week in a flash (week 22)

1. I think I’m off on my “days to graduation” countdown so I’m going to re-count and have it back up next week, I promise.

2. Heard this on Law & Order a few weeks back from the guy who plays Detective Lupo ~ “Being Goth never killed anybody.”  Awesome, right?  ;)

3. So I watched one of TNT’s “More Movie…Less Commercials” movies a little while ago and I got curious after the first commercial break how long it would last.  You see, I have this pet theory that the closer it gets to the end of a movie (or show) the more commercials they show so I counted them.  The first three commercial breaks were indeed “Less Commercials” as there was only one commercial on each of those commercial breaks BUT the next four commercial breaks went up to eight commercials and then nine.  I didn’t time how long they took, that’ll be the next pet project, hahahaha!!

4. Went down to Denver on a whirlwind trip this weekend.  It was fun.  There was some friction amongst the seven of us females but somehow we survived intact.  :D  That being said, I absolutely LOVE Denver!!  I know, I’m wierd.

5. While we were in Denver me and two other girls went to Dave & Busters the restaraunt that has arcade games – it’s like Chuckee Cheese but for grownups.  It was a blast!  As we were leaving (with only 66 tickets for all of our hard work) we decided to try these ‘wheel o’ fortune’ like games that gave out anywhere from 1000 to 40 tickets.  The 1000 tickets being the biggest prize and consequently the hardest to get.  The other two girls took several spins and won us about 2-300 tickets and then they cajoled and ‘encouraged’ me to take a turn.  I was…hesitant…but I figured, why not?  It’s all just fun anyway, right?  Well I spun it AND WON THE 1000 TICKETS!!!!!!!!  Yes, we went crazy, screaming and jumping up and down.  It was fun!!  So at the end of it I got a shot glass that has the Dave & Buster’s logo on it, a deck of cards with the Broncos logo on the back, a mini frisbee and a cheap little yo-yo.  Yes, cheap, chintzy ‘toys’ and I love them!  Lol!!

6. Only a few weeks before I get to go home for Thanksgiving and see my cat…oh yeah, and my parents (and any other family members that are there)  ;)

7. I had my group presentation for my Org Comm class this past week.  It went awesomely!  We managed to get a lot of class participation even though only about 10% of the class actually read the case we were discussing, oh well!

8. I can’t wait to be done with school…

9. Maybe one of these days I’ll actually be able to watch TV like a normal person, you know regularly following shows on the major networks instead of just catching re-runs on the secondary networks  *sigh*…one day soon…

10. Here comes crackdown time, not only are state elections getting close but so is the college graduation, I honestly can’t tell if I’m excited or freaked out…maybe both

11. Speaking of state elections (I’m opening the can here people) what do you guys think of how elections are going wherever it is that you are?  Over here they are very interesting and I look forward to seeing how things turn out.

week in a flash (week 15)

1. Days to graduation = 70, that doesn’t include weekends and holidays (graduation is December 18th in case you wanted to know)

2. I really do think the first couple of days of classes are useless, it’s all “let’s go over the syllabus, the semester schedule and introduce ourselves…and then we’ll see you later.”  It feels so pointless especially because I know most of the people I’m in class with by now.

3. I got to learn about the Puritans this week, it was interesting.  There were some things that I found out that I didn’t know before about them and I was surprised…and saddened.  These people are our Founding Fathers, they were the original founders.  Unfortunately I was wrong several years back when I stated that our nation was founded on the principle of freedom of religion, the Puritans came to America because they believed that the Church of England wasn’t strict enough.  By forcing people to join they muddied the waters.  The Puritans didn’t want to be associated with lukewarm believers (you know “Sunday” believers) and they didn’t want to be associated with non-believers so they fled to America in order to set up their own stricter church.  As long as you were part of them life was good but if you were on the outside…well…life wasn’t as good.  *sigh* you’d think that things would’ve changed by now…

4. I’m still adjusting to the idea that a motel room is ‘home’ and not just a weekend layover…having those pics of young Elvis helps :D

5. So last week I made myself some coffee, I put enough water in for four cups, enough grounds for a whole pot and drank it all in a cup and a half…not good, not good at all.  I really don’t like a caffeine rush like that.  So I tried again, put enough water in for a whole pot, same amount of grounds and took two days to drink it, much better.  And now I’ve made at least two more pots of coffee…I really like coffee.

6. I watched a marathon of Stephen King films on SyFy this weekend.  It was odd.  There was the expected terror, sex, fear, psuedo-religion, good=evil and evil=good dichotomy and bad parents.  But there was some unexpected joy, uplifting faith, good=good and evil=evil, non-condescending portrayals of faithful people and martyrs, good people, community and not as much gore and monster’s-under-the-bed sort of thing.  It was wierd.

7. I watched a Silent film for my Topics class, it was a Silent Western and it was a lot more enjoyable than I thought it would be.  The facial work they did was amazing.  And yes, it was a bit overacted but they didn’t have sound and they didn’t have a lot of room for panels that gave you the dialogue so they had to be a bit overdramatic but it wasn’t as bad as I expected.

8. Yes, you are going to get some schooling over the next 70 days because that’s what I’m doing with my life right now so it’s on my mind so I intend to share it with you.  It should be interesting.

9. I might have to start a Twitter account for my Public Relations class…I’m not excited about it because I don’t really see the point for a couple of reasons, I don’t have the capability of updating from my phone and I’m not a public figure.  But I have to learn how to do that if I’m going to be in PR because it’s the age of technology and social media and if I don’t learn how to handle it I am no longer marketable in the workforce I want to be in.  Twitter here I come…

10. In my Organizational Communication class we are discussing how globalization affected American business.  And I kept thinking about how people are so freaked out and upset by globalization and how it seems pretty useless to be that way, because as soon as the internet gave someone like me the ability to talk to someone on the other side of the world – we became global.  It seems inevitable to me – we are no longer an isolated peoples or nation and now we have to learn how to operate in this world.

11. So, because I will be talking about my classes for the next 70 days (are you tired of the countdown yet? Lol!) I figured I’d let you know what I’m taking for my last semester of college:

   MWF – Literary Criticism (Lit Crit)

   T – American Literature (Am Lit), Organizational Communication (Org Comm), Public Relations (PR) & Topics: Film, The Western (Topics)

   Th – Am Lit, Org Comm & PR

Yeah when I said that Tuesday was madness I wasn’t kidding, my day starts at 9:30 AM and ends at 7 PM; my other days aren’t so bad.

12. I’ve got fake nails on this week.  I figure since I’m not working and once I get a job it’ll be a while before I can be bold with my nail color again than I’m going to have fun with it now…hence the black nails last week and the fake nails with a plaid pattern on the top part of the nail this week – very unprofessional and very cool  ;)  Yes I am in fact a 23-year-old.