Posts (page 2)

you get teary eyed while watching the latest Harry Potter trailer.

gotta go watch it again!
ciao!

Obama won!!
I was stunned, when at 8pm all of a sudden without counting votes or anything for CA, OR and WA, they just made those states blue and called it a day. I know that CA is traditionally blue, and the polls said we would vote blue, but still. Imagine how funny it would have been if McCain would have won California... and frankly I wouldn't have been surprised because there are McCain signs everywhere you look in the Central Valley. But no, California voted for Obama by 56% (but in my county, as a whole we voted for McCain 54% and Obama 45%... I'm actually shocked that Obama got that many votes here!).

And Obama's speech was really, really good. I know he will be a great President. He is such an inspiration. But I must admit I fear someone attempting to assassinate him.

I felt really bad for Palin when McCain was giving his speech tonight. She looked as if she was trying not to cry. I seriously think that she is probably an awesome person, an awesome mom, and an awesome governor, however I am glad that she is not the Vice President elect. I don't think she was ready; I am really interested to see if she'll try for President in 2012, she may be ready then!

Go Obama!
There were no lines at my polling location today. I was very happy about that. I was, however, very unhappy about two things:
1) We only had one choice for our representative: Radonovich. Ugh ugh and more ugh. There was no way in hell I was voting for that bastard, so I voted for myself instead. LOL. But seriously, how can it BE that he has no competition?! 2) Ron Paul was not on the ballot for President. Now I've known about these two things ever since I was mailed my sample ballot, but STILL. A part of me still wanted to vote for him.

Good news on the school front.
Tomorrow I was slated to take two exams. One for Anthropology and the other for Research Methods.
But now I only have to take one, just for Anthropology. This is because in Reseach Methods we play a game called 'Who Wants to be an A Student?'
So I studied all weekend, and was one of seven people to volunteer to do it. Only one person could randomly be chosen to actually take part in the game, and I WAS CHOSEN.
There were six questions. If you got six right, you got an A. Five equals a B, and so on.
I GOT ALL SIX RIGHT. Which means, I don't have to take the exam!!!

All I have to do today is study for Anthropology. And that's it. I got mucho points from Dr. L yesterday for getting all of them right. Maybe she could write me a recommendation?

For now, I'm off to study for Anth and watch the news.

Obama better win. Seriously. Or else I'm going to have to move to another country.

Have I mentioned that I totally failed the SMS Guide test to work for ChaCha? Fortunately, I did pass the expediter and voice transcriber tests, so I've still been making money. And, I also won thirty (!) dollars last week in multiple random drawings done by ChaCha... how awesome is that?

Since I've been making a lot of ChaCha money (a lot meaning: enough money to pay for gas and various necessities my parents don't pay for), I quit my job. It was just so ridiculous wasting so much gas driving there and back all the time, when I make more money doing ChaCha here and there. And I hated my job, so this really worked out.

Now that the election is less than a week away, I'm getting more excited about it. For the past month I've been feeling very overloaded with election stuff, and was getting sick of it. But now, I feel the overwhelming desire to go slap the Obama/Biden sticker I have had for weeks onto my car.

Obama better win, or I'm moving. Somewhere else. I will be very embarrassed for America if we have McCain/Palin running our country. No offense to McCain voters, but that is the way I feel. Believe it or not, I am one of those very scary far-left liberals. Oh well.

Speaking of liberals, this leads me to Democrats. Which leads me to the Democrat meeting I went to a few weeks ago. Before the meeting, I had the chance to briefly meet Taylor White, who is running for State Assembly. Very nice guy, but I will not be voting for him. I am all for young people getting involved in politics, but running for State Assembly?? This guy graduated from my high school one year after me. Which makes him about 19 years old. He attends Modesto Junior College. His experience? President of his class in high school, and President for one year of associated students at MJC. I'm sorry, does not seem qualified at all to me. He doesn't seem qualified because he has just started his second year of college. When I was in my second year of college (err, last year) I was still learning so much about myself. I still AM learning so much about myself, my writing style, what I want to do with the rest of my life. If he wins, is he still going to go to school? Which school will he transfer to when he is done with MJC in May of 2009? I don't know. I think in order for me to feel like he is qualified he either needs a bachelor's degree, or a lifetime of experiences.

Anyway. School is OMGSH hectic.
My research methods group OMGSH sucks. They left me with our whole project to do alone. Needless to say I was PISSED. Stupid immature college students. I can't believe I just gave them a free A.

I got a 78% on my Professional Interviewing exam that I thought I aced. I almost cried. Anything below 85% is bad in my eyes.

Relational Communication is the most interesting class I have ever taken (besides Interpersonal). I LOVE IT. I LOVE talking about it to anyone who will listen to me. Which is pretty much no one anymore.

I got a B- on an essay that I thought sucked for Multicultural American Lit. I seriously wrote it in an hour. I was having some serious family issues last week and couldn't be bothered with it. I figured it was a GE course, so I don't need an A. She wrote that I could have gone into more depth, but overall I'm a very good writer and my ideas were unique and flowed nicely. Wooo. So for the last essay, I plan to spend a LOT more time writing it, and hopefully I'll get an A. Which according to my bad math skills means I would get an A in the course.

I hate Anthropology. The subject matter is interesting, but the professor... OMGSH so boring. We have a group project in this class and I've been totally flaking on it. My group members probably think I suck. Because of serious family issues for the past couple of weeks, I've just been really stressed (and then add school). So I haven't been going to group meetings and returning emails, because I have three very important communication classes, all with their own group projects, that are more important than Anthropology. I plan to do some research tomorrow and totally suprise them with an email. Because I feel really bad that I'm doing to them what my Research Methods group did to me.

It makes me very sad to think that he's all the way up in Oregon. All alone. No family. No nothing for the next two years. It almost feels like you died. I miss seeing your emails in my inbox. I miss our conversations about politics. I miss you not making me feel bad about not eating fish. I miss eating antipasti with you. I miss looking at all the OnDemand movies with you for hours, but never choosing a movie.
I miss you Papa. I never realized that you were such a big part of my life until I had to say goodbye last week.
I hate our government.

Please stop sending me emails asking me to donate $25 or more.
Yes, I will vote for you. But if I were to donate $25, I would have about $15 left in my bank account. How would I pay for gas? Feed myself? Now that I've quit my job, I rely only on ChaCha money.
These daily emails I am getting are becoming old. Stop haggling a starving college student!

I would just like to express the utter disgust I feel for people who steal lawn signs.
And if I ever figure out who STOLE my Obama/Biden lawn sign, I will fine them the eight dollars I spent on it.

I figure since the sign is on my property, I have the right to put it out there without the risk of someone stealing it. I believe I do have the right to express my opinion (or did the Patriot Act take that away too??).

It just really pisses me off, because eight dollars for me, is one hour at work.

A girl at work told me that "I had it coming" and proceeded to bash Obama.

Yeah, maybe I had it coming in hick town Modesto, which is full of McCain lovers and "YES on 8" fans. It's funny that if you drive an hour and go to the bay area, all you see are Obama bumper stickers and signs. I feel at home there.

I don't know about you, but I want my President to be well educated, mature, open-minded and able to handle his/her emotions. Even if I agreed with everything that came out of McCain's mouth, I would never vote for him. I want someone who can lead and represent this country, and make thoughtful decisions, and make me proud of being from the USA. I think, above everything, that is the most important thing to me right now.

I also think that anyone that votes yes on prop 8 is an idiot. There are three yes on prop 8 signs on my street alone (but do I STEAL them? nope). I personally feel that EVERYONE should have the right to marry ANYONE that they want. I personally feel that it is against everything America is supposed to stand for to take away that right. I don't care what your religion says, because not everyone BELIEVES in your religion. If a gay or lesbian couple wants to get married in your church, but the church doesn't believe in gay marriages, then the church has the right to deny them. But to deny gay marriage on a state government level, is ridiculous. Because who in the world is it hurting if a gay couple gets married? They will be together no matter what, so denying marriage is a waste of time. Allow them to be happy and stop trying to control other people's lives.

End of story.

This morning I ate the tastiest bagel ever. It was an everything bagel, slightly toasted, with cream cheese.

Considering this was about eight hours ago and I haven't eaten since, I've just realized that HEY, I'm hungry.

So I went on pizzahut.com and ordered a pan pizza, with extra cheese and pepperoni. My mouth is watering.

I told pizza hut to deliver it at 6:20, so that gives me an hour to clean my bathroom. It won't actually take me an hour to clean it, but I have a whole hour to procrastinate.

I have been laying around the house all day, doing nothing. It's really nice actually, like a mini-vacation from the hell I like to call school and all the research papers/PROJECTS I have to do.

I have to go clean my bathroom now, so when my pizza gets here I can give it my full attention.

I just applied to be a ChaCha guide. My cousin first introduced me to ChaCha over the summer, and Jenn from Jenn.nu introduced me to the idea of applying to be a guide through one of her recent blog posts.

Hopefully they will hire me and I will be making .10 for every response I give. Which is actually a lot, if you think about it. Now I suck at math, so correct me if I am wrong. If you reply to one question per minute, that equals about $6 an hour. Which is pretty good, considering you're just sitting on your computer, in your house, in your pajamas, eating donuts (or whatever), not spending money on gas trying to get to work, etc.

I'm also very much looking forward to tonights debate. I'm glad McCain will be there, because I'm interested to see what he has to say. And it would be weird to have a debate with just one candidate. lol. I want to see how both of them hold themselves, and the way they respond to questions (not necessarily just their answers. We can thank my prof. interviewing class for this outlook.).

And ah, school. School school school. It's mind numbing being in class for 8+ hours straight. My thirty minute break consists of me rushing to my car, stuffing my face with turkey sandwich and some sort of fruit, and then hiking to my next class. It takes me about ten minutes to get to my car, and ten minutes to walk to my next class, so I have about ten minutes of actual break.

My American Lit professor annoys me. Literature courses are usually fun to be in because there is a lot of discussion. But my professor just talks the whole time, and if anyone gets their opinion in and she doesn't agree with it, she will quickly squash it and move on to something else. And she talks fast. And is really energetic. And I leave her class with my head spinning. Wooooo.

Relational is of course, my favorite class. I LOVE Dr. H; I love the way she teaches, and I learn so much.

Research Methods makes me feel like slitting my wrists. Just kidding. But there is so much reading. SO MUCH. Last week we had about one-hundred pages of boring textbook to read. And I couldn't just not read, because we were going to be quizzed on it. To my amazement, I was one of about five people who got a hundred percent on the quiz!! Weee. This professor, Dr. L, randomly calls on people. This creates a lot of stress for me, which leads to me being suicidal. Although not really suicidal, just me being dramatic. Other than randomly calling on people, I think I'll do well in the class. Maybe not an A, because I don't know how enthusiastic I will be about the reading in the coming weeks, but I think a B would be acceptable to me.

Professional Interviewing. I am liking the class, but we just got this little "mini" project to do, that is stressing me out. I don't want to talk about it. But it includes interviewing someone.

Anthropology and Global Issues is extremely interesting. I almost want to minor in Anthropology, but I don't have time for it unless I want to add another semester on to my schooling. Which I don't.

So I think I will get four A's and one B (research methods). And I am prepared to accept three A's and two B's, in case of a fluke in one of my other classes. With three A's and two B's I will still make the dean's list- which is very important to me.

All A's would make me mucho happy though. And it is my ultimate goal.  

Credit. Is bad.

Before July of this year I had never used a credit card before. I didn't have a credit card. But then I got a job at this place called Lenscrafters. I applied for a credit card there because they offer no interest & no payments, and bought a $230 pair of glasses (my insurance only covers glasses every other year. blah). So I've almost paid it all off... still $50 more dollars to go, and I have one more month of my lovely no interest.

So after I bought glasses with this amazing little piece of plastic, I decided that I wanted another credit card. You know, a real one.

I applied, and actually got a credit card. I figured I'd use it to build credit, and pay for everything with it, but pay off the whole thing at the end of the month. I also thought it would be nice to have in case of an emergency.

Emergencies. I love you. Not.

Not two days after I recieved my piece of plastic in the mail, I was at the emergency vets. At midnight. Because my dog was having an allegic reaction to one of the bazillion vaccines the vet gave him earlier in the day. Now these bazillion vaccines cost me about $100 bucks. I had almost nothing in my checking account, but figured it would be okay because I knew I would be getting paid in a few days.

Of course, I whipped out my new, shiny, plastic-y credit card at the emergency vets. Well over $200 on credit later, I have a healthy dog.

Now I know, only $200. Not a big deal for a normal person. But, for someone like me, who only works on average 4-8 hours per WEEK, this is a big deal. Because I have GAS to pay for. And books for my literature course (since when do paperback books cost you $15 EACH?!).

And let's not forget that my mom is jobless right now. So I feel bad going to her to have her pay for things for me. Even stupid stuff, like toothpaste.

I now have about $250 worth of debt. I really, really hope that my check this Friday will be big.

And not to sound selfish or anything, but I really would like to spend some money on myself. And not on anything extravagent. I need shoes. Badly. I have one pair of black flats that I wear to work and well, everywhere else. And that's IT. And they are starting to stink. And I thought, hey, I'll spend twenty bucks at Payless Shoestore and buy myself new shoes.

Not happening. Because I am not going to sit here and pay the minimum payment every month.

So unhappily, I think I shall have to dip into my study abroad savings money to bail me out. Tear. And still no shoes for me. Because I will have to pay my savings back first.

I think this is all so stressful because everything is stressful right now. And financial crisis is just the cherry on top of the sundae.

So much is going on. Lawsuits, family members going to jail, family members with drug problems (and rushing to the e.r. in the middle of the night because of overdose), SCHOOL (I'm dying with all the reading I have to do. eff research methods, seriously), and my job (which totally sucks, because they are still NOT training me and I get NO hours).

Someone told me last week that I should write a novel about my life. Drama. Woooo. 

I have about a million pages or so to read before tomorrow. And I've completed about sixty of them. Bear in mind that it is sixty pages out of a book of short stories for my literature class, so it was actually very easy to make myself sit down and read.

So I made myself tea today. I boiled the water, poured it in the mug, put the tea bag in, and waited about five minutes. When I went back to it, threw away the tea bag, and put the mug up to my lips, I noticed something floating in it.

And it was a dead fly.

Ulghh.

I had to make new tea. I'm sure some gross people might just fish the dead fly out and proceed to drink the tea. But I know where these flies have been. They mostly lurk around my dog's poop outside. I really don't want to drink dog feces, so down the drain the whole cup of tea went!

Pretty much the whole time I drank my fresh cup of tea I was paranoid another fly might decide to make it it's grave.