What a yucky day! Shakespeare quiz in Intro to Theatre, nothing good at hasbrouck, and sleety icy rain all afternoon! But, on the up side, I have two more classes before Thanksgiving break.
I'm so ready to go home. I promised my boss I would take a shift on Wednesday, so I won't be home until late Wednesday night. I wish it was now!
Hope everyone is experiencing some nicer weather and is spending the weekend with their families!
24 November, 2008
21 November, 2008
Bouncing Around
There's so many things to touch on in this blog post.
Starting with the passing of Jack Galloway on Tuesday night. Hard to believe, hard to accept, hard to hear. Jack was a great man and as important to my childhood as anyone else in my family. He will be missed.
Also, in far lighter news, I got my dear Charile, the bike, a tune-up. He's as good as new, with full tires, an adjusted derailer and a replaced screw in the fender. Hooray!!
Apart from Charlie the bike and planning my trip home for the funeral, my days as of late have been so obsessively focused on scheduling for next year! It's SO frustrating to have SO many Gen Ed classes. But, alas, I am chipping away, and hopefully by the end of the fall semester next year, I will be DONE with them!!
So, I hemmed and hawed, and as I went, I discovered that many interesting classes (Intro to Animal Life, Beginner Sign Language, American Civil Rights Movements, Human Evolution, etc.) were full, required a previous lower-level class, or were only for sophomores, juniors, and seniors. It's a rough time for freshman trying to make schedules because we are the LAST to go. Alice's registration doesn't even open until 12:30 today, while some students were able to register three days ago.
My research started with my required classes, moved to the available classes, and ended with RateMyProfessor.com, a truly useful tool, albeit gosippy. I have arrived at the following schedule:
Looks sort of fuzzy, but basically, I'm taking Intro to Painting, History of Jazz, Women's Images and Realities, Comp II, and Microeconomics. Two cool things about this: One, my Women's Images class is two parts, one from 12:15-1:05, and one from 1:40-2:30. The first part is this enormous lecture with all the professors and all the students who are taking Women's Images. Then, for the secon part, we break up into groups and discuss the lecture more in-depth. Another cool thing about my schedule is my Comp II class, my basic required Freshman English course. We were given a list of themes, ranging from Juvenile Fantasy Literature to Mystery and Mayhem, and I am taking "The Madwoman in Literature"! How cool is that?
Aaaanyway. This is longer than I'd planned. Have a good weekend!
Starting with the passing of Jack Galloway on Tuesday night. Hard to believe, hard to accept, hard to hear. Jack was a great man and as important to my childhood as anyone else in my family. He will be missed.
Also, in far lighter news, I got my dear Charile, the bike, a tune-up. He's as good as new, with full tires, an adjusted derailer and a replaced screw in the fender. Hooray!!
Apart from Charlie the bike and planning my trip home for the funeral, my days as of late have been so obsessively focused on scheduling for next year! It's SO frustrating to have SO many Gen Ed classes. But, alas, I am chipping away, and hopefully by the end of the fall semester next year, I will be DONE with them!!
So, I hemmed and hawed, and as I went, I discovered that many interesting classes (Intro to Animal Life, Beginner Sign Language, American Civil Rights Movements, Human Evolution, etc.) were full, required a previous lower-level class, or were only for sophomores, juniors, and seniors. It's a rough time for freshman trying to make schedules because we are the LAST to go. Alice's registration doesn't even open until 12:30 today, while some students were able to register three days ago.
My research started with my required classes, moved to the available classes, and ended with RateMyProfessor.com, a truly useful tool, albeit gosippy. I have arrived at the following schedule:
Looks sort of fuzzy, but basically, I'm taking Intro to Painting, History of Jazz, Women's Images and Realities, Comp II, and Microeconomics. Two cool things about this: One, my Women's Images class is two parts, one from 12:15-1:05, and one from 1:40-2:30. The first part is this enormous lecture with all the professors and all the students who are taking Women's Images. Then, for the secon part, we break up into groups and discuss the lecture more in-depth. Another cool thing about my schedule is my Comp II class, my basic required Freshman English course. We were given a list of themes, ranging from Juvenile Fantasy Literature to Mystery and Mayhem, and I am taking "The Madwoman in Literature"! How cool is that?Aaaanyway. This is longer than I'd planned. Have a good weekend!
17 November, 2008
It's Monday, November 17
I'm big on the visuals lately, I guess.
This photo is on the cover of the NY times today, and the caption reads "Iraqi policemen danced with a United States Army soldier in Baghdad on Sunday, the day Iraq’s cabinet approved a security pact." I found the paper on my way back from a prticularly stinky Comp class, and it made me smile all the way up to the third floor! It's just a happy kind of day.
Things here are good. The weather's getting colder but we still make it out, all bundled up in winter coats and woolen gloves.
This Sunday I'm going to see Measure for Measure with Sam. I get paid on Friday, which will be nice. I'm making my list of what EVERYONE ELSE wants for Christmas now. I've got a few that I'm really excited about! :)
16 November, 2008
Clearing Up Financial Aid
Just days before early registration opens. I feel more or less like this:
That is all.
That is all.
14 November, 2008
Hello All.
Not much of news, except that I cleaned my room, every nook and cranny. Our trash room is in the basement and we're on the third floor. So I haul this huge bag of garbage all the way down three flights of stairs and down the hallway, just 3 feet from the door of the trash room, and my garbage bag tears straight across the seam along the bottom. Apples I never bothered to eat, wrappers from countless Halloween fun-sized candies, and at least a hundred crumpled sticky notes splay themselves across the hallway. A stranger, doing her good deed of the day, helped me clean it up.
Bottles of water at Stop and Shop are actually cheaper than they are at Stewart's after my discount. Can you believe that? I feel so gypped.
My drawings have been getting better because I doodle so much in class. I haven't had any time to paint because a few of my teachers, namely Comp Pol, Comp, and Spanish, have been looooooooooading on the homework. But all my paints are finally here and awaiting the creation of a MASTERPIECE!!
This gloomy fall weather gets me thinking a lot, so if you can't get ahold of me and are wondering where I am, I'm probably inside my own head. :)
Hope everyone's well. Until next time! Hopefully I'll have more to report.
Bottles of water at Stop and Shop are actually cheaper than they are at Stewart's after my discount. Can you believe that? I feel so gypped.
My drawings have been getting better because I doodle so much in class. I haven't had any time to paint because a few of my teachers, namely Comp Pol, Comp, and Spanish, have been looooooooooading on the homework. But all my paints are finally here and awaiting the creation of a MASTERPIECE!!
This gloomy fall weather gets me thinking a lot, so if you can't get ahold of me and are wondering where I am, I'm probably inside my own head. :)
Hope everyone's well. Until next time! Hopefully I'll have more to report.
11 November, 2008
Lady sing the blues so well
If you haven't heard of Regina Spektor, you are missing out!! Her musical diversity, soulful voice, and lyrical creativity is consistently above and beyond any other femal artist I've ever heard of.
So check her out!!
In other news, school is going well. I've been trying really hard to understand my Comparative Politics class, and it's starting to congeal, if you will. Right now, we're talking about things like civil disobedience and comparing it in its effectiveness to political violence, and pontificating why osme groups would choose one over the other. Stuff like that. We watched a video on the WTO riots in Seattle, and a group called OTPOR that overthrew the government in Serbia. I guess it's interesting to me now, which makes it easier not to nod off...
Psychology has likewise taken a turn towards big intrigue. We're starting a unit on social psychology, and today we watched a video on mob mentality and conformity. One of the experiments was a subject sitting at a panel with buttons that induced different amounts of electric shock onto the other participant. [There was no one actually receiving the shock, but the subject didn't know that.] The subject would use an intercom system to ask a question to the other participant, and if they answered incorrectly, the subject owuld have to give them a shock of increasing voltage as a punishment. Each button was labeled with the voltage and how severe of a shock it would induce. The study showed that, when a scientist was in the room monitoring the behavior, 65% of people would continue to ask the questions and give the shock up to a known lethal level of 450 volts. 65%! And the quesitons were things like "Cat is to kitten as dog is to _________". I can't imagine it, but there is footage of these experiments. It's real!
Spanish is more of the same, learning the correct way to form commands. Zzzz... We've started readin Hemingway short stories in my Comp class, and we're beginning to talk about writing plays and musicals in Intro to Theatre. I'm going next Sunday with Sam to see Measure for Measure, a Shakespeare production put on by the theatre majors.
I've been going to the conversation group for Spanish, and a new boy joined us yesterday. He's a senior and he's preparing to do 4 months abroad in Guayaquil! I'm so excited for him. I know I'm a dork, but it's just about the most exciting time of your young adult life. He's going to have a blast :)
I've also been going to the Drawing Party on Wednesdays. I'm trying to get better at drawing consecutive straight lines, like |||||||, without my hand shaking too much. Instead of -, I have a lot of ~. It's relaxing, though, and I think I'm improving... We'll see how my hard work pays off on Wednesday.
The POINT of this post was to announce that I have made my Christmas list. Or, parts of it.
Paints are off the list, because I just ordered some right after my last post, but I can always use more!
So check her out!!
In other news, school is going well. I've been trying really hard to understand my Comparative Politics class, and it's starting to congeal, if you will. Right now, we're talking about things like civil disobedience and comparing it in its effectiveness to political violence, and pontificating why osme groups would choose one over the other. Stuff like that. We watched a video on the WTO riots in Seattle, and a group called OTPOR that overthrew the government in Serbia. I guess it's interesting to me now, which makes it easier not to nod off...
Psychology has likewise taken a turn towards big intrigue. We're starting a unit on social psychology, and today we watched a video on mob mentality and conformity. One of the experiments was a subject sitting at a panel with buttons that induced different amounts of electric shock onto the other participant. [There was no one actually receiving the shock, but the subject didn't know that.] The subject would use an intercom system to ask a question to the other participant, and if they answered incorrectly, the subject owuld have to give them a shock of increasing voltage as a punishment. Each button was labeled with the voltage and how severe of a shock it would induce. The study showed that, when a scientist was in the room monitoring the behavior, 65% of people would continue to ask the questions and give the shock up to a known lethal level of 450 volts. 65%! And the quesitons were things like "Cat is to kitten as dog is to _________". I can't imagine it, but there is footage of these experiments. It's real!
Spanish is more of the same, learning the correct way to form commands. Zzzz... We've started readin Hemingway short stories in my Comp class, and we're beginning to talk about writing plays and musicals in Intro to Theatre. I'm going next Sunday with Sam to see Measure for Measure, a Shakespeare production put on by the theatre majors.
I've been going to the conversation group for Spanish, and a new boy joined us yesterday. He's a senior and he's preparing to do 4 months abroad in Guayaquil! I'm so excited for him. I know I'm a dork, but it's just about the most exciting time of your young adult life. He's going to have a blast :)
I've also been going to the Drawing Party on Wednesdays. I'm trying to get better at drawing consecutive straight lines, like |||||||, without my hand shaking too much. Instead of -, I have a lot of ~. It's relaxing, though, and I think I'm improving... We'll see how my hard work pays off on Wednesday.
The POINT of this post was to announce that I have made my Christmas list. Or, parts of it.
Paints are off the list, because I just ordered some right after my last post, but I can always use more!
- Really, anything made for acrylic painting that can be found on dickblick.com would probably be useful.
- Hane's V-neck undershirts. These are comfy, a good fit, and look nice under any shirt. I don't know exactly what size mine is because the tag rubbed off, but I'm guessing it's a Medium.
- Skullcandy head phones. These are the best on the market for your money. In my wildest dreams, Santa would bring me those amazing Bose noise-canceling headphones, but all I really need right now is a pair that work so I can listen to music in peace. The reviews on these headphones are all stellar, and both Skullcandy and Best Buy have great return policies.
- Drawing pens [.5mm tip], again from dickblick because they're so darn cheap, and a pack of printer paper. I could draw for days!
05 November, 2008
I don't wanna talk politics! I wanna talk democracy!
I wanna talk about the first election in how many years? where the winner of the popular vote was the president elect. Where people voted for change when we need it the most! Where voter turnout was 64%, the highest it's been since 1908. 100 years. That's stunning! That's the voice of the people! 136.6 million voices of the people, to be exact.
And last night, at exactly 11:00, I was slouching on our sofa, with Sam resting her head on my legs, as I watched them announce Barack Obama the next president of the United States. By 11:30, I was receiving word that New Paltz was rioting, for lack of a more all-encompassing term. People were dancing, screaming, running around with torches, running around naked. This is HISTORY. and I was there! Well, I was here.
Next step is to get to D.C. for the inauguration. This is unprecedented on so many levels. I'm proud of us! Hooray democracy! Obamanos!
EDIT
I also wanna talk paint!
My acrylics came today!
And they are MASSIVE. tubes as long as my forearm.
shown here: royal blue, yellow, orange the color of my t-shirt, "raw sienna"-roughly the color of clay, and of course BLACK. which means I still need green, red, white, and maybe silver.
so, that leads me to item number one on my christmas list: MORE PAINT! any color you do not see here- especially LOTS of WHITE!!
The same paints, in smaller tubes, are about $7 apiece at Manny's Art Supplies in town.
The whole 5 tubes, including shipping, was around $30. Thank you, dickblick.com !
I wanna talk about the first election in how many years? where the winner of the popular vote was the president elect. Where people voted for change when we need it the most! Where voter turnout was 64%, the highest it's been since 1908. 100 years. That's stunning! That's the voice of the people! 136.6 million voices of the people, to be exact.
And last night, at exactly 11:00, I was slouching on our sofa, with Sam resting her head on my legs, as I watched them announce Barack Obama the next president of the United States. By 11:30, I was receiving word that New Paltz was rioting, for lack of a more all-encompassing term. People were dancing, screaming, running around with torches, running around naked. This is HISTORY. and I was there! Well, I was here.
Next step is to get to D.C. for the inauguration. This is unprecedented on so many levels. I'm proud of us! Hooray democracy! Obamanos!
EDIT
I also wanna talk paint!My acrylics came today!
And they are MASSIVE. tubes as long as my forearm.
shown here: royal blue, yellow, orange the color of my t-shirt, "raw sienna"-roughly the color of clay, and of course BLACK. which means I still need green, red, white, and maybe silver.
so, that leads me to item number one on my christmas list: MORE PAINT! any color you do not see here- especially LOTS of WHITE!!
The same paints, in smaller tubes, are about $7 apiece at Manny's Art Supplies in town.
The whole 5 tubes, including shipping, was around $30. Thank you, dickblick.com !
03 November, 2008
First in November
Hello all! How was your halloween?
Mine was wonderful! I went to work in costume, and I pass a couple of frat houses on my way home from work, so when I hears the thudding of what I assumed was a bassline, I didn't think much of it, until I got to Front Street... I had assumed it was TKE, which had a notoriously huge halloween party, but the sound just continued to get louder, until... As I passed TKE, though, and rounded the corner, I could feel the dum--dum--dum--dum pulsing and the people chattering, and THEN I saw the half-moon of people playing bongo-esque drums. COOL! Of course, in classic New Paltz style, all performers were in costume. I stayed for just a moment before heading up to my dorm, and then got changed and went to a party on Mohonk Ave... Not the most elegant of gatherings, but we danced and danced and laughed at the HILARIOUS costumes... At least four Sarah Palins. Oh, it was good.
We got back to the dorms around midnight and after an episode of Desperate housewives, I was out like a light! I worked again on Saturday and then went to church yesterday. Hum-drum weekend, but this week Sarah's coming to visit me from home! YAY!! I can't wait to show her around and induct her into independent living -- breakfast for dinner, high internet usage, the merits of clean socks vs. not having to do laundry...
I should be studying for a psychology test right now but I wanted to check in and make absolutely certain that EVERYBODY VOTES TOMORROW. Vote however you want, but don't relinquish your one [loose] grip on the government.
Tomorrow's itinerary is as follows:
Psychology 8-915: TEST!
Spanish 925-1040: QUIZ!
HOME by 5:15 :D and watching history in the making. BE THERE OR BE SQUARE!
Bye!
Mine was wonderful! I went to work in costume, and I pass a couple of frat houses on my way home from work, so when I hears the thudding of what I assumed was a bassline, I didn't think much of it, until I got to Front Street... I had assumed it was TKE, which had a notoriously huge halloween party, but the sound just continued to get louder, until... As I passed TKE, though, and rounded the corner, I could feel the dum--dum--dum--dum pulsing and the people chattering, and THEN I saw the half-moon of people playing bongo-esque drums. COOL! Of course, in classic New Paltz style, all performers were in costume. I stayed for just a moment before heading up to my dorm, and then got changed and went to a party on Mohonk Ave... Not the most elegant of gatherings, but we danced and danced and laughed at the HILARIOUS costumes... At least four Sarah Palins. Oh, it was good.
We got back to the dorms around midnight and after an episode of Desperate housewives, I was out like a light! I worked again on Saturday and then went to church yesterday. Hum-drum weekend, but this week Sarah's coming to visit me from home! YAY!! I can't wait to show her around and induct her into independent living -- breakfast for dinner, high internet usage, the merits of clean socks vs. not having to do laundry...
I should be studying for a psychology test right now but I wanted to check in and make absolutely certain that EVERYBODY VOTES TOMORROW. Vote however you want, but don't relinquish your one [loose] grip on the government.
Tomorrow's itinerary is as follows:
Psychology 8-915: TEST!
Spanish 925-1040: QUIZ!
HOME by 5:15 :D and watching history in the making. BE THERE OR BE SQUARE!
Bye!
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