| Ouchie |
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November 30, 2005 |
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Okay well maybe it’s finally time to shell out cash and get my lazy and onry ass to a dentist. I woke up this morning with the lower left side of my face swollen and sore. It hurt to swallow and the gum behind my last tooth in the back was swollen and sore.  I had to take an advil and just lay there for a bit till the advil kicked in. I couldn’t even swallow or move my jaw without aggravating the damn thing! Worse thing is the tenderness is mostly focused in the back, but now the teeth on the other side are being really tender and sensitive. I tried eating a fig newton and winced like I had tried to eat something cold or hot.
The advil is working though, the swelling seems to have gone down and I can eat now and it’s not bothering me anymore, not like it was anyway. But if I try to stretch my jaw it twinges something fierce. Strangely enough a combination of advil and International Flavors coffee seem to have helped. I’m just glad I don’t have class till tonight, my mouth was hurting that bad. It woke me up at about 7:30am this morning and it is only now stopped bothering me. If I had had class this morning there was no way in hell I could have made it. I’ve never had my wisdom teeth pulled so I wonder if that’s what it is. Of course I haven’t been to the dentist in oh eight, nine years? I know I’ve got cavities, hell there is one spot on one tooth that is terribly weak. But I can’t really afford a dentist on my own and I’m loathe to make my mom shell out money for my dental bills anymore so it’ll just have to wait a bit longer. Not exactly healthy or smart I realize this, but alas it is a reality. Makes me kind of wish I still worked at pic quick, they at least gave their employees medical and dental after they had been there a year…. Well I’m afraid I can’t bellyache anymore. I let my tooth/gum whatever bother me long enough as it is. I have a ton of chapters to re-read  for my CJ 424 class tonight, because there will be a 8-10 question quiz that will somehow manage to cover five chapters from one book and two from another. I got the paper done last week though so no real worries!  Plus I get to go to a review for Astronomy after CJ and turn in my assignments for that class so everything is getting wrapped up finally! The semester is at last, coming to an end.
Thank you  : Casie, Julie, Kate & Bronnie
 @ 10:49am
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| In the Land of Studious Students..... |
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November 22, 2005 |
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Well I also have over two weeks worth of Astronomy class notes to go back over and re-copy; lecture tapes for Philosophy to review and notes to copy over; notes to copy for CJ 300, as well as getting them organized for my online exam to that I can look up the answers quickly; and I have to squeeze in a little time to study for my CJ321 class as well. Since CJ 321 is a Saturday only class my next class (December 3) will be my last class and I’ll take my exam for it then. All of my other exams will take place that following week, one a day thankfully. So what does this mean exactly you ask? It means my friends that despite my eternal love for you I shall not be seeing much of ya’all for the next week (maybe two). I need to get some serious studying done so that I don’t end up as one of the idiots camping out in the library final’s week cramming. I’ll be around here and there, checking my emails and maybe posting a few posts at Nocturna, AF, TSB, and Eternal Dream just to break the monotony and to keep my head from exploding. So please do not take offense if I take forever and a day to respond to an email, return a comment, update a fan listing, or post a new chapter to one of my fics. I have to prioritize right now and I really would like to keep on track for graduation. For my fan fiction readers, I promised a new chapter for The Prodigal Child and Online and I will deliver. Keep in mind ladies and gentlemen the new spring semester does not start until January 19th 2006 and school lets out on the 9th of December 2005. That is over two months to devote to my websites and writing. I can and will get new chapters posted. I would like to take this time to point out however that comments on the review system at ff.net, here, and emails sent to me containing childish death threats such as "you’d better f-ing hurry up the next chapter or I’ll shoot you" and the like will not entice me to hurry, quite the opposite really.  I will update when I get the inspiration, why force something to come and submit half-assed work that would disappoint and let the reader down worse that lengthy updates?
This is Joana signing off for now, have a Happy Thanksgiving everybody......and 
 [EDIT: 11/22/05 @ 4:43pm] For those interested I have compiled a little to-do list that I will try to keep updated so you know how I’m progressing. Homework to do: - - - - - - - - Type up quiz questions-aid for online exam - - - - - - - - [/EDIT] Thank you : Kate, Casie, Hannah & Christie
@ 1:23am
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| A New Semester |
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November 14, 2005 |
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It doesn’t seem like that long ago since I was picking my classes and getting ready to register for the fall 2005 semester and already I am repeating the process for the Spring 2006 semester. I got advised today and I found out something that nearly made me faint; I’ve only got fifteen more classes to go before I graduate.  Shocking isn’t it? That’s roughly three more semesters since I’m taking 18 credit hour semesters which boils down to five classes a semester - I’ll be graduating in Spring 2007! I’m almost free, but now I’m kind of scared. I need a job that I can put my major to use so now is the time to get my ass working on looking for a job after college.
So far this is what my schedule looks like: Tuesday- 1:10-2:25pm Anthropology 315: Introduction to Archeology 2:35-5:20pm HL S301: Human Sexuality Wednesday- 2:45-5:15pm Anthropology 430: Human Osteology and Forensic Anthropology 6:00-8:30pm Criminal Justice 307: Law of Evidence Thursday- 1:10-2:25pm Anthropology 315: Introduction to Archeology Friday- 12:00-2:55pm Criminal Justice 322: Organized Crime So far I’ve only got fifteen credit hours for the semester but I’m hesitating over whether to finish my Viewing the Wider World (VtWW) requirements all in one semester or saving one for the following semester. I’m taking Human sexuality this semester for VtWW and I am seriously considering taking Human, Insects and the Environment but I’m not sure whether I should take it this semester or next. I also have one more CJ requirement to take that I totally forgot about which is CJ301. That class is being offered this semester by a grad student and is a Monday, Wednesday, Friday class from 1:30-2:20pm so it would coincide nicely on Wednesdays because there isn’t too much time between that and my Anth430 class, but at the same time I’d be stuck on campus until 8:30pm. I also don’t want to take another Saturday class but I really wanted to take Organized Crime and it is offered at 12pm which is better than the Saturday class I have right now which starts at 8:30am *dies* The good thing is that after this semester is finished I will only need to take CJ306: Criminal Procedure in order to complete my Minor in Forensic Science: Human Forensic Analysis. I’m so excited!
My mom is being silly over my upcoming graduation. She is absolutely adamant about me walking and buying a ring. I was just going to get the ring and that’s it, but no she wants to buy my cap and gown and insists I walk. I find this funny coming from the woman who refused to walk in her graduating ceremony to receive her diploma, she didn’t want to pay the fee to walk and the price for the cap and gown and yet here she is trying to force me to do it. She keeps saying "you’ll only graduate from college once". I tried telling her to hold off and if she really wants to celebrate she can celebrate when I get a Masters. *rolls eyes* to which she replied "the first time is the most important and can never be repeated" so I relented and said I’d walk.  So now she wants to rent a reception hall to celebrate my graduation  she’s bonkers!
I was downloading some fonts earlier and I went ahead and downloaded some smilies from Mazeguy.net to use in my blog along side the cat smilies. I downloaded these:      Not quite sure that I’ll ever really use the Raven, Severus, and Draco smilies but I got ‘em anyway.
Thank you : Misty, Bronnie & Miranda
@ 1:48pm
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| Incetives & Anime |
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November 12, 2005 |
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Well so much for having the entire week off for Thanksgiving, but in this case I’m not really complaining. The football team as well as volley ball have games and practices scheduled during the break and so of course laundry and what not for the teams needs to be done. In order to someone to give up some of their off time the Athletics authorized my boss to give us "incentive". I will get paid my typical wages (of 20hrs a week) for that week, which I wouldn’t have been getting since we’re supposed to be off and the university itself is only going to be open (offices and what not) for three days that week, plus I get an extra $120 cash. Now who could possibly turn this offer down? Susan (the other girl) apparently did. She was just all "I’m going out of town on Friday" and didn’t let our boss get a word in edge wise - her loss, my gain! Not so good news, I got a low B on my second exam for CJ321. Actually it was a 78% (C+) but we went over the exams in class today and there were three questions that I missed that should have been right that I’ll get credit for so now it looks like I’ve an 80% or so. I hate taking exams so early in the morning (especially Saturdays) once again I caught all kinds of answers that I filled in the wrong scantron bubble for, but I had known the answer grr. I’m working again tonight at Athletics, but not until after the volleyball game is over, since I’m working over there (Pan Am) tonight too so it’s going to be a long night. At least while I’m at work tonight I can see the new episode of sCRYed. I’m addicted to that anime. I had heard of it and even watched some promos for it when it first came out in Japan but I never got into it, yet after just watching a few episodes of it on Cartoon Network I got hooked. I’m an avid sCRYed fan girl now. This is probably no surprise to anybody really, I’m just a bit to anime obsessed. Thank you : Bronnie & Laura
@ 1:48pm
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| Still feeling bleh |
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November 10, 2005 |
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Thank you so much for your wonderful comments and condolences on my last post Laura, Christie and Miranda  . I really appreciated your nice and sincere comments about my fish Avatre, and I'm glad I'm not the only one who loves fish and feels sad when one passes away.
Well I’m being a total lazy ass today. It is right now 11:56am and I am still sitting around in my PJs goofing off on the computer when I should have been dressed and on campus already. I’ve missed my astronomy class so far and twenty minutes of my Philosophy class as well and I’m still here. I don’t think I’ll be going to my CJ300 class either, or my Astronomy lab either. Why you ask? Frankly I don’t know. I’ve been exceptionally lazy this week, not to mention apathetic as well. 
I had every intention of going to my classes today but as I was gathering up my stuff to write my summary for last week’s lab (that is due this afternoon) I couldn’t find the worksheet that is supposed to be turned in with it! I searched my car from top to bottom, ore apart both my back packs then remembered that it had been in the stack that contained my October observatory journal and the project instructions which was all at the computer since I had been working on the project. So I tore through the papers at the computer and I found the two sheets of instructions for the project but that was it. 
On Tuesday I turned in the observation journal and I think I stapled the worksheet to the back of the journal. See I had left the worksheet at the computer to remind me that I still had to type up the summary, well for the observation journal you have to find two facts about each object you observed so I had that over here at the computer with me while I was googling for facts and writing them down. What must have happened is that I picked it up with the observation sheets and stapled them all together. I hope that’s what happened because at least it gets turned in, otherwise I don’t know where it went. What’s really sad is that we work in groups in the astronomy lab and I think the other three members were counting on me to turn in the worksheet for us. Oops. Oh well, everyone got a worksheet and was supposed to work on it. In theory any one of them could turn in the worksheet for the group, even if they didn’t bring it with them to the morning class, lab isn’t until 3:30pm - plenty of time for one of them (all three of which live in town and two of which live on campus) to go home and get it. That’s the main reason why I don’t want to go to my astronomy lab now, I don’t want to show up and not have both that and my summary done. I can always turn in the summary late on Friday or Monday, and it’ll give me some more time to thoroughly tear this house apart to make sure the paper isn‘t here. I know one thing for sure though, if I’m not there one of the other three members of the group will turn in the worksheet (and none of them will bother to put my name on it even though I worked on it with them) or they’ll tell Glenn (the TA) that I was supposed to turn it in for the group and that I’m not there and he’ll give ’em a free pass till next Thursday. Either way they’re not screwed, just me. There are two bad thing about not going to classes today though; one, I don’t get my philosophy exam back so I won’t know what I got on it until next week; and two, I’ll lose clicker (cps units) points on the in-class questions for my CJ300 class. There goes my perfect attendance! It’s no big deal really and the loss of the points won’t affect me very much (if at all) but it’s still a bit of a bummer. Feh, so anyway here I am just bored out of my mind now. I started re-reading Kracken’s (Delia Boyton) novel "The Angel Within" for like the hundredth time. The cover features Rachel Vause’s artwork so I’m kind of pissed the spine and the edges of the cover are getting torn up; just shows that the book is well loved I guess. Thank you : Laura, Christie & Miranda
@ 12:16pm
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| My Poor Avatre |
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November 8, 2005 |
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One of my fish passed away earlier today. He was up and swimming earlier and then I came in to feed them and Avatre was just lying at the bottom of the fishbowl. It’s depressing really because I haven’t had him that long, not quite a full year and he passed away, but Kashet who I got at the exact same time is doing just fine. Avatre was a male beta and I know they don’t last that long, but still I’m depressed now. Poor Avatre was always catching something and seemed to be the generally less healthy of the two, I guess it’s good that he’s resting now.
Look at me getting all sentimental over a fish! I guess I’m not the cold-hearted bitch I thought I was after all. I can’t help it though, he was a pet and I cared about the little guy. My cat Denali seems to think that she is entitled to him, so tomorrow after I get out of class while she’s locked up in the house I’ll take him outside somewhere and bury him. I just don’t have the heart to flush the guy down a toilet like he’s some piece of rubbish ya know. Total procrastination on my part, I’ve got a paper due the 16th which I have not touched yet for my CJ424 class. I had all of Sunday and Monday off that I could have gotten something done, but did I? No! I just bullshited around. I’m so lazy. I forgot to mention in my last entry, but I got a 90% on my second CJ300 exam!! I’m not quite sure how I managed to pull that one off, but I did. Now I’m just awaiting the results for CJ321. CJ424 was a mid-range B, so we’re not even going to talk about that one! 
Thank you : Shasta & Julie
@ 12:08am
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| Feeling Bleh |
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November 5, 2005 |
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Exam number two for CJ321 was administered earlier today, I didn’t study for it hardly but I sincerely doubt I did bad on it. I probably got a B or something like it on the exam. I’m becoming apathetic again, because I just don’t seem to give a damn. Last night was a pain in the ass; from high school football parents blocking my way to work, parking Nazi, and disappearing keys - it was just interesting. I filled out the ‘completed listing’ form for the MD 20/20 fanlisting a while ago (as in over a week ago) and still haven’t heard anything back yet from TFL.org. Not to mention I’m still waiting on approval for the prime time cigars and Cleopatra 2525 fanlisting from them as well as approval for the Dorothy Catalonia fanlisting from AFL.org as well. These people are just so slow it’s sad. Even though the fanlisting is listed and fully "approved" if anybody wants to join Mad Dog the MD 20/20 fanlisting then please head on over and join today! The semester is almost over I’m trying to get an internship for next semester, because if I do that then I don’t have to take Senior Seminar so here’s hoping, because I really hate teaching and that what senior seminar involves. Lots of talking and educating of the younger students (see sophomores and freshmen) *shudders* that is just not on my list of "things to do" if you know what I mean. But I am a junior right now so if I don’t get an internship this time around I’ve got some time to try again before I have to take the seminar. I want to do something with Nanashi. I’m tired of the pink already, I like the general set up of the site - I’m just tired of the colors. I’m actually surprised the pink layout stayed up for as long as it did. I know a lot of people were wondering if I was okay when they saw all the shades of pink and butterflies. I want something dark and gothic looking. No red, maybe some shades of purple but definitely loads of black and gray with possibly a touch of white. I was looking at the Dark Nights them at Nocturna and the color scheme of it definitely appeals to me right now. I have no idea though on what kind of images to use for a graphic. Not to mention I kind of want a blend or something with a ton of brushes, but I pretty much suck at that stuff. So who knows how long it’s gonna take to get a new layout created and put up. Lots of time over "Winter" vacation (remember it is no longer politically correct to say "Christmas Vacation") to work something out. Maybe I’ll finally be able to install Adobe photoshop on the new computer and can stop relying on the limited crap that’s on the computers on campus. Gah, and I still need to come up with a layout for the Cleopatra 2525 fl. I can’t make up my mind on how to set it up, I have the general mental image of how I want things laid out and the graphics to use for the prime time and Dorothy fls, but the Cleo one? The fuck if I know. Can you believe that I still have tons of files from DMYIP I haven’t uploaded to the site yet? Yeah, I didn’t realize it myself either until I got an email from a fan asking why the new site on the domain was missing so much stuff. Oops. So I guess I know what I’m doing this break. Catch up on all things net related, that and get my living quarters cleaned up and re-arranged. Ah yes, this entry was posted using CuteFTP  Yes I love my CuteFTP. Big thanks to everyone out there who recommended it.
Thank you : Misty & Julie
@ 4:35 pm
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