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Tuesday, April 9th, 2002
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5:40 pm - ha-ha...figures
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| Thursday, March 28th, 2002
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9:29 am - Oh my lordy bagordy
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I just got out of my Stat class(that I didn't go to Tues.) The teacher had given back the tests...so I had to go up to him after class to find out my test grade. He gruffly says "What's your name?...meanwhile thinking why the hell weren't you here Tuesday?" I tell him, he looks at me and says..oh yeah...um.. you did pretty good. He shows me my grade....108! I can't believe it! I just about passed out in the classroom. I could die happy now.
In other news. I am trying to get into an art gallery in Nacadoches. I am waiting to here from the owner. I would be surprised if I got in since this is my first try at a gallery....period. We will see.
Also...I have been "offered" a job at UTA full-time after I graduate in May. Technically they can't offer it to me since they have to post it campus-wide first, but its a sure thing the job is mine. Its for senior secretary for about 20,000 a year with benefits and no registration fees.
Since I'll be going to graduate school that will work out great. After I get my masters I have the option of staying on as a Director of Development or moving on to something else.
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| Thursday, February 21st, 2002
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1:30 pm - Forgot this part
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Goodness Gracious, you're everyone's favourite do-
Do gooder Jean Grey, also known as Phoenix. You look after your teammates, get along with everyone, have a wonderful man who loves you and have pretty much achieved perfection. But look out when you're PMSing and you become Dark Phoenix: a raging homicidal bitch with a knack for causing trouble.
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9:41 am - Hell has indeed frozen over
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My schedule for Saturday:
8am wake up and fix the roof of my mother's house.
11am tutor someone at UTA in social statistics.
3pm throw my sister a baby shower.
of these 3, ME tutoring someone in math is evidence that hell has frozen over.
My sudden ability to do statistics has me wondering if I might want to do demography for a living. Hey, my teacher asks $500 an hour for this kind of work. He's old, but good.
Anyways, I am bored. I have a long break before my next class.
Not too many things going on right now. I'm still working at UTA, still on my last semester. Yeah!
I'm working on some paintings to show to a lady who has an art gallery in Nacadoches. (X_Devious knows her niece.)
We will see where that goes. She sells art nationwide.
My younger sister and her husband are having a boy in April. Cross fingers she has him without incident.
Yeah, I guess that sums it up.
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| Sunday, February 17th, 2002
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4:14 pm - Oh yeah
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I find it extremely hilarious that both Devious and I are the same firearm.
current mood:  sleepy
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| Friday, November 9th, 2001
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7:59 pm - Smiling
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Its been a while since I've posted anything on LJ. I haven't been motivated to do much of anything lately. Life has been extra crappy these past couple of months. I have gotten to the point where I am so angry about everything that has happened to me in the past year that I can't stand it. I'm over feeling sorry for myself. Now I am looking to start putting things in some sort of order. Cross fingers....
At long last I finally have good news. I got a job at UTA working part-time in the development office. I should start next week. It won't be much, but it will work for now until I graduate ..and then maybe I could work out something full-time.
I filed for graduation the other day. That was exciting. I'm all set to go in May. I'm taking 15 hours.
Oh, did anyone see the Buffy musical? I really thought it might be stupid, but I really liked it. I thought they did a great job with the lyrics....funny and serious at the same time.
current mood:  hopeful
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| Tuesday, October 23rd, 2001
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12:21 pm
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| Monday, October 22nd, 2001
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4:46 pm
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| Sunday, October 21st, 2001
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1:28 am - Foiled again
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Alas, I did not win the car. All is well though. It was not meant to be Saturday. Will and I didn't make it on time so I was replaced with an alternate. I'm sure that person needed the car more than me.
I am still out of a job and waiting on my friend at UTA to call me. He thinks he has something, so we will see.
Someone stole one of my books(or walked away with it thinking it was theirs) so I had to go buy another one today. That sucked. At least it was only $26. I had to buy it TODAY because I have a test tomorrow in that class, but all the notes and review sheets that were in it are gone
:( I will be studying for the rest of the day now.
current mood:  discontent
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| Saturday, October 13th, 2001
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12:03 pm - who-hooo
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Yes, the reception was fantastic tonight. Liz loved it and everyone had a good time. Will and Steve's video was a major hit. I always knew Will was a genius, but now everyone else does too. They were raving over how good it was and how professional it looked. Who knows, they may even get hired on to do more videos at the church.
I was especially grateful to Kathy who made me the going away basket and Christine who coordinated the signing of a shirt for me. It was all so nice....but I am glad to be home now resting my tired feet.
current mood:  grateful
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| Friday, October 12th, 2001
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10:15 am - Almost there
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Sunday evening is the going-away reception for Liz. It starts after 5pm mass. Will and Steve have been working non-stop on a video/slide show for the event. Its going to be really great. Its complete with baby pictures, music and interviews. I'm even in the video as"little fawn" my Indian nickname. (I do a skit as an Indian) It has been so hard not to slip and say something about the video with Liz around. Monday is our last day....almost there.
I drove past the mall today on Hulen. The traffic was horrible. It starts earlier every year. I've decided no way for the Foley's idea. I will go work at Hobby Lobby (one just opened) before I go to Foley's.
I'm looking forward to Saturday. Maybe, just maybe I will win that car. One can always hope....but I'm being realistic.
current mood:  accomplished
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| Monday, October 8th, 2001
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12:33 pm - what a weekend
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Well the retreat for the middle school kids was all right....for them. It was really tough on me and everyone else. Trying to get to sleep with 20 giggling young girls running around the room is tough.(unless you like that sort of thing) I'm glad to be home and caught up on sleep finally.
I turned in my resignation at work yesterday. So far, no word from anyone. I didn't go into work today since I felt like crap. I had a major headache, cramps out the wazoo and then during the middle of a class I had to leave because I started to feel sick to my stomach. I don't know what the deal is. It could be that my endometriosis is back and lively. Oh well, who knows. I'll be better by tomorrow I bet.
Still nothing new job-wise. I guess I will be heading to Foley's this weekend...crap.
current mood:  tired
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| Wednesday, October 3rd, 2001
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8:29 am - :P
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This weekend I will be out of town with about 60 middle school kids. Hopefully I will come back in one piece. People that are causing problems at work will be there too....this should be an interesting weekend. At least this is the last big thing I am doing before I quit. I might work as a receptionist for a law firm a friend knows about. Its not many hours, but it will do for now. I should know in the next week whether or not I get it.
My bug collection is coming along. I have about 30 now. Its really pretty fun. There are so many bugs around that you don't really notice how many you have never actually looked at.
current mood:  complacent
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| Tuesday, October 2nd, 2001
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9:16 am - This would be so great
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I got a call today from a lady from the Coca-cola company. While paying for gas at a Chevron by my house, I had entered a contest about a month ago for a Mazda Protege. I don't know why, I just felt like what the heck, I'll give it a try. So she calls me today and tells me I am one of 50 finalists who get a key to see if it starts the car. I go to the dealership in Dallas on the 20th to see. It will be so cool if I win. I need a new car bad, and plus it would make me so happy....everyone cross your fingers.
current mood:  curious
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| Monday, October 1st, 2001
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10:26 am - :P
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Nothing new going on here. I know I haven't posted in a while. I watched the season premier of Buffy tonight. It was pretty good. I'm curious to see what they do with the show.
My birthday went all right on Monday. It felt like it had been several years since my last b-day. I'm finally 24.....not that that makes much difference from 23, but hey. I got all sorts of Powerpuff girls things. Coloring books, stickers, and a story book. I even got a bug book since I am in that bug class.
Oh well, I have to go move my car now for my sister.
Hopefully I will have a job soon, and things will start going right for me.
current mood: disappointed
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| Thursday, September 20th, 2001
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4:42 pm - FYI
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I got this in an e-mail from one of my teachers. I thought y'all might like to look at it.
By Tamim Ansary, an Afghan-American woman and writer living in the US.
*****
Dear Friends,
Yesterday I heard a lot of talk about "bombing Afghanistan back to the Stone
Age." Ronn Owens, on KGO Talk Radio [SF] allowed that this would mean
killing innocent people, people who had nothing to do with this atrocity,
but "we're at war, we have to accept collateral damage," and he asked, "What
else can we
do? What is your suggestion?" Minutes later I heard a TV pundit discussing
whether we "have the belly to do what must be done." And I thought about
these issues especially hard because I am from Afghanistan, and even though
I've lived here for 35 years I've never lost track of what's been going on
over there. So I
want to share a few thoughts with anyone who will listen.
I speak as one who hates the Taliban and Osama Bin Laden. There is no doubt
in my mind that these people were responsible for the atrocity in New York.
I
fervently wish to see those monsters punished. But the Taliban and Bin Laden
are not Afghanistan. They're not even the government of Afghanistan. The
Taliban are a cult of ignorant psychotics who captured Afghanistan in 1997
and have been holding the country in bondage ever since. Bin Laden is a
political criminal with a master plan. When you think Taliban, think Nazis.
When you think Bin Laden, think Hitler. And when you think "the people of
Afghanistan" think "the Jews in the concentration camps." It's not only that
the Afghan people had nothing to do with this atrocity. They were the first
victims of the perpetrators. They would love for someone to eliminate the
Taliban and clear out the rats nest of international thugs holed up in their
country. I guarantee it. Some say, if that's the case, why don't the Afghans
rise up and overthrow the Taliban themselves? The answer is, they're
starved, exhausted, damaged, and incapacitated. A few years ago, the United
Nations estimated that there are 500,000 disabled orphans in Afghanistan--a
country with no economy, no food.
Millions of Afghans are widows of the approximately two million men killed
during the war with the Soviets. And the Taliban has been executing these
women for being women and have buried some of their opponents alive in mass
graves. The soil of Afghanistan is littered with land mines and almost all
the farms have been destroyed. The Afghan people have tried to overthrow the
Taliban. They haven't been able to.
We come now to the question of bombing Afghanistan back to the Stone Age.
Trouble with that scheme is, it's already been done. The Soviets took care
of it . Make the Afghans suffer? They're already suffering. Level their
houses? Done. Turn their schools into piles of rubble? Done. Eradicate their
hospitals? Done. Destroy their infrastructure? There is no infrastructure.
Cut them off from medicine and health care? Too late. Someone already did
all that.
New bombs would only land in the rubble of earlier bombs. Would they at
least get the Taliban? Not likely. In today's Afghanistan, only the Taliban
eat, only they have the means to move around. They'd slip away and hide.
(They have already, I hear.) Maybe the bombs would get some of those
disabled orphans, they don't move too fast, they don't even have
wheelchairs. But flying over Kabul and dropping bombs wouldn't really be a
strike against the criminals who did this horrific thing. Actually it would
be making common cause with the Taliban--by raping once again the people
they've been raping all this time.
So what else can be done, then? Let me now speak with true fear and
trembling. The only way to get Bin Laden is to go in there with ground
troops. I think that when people speak of "having the belly to do what needs
to be done" many of them are thinking in terms of having the belly to kill
as many as needed. They are thinking about overcoming moral qualms about
killing innocent people. But it's the belly to die, not kill, that's
actually on the table. Americans will die in a land war to get Bin Laden.
And not just because some Americans would die fighting their way through
Afghanistan to Bin Laden's hideout. It's much bigger
than that, folks. To get any troops to Afghanistan, we'd have to go through
Pakistan. Would they let us? Not likely. The conquest of Pakistan would have
to be
first. Will other Muslim nations just stand by? You see where I'm going. The
invasion approach is a flirtation with global war between Islam and the
West.
And that is Bin Laden's program. That's exactly what he wants and why he did
this thing. Read his speeches and statements. It's all right there. At the
moment, of course, "Islam" as such does not exist. There are Muslims and
there are Muslim countries, but no such political entity as Islam. Bin Laden
believes that if he can get a war started, he can constitute this entity and
he'd be running it. He really believes Islam would beat the west. It might
seem ridiculous, but he figures if he can polarize the world into Islam and
the West, he's got a billion soldiers. If the West wreaks a holocaust in
Muslim lands, that's a billion people with nothing left to lose, even better
from Bin Laden's point of view. He's probably wrong about winning, in the
end the west would probably
overcome--whatever that would mean in such a war; but the war would last for
years and millions would die, not just theirs but ours. Who has the belly
for that? Bin Laden yes, but anyone else?
I don't have a solution. But I do believe that suffering and poverty are the
soil in which terrorism grows. Bin Laden and his cohorts want to bait us
into creating more such soil, so they and their kind can flourish. We can't
let him do that. That's my humble opinion.
Tamim Ansary
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| Sunday, September 16th, 2001
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1:17 am - Ho-hum
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Not much going on. So far no news on the job scene. I'm going to call UTA today if they don't call me by 2. They've had my application long enough. I was thinking that if I don't get the job I could always go and work for Foleys again. I worked there for about a year and 1/2. The people I worked with were fine...it was those damn customers...so bitchy and impatient when there is a line. I'm really, really hoping UTA calls.
I went to church last night and they had a woman I know who is in charge of religious education give a "talk" to the children before mass started. She had them all come up on the altar and sit down with her. She started talking about what had happened over the past week in NY and Washington. There were a lot of people who got really hot under the collar and started mumbling about how that's the parents job and she shouldn't be talking to them about it. One man got mad and left. It was the first time I had ever been to church where I felt I could cut the air with a knife. Very strange and unsettling. I didn't like the way she was talking about it either. But I'm sure it was fine with the kids, they seemed to enjoy it, but gees....
It its right it should be so,
Man was made for joy and woe;
And when this we rightly know,
Through the world we safely go.
-William Blake
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| Thursday, September 6th, 2001
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7:56 am - Well Crap
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My car broke down on my way to take my sister and I to school this morning. At least I didn't make it 3 feet past my driveway. My mom had to take us. Now I am sitting in my computer apps class.....crap again.
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| Thursday, August 30th, 2001
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12:49 pm - Send in the clowns...
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Whew, first week of school over. I must say... this will be an interesting semester. I'm taking a class called Marital and Sexual lifestyles. Its cool, you get to talk about nothing but sex, and how people do it in their diff. ways of life for an hour and a half. My theory class looks to be really good...but my computer applications(mandatory) class is a joke. The guy teaching it couldn't even figure out how to make his speakers work on his computer at home. Yesterday we were going over the write-protect feature on a floppy disk...amazing stuff. I'm no computer genius, but I don't need someone telling me how to use the pull down menus on Windows either.
I have to collect and kill 50 bugs for my entomology class. Its supposed to be an easy class to help me finish my minor in Biology, but gees! 50 different bugs??
In job news, I applied for a job at UTA as transcript evaluator. I can't believe that it pays $1,888 a month. It may be the most boring job ever, but that would be a pay increase of over 3 times for me. I'm really hoping I get it...then I could buy a new car....finally!!!! My car now is past the 140,000 mark. Its blue book value is $236. That's just sad.
I must sleep now. I am so tired. I haven't slept much the past 2 days.
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