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September 28, 2005 |
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First off, thank you so much to everyone who lent me their support, I think that knowing others thought I would do okay helped boost my confidence as I went into the exams. Alright ladies and gents, I would have posted this sooner but I was waiting for the scores to be posted for the first part of our exam for CJ300. Dr. Winfree promised they would be up by mid-afternoon on Wednesday (today) since that was the exam that was done over the internet on WebCT. He still hasn’t posted the grades yet so I’ll keep checking back and post that grade here as soon as I get it. Over all I think I didn’t better than average on my exams yesterday, I know I definitely did better than I anticipated. My Philosophy exam consisted of twenty multiple-choice questions which I actually knew and didn’t have to hesitate over, and then two essay questions. There were actually six essay questions on the exam, three for part 2:A and three for part 2:B, from which we were to pick one to answer. I’m fairly certain I got all points possible, or as close as Dr. Scoccia will ever award a person , on the essay questions so I’m looking to getting an A on my Philosophy exam. My Astronomy quiz ended up having nothing about Galileo, Copernicus, Brahe or any of the other topics that our instructor went over in great detail and instead focused solely on Isaac Newton and his laws with a brief nod to Johannes Kepler and his laws. I’m thinking I got a C or B on this quiz because of the curve ball the teacher threw at us with that one, not to mention I didn’t get a chance to study for it like I did my other tests. At least the lowest two quiz scores get dropped, I’ll just have to make sure I score better on all my other quizzes. On Thursday in my Astronomy lab we’ll be getting the grades back then so I can tell ya’all how awful it is then. CJ300, what can I say I thought I would fail it completely but it wasn’t as bad as I feared, but by no means an easy feat. The first part of our exam, which I actually took after the second part, was a timed exam on WebCT we had sixty minutes to answer sixty multiple choice and fill-in-the-blank questions. This was actually the easier part because I took it in the computer lab with some friends and we sat around and took our exams one by one so that between all the online quizzes we had printed out, notes, and textbooks we were able to find the answers to the elusive and just plain strangely worded questions. I’m fairly certain that I got a high B or a low A on that part of the exam, it’s the written one that I’m not so sure about. The written exam consisted of selecting four of the terms listed on the exam and giving, and I quote: “a definition grounded in research as well as an example of its use and significance to research in the field of Criminal Justice”  I defined the terms as best as I could but that whole “grounded in research” thing threw me off, I’m not sure I put what he wanted down. We then had to select two of the four essay questions and answer them, these I’m fairly confident will save my grade on the written part of this exam. I’ve always been pretty good at answering the essay questions, provided I know a smidgen of what is going on and have a little time to plot out what I’m going to write (or in some cases, plot out the bullshit I’m going to sling out with style).  I think Dr. Winfree gets his jollies off torturing his students, why else would he devise such a killer system of testing?
Now I just got to worry about my CJ321 exam on Saturday. That one actually shouldn’t be too bad - I think! 
[EDIT] September 29, 2005 at 2:35pm Scores for the online portion of my Criminal Justice exam are up I got an an 85%! I got a B -_-' I can't believe I scored so low on that exam. [/EDIT] Thank you: Julie, Jess, Bronnie & Misty  @ 7:45 pm
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| Can We Say Test Anxiety? |
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September 27, 2005 |
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Well it seems that all forces were conspiring against me this past weekend, the odds were stacked against me and my time was limited. I squeezed in as much studying as I possibly could, but alas just as I was making progress it was time to wrap things up as duties called. Time and again this was the scenario I experienced when trying to study for my CJ and Philosophy exams which I have later today. Hell I didn’t even get to really spend time with my mother yesterday and it was her birthday! I awoke at six o’clock this morning to get a little last minute studying done. I am not so worried about my Philosophy exam as I am my CJ300 exam. That exam is a two part one, definitions and summaries to be written in class and then an hour long multiple-guess (choice) quiz online on WebCT. I feel that I have made headway in that murky area but alas it will be up to the multiple guess section to save my grade, no doubt. Morgan, Melanie, and I are going to take our exams together in one of the computer labs so that this way we can pool our answers from our online quizzes together and hopefully prove that three heads are better than one. Hey, Dr. Winfree is the one who suggested we print out our quizzes once we take them and save them because they would be used in the exams, we’re just being a little more liberal than he anticipated. So here I am taking a bit of a breather before I pack up my stuff and head off to class. I’ve got another quiz in Astronomy today, then my Philosophy Exam, my CJ300 Exam (written part) and then at 6pm the online exam for CJ will be up. Don’t you just love days where you have tests in all your classes? Please note, that last comment was laced with sarcasm, not joy. I’m kind of glad now that my CJ424 class was cancelled for tomorrow, I’m going to need the time to study for my CJ321 exam on Saturday and catch up in my other classes. Wish me luck everyone! I’ll be back later today, maybe tomorrow, and let you all know how it went. Thank you: Julie & Miranda @ 8:52 am
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| I am the Ghost that Haunts from Afar |
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September 19, 2005 |
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Well it was a pretty dead weekend this past Friday and Sunday night at Pic Quick, and so I thought I was going to have a pretty good weekend right? Wrong, apparently I made “sarcastic remarks over a customer‘s purchase” my manager’s words not mine. On top of that Sonia claims she’s gotten complaints from the other girls that work there. Uh hello, I’m not there five out of ten days of the week plus I hardly see any of them. One of my so-called accusers was Nikol, whose words can never be trusted. Sonia however would not tell me who the others were. I just said that I knew I hadn’t been making sarcastic comments over people’s purchases (she adamantly swears that she has heard me do so, and to which I respond with; when? She‘s never there when I work on register!) and asked who made these accusations. She said “I don’t have to tell you”.  That pissed me off, I mean come on if anyone can say anything and hide behind their anonymity then of course they’ll say and make up things. But anyway, I know my rights as an employee and citizen of the state of New Mexico. I told Sonia that yes she had to tell me because by rights I have the right to know who my accusers are, she still refused to say names which means that despite the fact that she said “girls” it was her son Armando and this is all stemming from the day I wanted to know why he is always late and if Sonia ever bothers to write him up for being at least 20minutes late every friggin day. Sonia can’t say “guys” because there are only two guys at the store, Oscar and Armando, and the only one I see nowadays with my new schedule is Armando.
So I was thinking of going up to the main office later today and lodging a complaint against my assistant manager Armando. He is always late, sometimes he doesn’t even show up or his mom (Sonia) has to call him to get up and come to work or she’ll cover his shift for him. He is an assistant manger for crying out loud, and this is how he acts? Here’s the kicker though, he has never been written up for it. If he had been he would have been fired by now, but obviously he’s still there. The owners obviously aren’t completely biased because whenever Nikol whines to one of them, Fred, he listens to her so I’ll lodge my own complaint because frankly if I can be bitched at and accused of wrong doings that I have not done than surely I am entitled to make my own which are valid and legit.
Yeah, as you can tell this shit has me royally pissed off right now, so pissed off I couldn’t even sleep I had to vent instead. Aside from this little scene I had a great week and weekend. I managed to get a lot of studying done and have some fun as well, which is always a good thing. I finally ended up joining Netflix, we’ll see how that turns out. Is anybody currently with them? I’d like to know how people enjoy it. Netflix seems like a good idea, especially since with my odd hours I don’t always get a chance to sit down and enjoy a movie I rented, or I have to turn it in way early because I won’t make it to the store in enough time because of my conflicting schedule and their odd business hours and lack of drop off bin. See I didn’t bother with getting a blockbuster membership because they don’t carry any anime (except for Pokemon, some Dragon Ball and the “Animatrix”) so I have a Hastings membership, but they got rid of their drop off bin which means I have to turn in videos now during their business hours, which I really don’t have the time to do. So here’s hoping this works out better for me. Besides, anime dvds to rent run from $2.99 to $4.99, plus tax and Netflix (since I got the cheapest package) costs me only $9.99 a month for unlimited rentals that I can keep as long as need be. In the long run it seems like it would come out cheaper.  "Happiness can subside, but frustration never lets go" You have been awfully mistreated in your life by your fellow peers and/or family, and feel a growing frustration towards your life and your inability to do anything about it. Since no one has ever really been there for you, you bottle most things inside. And that is quite a lot of pain bottled up too. Deep inside you yearn for many things; feelings for affinity, for the world to improve, for people to stop being judgemental amongst other things. Yet your hope in improvement is very low, and believe you only have the power over yourself. When you are in larger crowds you tend to get irritated by the prescence of others, so you keep to yourself. Those who know you are probably aware of the hate you carry, but you rarely do anything about it. What is Your Phrase? [for darker people] brought to you by Quizilla Thank you: Miranda & Julie @ 6:26 am
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| It's Alive!! |
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September 9, 2005 |
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It has been such a long time since I’ve written anything, and I’m sorry for leaving everybody hanging but unfortunately my current school/work/sleep schedule doesn’t permit me much time to do much else. Especially when one’s parental unit has somehow managed to single handedly screw up the computer (again). Thank the Goddess for service contracts! We’d have been screwed without one. My semester has been pretty hectic so far. What is killing me is the fact that I am losing major study time every Thursday and Saturday night. The new football coach likes night time practices and so the team doesn’t normally get off the field till about 11pm and then I’m there until 4 and 5 o’clock in the morning trying to get their gear washed up and put in their lockers. Granted I don’t have class Friday, I just go in to work the graveyard shift that night at Pic Quick but it still hurts. Half the time I just end up coming home and crashing rather then staying up till 8am or so and studying. Anyway, my only real days to study are Tuesday and Wednesday. Saturday I’ve got a class right after I get off work (from Friday night) and then I go to sleep only to get up to go into work at the Pan Am and then at Athletics. Since this Saturday we have an away game I don’t have to go into work at either job so I might just drop by late that night to do some laundry of my own (pillows and blankets) but I can finally sleep a little more than four hours and I’ll get some studying done. I’ve tried repeatedly to be able to study on Monday, not happening. My body insists on oversleeping to try and make up for the lost hours of sleep through the week. Otherwise at least quiz wise I’m doing okay so far. I’ve gotten B averages in my Philosophy, Astronomy, and CJ 424 classes thus far. Nothing stellar not to mention it screams “study more!” but at least they are all passing grades and were the first quizzes for those classes. I’ve been getting my homework done on time, yet I still feel like I’m slacking. Maybe because I’m a week behind in going over my lecture tapes – yes I’m one of those nerds that brings a recorder and records the lectures. That aside, I still have not gotten word back from TAFL.org or TFL.org yet on my chosen/requested fanlistings. It seems a bit hypocritical to me that these to hubs bitch and moan so much about people keeping their fanlistings updated even if they haven’t received new fans, yet they can’t be bothered to update their sections in a timely manner. It’s been a little over a week and a half since I applied for the MD 20/20 fanlisting and more than two weeks since I applied for the Linna Yamazaki and Envy fanlistings- still no word. I’d send an email inquiring about this delay, but I fear I might anger them to the point of no updating for two months or something. My bosses’ Mother died Wednesday, it’s still kind of unreal to all of us at the Athletics Dept. I mean we knew she had been sick for a while now, off and on, but I don’t think any of us thought she would actually die. My boss, Louie, was pretty close to her and is taking it pretty hard. The reality of the situation hasn’t even really hit him yet. He’s still in a daze thinking she’s going to be okay. Apparently on Wednesday they decided to take her off of life support and give her a high dose of morphine to kill any pain she might feel once off life support. What made this really hard on Louie and the family is the fact that his mother had been sick and had about an estimated 1.5% chance of coming out of her coma. The mother never wanted to be put on life support to begin with but his sister did it anyway and so it upset a lot of the family, especially when on Wednesday her internal bleeding started anew and her chance of awakening dropped to just under a 1% chance. The family had to at last make the decision and in the end it was Louie who had to decide. So right now everybody at Athletics is under a lot of pressure. Louie is out of town, there is an out of town game that the managers had to prepare and make ready for on their own and it was just hectic dividing up the duties. I don’t think any actually minded though, I think we kind of all put ourselves in his shoes and decided we had nothing to bitch about. Someone had a question about the amount of rain my area was getting and whether or not it was normal, I think. I just thought everyone might like to know that the rain still has not really stopped. It mists and sprinkles and like it did on Tuesday, it poors and floods as well. This is not usual September weather. Usually NM just gets some good rain at the beginning or middle of August, for the rainy season to last this long is a little unnerving, especially since it can no longer be blamed on the oncoming Hurricane Katrina. Frankly I think this is just more proof of how fucked up our ozone layer is. Now we’re subjected to weather patterns that have not occurred in decades and should not be occurring any longer. Seriously I believe the last time it rained this much in this area was the late 1800’s, early 1900’s? That is a huge freaking gap! Well I’m off, I’ll try to keep posting but I’m pretty sure the posts are going to get sporadic for awhile. Don’t worry though, I’m still alive! Thank you: Bronnie, Miranda, Julie, & Hannah @ 4:12 am
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