So not alot has happened with me these past few days... just ALOT of homework. So I definetly did it again... procrastinated a ridiculusly ahrd 40page paper until the week before it was do. I mean I didn't mean too do that... I started it back in March and then I def forgot about it until last weekend when I realized it was due... three days after another 10page paper and the day before my huge presentation for one of my classes. So I've spent the greater portion of the last 5 days doing homework nonstop! If any of you remember last year at this time I had procrastinated my clinical research paper which was also 40 pages? You think that would have taught me something... apparently not. I spent 9 straight hours on saturday doing the stupid paper. My teacher told me on Thrusday when I met with her that I could have an extension if I wanted for 2 days because she had given out a few... but let's face it... the extension would have just caused me to procrastinate more so I didn't take it... but after the 9hour cram session it's done and it's a damn good paper!
Then onward to my presentation... now this was on the Assistive Technology Act of 1998 and basically I had to design two presentations... one for a room full of health care professionals full of information and technical terms and all that good stuff and then one for a room full of clients and family who need to know how it affects them. Now I worked on this sunday night and monday afternoon as it was due today actually.... and let me tell you... don't read a government document at 10:30pm at night... it just doesn't make much sense. So sunday night I read the entire proposed act to congress (which is a law now) and designed both my presentations and went to bed. On monday I decided to make a brouchure for the client centered presentation so that I could hand out to my "clients" or my classmates instead of copies of the powerpoint. So I spent probably an additional 2hours designing this stupid brouchure... which again is quite awesome if I can say so... and in this process decided to rework my powerpoint to make it better and much improved. I saved both presentations on my flash drive (or so i thought) and then headed off to work 45mins late (which was fine, I warned the family of this possiablity on friday). This morning I woke up and gave a practice run for my presentation so I could further work out what I wanted to say and everything was good so off to class I went... now when I got to class I started with the health care professional presentation and I started off quite shaky... I was mixing up dates and VERY nervous but then I just tole myself that I was in my room giving it to the wall and I was almost done. After that I was much better... I made eye contact and I was able to remember everything I wanted to say which never happens and I would have to say I did a very good job (for myself at least). Then I brought up the client centered slide... passed out my brouchure and moved on from the title screen.... and then it hit me... this wasn't the new powerpoint I did... it was the orginal, not the way I practiced it or the way I wanted to do it. After freexing for probably 30secs I proceeded on alittle shocken up and VERY confused because I saved it on my flash drive I know I did. Afterwards I revealed to my teacher what happened and she laughed at me but said that I had covered VERY well.... so hopefully I did good. It's too bad that I was late to work redoing something that I didn't even use. Grrrr.... my computer hates me.
But now my large assignments are done except for one which I hopefully plan to start tomorrow and the semester is winding down. It's exciting!! I'm almost a college graduate!! Not that I will actually be done with school but I'm still wicked excited. My fieldwork is scaring me though... majorly. And now I'm faced with the decision on trying to move my fieldwork up a week so that I'm done a week early and able to go to New Hampshire with my Remsen family for a week... I really want to go because the money is amazing (and very much needed), it's a paid vacation in a cabin on a lake! And they really need the help... my problem is I really don't want my fieldwork to start any earlier then it is and I will miss George too much... I also think that he doesn't want me to go but he hasn't told me that in those words yet... he just refuses to talk about it. Boys... grrrr.... gotta decide in like the next day though so I can call Heritage and ask...
Anyways... off to bed. Thanks for reading my rant!
So... I decided to go and get my Jeep washed since I really hadn't done it since the last snow storm of the season and I figured I should get the salt off of it before it starts eating away at my pretty Jeep. I also figured that I got paid cash on Monday so it would be a good time to spend alittle on pleasure purposes (it's sad that a car wash is fun spending haha) So I went to Precision Car Wash mainly because I'm not allowed to wash cars where I live... and ordered the works. I put my money in and it told me please take my change... very polite of the machine except for the fact that there was no change!! I had just spent $20 on a car wash... (It was supposed to be $9) So I immediately call the number on my receipt and get some Auto shop in Minnesota... the guy found it funny and told me that he has been getting calls for about a year and a half for Precision and he is in no way connected with them... apparently their toll free number links in to his shop which is odd. And when asked he told me he couldn't give me my money back. Grrr.... so I eventually got home and went on the website and got the correct number and then left my information for the refund. Then I open my paycheck to discover that they have yet again messed up my pay... I was tempted to call them at tell that that I just payed $20 for a car wash.... I could really use the rest of those 30hours.... but didn't
In the meantime it's off to work I go... now the families son that I work for is very much your typically mud loving redneck. When I pull in he tells me that my Jeep is way to clean and he will add some mud too it. I immediately tell him no because that was a $20 car wash and it better stay clean. He thought I over payed... haha...no really! (The wash didn't even do a good job... it skipped the spot free rinse so it's all streaky looking... GRRR) Then on my way home I almost hit a bird... I am not having a good day.
Show us something bizarre.
Here... I normally don't do these things but since everyone seems to think I'm crazy with my computer issues here it is. I was finally able to snap a picture of the bizarreness that is my computer. So last weekend I noticed that my monitor was full of these squiggly lines (worse then above) so I restarted it any everything seemed fine so I carried on with my morning. About a half an hour later The lines were fastly reappearing. So I made a quick call to my dad who was still sleeping due to the fact that he had the stomach thing the day before. Then I IMed my brother inbetween squiggles and was able to get out "My computer is having serious problems... the screen is full of squiggly lines" to which my brother replied "thats not good" at that moment my start menu disappeared in a white fog as you can see above so I told my brother that my start menu disappeared and then I managed to get out a "help me" before I could no longer use it. So then I called him and he told me to turn it off and he would be over to attempt to swap out video cards. So I listened to him and when he came over and turned it back on the lines were gone (so he was the first person to think I was crazy). After we cleaned out like an inch coating of dust from the inside of the computer we realized that he didn't have the right hook up for the video card so we would leave it at that and see if it worked. Well it did for about a week...
On saturday I noticed that the lines were slowly appearing again in the corner of the screen... So I sounded the alarm again since I had a major paper to write and my brother dropped the video card off at my parents house for my Dad. Well when my mom and dad got here the lines had disappeared completly (thus again they thought I was crazy) so then my dad changed video cards learning that the one my brother had didn't work at all so he swapped them back and left again since all was fine. Like an hour after he left the stupid lines appeared but not in enough intensity to get a picture so that he would believe me. So then the above happened... and as you can see I got a picture. So I called my dad because I was happy that I finally got a picture and he wanted to know what happened if I turned my monitor off and on again... well the stupid lines disappeared again (good to know though) but who knows what is wrong with my computer at this point :'(
But I did get a picture and it is bizarre. So there
So to top off my very long day yesterday... George get's home and looks at my ticket and then starts dying of laughter when he see's the trooper's name... Apparently the trooper knows George because he is a Stittville Firemen. Of course! So if I had had George with me, any type of firemen stuff in my car like his blue light or a more recognizeable last name I probably would have gotten out of the stupid ticket (but still been scared enough to learn a lesson). Frustrating... George is going to yell at him on Monday when he see's him. Too bad it's too late now :(
So today has not been a good day... it's had it's ups and downs but overall just a down right bad day. The highlight was probably having lunch with the guys from Staples... I've missed them and we got to laugh at the old fun times at Staples. Nice trip down memory lane...
Then for the rest of the day I got to fight with my college about paying for my summer fieldwork which has too be done seperate from the normal semesters since it is definetly a graduate level class and I am technically not a grad student until after graduation in May. But anyways, there has been some issues with the price for this class...mainly each office you go to on campus will give you a different price. After a week of complaints and fights I finally got the correct price out of my program director and Financial Aid. So I embarked on my journey to actually register for the class. I got the form and filled it out and was then told that Financial Aid had to sign off on it before I could register and then pay. So I went to Financial Aid and talked to my counselor (didn't know I had one of those) and she informed me that since I was paying myself I didn't need them to sign. So off I went to the registrars office where my counselor told me I had to go to register and pay. Once there that lady told me that I had to get is signed my financial aid... after an arguement with her she finally called and realized I was fine. Then she tried telling me I had to go to the Continueing Ed office since they handle summer stuff even though once you go there you get told that the registrar's office handles fieldwork. Aargh! After an argument with that lady she finally asks someone else and realizes that I am actually in the right place so she signs me up and tells me that I have to go to Financial Aid to pay... which is where I was in the first place. GRRR 30mins later and 4 counselors in Financial Aid I think I've gotten it all taken care of.
So then I head off too work 30mins late (thank you Utica College) and spend some nice time playing games. On my way home from work I was deep in thought about everything and mainly about how hungry I was that I failed to notice I was speeding... Now I know that I have a problem with this but as long as I am aware of my speed I can keep it under control. Well I wasn't aware but the trooper I passed was... apparently if they are heading in the opposite direction as you they will turn around to pull you over. As soon as I saw him turn around I knew it was over for me because I was clearly the only car around and after looking at my speedometer I knew I was screwed. So he pulled me over (my first ever time being pulled over). Now let me tell you that is scary... I immediately tossed my Ipod and Cellphone out of site and waited. I admited to speeding when he asked me if I knew why he pulled me over but I denied knowing how much I was speeding because I didn't want to guess too high and I wasn't paying attention...which I told him (probably not a good idea). So then he tells me he clocked me at 73 (in a 55 yeah I know thats bad) and my response was "wow thats fast..." my inability to be quiet there was my dad's fault haha. Anyways he took my license and everything and that wait takes FOREVER! Everything is running through your head and it's torture! I luckily got out of a speeding ticket (I really don't know how) but I did get a ticket for "unlawful speedometer" which means that my speedometer may be broken. He told me that normally I would be able to show proof of repair and get the ticket waved but that I couldn't since "we both know your speedometer isn't broken..." So it was a close call and a bad experaince all in one. Now as I told my father-in-law I can scratch off the getting pulled over/recieving a ticket off of my to do list. :/
So I plan to spend the rest of the night inside doing absolutely nothing! :'(
Not much to report here (basically I'm procrastinating on my homework and facebook lost my attention). This past weekend was a blast. I already mentioned that I had dinner with Sam and Addi, but on Saturday I got too see Miss Julianne! Vanderwood came over to hang out after George got out of work so we convinced Jules to come too. We got to color easter eggs! I know we were alittle late on this whole easter thing but we don't get a lot of free time for these things and it's tradition that we color easter eggs now. At least this year we figured out that when you write on them in that secret crayon thing you don't put them back with the uncolored eggs... you could actually read the messages this time! After that Jules left and Me, George and Vanderwood played some video games for awhile... awesome day. Sunday was filled mainly of homework which wasn't so much fun but what can you do.
Let's see... for the rest of the week not a whole lot of exciting things have happened. I met with one of my teachers Paula, who told me how great I was doing in the major which was awesome. Cheered me up a bit since I haven't exactly been feeling like I fit in lately in class. I think it's just time for summer... I need a break from everything...or should I say everyone. I also met with my advisor which has nothing new to report. Alot of meetings basically. Not so much homework but I don't have a whole lot due this week and apparently I have most of next week off since most of my teachers and a few people in my class will be in California for our National Conference. I can play catch up then. That's all to report... nothing new happening anytime soon as this weekend looks like homework and alot of working... I even get to start with my new family on Sunday and learn about a feeding tube. I will write again when I have more interesting things to say. Later
