Winding Down

And the list is dwindling down. I love it.

Blogging: Edit paper. Write reflection letter. Due Friday

Gender: Quiz Thurs - finish readings and study

Editing: Print Evals of groups' magazines

524: PRACTICE for presentation THURSDAY @ 2:30 pm!!!!!


Next week I start my internship. Very excited about this, also kinda nervous, of course. I hope the gas card they said they'd give me has a lot of money on it. with gas $4.00/gallon I'll need it.

Lists

So, I've just finished making my FINAL "To Do" list for the end of the semester. Making lists, as weird as this sounds, makes me really excited. I like getting organized, knowing what I have to do so it's all laid out there in front of me, and the (the best part!) crossing things off the list and seeing what I've accomplished. I think I get a natural high from it.

To bore you with my life for the next week, here is what I have to do:

Blogging: keep blogging, edit research paper (due next Friday) (and yes, I said edit. I finished my first draft a couple days ago so now I have some time to edit it to make it better. holla!!!)

Gender and the Media: Quiz Thursday- finish/start readings

Editing and Publishing: Bring in 1st draft and the rewrite of Book Proposal
Bring in course eval and class evals

524: Presentation Thursday- practice and make notecards


FINISHED!!!!!!! no more school!!!! till summer school.....


Gotta love the lists.

The Wackos in Milwaukee...I tell ya....

Throughout the past few days I have encountered a few very strange, weird, bizzare, incredibly wacko people in Milwaukee.

The one fresh in my mind happened only an hour or so ago. I was on my way to class, minding my own business when I saw a box walking towards me on the street.

no joke. a box.

A person had themselves decked out in cardboard boxes. some for his arms, legs, feet, body, and head. of course he had 2 holes for his eyes....but there he was. I wasn't too uncomfortable with it...that is, until I had to stand next to him while we waited for the light to change.

Not quite sure why he was dressed like that, kinda weird.






The second weird thing that happened was a bit more interesting, not to say that box man wasn't interesting.

Friday night I went out, painted the town red so-to-speak, in Milwaukee. By the end of the night we ended up at Axel's. Everything was going fine, we were just sitting around, I was standing against the wall.

Then, a guy comes walking up to me with his hand out for me to shake and he was staring at me really weird. I was hesitant to shake his hand, and was trying to aviod it at all costs. Then my boyfriend and his roommate stepped in front of me and told the guy to get the heck out of there, I didn't want to talk to him.

I thought they were being a little overprotective, until I looked down on the floor to see this weird guy's pants around his ankles. Boxers still on but....no pants.

but this guy would not leave me alone. Finally after a few minutes he walked away.
....until he came back a minute later wanting to shake me hand again. he also was touching Travis' butt saying 'you have a really nice ass, nice ass, i wanna touch your ass'....and thats when shit started to hit the fan.
chris and travis warned him multiple times to leave, but he wouldn't. thats when chris gave him a shove. and there was pushing and shoving for a little bit. Chris was ready to crush him, but we left. and the guy followed us out the bar and was following us...all the while staring at me really weird, his eyes fixed on me.


Weird! and Creepy.




Some people, I tell ya.

Update

So, since my last post I've been frantically looking at ways to try to graduate still after my Fall semester, writing out classes and schedules and basically getting very stressed out and frustrated.

The same day I found out my bad news I started to get a bad sore throat, which has now turned into a bad cold.

Coincidence? I think not....

More like stressed to the max = you get sick.

So I went to my advisor today to try to straighten things out. ...Good news!
I have Many Many Many options.

In summary, I can either graduate in Fall, Winterum, or Spring--depending on how I go about doing things. AND, I can also come out of it with an English minor as well...depeinding on how I go about doing things.

To graduate in Fall I will need:
To take my summer internship for 4 credits (260 hrs in 12 weeks)
Take a 3 credit online course
And 15 credits in Fall

to graduate in Winterum I will need:
Summer internship for 4 credits
18 credits left...so 15 in fall, 3 in winterum

and I just need 2 classes left for an english minor, so instead of taking the bullshit classes, I would take "real" ones for the minor.

So now I just need to make a decision.

Screwed over

I am extremely extremely pissed off right now. Excuse me if I go off on a swearing rampage in the middle of this.

So, I go to my Journalism advisor today to double check that I can still graduate next December, a semester early. She looks at my stuff....yep, I'm good to go after 2 more JMC classes and a natural science from the L&S department.

THEN, I told her how my friend is in the same situation as me, 15 credits left, one graduating in December, and gets to register today when I register on May 2nd. We go to the front office to see why this is. As we get my answer (because I have junior academic status, so juniors go last. such bullshit)

THEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!! she says, " I don't see how you can graduate in December, you only have 99 credits and you need 120 to graduate.

So Apparentely, my fucking L&S advisor forgot to mention to me the "graduation requirements." he just told me "you need one more natural science and you'll be done here." So, instead of taking 3 classes next fall, I need to drag it out over the course of 2 fucking semesters. and what do I have to put inbetween those classes you ask?

oh, nothing much, just some bullshit ballroom dancing, pottery making, floral arrangement, fucking body sense classes. bullshit fillers that will satisfy uwm's "graduation requirments."

you know, this would have been nice to know about a LONG fucking time ago. My "advisor" did a very poor job in advising me. I would have taken an extra class this semester, one last winterum....in order to graduate in fall.

and since a JMC class is only open to graduating seniors, I have to wait until spring to take it now, along with some fucking yoga, pilates, or some other shit like that.

what a fucking waste of time and money.

pissed off.


so pissed.

Counting down the days

3 more weeks of school. Things are winding down for sure, but I've still got to set my nose to the grindstone and finish strong. I'm offically done May 10th. Even before exams start. Which is sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet.

But I've got papers and presentations to keep me busy till then. I will be smiling all day on May 10th after 2:45 pm.

VA Tech

What a horrible thing to happen.
There have been so many undated reports since Monday. It seems as though every time I log on to yahoo.com there's more and more information being revealed. Although it is entirely possible and probable that there have been more school shootings since Columbine and the copycats after that, things have been pretty quiet regarding that matter.
But now its started up againg. After Cho Seung-Hui went on his rampage Monday, I believe the copycats will come out. there have already been cases. my boss was just telling me about a schoo in MN where a student was arrested after finding that a note he wrote saying (summarized) "First VA Tech, now (school's name)." and how he wanted to beat the "record" and kill 100.
How sickening. That just pisses me off. People are unhappy with their own lives so they take it out on innocent bystandards.
I understand that he was made fun of, a shy guy, and pushed around a lot....but punch a pillow, go to counseling...don't go crazy and kill innocent people.
The pictures he sent the news station are just plain creepy. Him holding a gun to his head. Pointing the gun. and then there was one of a coffee cup next to a memorial with writing on it. it said that because of the coffee, the person was late to class where most of the shooting took place and it saved the persons life. wow. thats weird.