Saturday, July 5, 2003
I think I did well on my test. Which is good, considering I got a 71 on the first one. Shame on me. But I thought I did well on that one, too. So we'll see. The good news is that, even though I have class next week, the office is closed. I get afternoons off! That's about it for my summer vacation.
I watched this documentary on the history channel about the "History of Sex" or something like that. I laughed because those people were trying to be so serious and it was really just funny.
"Legolas: This is no mere Ranger. He is Aragorn, son of Arathorn. You owe him your pants."
Wednesday, July 2, 2003
So class is going along. It will never end. At least my teacher is hysterical. Today, he started sneezing then said, "I better watch out. Old men sometimes wet themselves when they sneeze. I haven't been practicing my Kegels lately." If you don't know what that means, don't ask. ;) Oh, and then he was talking about something else and he said "When I was teenager, I used to subscribe to National Geographic. But I got it for all the wrong reasons." We laugh at him all the time.
Rob and I went out for lunch today. He came by the office first and met the girls, and then we went. I had a great time. Then I went to Walmart and got some ridiculously expensive ink for my printer and came home. Test tomorrow, so I better go study.
Friday, June 27, 2003
I'm done with observations. That means I'll be home on Wednesday afternoons and Friday mornings. And I'm getting full credit for the stuff I'm turning in for that class, but the tests are another story. They're terrible and unreasonably difficult. Stupid class.
I read Order of the Phoenix again, and it's less dramatic the second time around. ;) But now, it's off to lunch at the office! It's our nurse practitioner's last day and the First America drug reps are taking us to Applebee's.
Pants quotes are back--"Haldir: "The dwarf breathes so loudly we could have shot him in the pants."
Saturday, June 21, 2003
*completely freaks out*
So I got home from the store around noon, and I immediately started reading Harry Potter, and I just finished, it's a little after eight.
NO SPOILERS
*freaks out more* There is absolutely no one online to talk to because everyone is still off reading the book or whatever. You people need to hurry up ever so much. I'm dying here to talk to someone about it. I mean, I just found out who *died*. Zach asked me which book was my favorite now, and I can't even think about that right now. Not to mention, I have lots of homework to do. I can't think about that, either. *goes to re-read some parts*
Thursday, June 19, 2003
Class is going very decently so far. And that's enough about school. Observations are weird, though. I mean, these kids who could take me out if they want to ask me if they can go to the bathroom. And if I tell them to wait, they wait! The power! Mwhahaha! No really, it's very odd to be in charge like that. Especially because most of my teachers in high school didn't care if we got up to go to the bathroom or what. The teacher I'm working with is a young guy, he recently graduated. And plus, he had the same teacher I have now, and he's telling me what to write about in my experience journal. Hooray!
Ann sent me a birthday present! About time, right? ;) But I love it!
Oh, and I watched this thing on the Country Music Channel. Top 100 country songs of all time. Did I know them all? Yes! Did I sing along? You better believe I did. Right in my chair. I enjoyed it very much.
Saturday, June 14, 2003
I FINISHED WINDWAKER!!! By myself! No cheat codes or help or anything! *parties*
Still working on the Tri-Leader layout...I think. Don't ask. ;)
My summer class is going to be very difficult. It's a lot of work, plus I have to go to the high school on my only afternoon off and observe summer school classes there. And help the students who probably don't want me there. We shall see. I also started tutoring a sixth grade girl who doesn't need a tutor. She's very smart and I haven't had to explain anything to her yet. In fact, I did one of the problems wrong and she corrected me! Who needs a tutor now? We're a lot alike though, we both play Clarinet and Piano, we're both very quiet when we work (her grandma probably doesn't think we're doing anything), we go to the same church, and we have a similar personality. She does say "why?" all the time if I happen to try and make conversation. "I'm taking art classes." "Why?" "Because I'm going to be an art teacher." "Why?" "It's what I want to do." "Why?" It never ends. But I got paid for sitting there and doing nothing! Now I can buy Harry Potter in six days! And I told her mom one price for a week (twice a week) and I think she took it as the price for one lesson. So I got paid twice as much as I thought. Hmmm. I'll have to ask her about that. Maybe she's paying me for two weeks at a time.
Still haven't seen Finding Nemo. Trying again tomorrow, I think.
Pants quote--"Elrond: Strangers from distant lands. You will unite or pants will fall."
Monday, June 9, 2003
Julie and I went to my church this morning. She'd never been to a Catholic church before, but I don't think she was too shocked. It wasn't even a normal day. Last summer, we had a student priest studying with us. He "graduated" from the seminary and got fully ordained as a priest on Saturday. Yesterday morning, he chose to give his first Mass at our church. It was so very happy and exciting and wonderful. Not to mention it was a High Mass on Pentecost Sunday with the Knights of Columbus in full costume and everything. I loved it.
After that, Julie and I went to Applebee's for lunch. Apparently our server never showed up, so they shuffled us between various people. We had to wait 20 minutes for our bill. Then we went to the new theater to see Finding Nemo. Unfortunately, the power was out at the theater. All the people waiting in line outside could wait or go home. We went to Publix and got a cheesecake, then went home.
At her house, we watched Spirited Away. She doesn't like cartoon movies particularly, but I do. And this one was so cute! I loved it. Oh, and we'd also gone to Walmart and gotten two new CD's each. We listened to them and hung some mini-blinds in her window. And I went home. We're going to try and see Finding Nemo after I finish working tonight, so we'll see.
Pants quote--"Gandalf: Life in the wide world goes on much as it has this past age, full of its own comings and goings. Scarcely aware of the existence of pants... for which I am very thankful."
Saturday, June 7, 2003
Only two more weeks until Harry Potter. *waits patiently* Mommy and I never made it to Macon. It was all rainy and we didn't have money anyway. We went to Walmart and I got Spirited Away, which I still need to watch, and the new Matchbox 20 CD.
Today, I wasn't planning to do anything, but I called Julie to confirm our plans tomorrow and ended up going to her house. Then we went to see her grandfather in the hospital. He broke his neck a few weeks ago. But Grampies was all spiffy today. He had on his plaid shorts and his yellow sweater. And Grammies and Aunt Kathy brought him Chinese food. He gets to go home on Friday, they think. Then Julie and I went to her house, and we were going to have a mud fight (it's been raining for a few days). But we were tired, and we played Crazy 8. Then we started watching Hercules until I realized it was about five o'clock and I had to go home. Now I'm watching the Even Stevens marathon. Tomorrow will be fun.
Pants quote today-- "Frodo: Underpants. My name is Underpants."
Wednesday, June 4, 2003
I went to my Mommy's house today. And my brother and I were wrestling on the floor when his friend came over. He looked at me and said "Are you sure you're 21?" Mommy and I made plans to go shopping on Friday in Macon. Their mall even has a Disney store.
Quote of the day from the pants site--"Boromir: Gondor has no pants. Gondor needs no pants. "
Tuesday, June 3, 2003
I casually mentioned today at work about how nice it would be if I didn't have to work on Friday, because I have to take my final on Friday. And considering that the doctor I work for is out of town, and only the nurse practitioner will be seeing patients, they don't really need a full staff, right? Well Mary heard me and said it would be just fine if I didn't work Friday. Then I sort of mentioned that Dr. Loeffler will be gone on Thursday, too. And she said to take Thursday off if I wanted. And I don't work on Wednesdays anyway, and I don't have class tomorrow...so I basically have nothing to do until Friday. I could work on the new layout for the Tri-Leader part of the site, but I'm sort of waiting on something. *specific look*
So I was in class and my mind kept wandering today. You see, before class, I was writing Tri-Leader stuff for the stories I'm working on...and I kept thinking weird things. Like she'd mention a personality trait of a child with a disability and I'd think "John sort of acts like that sometimes...I wonder what would happen if we visited his cave, or if we did this, or if we did that..." and I'd lose the conversation in class. Or when she told the story of the child who was blind and took his clothes off in the classroom because he didn't know any better. I thought, "Rosey is only person that everyone has seen naked. Well, Tyrael was naked that one time, but only Randall saw him. Everyone's seen Roseidous." I need mental help.
By the way, if you haven't seen my new Buddy icon on AIM, it's for the Lord of the Peeps. These people with way too much time on their hands re-enacted the entire movie with peeps as the characters. In mini costumes on mini sets. They took pictures. It's absolutely hysterical. The Legolas peep has his bow hooked over his ears. To make the hobbit peeps shorter, they ate the bottom of them. The characters are rabbit peeps and the horses are deformed duck peeps. Gandalf is the best, but Sauruman is really great, too. lordofthepeeps.com I highly recommend it.
One more thing. I don't know if any of you remember that game we used to play in chats...the pants game? You'd substitute a word in a book or movie title with the word "pants"? Remember? Anywway, there's a site dedicated to that in relationship with Lord of the Pants, I mean Rings. Here's a quote: Elrond: Isildur kept the Ring. The line of pants is broken. There is no strength left in the world of pants. They’re scattered, divided, pantless.
Friday, May 30, 2003
I am free this weekend! Free, I tell you! I am so very glad I turned in my paper early and don't have to do it this weekend.
The new movie theater opens tonight. Julie and I are avoiding the big crowd and going to see Finding Nemo next weekend. *However* The old theater is now playing fairly recent movies for 99 cents! That's all! I drove by it this morning on the way to work, and they have the Two Towers. I actually shrieked. I am so going tomorrow. And hey, I can scrounge up 99 cents in my car! I might go more than once this weekend! You have no idea about the level of excitement. ;)
And I'm still banned from the copy machine at work.
Thursday, May 29, 2003
Sorry, this is all you get right now. New layout coming this weekend.
Adventures at work today. I was trying to use the copy machine to specially copy the audiogram results to the back of a child's physical form. I've done this many times. Today, the paper got stuck in the machine. So I pulled it out. It ripped the paper on the way out and tiny, itsy-bitsy, little piece of paper got stuck in the auto-feeder thing. So I called Mary, the office manager, over and she tried to see where the paper was and opened up all the drawers and things. Then Monica came over to see what we were doing. Then Felicia walked over because she had to make a copy of an insurance card. But it would not work. At all. Our office is also a little in debt, so we're not allowed to call a repairman or anything. So Monica and Mary decide they will fix the copier. They're both laying on the floor, looking up inside it. (Note: The copier is in the front part of the office, everyone in the lobby can see what's going on.) Mary got up and found some tweezers because Monica saw the piece of paper. She was able to grab it, but she ended up knocking it further down into the machine. Then they decided to get the vacuum cleaner and try to suck it out. This didn't work and was very noisy. Meanwhile, Felicia now has several insurance cards that have to be copied and Erica is trying to run the front desk by herself. Everyone else is gathered at the copier or standing guard so we don't get caught.
At this point, I say "Why don't you turn it off and turn it back on?" They say no, it takes too long to re-boot. They take off all the drawers and trays and still can't find the paper. Just when they're about to call the repairman, Robin trips over the vacuum and unplugs the copier. They turn it back on, and once it boots up, it's fine. They should really listen to me.
I've also discovered fanlistings. That is a dangerous thing.
Tuesday, May 27, 2003
I was watching one of those reality-dangerous-stupid-videos shows. Not Real TV, but something else, I don't remember. And this is the quote of the day:
Voiceover Guy: "We're gonna meet some people who fell out of the stupid tree and hit every branch on the way down."
Monday, May 26, 2003
As promised, here are the pictures I took at the local amusement park. It's called Wild Adventures.
This is the view from the top of the ferris wheel. The arrow is pointing to my house, which you could see if there weren't trees in the way.
The airplane swing-ride-thing
The tiger. You see, it's sort of like Busch Gardens, but I really hope the lions and tigers and bears don't break out of their cages and come to my house.
The Boomerang. The theme of that park section is the Australian Outback. Hmph. It looks funny because it goes one way, then goes backwards.
Last one. This is view across the lake while standing in front of the Boomerang.
So it's a nice place, they have lots of good concerts. I just wish we didn't have the traffic and noise and people in tiny Clyattville, Georgia.