Stupid Programmers
Somebody at Microsoft needs to be shot for having the "delete" and "rename" option right next to each other in the drop-down box that you get when right-clicking a document name. I nearly lost many painful hours on a research paper through such stupid programming.
PS I was first inclined to blame myself for not paying attention, but realised that it was much easier to blame some poor lost soul at Microsoft.
30 March 2004
Grrr
Upsetting Statistics Newsflash
My statistics prof has returned some horrible statistics exercises, knocking off 5 points for transposing a 2 and 3 in the original formula. I must say that I enjoyed returning that, asking her to verify the formula that I copied and pasted from the e-text. I was further annoyed by having a point taken off for not copying and pasting the rubric to the bottom of my paper, but I couldn't really argue that since I didn't. I just think taking off 2 points for not putting EXACTLY what she want's to see in the subject line (Literature Review-Marian, versus my Marian's Literature Review), and taking off a point for not providing her own rubric is a little extreme. She's a very good prof, but has a couple issues in the "picky" category...
Upsetting Statistics Newsflash
My statistics prof has returned some horrible statistics exercises, knocking off 5 points for transposing a 2 and 3 in the original formula. I must say that I enjoyed returning that, asking her to verify the formula that I copied and pasted from the e-text. I was further annoyed by having a point taken off for not copying and pasting the rubric to the bottom of my paper, but I couldn't really argue that since I didn't. I just think taking off 2 points for not putting EXACTLY what she want's to see in the subject line (Literature Review-Marian, versus my Marian's Literature Review), and taking off a point for not providing her own rubric is a little extreme. She's a very good prof, but has a couple issues in the "picky" category...
Final Decision
I never expected the decision of what spend with birthday money to ever be this difficult. I had finally decided on the Toggery, but then, as I passed a walking shoe store at Keystone At The Crossing, I knew where my money was destined. Since walking is becoming more and more a part of my life, a truly excellent pair of walking shoes is required. I am hoping to convince Eric to walk just the Smokey Mountain National Park part of the Appalatian Trail in Spring 2005 (70 miles). Perhaps this Fall we can go down to Kentucky and go hiking on a smaller scale. I'm learning that it's all about adding a little bit at a time. We're going to the Cherry Festival in Traverse City in July...I know a ton of gorgeous hilly trails to hike up there too.
I never expected the decision of what spend with birthday money to ever be this difficult. I had finally decided on the Toggery, but then, as I passed a walking shoe store at Keystone At The Crossing, I knew where my money was destined. Since walking is becoming more and more a part of my life, a truly excellent pair of walking shoes is required. I am hoping to convince Eric to walk just the Smokey Mountain National Park part of the Appalatian Trail in Spring 2005 (70 miles). Perhaps this Fall we can go down to Kentucky and go hiking on a smaller scale. I'm learning that it's all about adding a little bit at a time. We're going to the Cherry Festival in Traverse City in July...I know a ton of gorgeous hilly trails to hike up there too.
25 March 2004
What?
It's amazing what you can find in a storage room. While cleaning it out this afternoon, I found a fascinating document: Eric's Rose-Hulman grade card. All I want to know is, how in the world do you get straight A's in crazy horrible classes like Fractals & Chaos, Calculus III, Embedded System Design, and get a C+ in Principles of Economics????????
I might add that Principles of Economics was a freshman level course. I don't understand. While I realise that he is not an insane perfectionist like me, I see no excuse for this.
Back to finding more juicy gossip :)
It's amazing what you can find in a storage room. While cleaning it out this afternoon, I found a fascinating document: Eric's Rose-Hulman grade card. All I want to know is, how in the world do you get straight A's in crazy horrible classes like Fractals & Chaos, Calculus III, Embedded System Design, and get a C+ in Principles of Economics????????
I might add that Principles of Economics was a freshman level course. I don't understand. While I realise that he is not an insane perfectionist like me, I see no excuse for this.
Back to finding more juicy gossip :)
23 March 2004
Reveling In Freedom
An extra 4-5 hours of a day can really do wonders. Unfortunately, they are so easily filled! I was recently threatened by Buffy to not waste my days doing busy work, but I find the trap of busywork very unavoidable. Must practice be more lazy. Yesterday was so busy; something is very wrong with that. Two doctor appointments, three Tae Kwon Do classes, and homework. *sigh* Today started out much better. Two Babylon Five episodes, sluffing around the house, and getting packages ready to ship from eBay and Half.com sales. Much much better day.
Must hurry on to more sluffing.
An extra 4-5 hours of a day can really do wonders. Unfortunately, they are so easily filled! I was recently threatened by Buffy to not waste my days doing busy work, but I find the trap of busywork very unavoidable. Must practice be more lazy. Yesterday was so busy; something is very wrong with that. Two doctor appointments, three Tae Kwon Do classes, and homework. *sigh* Today started out much better. Two Babylon Five episodes, sluffing around the house, and getting packages ready to ship from eBay and Half.com sales. Much much better day.
Must hurry on to more sluffing.
18 March 2004
Half.com
I just want to say Half.com so rocks. Buffy told me to sell my textbooks there because all you have to do is enter the ISBN number and the rest is all automated, but it seemed too good to be true. As I was cleaning out some of my books though, I thought, why not? I kept them for research, but since I haven't used Strategic Management, Managerial Accounting, and other such fascinating material since I graduated, it seemed to be worth a shot to sell them.
So...I posted most of my textbooks. I was praying to get $5 for one of them, simply because you never get the turn-around money on the initial zillions paid for them. But.....
This is a happy moment because I have been seething for several years that I was forced to pay $150 for a textbook, but now I'm at least getting 20-25% return on them. Although the day started badly, it's ending welll.
I just want to say Half.com so rocks. Buffy told me to sell my textbooks there because all you have to do is enter the ISBN number and the rest is all automated, but it seemed too good to be true. As I was cleaning out some of my books though, I thought, why not? I kept them for research, but since I haven't used Strategic Management, Managerial Accounting, and other such fascinating material since I graduated, it seemed to be worth a shot to sell them.
So...I posted most of my textbooks. I was praying to get $5 for one of them, simply because you never get the turn-around money on the initial zillions paid for them. But.....
...I got $28 on my first book after only one hour!!!!!!!!
This is a happy moment because I have been seething for several years that I was forced to pay $150 for a textbook, but now I'm at least getting 20-25% return on them. Although the day started badly, it's ending welll.
The Decision Has Been Made
Due the fact that I have been loaned the first season of Babylon 5 by my mother, and having received intense pressure from the only girl that comments on my blog (Buffy, believe it or not, but I am actually aware of 3 other girls that read it occasionally...we are not always outnumbered :)), I have chosen the Toggery as the desination of my birthday money.
Be advised that DS9 Season 2 will be purchased in the next month or two though....
Due the fact that I have been loaned the first season of Babylon 5 by my mother, and having received intense pressure from the only girl that comments on my blog (Buffy, believe it or not, but I am actually aware of 3 other girls that read it occasionally...we are not always outnumbered :)), I have chosen the Toggery as the desination of my birthday money.
Be advised that DS9 Season 2 will be purchased in the next month or two though....
Anger
I am experiencing a lot of anger right now. I had to do a rather arduous literature review for a research/statistics class last week. Received the feedback: B. This is totally unacceptable. Now I have to manage to stay in the 30 points remaining before I hit a class grade of A-. I think that will be all right though; and even if it's not, I have 50 more points in the A- range for the overall grade, but that's not the point. The point is that the literature review's grade was a B. I've never experienced this before, and I find it extremely unsettling. One time I received a B+ in World History during my Bachelors, but I wasn't even there half the time (was in France) and the prof was officially recognised as the "Prof B" (Professor Bitch) by the entire class and school. So, I'm very upset. I don't even know what I did wrong because the prof did the track changes for her comments, then copied/pasted in the OE email. She told me to copy/paste it back into Word and turn on track changes to see the feedback. This defies every ounce of logic, in my opinion. She may be good with research and statistics, but we need to work on the computer knowledge a bit. Why didn't she just attach the Word doc with the track changes in the OE message??? She's a good prof though, so I know she'll send it as an attachment since copying/pasting obviously didn't work.
This day is not starting out well.
I am experiencing a lot of anger right now. I had to do a rather arduous literature review for a research/statistics class last week. Received the feedback: B. This is totally unacceptable. Now I have to manage to stay in the 30 points remaining before I hit a class grade of A-. I think that will be all right though; and even if it's not, I have 50 more points in the A- range for the overall grade, but that's not the point. The point is that the literature review's grade was a B. I've never experienced this before, and I find it extremely unsettling. One time I received a B+ in World History during my Bachelors, but I wasn't even there half the time (was in France) and the prof was officially recognised as the "Prof B" (Professor Bitch) by the entire class and school. So, I'm very upset. I don't even know what I did wrong because the prof did the track changes for her comments, then copied/pasted in the OE email. She told me to copy/paste it back into Word and turn on track changes to see the feedback. This defies every ounce of logic, in my opinion. She may be good with research and statistics, but we need to work on the computer knowledge a bit. Why didn't she just attach the Word doc with the track changes in the OE message??? She's a good prof though, so I know she'll send it as an attachment since copying/pasting obviously didn't work.
This day is not starting out well.
17 March 2004
Mini-News Flashes
ROTK
I went and saw ROTK last night with Eric, for the first time. Sad, I know, but there it is. I realise that I deserve a kick :) It was so unbelieveably awesome. I think I put off going because I was afraid of a let-down, being that it is the last movie of the series. It's been awhile since I read the books, so I'm going to go back through and read them. I can't wait until the extended version is released. I fully plan to reserve 12 hours of my day and watch all three extended versions in a row. That will be a blissful day.
Ireland
A huge bonus to not working in Corporate Hell is that travel has far more options. When a friend want to holiday somewhere, such as Ireland or England, and they ask if you want to go, there's really nothing to consider. Therefore, when I found out that a friend wanted to visit Ireland, I didn't really take time to roll the dice of consideration before saying yes! The same goes for another friend wanting to go to the beautiful Lake District in England during May. Ireland will be first though, most likely. Soooo...I looked for a website that had a lot of Irish history in it to help me appreciate the country more. Apparently I have a lot of reading ahead of me, seeing that the history starts approximately 1000 BC.
Corporate Hell
2 days and 2 hours...still counting down. My mood here is going down as well. For example, I was nearly enraged when a very annoying person called my chocolate swoops weird. Did I ask her opinion? No, I didn't. Did I ask her to even speak to me? Nope. While it was probably just a weak attempt at conversation, I am no mood to converse. Still counting down the hours to freedom.
ROTK
I went and saw ROTK last night with Eric, for the first time. Sad, I know, but there it is. I realise that I deserve a kick :) It was so unbelieveably awesome. I think I put off going because I was afraid of a let-down, being that it is the last movie of the series. It's been awhile since I read the books, so I'm going to go back through and read them. I can't wait until the extended version is released. I fully plan to reserve 12 hours of my day and watch all three extended versions in a row. That will be a blissful day.
Ireland
A huge bonus to not working in Corporate Hell is that travel has far more options. When a friend want to holiday somewhere, such as Ireland or England, and they ask if you want to go, there's really nothing to consider. Therefore, when I found out that a friend wanted to visit Ireland, I didn't really take time to roll the dice of consideration before saying yes! The same goes for another friend wanting to go to the beautiful Lake District in England during May. Ireland will be first though, most likely. Soooo...I looked for a website that had a lot of Irish history in it to help me appreciate the country more. Apparently I have a lot of reading ahead of me, seeing that the history starts approximately 1000 BC.
Corporate Hell
2 days and 2 hours...still counting down. My mood here is going down as well. For example, I was nearly enraged when a very annoying person called my chocolate swoops weird. Did I ask her opinion? No, I didn't. Did I ask her to even speak to me? Nope. While it was probably just a weak attempt at conversation, I am no mood to converse. Still counting down the hours to freedom.
16 March 2004
15 March 2004
My Last Week!
Can I just say that I am so bloody excited about this being my last week at my company. I plan to:
Work on my Animal Preservation site a lot more...
Make paper...
Draw...
Cook...
Oh, and did I mention that the glorious holiday of Spring Cleaning is coming up very soon?
Basically, while females have earned their right to get out there and being Corporate, I'm finally starting to realise the freedom that women have by staying home. Tae Kwon Do is work, but since it's non-profit, I don't think of it as work. I'll still be making money by teaching college when I finish my Masters, but that's fun work, and I would be only an adjunct...far from full time, but enough to enjoy myself. I'm just not sure if I want to teach on-line or on-site, but I'll probably do a mix.
Freedom - FOUR DAYS AND THREE HOURS...AND COUNTING
Can I just say that I am so bloody excited about this being my last week at my company. I plan to:
Work on my Animal Preservation site a lot more...
Make paper...
Draw...
Cook...
Oh, and did I mention that the glorious holiday of Spring Cleaning is coming up very soon?
Basically, while females have earned their right to get out there and being Corporate, I'm finally starting to realise the freedom that women have by staying home. Tae Kwon Do is work, but since it's non-profit, I don't think of it as work. I'll still be making money by teaching college when I finish my Masters, but that's fun work, and I would be only an adjunct...far from full time, but enough to enjoy myself. I'm just not sure if I want to teach on-line or on-site, but I'll probably do a mix.
Freedom - FOUR DAYS AND THREE HOURS...AND COUNTING
11 March 2004
New Bloggie
Ellen has started a blog! I realised how insightful into human nature *cough* her blog would be when I read her header:
Ellen has started a blog! I realised how insightful into human nature *cough* her blog would be when I read her header:
A blog devoted to my continual struggle with the belief that people are good. Also, my crazy thoughts and feelings may also be discussed.
09 March 2004
A Quarter of A Century
While I very much enjoyed turning 21 years old, I no longer quite look so forward to this day, now marking my 25th birthday. I remember the day where I couldn't wait until I got to the double digits! Yeesh! Why do kids want to grow up so quickly? Anyway, I'm out of college...well, a year left, and although I've decided to put off getting a PhD, I want to get another masters. What's wrong with me? Back to my list...out of college, have my home to decorate constantly, have a wee garden, have travelled quite a bit, and have friends. Most of my goals to be completed by 25 have been accomplished...*yay*! I don't count Dan Shi Club as an accomplishment before 25 simply because I had no idea that I would be doing that! I never thought I'd be married before 25 either...
So, it's time for new goals...to accomplish before 30. *shiver*...did I say 30?
1. Adopt my Chinese baby...
2. Have my own baby (somehow this gets procrastinated each year)
3. Have no more children after the Chinese girl.
4. Expand Dan Shi Club to more locations in the downtown community.
5. Get either a Bachelors in Wildlife Management or a MBA
6. Get more involved with animal preservation, thus the point of the Wildlife Management interest.
7. LEARN HOW TO DRAW! I've read, I've tried, and I still draw poorly unless I have it broken down for me.
8. Travel more, BEFORE kids!
While I very much enjoyed turning 21 years old, I no longer quite look so forward to this day, now marking my 25th birthday. I remember the day where I couldn't wait until I got to the double digits! Yeesh! Why do kids want to grow up so quickly? Anyway, I'm out of college...well, a year left, and although I've decided to put off getting a PhD, I want to get another masters. What's wrong with me? Back to my list...out of college, have my home to decorate constantly, have a wee garden, have travelled quite a bit, and have friends. Most of my goals to be completed by 25 have been accomplished...*yay*! I don't count Dan Shi Club as an accomplishment before 25 simply because I had no idea that I would be doing that! I never thought I'd be married before 25 either...
So, it's time for new goals...to accomplish before 30. *shiver*...did I say 30?
1. Adopt my Chinese baby...
2. Have my own baby (somehow this gets procrastinated each year)
3. Have no more children after the Chinese girl.
4. Expand Dan Shi Club to more locations in the downtown community.
5. Get either a Bachelors in Wildlife Management or a MBA
6. Get more involved with animal preservation, thus the point of the Wildlife Management interest.
7. LEARN HOW TO DRAW! I've read, I've tried, and I still draw poorly unless I have it broken down for me.
8. Travel more, BEFORE kids!
07 March 2004
Trip Highlights
The time away was much needed and helpful. Florida is not my ultimate favourite destination, but being a road trip, we got a beautiful view going through the mountains, and visiting historical locations. I must say, 80 degrees wasn't all that bad either!
I've heard that after 24 hours, whatever you remember are the poignant memories, and everything else was just moments in that particular time. Well, following are a few poignant memories...
Travelling
There was a lot of driving, as I discovered that I had exceeding my 3000 mile rule of changing the oil when we got back. I had just changed it before we left.
Friends
Getting to see the people responsible for our marriage was great! The radar on "trip value" shot way up when I discovered that Noelle has to go to England for a friend's wedding, and Denny can't go, so she was looking for a travelling companion. That decision took about 3 milliseconds. I already bought the ticket :)
Orlando
Since our resort was 6 miles from Disney World, it was tough getting away from the concept. May I just say that I will never take my child to an amusement park that costs $60 a person. Since I hate amusement parks anyway, this decision wasn't difficult at all. Unfortunately, Eric loves those terrifying beasts referred to as roller coasters, so I am the official holder of stuff in amusement parks. Pleasure Island was awesome though. Great comedy club in there...
Seaworld
Although I realise that Seaworld is in Orlando, it gets it's own catagory because ...well... it's SEAWORLD! Yes, I am one of those people that goes to as many zoos as possible and will stare at animals for hours on end, so I was in a dream come true at Seaworld. It's really sad though...I skipped Shamu completely. Something about the whale's fame annoyed me, so I spent more time with the manatees to compensate.
NASA
This was the most exciting part of the trip. Apparently they only use 5% of the island for rocket stuff, and the rest is dedicated to animal preservation...right down my alley! I saw a wild turtle coming out of his hole, a hawk swoop down and get a fish (the most awesome and poignant memory of the trip), and a wild Bald Eagle's nest. I also saw a wild armadillo cross the parking lot. There was a lot of discussion on shuttles and rockets, but it was either listen to the guide, or watch the animals. Gee, that's a toughie. According to Eric though, NASA is the most marvelous thing on the planet. I would suggest, if you are interested about the up close and personal views of the launch pads and such stuff, speak to Eric. :)
Columbia Zoo
Oh yeah! This is a great zoo, and I have some awesome photos. Since I obviously can't pop down to Columbia SC very often, I was very attentive to my camera, so I had Eric tagging behind me making notes of which photos were which animals.
Smoky Mountain National Park
As this park is the home of 70 miles of the trail I want to walk, and gorgeous besides, we had to visit. For my birthday, Eric had bought me Fendi sandals, and like a moron, was wearing them as we drove through the park....so when he wanted a picture of a waterfall with me next it, and water dripped on my Fendi sandals, there were many tears involved. Yes, I cried. I thought they were ruined, but Eric said since it was clean mountain water, it would dry all right. They did. I was happy again. Once again, I am proven that I will have to be a lot tougher for my Appalacian Trail hike.
The time away was much needed and helpful. Florida is not my ultimate favourite destination, but being a road trip, we got a beautiful view going through the mountains, and visiting historical locations. I must say, 80 degrees wasn't all that bad either!
I've heard that after 24 hours, whatever you remember are the poignant memories, and everything else was just moments in that particular time. Well, following are a few poignant memories...
Travelling
There was a lot of driving, as I discovered that I had exceeding my 3000 mile rule of changing the oil when we got back. I had just changed it before we left.
Friends
Getting to see the people responsible for our marriage was great! The radar on "trip value" shot way up when I discovered that Noelle has to go to England for a friend's wedding, and Denny can't go, so she was looking for a travelling companion. That decision took about 3 milliseconds. I already bought the ticket :)
Orlando
Since our resort was 6 miles from Disney World, it was tough getting away from the concept. May I just say that I will never take my child to an amusement park that costs $60 a person. Since I hate amusement parks anyway, this decision wasn't difficult at all. Unfortunately, Eric loves those terrifying beasts referred to as roller coasters, so I am the official holder of stuff in amusement parks. Pleasure Island was awesome though. Great comedy club in there...
Seaworld
Although I realise that Seaworld is in Orlando, it gets it's own catagory because ...well... it's SEAWORLD! Yes, I am one of those people that goes to as many zoos as possible and will stare at animals for hours on end, so I was in a dream come true at Seaworld. It's really sad though...I skipped Shamu completely. Something about the whale's fame annoyed me, so I spent more time with the manatees to compensate.
NASA
This was the most exciting part of the trip. Apparently they only use 5% of the island for rocket stuff, and the rest is dedicated to animal preservation...right down my alley! I saw a wild turtle coming out of his hole, a hawk swoop down and get a fish (the most awesome and poignant memory of the trip), and a wild Bald Eagle's nest. I also saw a wild armadillo cross the parking lot. There was a lot of discussion on shuttles and rockets, but it was either listen to the guide, or watch the animals. Gee, that's a toughie. According to Eric though, NASA is the most marvelous thing on the planet. I would suggest, if you are interested about the up close and personal views of the launch pads and such stuff, speak to Eric. :)
Columbia Zoo
Oh yeah! This is a great zoo, and I have some awesome photos. Since I obviously can't pop down to Columbia SC very often, I was very attentive to my camera, so I had Eric tagging behind me making notes of which photos were which animals.
Smoky Mountain National Park
As this park is the home of 70 miles of the trail I want to walk, and gorgeous besides, we had to visit. For my birthday, Eric had bought me Fendi sandals, and like a moron, was wearing them as we drove through the park....so when he wanted a picture of a waterfall with me next it, and water dripped on my Fendi sandals, there were many tears involved. Yes, I cried. I thought they were ruined, but Eric said since it was clean mountain water, it would dry all right. They did. I was happy again. Once again, I am proven that I will have to be a lot tougher for my Appalacian Trail hike.
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