Just one test to go, math at 3:30pm tomorrow. Then I just ta Thursday night.
Wowsers.... It's all coming together.
Aya's at her very last final right now. After this she's done with all things undergraduate! Wooty woot woot!

Got an email from a friend back in Texas last night. Said he might be coming to visit this summer! Very exciting.

I started moving into my new room last night. I can't move the rest in until Friday night or Saturday morning. Kind of sucky since I have to be moved out by noon on Saturday.

Word of the day: Graduation!

Picture of the day: Congrats Sis!

Well this weekend didn't go quite as I had planned, I was thinking quiet weekend studying for my finals. Instead Aya and I went to a last-minute birthday party for her cousin on Saturday. Then her two cousins spent Saturday night with us in the dorms. Sunday we went to a last minute Mother's Day party at her mom's house. I got a little studying in, but not as I'd planned.

The best layed plans go awry <--- Word of the Day!

Hey sis, I got you beat, I was a Skunk!
Also, a bobcat.
A clog.
Husky.
An Anatolian Shepard.
A Llama.
A lab.
A cologne.
A car.
Several horses.
And best of all, a wildlife sanctuary.

There's more but I should get back to studying : )

Toodles....

BLARGH!

*sigh* I'm too nice. I was scheduled to work from 11-1pm today and then I was going to be free... I worked until one and realized my replacement hadn't showed up. I looked over the list to see who was to come in and saw a note from them saying they couldn't work and they needed someone to cover their shift so they could take their final. The thing is that note was NOT there Wednesday, which means they just put it up there yesterday (my day off). There were people in the lab and I didn't want to have to kick them out so I'm staying until 2pm when the next person is supposed to come in.

BLARGH!

I wanted to be free at 1pm. *sigh* oh well....

On a happier note I found out yesterday I have my very own room from now until the time I graduate. I might have gotten stuck with a roommate (yuck) but I was the last person on the wait-list contacted. Lucky me! So not only do I get to just move once from now until next May, but I get my own double-as-a-single room and it faces the lake. The only thing which might alter this is if I were to be offered an RA position.

Also, I had talked to a Dr. on campus about being the faculty advisor for an ASL club I want to start, he said he had too much on his plate. Apparently, however, he spoke to another Prof (who I like very much, had him as a teacher, his wife used to be an interpreter) and this guy ran into me yesterday - he said that he would be happy to be the faculty advisor for an ASL club on campus, if he returns next year. That's the catch.... he may not be coming back, he'll know in three weeks though. I hope he does, he's a good guy. Even if the ASL club doesn't work out then I think I might have an unofficial one, just a bunch of friends getting together to practice.

I'm finished with most of my classes now, just la3 and math, and my ta class to go.

Grades
Music = A
Art = A
Math = B? (hopefully no less)
Social Studies = ?
TA = A
LA3 = ?

I got a 90 on that math test from Monday I was worried about.
Halfway done with my take-home portion of the final for math and need to study for Wednesday's in-class portion.
Need to study for my LA3 in-class final on Monday & hopefully will be showing the class our iMovie.
TA for the creative expressions final on Thursday night and then this semester is OVER!

Word of the day: Mollify

Picture of the day: Tornado

Had so much fun on my asl classes' silent outing last night. Then took my final, got 100% and found out I have an A in that class for this semester.
Checked out with my art teacher and have an A in that class.
Helped out at the garage sale on campus to raise money for the homeless shelter.
Turned in my social studies stuff, done with that class. Hopefully that'll be another A.
Packed some more of my stuff.
Tried out my new TV to be sure it works, and it does, woot!
Finished my math homework.
Finished recording the three video tapes for the guest speakers we had in asl a while back.
Did financial aid online, just need to turn in papers to office with my signature.

Need to go back to newspaper one last time today or tomorrow to send verification of publication.
Need to practice for my singing and recorder proficiencies which are tomorrow morning.
Need to talk to a prof about being faculty advisor for asl club.
Need to turn in paperwork for asl club.

Getting tired of typing: Need to...
Luckily this semester is almost over with.
I have my music proficiency tomorrow at 9:30am. I will be glad to be done with that class, I find it unervingly stressful, considering my musical background.
I have my la3 final next Monday at 3:30pm I believe it is.
I have my math final next Wednesday at 3:30 pm also.
Then I TA for a final class of Creative Expressions next Thursday night 5ish.

THEN I'M FREE!
I get to see my bestest buddy graduate next Friday and then go to her graduation party on next Saturday.
Have to be moved into my new dorm room by 1pm next Saturday, which poses a problem since the girl whose room I'm moving into isn't leaving until that morning. Also, it conflicts with preparations for Aya's party. Ugh. I'll work through it though :)

Word of the day: Blargh! (My sentiments exactly!)

Picture of the day: Blargh 2
aroo?
*shrug*

Finished my social studies paper.
Finished my music test except for the song which I need to write, working on that now.
Took math test = yuck.
Went to work and I think I'm pretty much done with that for this semester. (newspaper)

Okies X2 rocked. Nightcrawler was amazing. Loved him. Amazing effects and great character :) Won't say anything else, so as not to spoil it for anyone...

Finished my music binder.
Finished my war journal for social studies.
Finished my lesson plan for music.
Finished making signs for the hall council end-of-the-year party.
Made good progress on my take-home test for music.
Finally figured out how to record the dv tape from my asl class (couple months ago) onto vhs.

Need to edit social studies paper.
Need to finish music test.
Need to practice for my singing and recorder proficencies.
TAKE MATH TEST today! eeeeep!
Need to turn in financial aid papers, STILL.
Check out tomorrow with my art teacher.
Study for my language arts 3 final.
Show my iMovie for la3.
Study for my math final.
Go into work today (last time) to check on ad proofs.

I'm sure there's more but that's all I can spare time to think of right now.
Back to studying for my math test that's at 2pm today.

Picture of the Day: Arf!

It's been while since I've had a word of the day so here's two:
Ingenue
Sinecure

Working some extra hours today, instead of 11-1pm it's 8:30-1:00pm. Can use the money and there are worse things to do than play around with computers and answer people's questions.

Looking forward to seeing X2 today. Can't wait to get out of here, but then there's an hour of work to do at my other job and another hour for math. So maybe I shouldn't be in such a hurry, eh?

Back to work I go ; )

Turned in one of the essays for my Social Studies Class. Have a good start on the other.
Did class-copy day in music (cost $11.70 for all those copies). Started on my music Resource Book.
Signed up for my music singing and recorder proficency next Thursday 9:30am and got an idea for final lesson plan.
Next Tuesday is my "silent outing" dinner to a local restraunt and then back to school for an 8:45pm final interview.
I looked into starting an ASL club on campus, got the paperwork yesterday.
Finished updating my language arts kit for LA3.
Finished my second concert review for music.

Going to see X-Men 2 tomorrow! WOOOT!
STILL need to turn in my Financial aid forms.
Need to finish second essay for Social Studies and War Journal.
Need to do final lesson plan for music.
Need to finish final math homework.
Math test on Monday.
Math Final next Friday.
Check out with Art teacher on Tuesday.

Moving right along. : )

I had my last hall council meeting yesterday. I was the only hall council member to show up. No one bothered to let us know they weren't going to be there and I encouraged Aya to go on to a party she was late for. So we finished up plans for the end-of-the-year party and called it quits. I'm definitely not signing up for hall council next year. Way too much work with not nearly enough participation or by the residents and only half participation from the RA's.
Anywho, off to Social Studies.

I've had quite a weekend.
Friday night Aya and I went to go see Anger Management. Yesterday morning we took some more of Aya's stuff to her mom's house (we're trying to get a head-start on moving out). Had spaghetti her mom made for us. Then yesterday afternoon I went with my friend Mary to a state park which is nearby. Aya's mom has bene after me since before I moved up here that I needed to see the park, and I finally made it there. We toured the visitors center, saw a couple of the oldes trees in MN and climbed the fire-watch tower. I barely made it up and had to come back down. We were pretty high up, but the wind which was blowing the tower is what made me very uncomfortable. We also saw a mink, first time I've ever seen one. Cute lil creatures. Also saw some red squirrels and on our way back from the park we saw an elk. I had a good time.
Then last night I drug Aya out to Applebee's and we came back home and she whooped my arse in N74 007.
All in all I'd say iit's been a good weekend.

Watched the new Angel, Buffy was an old one. *sigh*
I finished my second concert report and my autobiography is finally acceptable to me and my proof-readers. YEY me! Now I just need to take the application and all the other stuff in... with my $300 check *eeeep* Nervous just thinking about applying. I HAVE to get it, or else... uhm.... I'll cry?
I taught my mini-lesson in music yesterday. It wasn't as good as I'd hoped but it wasn't as bad as I feared. Overall I'd say it went pretty well.

I still need to:
Finish math homework.
Study for music finals, in class and recorder/singing proficiencies.
Finish reading Dewey Book and write 2 essays and finish war journal for Social Studies.
Finish filming and begin editing iMovie for LA3. Have last two people coming today for me to film them and then I'll starte editing on Monday. Also need to do my kit for that class (almost forgot about that).

Not bad... Better than before, that's for sure.

We have one more class of ASL 2 and then for the last week of official classes we are doing a silent outing. We will all meet at a restraunt and we can't say a word. We have dinner and the entire time we use only ASL to communicate. It should be fun! But then of course anything involving ASL is fun to me.

XMen 2 comes out next Friday!!!!!! We're SOOOO there!
Maybe we'll go see a movie today, kind of want to see Anger Management and Identity. Depends on whether we want to be scared or laughing.

hahaha! I was listening to Brown Eyed Girl and two guys on the other side of the lab asked me to turn it up, they have good taste ;0)
Hmmm not so keen on Elvis's Devil in Disguise though.

I called my mom after work on Monday and sang Happy Birthday to her and then later that afternoon Aya, Janelle, Myra, and I were all gathered so I called her again and we all sang to her. She enjoyed it. She said she was having a good birthday.

Met with most of my group for LA3 and filmed all but a few of our skits. Need to meet with 3 other people and then I can start editing our iMovie.

I'm kind of nervous about teaching my music lesson tomorrow. It's always harder to get up in front of your peers than in front of a bunch of little kids. May sound a bit odd, but it's all too true for me.

Our dorm rooms are looking a bit sparse since we've taken down our posters and started packing up our belongings. I found out something rather unpleasant last night - this summer the wing of the dorm I'll be living in will be getting a face-lift, of sorts. They are going to tear apart all of the bathrooms on that wing and redo them. This means I will be trecking over to the other wing, third floor, just to powder my nose. I'm hoping it was a false rumor, but I had it from a reliable source... *sigh*

SO MANY new movies coming out that I want to see:
Bruce Almighty
Finding Nemo
X2
Pirates of the Caribbean 1
PotC 2 intro'd by Orlando
The Hulk
Tomb Raider 2
Charlies Angels: Full Throttle
Matrix: Reloaded

And don't get me started on the final LOTR... I tend to start drooling ; )
I also heard that the second Spiderman will be coming out next summer, YEY!

Word of the Day: Befuddled

Link of the Day: Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl
I need to remember this one and check back later. They're going to have new desktop pictures and posters to download.

That's enough for now, have a good day!

Happy Birthday to my Mommy!
I'm stuck at work right now, but I'll call her as soon as I'm done.

I had a good Easter. Hung out at Aya's grandparents house on Sunday.
Watched Charmed, Naughty Nymphs last night with Aya. Was humorous, as usual.

BTVS left us hanging last week and according to TV Guide Online there isn't a new one this week.... hmmm...
Angel should be new this week though *grin* wooty woot woot.

Today I finished my music lesson plan for Thursday and I "finished" my autobiography for New Zealand. I say "finished" because I have yet to show it to the head hauncho of the student teaching office for approval. I'll be keeping my toes crossed that he likes it.

Been thinking about summer pretty much non-stop. I can't wait for this semester to be over with. Except of course all the work I have due. Lemme see how caught up I am:
Math: started last batch of homework, 1 section of about 6 done
Music: did lesson plan, teach on Thursday, need to write 2nd concert review and take final and do last proficiency test
Art: done, just need to keep going to class and bring stuff in at end of semester for him to check off
History: need to finish reading Dewey book, write 2 essays, finish war journal
ASL: keep going to class, final interview
Language Arts 3: do iMovie, final exam... more?

Hmmm... doing better : )

One day at a time, one thing at a time.

Found some new sites about New Zealand:
Site Number 1
Site Number 2
Site Number 3
Site Number 4
Site Number 5

And one from the United Kingdom for Aya.

I am, as my mom would say "Busier than six-killer-snakes."

Have a Happy Easter!

Random Thoughts:
When will they develop a cure for stress?
Can't we reset our entire time-scheme (never mind day vs. night) to have more time in the "day" to get things done?
Why do bad things happen to good people?

Picture of the Day: Howdy
Found Here.

Word of the Day: Congeniality

My mini-lesson to 2nd graders turned out to be a mini-lesson for 3rd graders. Luckily my lesson worked well with them too. It was actually kind of fun and I had lots of help from Dan.

I did another draft of my Autobiography for my trip to New Zealand and I did a rough draft for my music lesson I have to teach next Thursday.

Things are getting done, even if it is one thing at a time.

Oooo found some great frames at the dollar store. They're 4x6, simple and black, but perfect for my black and white pictures I want to make. I want to decorate my room next year with b&w photos of the pictures I took at the Ft. Worth Zoo.

Hmmm....
According to this the average height for New Zealand women is 5' 3" and for men it's 5' 7".
According to this the average height for United States women is 5' 3 3/4" and for men it's 5' 9".
Aspen = 6' 1"
I feel like a freak half the time in the United States. You think the New Zealanders will mind me towering over them?
Hope not.

Word of the day: Exiguous

Doing a mini-lesson tomorrow afternoon to a classroom of 2nd graders.

Finished everything I needed to do this semseter in art. Just have to go to class and participate.

Bought a new shirt today, summery and blue.

Sent an extremely long email to Sara, friend from Texas who I haven't spoken to in forever.

Had dinner with Mary and Aya.

Had fun in ASL.

Watched a kick-arse BTVS, found out Aya and I missed an episode somehow. SOOOO not happy about that, only 5 more to go :( Also not happy with how tonight's episode ended.

The end.

Link of the Day: Who me?

Picture of the Day: Cuteness

Got my hair cut last night. It's been driving me crazy and I got a wild hair last night to do something about it. It's quite short but it looks much better than before.

RA get-to-know-you meeting last night went well.

Got my picture file done for art and I'm about to start working on my self portrait in symbols, I have everything ready for it, I just need to set it down in the right order. I decided to do a timeline collage of my life.

Hmmm... gonna call the folks, miss talking to them.

Have a good weekend.

Countdown to my extremely intimidating Math Test: 1.5 hours

Link of the Day: Try the Scooby one!

Have RA (Alternate) training this afternoon from 3-6:00pm. Should be fun... I hope.
Even though I didn't officially get hired I may get a job. Some current RA's have chosen not to return and there is a chance of others turning down the job. By attending the trainings now I'll be up-to-date if I get a position later. Plus I get to hang out with a great bunch of folks. Aya's going too (she got a position).

WordS of the Day: Endocentric & Exocentric

Stress is a bad thing. I should not stress. SO MUCH TO DO.

I have to teach a mini-lesson in a public school here next week, to a class of second graders.
I have to teach a music lesson to my music class.
I have to start getting ready for finals. I have to finish my war journal for Social Studies.
I have to teach about spinning in my creative class where I am a TA. I have to get the rest of my paperwork in for student teaching abroad.
I have to get my financial aid application in.
I have to stay sane.

I'm sure there's more but right now I need to go see my advisor to get a code to register for fall classes!