterday I realized that my life has been lacking of a certain annoyance for the last few weeks... yea, you guessed it, a certain ex-boyfriend that is constantly creating new myspaces and instant messager names in order to contact me. Lo and behold, I checked the Snohomish county jail register and looks like he was recently taken in. That's always a good feeling.
And this is kind of a weird thing to throw out there but hey might as well. For weeks now, the lower right side of my jaw has been tender and a bit swollen. Assuming it had something to do with my wisdom teeth extraction in December, I ignored it for a bit and hoped it would go away. Yesterday I finally went back to the dentist. Apparently, my jaw is incredibly infected and she has no idea why- claiming it's unrelated to my wisdom teeth coming out. I left the office with a prescription for antibiotics and a referral to an oral surgeon. Hopefully these antibiotics work out for me though, because I am entirely determined that I will cut that thing open myself before shelling out the cash to see an oral surgeon. Let's hope I'm not pushed to that. Ugh.
Time to tie this up though. I'm at work right now, have to take the cat to the vet in an hour (she gets better treatment than I do), have to work on the take home portion of my math exam, and fill out the notecard I'm allowed to use on the exam tomorrow. Good times.
Cheers.
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Taking it all on.
I've decided to take next quarter off from school. It's time to take the trip I started planning a few months ago, but I haven't settled on a destination yet. Right now, the most favored options on the table are Peru or Kenya. There are various cheap volunteer abroad programs out there, but a plane ticket will set me back about $900, and then I have to shell out a few hundred bucks for a place to sleep during the project.
So how exactly am I going to fund this? I decided a fundraiser was in order, but we're not talking about the chump change of selling candy bars door-to-door. I have been conspiring all night, and after a 3-hour pow-wow coffee sesh and brainstorm with Keith at Denny's, we managed to fashion a pretty brilliant idea.
The plan is still under construction, but the idea is pretty straight forward. I am going to rent the Black Box Theater at my school for either March 13th or 20th. The date will be officiated once I talk to the Jet City Improv group and check their availability.
Seems brilliant to me. Rent the theater, hire a comedy group, sell overpriced tickets to students, and oh hey, I just happen to be on the school paper staff and predict a promotional article running in the near future...
This is looking very promising. I'll update as the idea evolves.
So how exactly am I going to fund this? I decided a fundraiser was in order, but we're not talking about the chump change of selling candy bars door-to-door. I have been conspiring all night, and after a 3-hour pow-wow coffee sesh and brainstorm with Keith at Denny's, we managed to fashion a pretty brilliant idea.
The plan is still under construction, but the idea is pretty straight forward. I am going to rent the Black Box Theater at my school for either March 13th or 20th. The date will be officiated once I talk to the Jet City Improv group and check their availability.
Seems brilliant to me. Rent the theater, hire a comedy group, sell overpriced tickets to students, and oh hey, I just happen to be on the school paper staff and predict a promotional article running in the near future...
This is looking very promising. I'll update as the idea evolves.
Friday, February 13, 2009
So much for natural selection
It's too bad the editor won't listen to any of my ideas, because after seeing the latest issue that came back from print today, I am so embarrassed. Leave it to my buddy Keith to make light of the situation:
"I'm really glad my school paper looks like a bunch of dudes got together, watched porn, ate pizza, and then realized they were on a deadline.... It sure looks like a lot of time and effort went into this. You should be proud to be part of a prestigious institution. Real Proud."
On the bright side, at least the layout editor spelt my name right this time on all my pictures and articles.
The back page of the paper is always the "versus" section. Two writers debate both sides of a controversial issue. The subject for this time around was "Evolution vs. Creationism", and yours truly took the evolution side. My favorite editing error of the entire paper appears at the end of my article, where my last sentence trails off into nothingness. Apparently whoever is in charge of copy and pasting thought my article was fine without ending in a complete thought or heaven forbid, a period. Keith, after commenting on how nice I look all pixelated, says copy and pasting must be as difficult as changing the resolution of the photos.
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"I'm really glad my school paper looks like a bunch of dudes got together, watched porn, ate pizza, and then realized they were on a deadline.... It sure looks like a lot of time and effort went into this. You should be proud to be part of a prestigious institution. Real Proud."
On the bright side, at least the layout editor spelt my name right this time on all my pictures and articles.
The back page of the paper is always the "versus" section. Two writers debate both sides of a controversial issue. The subject for this time around was "Evolution vs. Creationism", and yours truly took the evolution side. My favorite editing error of the entire paper appears at the end of my article, where my last sentence trails off into nothingness. Apparently whoever is in charge of copy and pasting thought my article was fine without ending in a complete thought or heaven forbid, a period. Keith, after commenting on how nice I look all pixelated, says copy and pasting must be as difficult as changing the resolution of the photos.
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Monday, February 9, 2009
No beige left here.
My palace is still a work in progress... Today I put a mini fridge in, but still plan on buying a nifty area rug, some plants, a dvd rack, and wall art to fill in the blank spaces. Trust me, it looks a lot cooler in person. I screwed around with the brightness and contrast in Photoshop. The colors aren't really this circus-y bright.
Sunday, February 8, 2009
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