I got a lot of work done today so I'm feeling pretty good. I just hope I can stay this motivated for the rest of the semester.
I was just trying to answer some questions that my biology professor posted online, and I am having a terrible time. I am an English major, through and through. There is no doubt about it. But seriously, could you answer these questions if this was the sort of grammar you had to decipher to get to a comprehensible sentence!?
7) On page 11 the author writes “Neither did it notice the last martin in 1925, nor the arrival of the first starling in 1923.”?
I can understand a scatterbrained mistake in writing--I make them all the time. But when you have word leaving those squiggly lines under your incorrect phrases, run-on sentences, unneccessary question marks, and redundancy all packed into nine short questions, I just can't stand it. For number 7 I just wanted to answer, Yes, he does write that. It's oh-so-interesting.
But we all know I never would.
Monday, August 30, 2004
Molto Occupato!
Very busy. That is why I haven't updated in a week, although I would say that a lot has been happening. Getting settled in to the first week of school has been busy. I have so many hours of class (now 20, because I did make it into steel band!) and my psychology class requires that I participate in 12 hours worth of experiments, all of which happen to be in the next few weeks. Italian is a lot of work but I am enjoying it. Unlike last year, I now understand the "teach yourself" method so many college professors like to use.
Now I'm off to band, and won't be back until 9 when my psych class ends. I'm glad I don't mind my classes this semester or it would be a long fifteen weeks...
Now I'm off to band, and won't be back until 9 when my psych class ends. I'm glad I don't mind my classes this semester or it would be a long fifteen weeks...
Tuesday, August 24, 2004
19 Credit Hours?
I just got back from my first day of classes. Three of them, back to back, is a hard way to start the semester: Italian is okay, it's pretty reminiscent of high school French but I think much cooler. Technical Writing is next, I'm not sure what that's going to be like but I do have to create a resume for Thursday which I don't think sounds like much fun. Then I have Political Philosophy. I'm looking forward to that, even though I just found out that I have to go buy two more $30.00 books. Tomorrow I have psychology and Environmental Science. I also have my audition for the MU Steel Band. I just realized that I have a lot on my plate this fall. Wish me luck...
Monday, August 16, 2004
Sophomore Year Begins
I have tons of things to write about but it's late, so I'll just have to leave some of it for tomorrow.
First, I had a good last week at home. Caught up with some people I hadn't seen in a while, finished work for the summer (minus Labor Day Weekend), and got myself ready to move in at Miami. I drove myself down, met up with Christina and Joe who helped move me in, and then went to dinner and a get together at 708. It was a good way to spend my first day back and I'm glad to be here--I'm definitely looking forward to this year.
The basement of my dorm flooded because something went wrong with the pipes Saturday night, so when I woke up and tried to take a shower on Sunday I couldn't. This was rather embarrassing because I was not told that there was no water, I had to figure it out for myself. I did this by trying out all the showers in the bathroom. I finally gave up and on my way back to my room ran into someone who told me about the water being turned off. I don't think she would have said anything except I was wearing my towel. Grr...
Well, I'm going to bed. 9 am rehearsal tomorrow, and we get to find out who's in and who's an alternate. Fun fun fun.
First, I had a good last week at home. Caught up with some people I hadn't seen in a while, finished work for the summer (minus Labor Day Weekend), and got myself ready to move in at Miami. I drove myself down, met up with Christina and Joe who helped move me in, and then went to dinner and a get together at 708. It was a good way to spend my first day back and I'm glad to be here--I'm definitely looking forward to this year.
The basement of my dorm flooded because something went wrong with the pipes Saturday night, so when I woke up and tried to take a shower on Sunday I couldn't. This was rather embarrassing because I was not told that there was no water, I had to figure it out for myself. I did this by trying out all the showers in the bathroom. I finally gave up and on my way back to my room ran into someone who told me about the water being turned off. I don't think she would have said anything except I was wearing my towel. Grr...
Well, I'm going to bed. 9 am rehearsal tomorrow, and we get to find out who's in and who's an alternate. Fun fun fun.
Saturday, August 07, 2004
Something Funny
If you do an AOL or Google search for "Lance Armstrong Rubberbands" my blog will show up in the search results. Interesting...
Thursday, August 05, 2004
The 'Brave Explorers' do Cosi
Yesterday I chaperoned for Park Program’s field trip to Cosi. I don’t think I’ve ever explained the Park Program, although I’ve mentioned it: it’s a sort of day-camp thing run through our local recreation department, basically free baby-sitting from 9-5 Monday through Friday. Every once in a while they’ll go on a field trip, and since I’m friends with some of the workers and since we have the same boss (the rec dept.), they asked me to help today. I said sure.
I got to the park today to find about 50 extremely energetic kids anxiously waiting to get on a school bus. One little girl, Katie, recognized me as “Loren the Lifeguard” and immediately clung to me. Another little girl followed suit and for basically the entire bus trip I shared my seat with two girls who both wanted to sit on my lap and have my attention.
When we got to Cosi, which is a big science-is-fun-so-play-with-this-great-stuff museum, I got my group of five kids and we headed off to the exhibits. After a little too much confusion in the Adventure area, my group decided to name themselves the “Brave Explorers” Group.
That way if they were split up, all I’d have to do is yell, “Brave Explorers!” And they’d come running. I’m sure it would have worked, but I didn’t try. Besides, Katie had not let go of my hand since we got off the bus, and another girl realized that I had been her swimming lessons teacher, so two out of five were never far away, and hey—that’s pretty good. The rest of the day was fun but uneventful. We walked around with Kristen’s group and consequently ended up with two Dillons and a Dalton, which was rather confusing. After a snack of fruit roll-ups and the unavoidable stop at the gift store late in the afternoon, we headed home. Evidently the day was pretty exciting for my group because all of them curled up on their bus seats and slept most of the way from Columbus. Katie made herself comfortable on my lap with her newly-purchased rubber snake shortly after we pulled out of the parking lot and didn’t wake up until we were back in Loudonville. Oh…there’s nothing like spending a day with the park kids…
I got to the park today to find about 50 extremely energetic kids anxiously waiting to get on a school bus. One little girl, Katie, recognized me as “Loren the Lifeguard” and immediately clung to me. Another little girl followed suit and for basically the entire bus trip I shared my seat with two girls who both wanted to sit on my lap and have my attention.
When we got to Cosi, which is a big science-is-fun-so-play-with-this-great-stuff museum, I got my group of five kids and we headed off to the exhibits. After a little too much confusion in the Adventure area, my group decided to name themselves the “Brave Explorers” Group.
That way if they were split up, all I’d have to do is yell, “Brave Explorers!” And they’d come running. I’m sure it would have worked, but I didn’t try. Besides, Katie had not let go of my hand since we got off the bus, and another girl realized that I had been her swimming lessons teacher, so two out of five were never far away, and hey—that’s pretty good. The rest of the day was fun but uneventful. We walked around with Kristen’s group and consequently ended up with two Dillons and a Dalton, which was rather confusing. After a snack of fruit roll-ups and the unavoidable stop at the gift store late in the afternoon, we headed home. Evidently the day was pretty exciting for my group because all of them curled up on their bus seats and slept most of the way from Columbus. Katie made herself comfortable on my lap with her newly-purchased rubber snake shortly after we pulled out of the parking lot and didn’t wake up until we were back in Loudonville. Oh…there’s nothing like spending a day with the park kids…
Sunday, August 01, 2004
"Let's make something"
It all started out with those three words...
Last week, my high school had their band camp. My mom volunteered my house for a get-together on Tuesday night, so Scott and Jimmy decided they wanted to bake something ("you know, something cool that we've never made before. Like...a souffle maybe?") to have at the party that night, but of course they needed some guidance. So on their afternoon break, Scott and I went to the grocery store to get the ingredients
for a layer cake. As we baked, I learned something: Scott has never really cooked anything. I think what he did to help was wait around until his mom or grandma finished whatever they were doing and then he got to lick the bowl and spoon. I had to tell him repeatedly that this is something you do after you finish using them, and that you really should leave less batter in the bowl than you put into the oven. It was a stressful situation for Scott, but in the end we ended up something that looked like a big, frosted and sprinkled mound of strawberry pie filling and german chocolate cake. I was a little worried about it but it actually tasted pretty good. We threw around a few ideas and then settled on naming it Scott and Loren's Surprise Cake, because Surprise! it actually worked out. If you're interested in trying some, maybe we'll make you one. I think next time we'll make a bowl of batter just for Scott to eat though.
Last week, my high school had their band camp. My mom volunteered my house for a get-together on Tuesday night, so Scott and Jimmy decided they wanted to bake something ("you know, something cool that we've never made before. Like...a souffle maybe?") to have at the party that night, but of course they needed some guidance. So on their afternoon break, Scott and I went to the grocery store to get the ingredients
for a layer cake. As we baked, I learned something: Scott has never really cooked anything. I think what he did to help was wait around until his mom or grandma finished whatever they were doing and then he got to lick the bowl and spoon. I had to tell him repeatedly that this is something you do after you finish using them, and that you really should leave less batter in the bowl than you put into the oven. It was a stressful situation for Scott, but in the end we ended up something that looked like a big, frosted and sprinkled mound of strawberry pie filling and german chocolate cake. I was a little worried about it but it actually tasted pretty good. We threw around a few ideas and then settled on naming it Scott and Loren's Surprise Cake, because Surprise! it actually worked out. If you're interested in trying some, maybe we'll make you one. I think next time we'll make a bowl of batter just for Scott to eat though.
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