Thursday, October 27, 2005  

I want to hug and thank my brother Jon-Paul for updating my blog's look for the SEASON! He is a computer genius and i love him very much! He made this template and i love it!!! THANK YOU!!! Isn't it cool????????

   [ posted  @ 9:57 AM | ]

It is "tradition" for me to buy at least one CD everytime i make a trip home to see my family. This time i really picked a winner. The new Sara Groves album is top notch! Very original, but still keeping to her folk rock singer/songwriter style. Surely it will make my trip fly by. Ugg! I keep ending sentences with prepositions. I really have to get back to my homework... And then i have to drive to work to get my paycheck, deposit that and get up to class tonight. More time to listen to the CD!

I saw my first CHARGER on the road the other day. Total "spiritual religious experience!" to quote a guy i work with. I want one so bad!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was black and fast and even cooler than the pictures.

   [ posted  @ 9:50 AM | ]

To: Mr. Smartypants

It took you eight class periods, but last week you finally smiled and let out a good healthy laugh. I will be taking off my neck brace tomorrow for the first time, after the strain my neck, back and shoulders from when i whipped around to look at you and listen to your laughter. The funny thing for me is not that i saw a nicer-less serious side of you. It was what got you so happy and so excited.

Teacher asks if anyone has a scizzors with them. This being Beginning Greek, i don't know about you, but i didn't bring a scizzors. A pencil is enough to remember with all the other books i cram in my backpack to make me look half as intellectual as you. Since everyone was coming up empty on the scizzors front, Teacher went to the back of the room to the supply cabinet and found a pair of scizzors in an art box. [Mr. Smartypants, you would also probably know the answer to the age old question, is a half a pair of scizzors a scizzor? And isn't that just a knife?] While Teacher was discovering this instrument, The Serious JelloNurse reveals that she only has a scizzors as part of a tool on her key chain, which was very very very small.

This is where it all broke down. She's digging thru her zipper binder and pulls out her handy tool thing and as she is telling the class about it, you literally lifted your little butt cheeks off of your chair to be excited about the fact that you too have one of these multipurpose key chain tools, and that it has come in handy for you at times. The joy and the glee on your face changed how i look at you, forever. When you laughed, i could have sworn i saw some human spit fly out of your mouth too. Wow. You are human, you get excited about trivial things, and your New England accent no longer intimidates me like it did in previous class sessions.

Maybe when it comes down to it, you're a little office supply retail god in your own right, and office supplies make your soul happy as they do mine. Hmmm ?

But i will admit it took me 4 solid days of beating my head against the wall, doing all the exercises in the workbook, including the "advanced" ones, and re-reading the adjective chapter about 8x before the sentence on p. 67 finally made sense to me. "If the noun is articular but the adjective is anathorous (e.g., 'o anthropos agathos), then the adjective is functioning as a predicate adjective. In this case you will supply the verb "eimi" to show the predicating nature of the adjective." Some like you probably did not need to read this sentence 20x in order for it to finally make sense. I got it now, and hope to match you if not beat you on this week's quiz. Look out Thursday, here i come.

Your friend,
That LoudGirl with BigHair


Attendance tracker:
Missing this week were:
GrammarTeacherNumberTwo, The 14YearOld, and Miss Flirtybutt. These three people have absolutely nothing whatsoever in common, so i can only guess it was coincidence. This makes GrammarTeacherNumberTwo's attendance so that she's missed more classes than she came to. What's the point in paying and signing up if you're not going to come?

Total word count in NT learned so far: 87. Percent of total word count in NT: 52.69% !!! (these are stats they give us in our text book.)

   [ posted  @ 6:04 PM | ]

When I was closing in on graduation at college, [back in the days when info on the internet was text based and on a terminal with no windows or pictures, remember "vaxnet?"] I remember receiving this FWD email from someone and remember reading it and laughing so hard bc it is SO what human nature is all about. This came out at about the same time as the 50 Things To Do In An Elevator came out.

Now that i'm taking a class that in order to do well in, i must spend a lot of time studying, I think of this FWD email everytime i sit in my "straight comfortable chair in a well lighted place with plenty of freshly sharpened pencils [from aisle six at OMX]." I am going to put my own updated comments in red. See if you can relate:

How To Write A Term Paper!

1. Sit in a straight, comfortable chair in a well lighted place with plenty of freshly sharpened pencils.
   
2. Read over the assignment carefully, to make certain you understand it.
   
3. Walk down to the vending machines and buy some coffee to help you concentrate. *This one I may not do directly, but I will try to find a snack (lately peanuts) and beverage, which may take several minutes for me to select from my cupboards.
   
4. Stop off at another floor on the way back and visit with your friend from class. If your friend hasn't started the paper yet either, you can both walk to McDonald's and buy a hamburger to help you concentrate. If your friend shows you his paper, typed, double-spaced, and bound in one of those irritating see-thru plastic folders, drop him. *My current equivalent of this is checking my 3 email accounts. I will even read spam if i have to.
   
5. When you get back to your room, sit in a straight, comfortable chair in a clean, well lighted place with plenty of freshly sharpened pencils.
   
6. Read over the assignment again to make absolutely certain you understand it.
   
7. Check your e-mail; reply to everyone who sent you letters. *Here i may glance to see if anyone is on MSN messenger, but remain "appear offline" because i'm supposed to be studying.
   
8. You know, you haven't written to that kid you met at camp since fourth grade... You'd better write that letter now and get it out of the way so you can concentrate. * Time for more email? Or, isn't it time to pay the electricity bill? I better write out a few checks.
   
9. Go look at your teeth in the bathroom mirror. *This is where it gets real personal... I totally do this!
   
10. Listen to one side of your favorite tape and that's it, I mean it, as soon as it's over you are going to start that paper. *Umm, does anyone listen to tapes anymore? What about that MP3 of The Pretenders or Hall and Oates i downloaded last week?
    
11. Listen to the other side.
    
12. Check your e-mail again.
    
13. Rearrange all of your CDs into alphabetical order. *Now that mine are arranged, what replaces #13? Should i color code my closet?
    
14. Phone your friend on the other floor and ask if he's started writing yet. Exchange derogatory remarks about your teacher, the course, the university, the world at large. *Since this is a class regarding the New Testament, I may refrain from any derogatory remarks, but all bets are off if you happen to be the following members of my class: Mr. Smartypants, Miss Flirtybutt, The Blockhead, The14YearOld, TheScientist, GrammarTeacher Number One, or GrammarTeacher Number Two, The SeriousJelloNurse, The FratBoywhowantsToBeAMissionary, The GuyWhoDoesn'tAlwaysComeToClass, TheForgottenGuy in the Front Row, or myself of course.
    
15. Sit in a straight, comfortable chair in a clean, well lighted place with plenty of freshly sharpened pencils. *Don't forget those are from aisle six.
    
16. Read over the assignment again; roll the words across your tongue; savor its special flavor. *This is legitimate since part of learning Greek involves pronunciation. This is also easy to do, so it passes time well but has the appearance of actually studying. Maybe this involves getting out my Greek New Testament and reading an entire page outloud.
    
17. Check your e-mail to make sure no-one sent you any urgent messages since the last time you checked. *Of course, duh.
    
18. Check the newspaper listings to make sure you aren't missing something truly worthwhile on TV. NOTE: When you have a paper due in less than 12 hours, anything on TV from Masterpiece Theater to Sgt. Preston of the Yukon is truly worthwhile, with three exceptions: Pro Bowler's Tour, any movie starring Don Ameche, and Star Trek. *One of the hot-buttons on my Firefox browser is Yahoo! TV Listings. Gotta check those.
    
19. Catch the last hour of Soul Brother of Kung Fu on channel 26. *Full House will do nicely here. Or, Little House is on like 4 cable channels now so i might watch that. Anything with "House" in the title.
    
20. Phone your friend on the third floor to see if he was watching. Discuss the finer points of the plot. *Here, if i call home and ask what my dad was doing, the answer will always be "watching TV." So i need to find out what he's watching, in case i am missing something. He will always have the tennis scores handy.
    
21. Go look at your tongue in the bathroom mirror. *Are there peanuts stuck in my teeth? Let's check.
    
22. Look through your roommate's book of pictures from home. Ask who everyone is. *Since my only roommate happens to be a naked monkey stuffed animal, and he is an orphan, who came with no photo album, I may substitute #22 here for looking thru the Legend of Zelda players guide. Or, I'll get out my own h.s. yearbooks. Maybe read some of my church kid's xanga blogs.
    
23. Sit down and do some serious thinking about your plans for the future. *Write out a list of the 20 characteristics i most want in a husband, all impossible ideals no one could ever live up to. God help that man, where-ever he is. Say a prayer.
    
24. Open your door and check to see if there are any mysterious, trench-coated strangers lurking in the hall. *Oh, sorry but i would NEVER do this. In college, yes, because someone stole my MooCow doll when i had it in the hallway of the dorm guarding my phone (don't ask why i had it out there), but here the only people you will see in the halls are the elderly, or the freaky ultraTall man around the corner who moves very fast and never says hello, or the party people next door who always have loud arguments.
    
25. Sit in a straight, comfortable chair in a clean, well lighted place with plenty of freshly sharpened pencils. *Since they are from aisle six, and now that i'm thinking about work, i may check my planner to see when i work next and who i work with.
    
26. Read over the assignment one more time, just for the heck of it.
    
27. Check your e-mail.
    
28. Scoot your chair across the room to the window and watch the sunrise. *Watch traffic or people walking on the walkway below my apt.
    
29. Lie face down on the floor and moan. *Go get a 30 min. workout done to raise some energy.
    
30. Leap up and write the paper.
    
31. Type the paper.

The best part of this Blog-entry is that i have just wasted another 30 minutes and have not looked at my flashcards once. It's time to check my laundry. I have procrastinated ALL DAY and have not done a lick of memory work ALL DAY!!!! After laundry, i think i will check my teeth in the mirror, then get something to eat, check my teeth again, and put in a movie.

Lord.

   [ posted  @ 2:15 PM | ]

Found this, this morning. Made me laugh!

   [ posted  @ 7:40 AM | ]

To Mr. Smartypants (the older guy who sits in the back left corner of my NT Greek Class):

I am sorry for saying "Holy Cow..." before i tried to pronounce a word last night in class. I think this might have upset you; perhaps you think that calling a bovine "holy" is irreverant. I could think of no other way to buy me some time than by getting 90% of the class to laugh while my eyes bugged out and i tried to think really hard how to sound out the word so i could be smart like you [you, who also made about 3 pronunciation mistakes and also had to get up out of your chair to come closer to the overhead projector so you could see where the accent mark in tetelestai was so you could also sound it out right- i think you were saying, "holy cow" in your head!]


Hi world, it's the weekend but i'm scheduled to work the whole time. My class rocks - i aced the quiz but had a few errors on my homework (which we do not turn in.) We were down from 11 people to 8 - i hope these people are not dropping out. It's not THAT hard.

And we have about 1/3 of our Xmas merchandise in at the store!!! This year, a first: shoe shine kits. Your ideal office supply. To compliment this, since that is such a serious gift, we also have these foam disc launchers that propell off of some gun-like thing. Also, an ideal office supply. Our profit margin on them is probably over 70%, huh? We also have one full pallet of the pop-corn tins (i think i already mentioned this) and are awaiting the two pallets of holiday stationary, which will hopefully not be laced with too much Kwanza Crap, or anything Islam-related. Do muslims have a holiday in december? I don't think so. Their's is around mid-september, right? When they try to blow us up? But yes last year i do recall a few Kwanza related items.

Lordhelpus.

Leaves are changing colors all over the place here. But it seems like they went from green to just dropping off too. It got down to the 30's this week but may approach the 70's this weekend again. I wore my cool winter coat for the first time yesterday again this season. That was a good feeling. I haven't turned the heater on yet tho. Just bundle up.

Apprentice was good this week, i agree with Trump letting Jennifer go instead of the project manager chick i can't remember her name; the one with the crutches. I think Crutches should stay and possibly win. It's a good season. Also, i'm loving THE OFFICE.

   [ posted  @ 9:06 AM | ]

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