Des
Teeny Bopper
Trespassers will be shot. Survivors will be shot again.
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Post by Des on Aug 15, 2007 19:41:38 GMT -5
-winces at the thought of a mullet, then runs to hide as she remembers the purple and green mohawk she had when she was 15-
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Post by zevie on Aug 15, 2007 19:41:54 GMT -5
I don't usually like thinking about what kids I want, because, quite frankly, that whole marriageandkids!! deal scares the hell outta me. Mostly because so many people my age talk about it as if it is in the near future as opposed to a nice, ten year away fantasy. No offense to anyone who has kids and/or is married. It just scares ME, lol.
But, while I'm thinking about it anyway... I'm the oldest of all my cousins, and I used to babysit for all the little boys running around in my fam. So. Been there. And I'm not aiming at creating my own little football team of boys anytime soon, lol.
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Post by zickachik73 on Aug 16, 2007 7:35:21 GMT -5
I'm not particularly keen on creating my own football team (nice analogy, btw, zevie) anytime Soon, but if I do end up having kids a few years down the line - I'd rather they be of the male persuasion. Women are hard; men are easy. With men, they get angry, hit someone or something, and get over it. Done deal. Women get hurt, get angry, get depressed, get revenge, hold a grudge for 12 years, get angry at themselves for holding a grudge, get depressed again, and then finally get over it.
No thank you. I'll play football every day over that. haha.
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Post by Tensleep on Aug 17, 2007 0:35:41 GMT -5
Zickachik73: *Snorts* Dude, I'd save them the trouble and die from embarrassment when I actually had to introduce them.
"This is my son Annalee. Oh, and this is the youngest Ruby Tuesday."
"...."
On second thought, that could be funny...
I've always wanted three boys because if one dies - heaven forbid - the other would be all alone. That would suck. Three is much better. And if they ever argued and had to vote it would be a done deal.
You know, men are screwed. We gals all have our families planned out in our heads from when we're like 10. Who has names picked out? Boys never think about that.
Oh, and Keira, you do know the name Ellery is soooo opening up the door to soo much teasing. Celery-Ellery and so forth. Man, I think Ruby Tuesday would thank me for not naming him that 
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Post by Keira on Aug 17, 2007 21:46:20 GMT -5
But I LIKE the name Ellery. Eh, whatever. We'll see when that day comes. Lol.
So, on a completely unrelated topic, I'm going insane. No, really. I really am. Lol.
Because I'm a numbskull, I've been putting off school for the last two years. I finally decided that I'd go for SURE this year, starting this semester... but for some reason I thought school started in the middle to end of September, so I started to slowly get ready for it, i.e. Registering and applying for grants. I was taking it all very slowly. Well, my wake up call came when Rock told me, about a week ago, that school started this coming Wednesday, Aug. 22nd. I started scrambling around to get things done and thought I was doing okay.
Well, the other night I got onto the school website to register for my classes, but it said I was still not registered for school. Long story short, I had to reapply because it'd been a year since I first applied but did not attend. I didn't find that out until today when I went in to see how to get my account of hold. (in the process of which, I was told that my ACT scores were too old and I was going to have to take a test through the school to see where my placement was to be set at) I figured then that it was going to be too late to get squared away, and I'd just get everything set up for winter semester instead.
My academic advisor didn't like that idea so much. Told me I needed to go talk to about three thousand people about what to do to get into school this coming week.
Basically, in a matter of three or four days, I have to 1) Reapply, 2) take a test equivilant to the ACT, which I'm going crazy studying over the reviews for, 3) Apply for a FASFA pellgrant so I can get both that and a student loan, 4) Register for classes, 5) Get all my books and tuition paid for, 5) Buy a new laptop, since my old one went POOF, and 6) Help my bosses find a new person to assist me while I'll be gone the first half of a few days.
*Shakes head* I'll be so so so glad when this is all over. Lol.
Oh, and top things off, the mouse on my desktop is stuck to moving up and down only, so I can't change the text to my customary purple. It's been such a joyful day. Lol.
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Post by zevie on Aug 17, 2007 21:55:34 GMT -5
Oh my gosh, Keira! And on top of all that, you've managed to deal with the WSOTTAwards?! You're my hero. Good luck with school!
P.S. I'm very slow, sorry... I know what the SATs are, and the GREs and the MCATs and the LSATs, but what is an ACT?
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Post by Keira on Aug 18, 2007 10:54:31 GMT -5
The ACT is pretty much like the SAT but used more on the west coast. But it's basically that test that will ultimately determine what college you get into. The one I'm going to will take any scores on the ACT/SAT, but they apparently have to be less than three years old, and mine are nearly four.
I bought some review material from the copy center at the school (it was only $3) and I am disgusted with how little I remember about English. Lol. That used to be my best subject, but I'm sitting there going through the answers on my practice tests and it's frustrating me a little. I mean, most of them are honest mistakes, and not everything is a definitely one-way-or-another answer and can vary, but there are a few things I'm coming across that I haven't studied since I was a junior in high school such as pronoun/antecedent agreements (which should be simple enough, but for some reason I'm having trouble retaining it, lol).
The tests that are giving me the most trouble, though, are the math ones. I was never necessarily BAD at math, but I never tried either. Whenever my brother askes me to help him with his level one Algebra questions I can do those easily, piece of cake. But I'm sitting here looking at these problems going, "I recognize that do-hicky, and I used to know what it meant..." Like radical expressions, slopes, and the rest of Algebra and Trig. Lol.
WSOTT stuff is easy for me, really. Websites and whatnot are more relaxing than not. It'll be nice to have something to distract me, I suppose, lol.
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Post by Nittanylizard on Aug 18, 2007 15:21:44 GMT -5
^ Back to purple!^
See that Keira, one hurdle overcome ;D. Good luck with the next couple weeks!
Liz
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Post by Keira on Aug 18, 2007 18:39:16 GMT -5
Haha, thanks Liz! I took apart my mouse and I'm moving around the little gears inside with a finger, and it actually works well enough to get me through the weekend. Come Monday I'll just ask one of my bosses for another one (these are the kinda people who get upset when you purchase things which they can give you for free - but hey, I'm not complaining!). A new one.
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Post by Keira on Aug 20, 2007 21:31:16 GMT -5
So, I'm pretty happy at the moment  I took that Compass Test today and I scored... fairly high on all of the ... two sections. Lol. Top scores on both reading and writing (for which I am torn between saying 'duh' and 'Thank God, because otherwise I'd feel really stupid.') and I scored into intermediate Algebra on the math section. That's kinda sorta where I figured I'd place in math, but I'm also a tad exasperated by that. Why? Because I took Algebra II in both nineth (failed all but one term  ... though that's really no reason to smile. Lol.) and tenth grades, before completing College Alegbra as a junior. Now I have to go back and start at Intermediate Algebra, which is more or less the same as Algebra II. Lol. But, that's my own fault for waiting so long, and not applying for college credit for the College Algebra I did in high school.
So, I start school on Wednesday and I only have two classes to start off with. It was pretty hard getting into classes I wanted to (aka, English 1010 and Math 1010, to get them out of the way), and I couldn't justify taking things such as Dance and Musical Theory if I'd have to pay just over a grand for them, so I'm taking some history class and Ancient Philosophy. Should be interesting, eh? Did I use that right, Tens - or you other Canadians? Eh? Lol.
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Post by st.elmo-lover on Aug 20, 2007 22:16:44 GMT -5
Summer for me will officially be over tomorrow. Which is probably really off topic too. But I have to go back to school on Wednesday. And my locker is in the Junior hallway. How messed up is that? Why does my class have to be so big? Grr. I'm sad.  |
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Post by zevie on Aug 20, 2007 22:19:20 GMT -5
So early?! My classes don't start until September 10th!
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Post by zickachik73 on Aug 21, 2007 7:55:48 GMT -5
All this talk about school depresses me. I like to pretend that labor day is still months away and i can just continue working my measly 40 (ahem, 50!) hour weeks forever.
Labor Day? psh. I'm too fabulous for labor day and school.
haha, I wish.
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Post by Keira on Aug 21, 2007 9:02:43 GMT -5
Yeah, it came as a shock to me that classes were starting so early. I thought I had until mid-September as well. I'm a little happy... I think... though, because I was able to pick up that math class and drop Ancient Philosophy. I just wasn't looking forward to both US Economic History *gags* AND Philosophy. That'd be the worst semester ever. Of course, math isn't a ton better, but that's at least something I know how to do, and have done it a gazillion times. Lol. Though, of course, it means I have a three-day school schedule instead of two, but oh well. So worth it. Get the agonizing stuff out of the way first, right?
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Post by zickachik73 on Aug 21, 2007 10:32:19 GMT -5
yeah, I'm a fan of getting the garbage out so you can enjoy the rest. My first psych class was taught by a teacher who was HORRIBLE! The poor man's unfortunate name was Sakasits, which we, very aptly, deemed sak-a-shits. It made me want to drop psych. But you live, you learn, and you choose better teachers next time around. Problem is that taking night classes only affords certain teachers and you can't always be picky. Oh well! Good luck, Keira! I"m glad you got everything ironed out a bit. |
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I took that Compass Test today and I scored... fairly high on all of the ... two sections. Lol. Top scores on both reading and writing (for which I am torn between saying 'duh' and 'Thank God, because otherwise I'd feel really stupid.') and I scored into intermediate Algebra on the math section. That's kinda sorta where I figured I'd place in math, but I'm also a tad exasperated by that. Why? Because I took Algebra II in both nineth (failed all but one term 
... though that's really no reason to smile. Lol.) and tenth grades, before completing College Alegbra as a junior. Now I have to go back and start at Intermediate Algebra, which is more or less the same as Algebra II. Lol. But, that's my own fault for waiting so long, and not applying for college credit for the College Algebra I did in high school.
