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| Sunday, September 24th, 2006 | | 10:49 pm |
ugh....
Well, everyone. I am officially perturbed with my english professor. Not only does she randomly cancel class (or not show up at all), she also doesn't give us specific directions about what to do in our blog things, or what she expects of us for our next class meeting. I'm not sure what to do.. if I should say something to her or if I should just let it go. Not to mention, I don't think anyone in my english class knows about my blog or it's address, so I'm just writing for my own good?? UGH. So I guess I'm a little bit further behind in my algebra than I thought I would be. I did as much of my "homework" that I could, but I don't remember how to factor equations from the products to the factors. Can you tell I'm kinda just fed up with school overall?? Sometimes I just want to give up and just do monkey work for the rest of my life, but other times, I say to myself, "Self: You NEED a degree!!" I am looking at different grad schools in and out of the state and one of the ones that keeps popping up as a good one is the University of Delaware. It has a Doctorate of Physical Therapy, in 2 1/2 years, for about $50,000.00, and that's for out-of-state tuition. I looked around on the school's website and found that they are very willing to work with people about finding housing for students who come to study. I wonder what it would take to gain residency in Delaware?? LOL. Maybe then I could save a couple thousand dollars. Sad, isn't it? Well, I'm going to keep looking, and one of these times, I'll make up a list of School, Website, Doctorate/Masters program, Cost of Attendance (In/Out), Length of program, etc. So far though, it looks like the best school for it, and it was even voted #4 in the nation. For anyone who wants to look it up [ Error: Irreparable invalid markup ('<www.udel.edu>') in entry. Owner must fix manually. Raw contents below.] Well, everyone. I am officially perturbed with my english professor. Not only does she randomly cancel class (or not show up at all), she also doesn't give us specific directions about what to do in our blog things, or what she expects of us for our next class meeting. I'm not sure what to do.. if I should say something to her or if I should just let it go. Not to mention, I don't think anyone in my english class knows about my blog or it's address, so I'm just writing for my own good?? UGH. So I guess I'm a little bit further behind in my algebra than I thought I would be. I did as much of my "homework" that I could, but I don't remember how to factor equations from the products to the factors. Can you tell I'm kinda just fed up with school overall?? Sometimes I just want to give up and just do monkey work for the rest of my life, but other times, I say to myself, "Self: You NEED a degree!!" I am looking at different grad schools in and out of the state and one of the ones that keeps popping up as a good one is the University of Delaware. It has a Doctorate of Physical Therapy, in 2 1/2 years, for about $50,000.00, and that's for out-of-state tuition. I looked around on the school's website and found that they are very willing to work with people about finding housing for students who come to study. I wonder what it would take to gain residency in Delaware?? LOL. Maybe then I could save a couple thousand dollars. Sad, isn't it? Well, I'm going to keep looking, and one of these times, I'll make up a list of School, Website, Doctorate/Masters program, Cost of Attendance (In/Out), Length of program, etc. So far though, it looks like the best school for it, and it was even voted #4 in the nation. For anyone who wants to look it up <www.udel.edu> is the website. Work is okay... I'm a little sick of the drama, but I suppose when you have a bunch of women in the same area, the drama will ensue. Me, T, and Laurie went out to Whitey's for munchies after work Friday, and it was nice. They had a fish special that was *really* yummy... Tilapia filets breaded with cilantro, lime, cumin, garlic, and a splash of Bacardi rum, then deep fried. They were really really good. I think Elena's going to try to make them sometime. Speaking of making food, I have to figure out what I'm going to make for the Choir Retreat on the 1st of October. I have to do an entree, and I was thinking maybe something vegetarian or a chicken dish? Any ideas?? I think that's enough for now... more later. Okay, bye!! Current Mood: dancing dancing.. | | Tuesday, September 19th, 2006 | | 12:28 pm |
| | 12:04 pm |
hello random journal entry
again... i keep forgetting about this thing, but maybe now that i have a little bit of time to kill here at school, i can put some stuff in here. well, i did get the job at fedex... been working there for a month now. it's okay, but my arm hurts, and i think it's from the stupid scanner thing that i have to wear on my arm. i work hard for my money (so hard, honey honey!) but it's decent pay and i pretty much am guaranteed at least 15 hours a week, and it works well with my school schedule. speaking of school, it's going pretty well. i officially changed my major from exploratory to intergrated health studies, and i've decided i'm going to go be a physical therapist, not an assistant. it will be another couple more years of school, but hopefully i'll get a nice job once i graduate. classes are okay. since i changed my major, i decided to change a few classes that i was taking and take some that would go towards my degree. so i dropped health psychology and personal health, and picked up college writing II and trig. i think i may have to withdrawl from the trig though, cause it's been 7 years since i've taken algebra, and it's quite rusty in my head. college writing is going well though, i'm going to write my research paper on bellydancing. yay! i <3 bellydancing. i miss it terribly. i think that my modern dance class is flaring up my plantar fastitis (read heel pain) again, cause it hurts to walk and stretch my ankle out. i try to keep walking so that way i don't get stiff, and take ibuprofen when i need to, but it still hurts. i love singing in the women's chorus... i forgot what it felt like to sing with people who can carry a tune! not sure if i'm looking forward to the choir dress... i don't know how ugly it might be, and besides that, i usually have to alter my clothing for it to look decent. speaking of that, i need to make a leotard for dance class (or just break down and buy one). i tried on all the leotards at center stage and none of them fit my torso. ugh... a fat girl with a long torso. (which reminds me... i have to come up with a fun title for my research paper in dance class, and i think that just might be it. maybe i'll add in -taking modern dance.) the other class i'm taking is understanding music, which is a stinking breeze for me. it's based on a lot of classical music and my teacher is soooo cool. so, even if i withdrawl from my trig class, i will still have 12 credits, which still makes me full-time. yay. that just means i'll have to work my ass off for the remainder of the time i'm here getting my 4 year degree in about 6 years (total). that's not to mention 2 years *with summers* for grad school. at least i won't be bored over the next 10 years of my life or so. :D well, i think i'll hop upstairs and see if i can find some of these books for my research paper, and then go see about the allerton apartments for me to live in cause as much as i love my parents, i would really like to move out and live on my own. the only thing that i'm worried about is the price of it... will it be more expensive than trying to live in ravenna or kent with dave. one good thing is that it can be taken out of my financial aid... but i'll still have to pay it back cause i'm sure i won't be getting any larger amounts of grants soon. maybe i'll try for a scholarship or two. i just have to start on that pretty early cause some of those scholarships have early deadlines, like February. yay for school... hopefully i can keep this a little bit more up to date now. :D bye for now! Current Mood: i've done a great deal today | | Friday, July 21st, 2006 | | 8:55 pm |
Wow... time to re-discover my journal...
It's been more than one year since I've posted. Quite a bit has changed. For example... I have a boyfriend now! Yay! I started talking to him just shortly after I posted my last post here last year. We started dating in September, and we're still together. His name is Dave and right now he works at the Circle K as an assistant manager. He's got two college degrees, in computer engineering and electronic engineering. Hopefully we will be moving into an apartment sometime before the end of the year. Also, I went back to school last year, at Stark State. I've got a 3.814 and made the dean's list both semesters. This year I'll be going to Kent State University, and waiting for my application to be accepted for PTA school at Stark State. I'm still working at Loren's, even though they are only giving me 8 to 10 hours a week, and it sucks horribly. I am in the market for a new job, and have a few options to choose from. I have been offered a job at CVS in Ravenna, but only for 5.95 an hour. UGH. So I started looking elsewhere, and found a flier at KSU about working for FedEx. My friend from Stark State worked for them and said it was a great place to work. So I went and applied for a part time package handler job there. Yay for sorting boxes. I have an interview on Tuesday with a guy from FedEx to see if I can get a job there. I just have to remind them that I used to work in the produce department, slinging 40 to 50 pound boxes of fruits and veggies, and I also used to clean offices and factories, and am used to working in temperate conditions. Yay for monkey work. I guess that will do for now... I will write again some other time because Dave has to go to sleep now so he can be at work at 5 am. Ew. So.. until then... Bye! :D Current Mood: at the current job market | | Saturday, July 9th, 2005 | | 2:30 pm |
well it looks like i'm updating once a month, haha.
well, i love my job. not dating zeth anymore. i have a new guy, jason. stats: 33 years old, bday is feb. 28th. he's white, 5'11", brown hair, brown eyes, single never married, lives out towards barberton/norton area. he is good looking, too. he sent me an icebreaker about a month ago, and i sent him one back that said i just met someone, and i want to see what develops. well, that was zeth, and that didn't work out. zeth didn't call me for almost two weeks, no calls, no emails, no im's. nothing. so i assumed that he wasn't interested anymore. so i wrote back to jason, cause he gave me his email address, and we've been talking on the computer on and off for about a week now. i like him a lot. (of course i think i say that about every guy i meet, and that's really sad, but i think i might date this one for a while, if things work out.) we'll have to see. i was hoping for a date with him this weekend, but since his dad's family is in town, and they are leaving today, i'm pretty sure he has plans with them. oh well. next weekend i will be in chicago, and the weekend after that is britt's wedding, which i rsvp'd for me and a date, and i don't have anyone going with me. i was going to ask zeth, but i'm kinda glad i didn't. i just hope i can get to know jason well enough so that if i do take him, if he wants to go and is available, that i'll feel comfortable around him. i would hate to go all the way up there and not have fun, cause i don't get along with my date. lol. anyhow, i'm sure things will work out. right now though, i think i might sneak a nap in, and then perhaps go to the drumming circle in cuyahoga falls at 5:30. still debating on it a little though, considering i haven't drummed a whole lot since about march, cause i hurt my shoulder and didn't want to re-injure, then i just got busy. lol. oh well. alright, now for a little ranting..... i like foreign people. don't get me wrong. i don't think i am prejudiced. but i just spent a good 20 minutes with the guy from tech support on the phone, trying to get the internet connected. he just happened to be indian (dot, not feather). first off, i couldn't hear him cause he was talking softly, and then when i could hear him he was talking too fast, and even when i got him to slow down and speak up, i still couldn't understand what he was saying cause his accent was sooooo thick. and do you know what took him 20 minutes to explain to me?????? that i had to unplug the 2wire modem thingy and wait 30 seconds and plug it all back in. seriously. first he had to figure out which kind of connector thingy we have, but he didn't seem to understand which one it was, so i had to explain it to him about 3 times, during which he was also trying to speak at the same time that i was trying to tell him. so, okay. he says, disconnect the power source from the 2wire. okay. did that. and then disconnect the other two wires. okay, did that. now, disconnect the wire that goes from the 2wire thing to the tower. okay. now wait thirty seconds and plug all of it back in. okie dokie. now plug everything back in. okay, now it works. great! but did that have to be so hard?? and before all this, i called the sbc local network line, which connected me to a series of push-this-button-for-this, push-this-button-for-that. then i got reconnected to the local network line again, in which they asked me to punch in my telephone number. okay. then i talked to someone live for about 1 minute, then they transfer me to the internet services line. then i have to, (get this.. lol) select from a menu again, but instead of pressing buttons, you just talk and say what you want and the voice recognition thingy knows what you want. that was the only cool part about the whole damn phone call. well that, and the internet is working again. so then i had to put in the phone number..... again. so i did that and they said, please hold while we transfer you to the next representative. so the rep gets on the line and says, hello, is you phone number 216-###-####(i don't remember which numbers she said). and i was like, um, no. so, yet again, i had to give her the phone number. and so when i got to the indian tech support guy i figured he would at least know what kind of system we had here in the house cause i gave them the phone number THREE TIMES and i thought they would have valuable information like that in the COMPUTER! guess not though. anyhow, the internet is up and running again, hooray! i'm going to go eat and nap now, before carla and elena get back and start showing me all the stuff they bought at hollows. :D okay bye! Current Mood: grateful | | Friday, June 10th, 2005 | | 4:04 pm |
woohoo!!!!
I'VE GOT A JOB!!! i got the job at loren's floral shop, the one with hallmark! i'm soooooo excited. i don't have too much else to say other than that. me and jamie are having a picnic on saturday, and i'm hoping that zeth will come along, but i haven't talked to him all week, so who knows? i wish he would call me damnit. oh well. YIPPEE! i'm just so damn happy. :D okay bye! Current Mood: hyper | | Friday, April 29th, 2005 | | 6:03 pm |
oh, men.
so the one i thought i wouldn't like, i do, and the one i thought i really liked, now i don't. ugh.. i've never dated two men at the same time, so this is gonna get really weird. i know bruno is jealous, and tramp says that he would be willing to bet anything that bruno asks if we slept together. the only thing is, i can't provoke the question. so we decided that the loser has to buy the winner drinks all night. and i think i'm gonna be the loser, so i better hope he can't drink a whole lot. oh... hmmm.. we forgot to set a time limit. oh well. i'm pretty sure that he will ask. so anyways... i had a great time last night. tramps's really sweet and down to earth. he seems to be just like he acts on the computer, which is good. alright... things i know so far... he works security at a hospital. he's 37 with 3 kids, ages 18, 13 and 11, and he's divorced, been that way for about 2 years, from michelle. i guess she was a mexican too? i think so. he drinks bud light and jagerbombs. (yeah, i had my first jagerbomb last night. i forgot how much i didn't like licorice. it was ladies night at the bar and i got to drink for free, but he bought me the jagerbomb.) so anyhow, he knows everyone in the music scene, pretty much. even knows seth the barbarian from wmms. i guess he used to work for nasa research, and that's where he met his ex-wife. he also for two months was a bounty hunter! woah. he said he couldn't do it anymore cause one of his informants got shot pointe blank in the chest, and that scared the living shit outta him. it would scare me too. he lives in an apartment by himself. he has a deer on the wall in the living room that he shot himself.. creepy to have a deer looking at you from the wall. he said he doesn't hunt at all anymore, or fish, and i guess he used to do both. he is a bowler though. he even bowled a 300 game, i was shocked. (and what's really scary about this is that now him and dad have something in common. woah.) i told him that my average is about 85 and he laughed. he's got really pretty blue eyes and dark blonde hair, average build, he's about 6' tall. he used to run with a street gang in california when he was a teenager, and he knows street spanish. he also used to fix up cars and trucks on the outside, to make them cool looking and do hydrolics and stuff. he showed me a few pictures. so that's all i know so far, we are probably going out tonight, but a little later, so i might take a nap.. he's taking one and it sounded like a good idea. so i guess we'll see.... bye for now. Current Mood: flirty | | Wednesday, April 27th, 2005 | | 1:07 pm |
so you know what's really funny????.....
okay... so you know what's really funny? when a guy says, oh i want you to see other people and then, drunkenly tell you that they would be jealous if you went out with someone else. damn men. so yeah, bruno said he wanted me to date around and see other guys. and last night, after i knew that he had a few rum and cokes and a few beers and two glasses of wine, he told me he would be jealous if i went out with another guy. what the hell am i supposed to do?? he did tell me that he talks shit when he's had a few drinks, so i think i'm supposed to listen to the sober bruno. so i'm going to go out tomorrow night with someone that i will probably have no future with whatsoever. this guy's name is trampis, yes trampis. lol. (he has a twin brother named travis.) he's 37 which is a little old for me, but not too old. he's divorced with three kids ages 18 13 and 11. he grew up in california and loves mexican food. he's a gemini (again! what's with these geminis??) he is everything that i do not want, but he's really nice and a date or two won't hurt anything, right?? i hope not. bruno has no right to tell me if i can date other people or not anyways. it's not like he's asked me to be his girlfriend or even introduced me as his girlfriend. i keep getting introduced as his "friend". i just don't know what to think of him. i guess we'll see. so in other news, i get to go to solon tomorrow to work for their inventory. today i'm going to carla and elena's for a minute and then going to get my nails done then running off to bellydance class. oh the life of a single girl. gotta keep myself looking purdy. :) the massage therapist is going to be at the school today at 5 so i'm gonna go get a 10 or 20 minute massage for a few bucks. so i gotta run so i won't be late for any of this fun stuff. i'll write more tomorrow. okay bye Current Mood: i like being single and flirty | | Sunday, April 24th, 2005 | | 3:05 pm |
woah it's been a while :)
well a lot has happened since i updated. most importantly i met a guy... his name is Bruno and he's 32 will be 33 on june 1st, a gemini. he's a cook at an italian resteraunt. he's about 5'6" and has brown hair and eyes.. looks a lot like an italian :) probably because he IS italian. but anyways i met him on yahoo personals and he im-ed me and we started talking on friday night and we met on saturday. i've seen him every night except two nights. he is sooo sweet. i'm really glad i met him. i might go out again tonight. he's really funny and makes me laugh a lot. we have a lot in common, same musical tastes and everything. one night we went to the upper deck and i sang karaoke, and friday night we went to club energy (never been there before) and drank and danced all night. it was fun. he's all i can think about. it's crazy. friends of his that i've met tell me that he's been talking about me to everyone, so i think he really likes me but he keeps saying that he doesn't want a relationship, but i guess i don't really want to get to serious too quickly. on another note, gas prices are crazy... i noticed that when after driving 20 minutes to go out with him that the gas in my car doesn't last quite as long as it usually does. and i'm poor. ugh.. i hate money. well, off to go take a shower and hang out before he calls me. ;) okay bye! Current Mood: excited | | Thursday, April 14th, 2005 | | 9:02 pm |
woohoo!!!
well first things first... i lost 6.2 pounds this last week!! eep. it's a good thing, but a little bit bad too i think. the past two weeks has been a loss of .2 and .8 respectivly. plus i hadn't worked out for real in either of those weeks, just done some walking. then this week, i worked out twice, and did extra bellydancing stuff. i also didn't eat as much as i usually do, and i contribute that to my sucky work schedule. i had to close on fri, sun and mon. which means that i didn't get up early any of those days, and i think i only ate breakfast one out of the three days. bad sandi. now i need to get my act in gear and eat like i should be eating, and also exercise like i should be exersicing. but this week brings my total weight loss to... (drum roll please..) 23 pounds!!! only two pounds to go until i reach my 10 percent goal of 25 pounds. yippee! i started cutting out the practice dress for carla and the cats were getting in the way, so i locked them into their rooms. and daisy cried and cried. i felt so bad. but i did get everything cut out and will attempt to put it together. let's see how this goes. :) it shouldn't be too bad. i did absolutely nothing today at work. that's ok, cause i'm ahead right now. no holes that i saw. i hate non-ad weeks. it's like the store is open for no reason. and everyone keeps saying, oh i left my coupon at home. no you didn't, you're just too dumb to realize we don't have a coupon this week. i hate retail. can't wait to get out of it. that's all for now..... bye! Current Mood: in a good way. | | Saturday, April 9th, 2005 | | 10:27 pm |
excited about my quilt i'm gonna do...
oooooh. i went shopping with mom at joann's. doesn't matter that the only things i bought totaled about $12.00, but that's besides the point. i bought fabric to make a fat quarter quilt! stephanie m is going to help me and renee make quilts! i picked out some really purdy fabric. the best one is mostly orange, with bits of light, medium, and dark mauve-y pink, and light yellow. then off of that i picked out, with carla's help, two orange, one light pink, and one medium pink fabrics, and a light yellow fat quarter. i'm super excited!! now i have to pick out a backing fabric, probably a yellow one. woohoo! and another fun project to do is carla's dress for earl's formal. she found some really fancy black mesh with a "lacy" partially sequiny pattern on it, and we are going to use black satin as lining. it's very "black-tie" looking, and she picked the perfect dress pattern. (elena, you just have to see it.) so anyways, i'm feeling much better today than yesterday... dare i say that the cold is almost gone??? my arm does hurt a little today, mostly from work though. so the guy that winked at me has IM-ed me back and i wrote him a really long set of IM's (because you're only allowed to type SO much into an IM.) and i guess we'll see! so something really creepy happened around work today. a lady got hit by a car and they don't think she's going to survive it. i guess an old couple driving their car got the gas and brake confused and pressed the gas and hit some lady in the tops parking lot. they were saying that it was so forceful that she broke the windshield on the car. i hope she's ok, and if not then i hope her passing was as peaceful as it could be. that's why i really think that after age 60, people should have to take a driver's test like when you first get your liscence. you know, a written exam, vision test, and driving test on the road with a patrolman. it's old people like that that make me scared to be on the road in my car. we were talking about it today at work, and almost everyone that i talked to said that they have been hit in their car by an old person, and it was something that could have been prevented. man, please if i ever get to that point, hire me a chauffer. i'd rather pay someone to drive me around than have that sort of guilt if i hit and kill anyone because of my own senility. (i think that's the right word.) alright. time to get off here and take a shower and go to bed. thank god i don't have to be there until noon. ;) okay bye! Current Mood: with old folks | | Friday, April 8th, 2005 | | 11:06 pm |
ooh bellydancing on regis and kelly show...
so. how big of a bellydance dork am i when i don't have to get up early at all, but i do because i might see 2 minutes of bellydancing on tv????? woohoo! so it was ansuya, amar, and rachel brice on regis and kelly this morning. the show started at 9 AM! it was really sort of boring..... blah blah blah... they talked chit chat for at least 20 to 25 minutes, and he mentioned bellydancing, and then denzel washington came in and they talked to him, then *annyoying* fran drescher came in and they talked to her. and then... "when we come back we'll have bellydancing with the bellydance superstars and desert roses" yippee! then commercial... of course... then they did their performance. very cool. i like the way they started all in a line together and "peeled" off and did their own thing. they danced to the same song that amar does with the isis wings on the superstars dvd. very nice. then commercial... again.. then they came back on and were going to show some moves to regis and kelly. first, they showed the superstars on stage and then kelly comes out with a light blue bellydance costume on. looks cute. then regis comes out with a sultan costume on and everyone laughs (cause he looks like a total dork). then rachel demonstrates a belly roll. everyone tries belly rolls. then amar shows a hip shimmy, and again, everyone tries hip shimmy. then ansuya shows shoulder shimmy and they try it. then they dance around on stage and the funniest thing happened. kelly shimmied out of her hip belt. how funny. and of course i recorded it so i can show elena and the troupe on wednesday. much fun. onto other things, i signed up for yahoo personals, and recieved a "wink" from someone. cool, so i "wink" back. today i got an email from him. seems like a nice guy. so i'm gonna try to IM him. still sick from the cold. throat hurts a bit and still thirsty. had to close tonight and, thank god, it's the last night that i have to work with the new assistant manager because she's getting transfered to another store! i hate the way she recovers... she goes down all the aisles with a cart and anything that is out of place gets put in the cart. okay, so far so good, but then she doesn't put anything back! aaaagh! she takes the entire cart to the service desk and drops it off. i mean, if she has a rubber stamp in her cart and she goes past the stamp aisle, she won't put it away. why????? so anyhow, the kitten is soooo cute. she likes to go adventuring and right at this moment is on top of a really really big pile of fleece that is on top of a dresser! and she is trying to get into the shelf of the closet! earlier, she thought it would be fun to check out all of the wires and things underneath the computer desk, so she walks on top of the tower, then on the side of the tower, onto the printer, under the printer, behind the whole desk into the other side behind the tower, then proceeds to jump onto the shelf that the keyboard is on and was "helping" me type. and watching the arrow on the computer screen. some things never change. alright i better go find something to eat and then go to bed. gotta be to work at 9. ugh. okay bye! Current Mood: giddy | | Thursday, April 7th, 2005 | | 11:30 pm |
well hello, hello
well... first post. fun. not sure what to write. (just start at the beginning, and when you get to the end...... STOP!) i'm sandi. 25 years old. work as a floral designer. love to craft, dance, and listen to music. bellydance with my sis, elena (elena_marie) currently losing weight on weight watchers... lost 15.8 lbs so far. :) live with parents and cats, milton is my cat and daisy belongs to carla (arminta88). okay. right now i'm getting over a cold that elena so lovingly gave to me and my throat is soooo dry, no matter how much water i drink. i feel like i've got cotton mouth. yuck. went to ww meeting today, and lost .8 lbs. better than nothing. sucks that i can't lift weights with my left arm because of injury to one of the muscles attached to the rotater cuff in my shoulder. and i don't want to excersice the right arm and not the left, cause i'd be lopsided. oh well, i guess i'll just have to keep walking. if i can breathe at all, thanks to the cold i have. ugh. well, it's almost midnight and i should go to bed, but i can never seem to get to bed before 1 am these days. (and i wonder why i'm tired??) i'm excited because bellydancers are supposed to be on regis & kelly tomorrow morning!!!! yippee for belly dancing!!! but that means i need to get off this computer and go to bed. (or figure out how to set the vcr to record at 9 am...) nah.. to bed i go. okay bye! Current Mood: thirsty |
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