I need to stop writing every week and write everyday

Well, I am still waiting on what my grade if for my paper, which it usually takes a week for the teachers to grade papers. I hope I did good. If I didn't that would suck.
Everyone in my spanish class is getting tired of it. We have to do group work in the class and my partner for a particular exercise wouldn't do anything. We had to tell what we did with our friends and when and that kind of stuff in spanish. He just sat there. I told him what I do and then he kept on just sitting there and not participating. We have to tell what we found out to the teacher I had to come up with something. I asked him what he does and he said he doesn't have time to do anything. He just goes to work and school. So I told the teacher Stephen no tiene vida. (Stephen has no life.) A round of laughter arose from the other students. It was a little agravating that he was just sitting there because he had done that before in another exercise we had.
Anyway, last Friday I had to go to a reading that my creative writing teacher had. If we go to the readings on campus he will allow us to have one abscence for every reading we go to. I don't care about the abscences, I was just going to see what he had written. He read his thesis to us. It was a non-fiction thesis about Darwin. I have ADD so therefore I drifted into other thoughts while he was reading it. The part that I heard was pretty good though. Usually they have two people read at each reading and the teacher (I think) that was after mine had an interesting story he had written. It was about a woman that was making a wax mask of Abraham Lincoln for a man and he went into detail about each part of the face. He told about making the nose, mouth, eyes etc. He told a story of Lincoln to go along with the face part. Like I say I have ADD so I didn't pick up on some things, but at the end the guy put on the mask of Lincoln and shot himself. Kind of interesting.
That night I went to a trunk or treat at my church. It was fun. All the little kids that came were so cute. This one guy that had brought his kids dressed up with a vote for pedro shirt and a big owe afro. It was funny. I left with two big pockets full of candy.
An interesting thing happened this weekend. My friend called me from her cell phone in her car. While I was talking to her I heard this crashing noise and then I heard her say that she would have to call me back because she just got hit. It freaked me out and I worried. but she called back later to tell me that everythig was alright. I haven't really talked to her to find out the details. I thought that it was interesting because the same thing happened to my sister while she was in college. She was talking to her friend on the cell phone and her friend told her that she would have to go because she was rearended. It's weird that it happened to me and my sister. Wow

Buddism and going to school things

I went home this weekend just for the heck of it and because my sister and her little girl went down so I also went to see them. Not much happened down there as usual. Sunday night a friend of my brother and I went to listen to my creative writing proffesor talk about buddism. He is a buddist and had a Q&A type thing at a Universalist Church. It was interesting. I learned a lot about buddhism. There was one thing that was talked about that I was kind of wondering about.
Yesterday I went to school as normal. I came home afterwards and started working on a paper I had due today. I hope I get a good grade. I think I did good with that paper.
Today I went to school (this may seem repitious but this is my life at the moment). After my class this morning I went to sign up for advising. I have to be advised at 8:30 in the morining, which on wednesdays usually I sleep in. I shouldn't complain getting advised is a good thing sometimes. I looked up my adviser on the UA website and he is a African American writer. I have never met him before. I think this will be interesting get to know him. Which speaking of advising I have to make up a tentative sceduale to take with me.
After doing that I ate breakfast at the Ferguson Center and went to work for 2 hours. I may complain about my job but it is a good job. I only work 2 hours a day. Then I came home.

A week later

Man, it has been a whole week since my last blog. That's not good. Well I had my oral interview in Spanish today. It was interesting. We were partnered up with someone in my teacher's other class that she teaches. We knew that we were going to partner up with someone at the beginning of the week, but we did not know the person that we had to partner up with becuase they weren' t in our class. It turned out that I partnered up with this really sweet girl. I wasn't sure what to say at the last of our conversation so she helped me out a little bit. We had to talk about our likes and dislikes which thankfully I was familiar with the word that I liked and disliked. Which now that I think about it we didn't talk about what we didn't like. Well anyway, before we walk out the other girl asked our teacher if we did a good job. She laughed and said that she was going to give out the grades for it on Monday. Hopefully that laugh was that she was just sitting there taking notes and hadn't decided how she was going to grade it. I thought we did a good job see as how it is a introductory level class and we had never had to talk just spanish ever before.
The other day I went to the Tuscaloosa Public Library and got me a library card. I have lived in Tuscaloosa for two years and haven't gone to the library until this week. I had planned on going for two years but never made it. I checked out two books on tape. One was humorous clips that were on NPR and the other was the book that Elizabeth Smart's parents had made about when Elizabeth was kidnapped. I listen to them at work to make the time go by faster because let's face it bug picking is not that exciting.

A kind of normal day

Today was the regular old go to class day. I went to Spanish this morning and then went to work afterwords.Next Friday in Spanish we have to do an oral interview with our teacher. That aught to be really interesting seeing as I am awful at Spanish. So I have to work on studying that and also I have to be wraping up my Enlish paper that is due the week after next. I haven't even written my rough draft yet. Not a good thing. But I am going to work on this weekend hopfully and get very close to finishing and proofreading.
Work was very interesting today. Sometimes in a Sample there is too many bugs in it so I have to split the sample. The way to split a sample is to put the sample in this plastic thing. It is hard to describe, but anyway, you have to spin it back and forth a little bit so the sample will split. At the top of this big cylinder plastic thing is two holes that the now two 1/2 half sample comes out of when they are split. Well I got a little to happy with spining this thing so water and some of the sample, not all, came out. For at least 20 to 25 minutes I was soaking up the water with crappy towels that the lab has. Most of the sample was still in the splitter so it wasn't a complete loss thankfully.

Glad that was taken care of

I found out today that besides the fact that my job paid me too much money is that I get to keep the extra money. I not to sure but I don't even think the money is going to be taken out of my next paycheck. The professor that I worked for fixed the problem though so that is good. It may not seem like it by reading my blog, but I don't want to take more money than I am supposed to be paid.
Next week in my Spanish class we have to do an oral interview with our teacher. That aught to be interesting seeing as it is getting a little harder to understand it.
For an assignment in creative writing we have to look through books, signs, or anything that basically has words and construct a twenty line poem. I have done this before in my Intro to English class and it was really fun. My poem turned out to have an interesting interpretation. I am looking foward to this.
Speaking of jobs I have been thinking about getting a job in the English department mainly if possible to get to know the professors better and see if I can get hints of tips on publishing stuff. Basically get to know people in high places. Because writing books doesn't have a steady income and that's what I want to do with my major. That and my brother has a job in the film department where his major is and he know some pretty good people that could help him out.

Work Worries

Today I found out what was going to happen because I was paid too much. They are going to take the money out of my next paycheck, which is fine with me. I would rather that happen then have to pay them back, but it makes no difference really. Timecards are supposed to be in on the Friday’s before the payday at noon. This is retarded because you have to estimate how many hours you will work for that Friday. If you end up not coming in on that Friday you have to subtract the hours from you next paycheck or make them up, which I no fun. My timecard didn’t make it to the payroll office last Friday so I had to run around campus trying to get my timecard turned in. This could all have been prevented if someone would have told me that I needed to turn it in. From now on I will be taking it to the payroll office that Thursday before it has to be turned in.
Well, that's enough venting about my job, but that the main excitement that happened today. Today was just a regular wake up at 7:00 and go to my classes until 12 and the go to work day.

It's Been A While

So lately I obviously haven’t been posting anything on my blog. This is because I have been busy with school and things and haven’t had much time to write. I had my first Spanish test in my 101 class last week and made a 90 on it. I was pretty excited because I was really worried about it.
I went home this weekend to watch General Conference with my parents and sister and her family. I mostly slept through most of it, but it is going to come out in the Ensign so I will be able to read it (thank goodness for the Ensigns).
Something cool happened in Spanish class this week. One of the girls in my class is also from Magnolia, which was cool and weird at the same time. Magnolia is a very small community. It has a post office two country stores and an intersection with a major highway. One of my sister friends told her that he had gone through Magnolia. He was excited to see it but when he got there he blinked and he missed it. That is an exaggeration but, needless to say it isn’t very big. But anyway, it was really cool to find out she came from the same place I did.
Also something cool that happened this week is I finally change my major officially. On the University of Alabama records I am officially known as English major. Now I just have to come with a minor. I am thinking either creative writing of geology or maybe a slight chance of journalism. I have to do some more thinking on that.
Oh yeah and today I found out that my job paid me more money that I should have gotten. So it took the pay stub to the main man and told him about it.