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Library hours:
Monday 10am - 8pm
Tuesday 10am - 8pm
Wednesday 10am - 8pm
Thursday 10am - 6pm
Friday 11am - 5pm
Saturday 11am - 5pm
I gotta separate myself from this computer in order to study...otherwise, I'll do things like stare at people's facebook, chat on aim or skype for hours on end, eat, nap, do stuff that's not productive to studying, etc. You get the picture.
Anyway, here I come with my snacks in hand...ready to have a marathon time at the library. Well, I may not stay there for the full 10 hours or whatever, because I'm sure my stomach will say "enough already...feed me" and interrupt me. Maybe I can just eat a big breakfast/brunch and go home by 7pm and eat dinner.
In any case, this should pretty much be "lock down" and study time for me.
Here are the tags
Here are the blank cards
Here are the birthday cards
Here are the thank you cards
Here are the baby cards
Oh boy, all that filled up the whole box. Imagine the mess it left behind...oy vey. So, I'm trying to clean up after the hurricane that I left behind. However, I just realized that my other friend's birthday is also the same day as the above person. Uh oh...so I made 4 blank cards, 4 birthday cards, and 4 baby shower cards. No tags, no extra stuff. I made the origami box to give them to her though. Oops, I didn't make the envelopes yet...uhh...I guess I'll do those 12 envelopes now...6 firm ones and 6 regular paper envelopes.
Oy vey, could this gift making take any longer? I better get a head start on gifts for people...otherwise, it will be a mess...trying to figure out whose birthday and what I do for them. Now, people whom I have to send stuff to...I'll make a smaller set of these cards...since it's kinda hard to fill up an origami box and find a box that will not be crushed and send it via postal service.
Anyway, for Friday, Feb. 5th, Happy birthday to Janette and Caroline. They don't read this, but I need to log it here so that I remember.
Then this whole news got to the press and the president denied it ever happened. Then he was taken in for questioning. They were in the process of investigating and then I guess he was convicted...so then he commits suicide. Ok, just because you were accused and convicted of the crime & your pride was lost, you go commit suicide? At least you didn't bring your kids down with you...but my goodness, what a cowardly act. If you did the crime, do the time instead...that's more honorable than committing suicide since committing suicide doesn't solve anything. You can come out of prison a better person and learn from your mistakes. What will you leave as your legacy if you just go and commit suicide? You're practically admitting that you did the crime by committing suicide.
Ok, I'm ranting because my parents and I never wanted that guy to be Korea's president to begin with. We thought, ok, George W. Bush looks like some kind of family of the monkeys and Roh, Mu Hyun (South Korea's former president) looks like/looked like a family of the frog or toad...or maybe that would be an insult to the frogs and toads out there.
Haha...anyway, I better continue cleaning out my portfolio storm stricken room. Gotta get those summer clothes in and winter clothes stashed away.
Anyway, I found a kid who happens to be louder than me. Wow, when he talks, he sticks out like a sore thumb because not only is he loud...he reads and talks in this whiny voice. The mom doesn't want him to be tested for RSP which is a type of Special Ed program...but seriously, I think he has issues because no other kid sucks their thumb until it looks like a raisin in the 3rd grade...it's like, you're in 3rd grade for crying out loud!!! That should have phased out by your 1st or 2nd birthday...just like diapers were phased out by then!!! Seriously, the parent needs to stop being so shallow and just allow her kid to be tested. And no, I don't think it's just out of immaturity and the want for attention that he does this. And, no wonder he has no friends. How I know this? Nobody chose him to be in a group...and everyone tries to avoid him when they're choosing groups because they know he's going to be a nuisance. I have a feeling that my professor will want to see what kind of accommodations I make for that kid...oy, why are the problematic kids usually guys?
Other than that...my cooperating teacher is really nice. She's the grade level chair and she's also quite layed back. I already made my overheads for my 2 lessons...I just have to practice going over the lesson so that I don't stumble over any of the instructions or just freeze and go..."huh? what is that?" during the lesson...haha, that would be embarrassing.
Today was such a relaxing day. I looked through the math book at my leisure with no pressure from the world to get a lesson plan done...although I got half of it finished (typed out)...not just typed up in my head...I actually typed it up on my computer. I got laundry done. I went to the gym and found out how flexible my back is (via a core fusion class).
Considering it was my first time going to that class, I guess I have ok balance in my core...even though I can't roll over onto my side without the assistance of my legs or arms/hands. Haha...I was like ok, let's make another honest effort and hmph (go)...*body stays still*. Ok, I guess my mind and body don't really work together the way I want it to.
Another difficult thing for me to do is...doing the sit ups with your legs parallel to the ground. I need my feet to be on the ground 90 degrees from where my body is lying so that I can do a crunch...but asking me to do a full on sit up is pushing it to the max. He also attempted to make us do full sit ups with our legs not touching the ground. Umm, hello...no can do...did you see how I couldn't even do the 'roll over' move without my legs and arms?
Aside from all that, I think I'm the youngest in the class...just by looking at everyone, they seemed to be in their beginning 40s and older.
Back to the flexible back part...the instructor held my arms up while I was on my stomach and he pulled my arms. I pretty much went as high as I could go while was about 90 degrees from the floor. Yes, I was amazed by this because the lady who sat next to me seemed to be incapable of doing this. Yes, I have younger bones and I'm proud of it.
Mission: to perhaps keep taking that class so I can get more flexible. My goal is to be able to roll over with straight legs & arms and only use my abs to roll over.
Kindergarten class
I think I have one kid who possibly didn't attend pre-school. How I know this? She couldn't find what a "T" looked like...as in...it took her awhile to notice how I posted the letters. I had it in two rows in alphabetical order but it took her literally forever to find.
Yes, I have one girl and one guy. The guy seemed smart since after awhile, he was able to spell "the" from the top of his head and answer some grade level clarifying questions that I asked...like, "what is a cap?" "so why was the cat mad at the mouse?" etc. However, the girl wasn't able to answer such questions.
3rd Grade class
Ok, this one didn't work out so well. Supposedly, I'm not supposed to read with them. They're supposed to read the book on their own. Well, my excuse was that this was the first class...how else was I supposed to handle class when there's literally nothing to do? Her response: well, this is just for today right? [in my head] ok, you think i'm a bozo or something? duhh
So, I have to have them read at home and perhaps read a little ahead so we can fill out some of the worksheets together. Psh, man...stop looking over my shoulder.
Dude, and I have these 2 boys in this class and they're both goof-offs. The girl is the calm one. Man, when it gets to slightly older kids, I wish I could just have girls. No boys...ugh...they're so annoying and their voices are annoyingly loud. Oh well, I need to deal with that in my own class...so I try to ignore the annoying kids in this class and hope they will soon catch on that I'm not just reading for my own health or something.
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*Rant continued*
So this boss lady of mine...she wants me to go out and buy some material for my class and I'm just thinking to myself...dude, there's something called gas being expensive & not good for the environment and there's something called time that I wish I had more of. But seriously, she wants me to go out and get these and she'll reimburse me...of course. But, as written in "Purpose Driven Life" time is something you can't have back. Money is the other thing you can't really get back but time is the other element.
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Random: Guitar lessons
Well, I guess it's not so random...seeing as I wanted to learn guitar ever since undergrad years. I even went over to this guy who lived down the hall from me to learn a song each time I went over to his place. He played at "the catalyst" every now and then. He also said that his "payment" would be for me to listen in on songs he wrote himself...starting from chords to the lyrics...man, so talented.
Anyway, my church is providing guitar lessons on monday nights starting in October...so I want to learn really badly so I'm gonna take that class. The class is meant for level 2 people and I didn't take level 1 so I think I might be a bit behind but hey! I play cello...could be any more difficult than something where you don't even get to see where your fingers are placed?
Anyway, such is the story of my life.
- Mood:
ecstatic
Anyway, here's the link: http://www.ucsc.edu/news_events/text.asp?p
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