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little of this...little of that

It has just come to my attention that Staples employees get a weekly paycheck. This would have been nice to know on Friday so that I could have picked up my check and been able to pay my cell phone bill on Saturday before it was disconnected. (On a side note, it would be nice if my direct deposit would work so that I would have to worry about taking a check to the bank)

There's not much better than walking around campus at night listening to Miri Ben Ari. If you haven't heard of her check it, she's known as THE hip-hop violinist.
A few of my favorites:

• Hold Your Head Up High ft. Lil' MO


• Sunshine to the Rain ft. Scarface & Anthony Hamilton (there's also a sweet music video for this one!)


• Miss Melody ft. Akon


• Fly Away ft. Fabolous, Kanye West & Musiq


• She was just a friend ft. Anthony Hamilton

Went to Deja-Vu last night with some guys from Staples...good times!

The only black guy that works at Staples (in columbia at least) was just fired for coming in late or just not showing up too many times. Its too bad, as he was a lot of fun and someday might be a decent artist. He's got some kind of rap group and one of the 4 songs on the cd has potential. (Note: I'm extremely with my rap music, so if I see potential in it, it could go places with a little work)

Rode 25 miles today. Froze Toes, Columbia annual "training race" that is considered the season opener, is just a few weeks away. If I'm able to race, and don't start putting in more hours on the bike I will be dropped midway through the race like last year.

Financial situation still sucks. Financial aid office told me they had a solution for me and then a week later I get an e-mail from them that says I don't have the money. No explanation (until I asked for one), just "we cannot offer you this loan".
This makes me very unhappy...

My "Issues in Education Policy" class will be a challenge. Everyone in there is about 10-15 years older than me, and sound like they've taken a number of classes together, seeing as how they kept bringing up other professor's names and books they've had to read. The professor is nice though. Welcome to grad school. (No I'm not technically in grad school, but these people are)

That's it for now. Time to write another "How I got where I am today" paper for an education class. I hate papers like this. I hate having to write about myself in this way.
The kind of tone I like to write with probably isn't appropriate for a paper like this. This teacher might accept it....maybe I'll find out...

don't feel so hot today.

So what am I going to do about it?

Put myself through a few hours of pain with a few guys on the cycling team.

RIP grandpa

No more grandpa's for me.

Got a longer post about it but I just got done working all day and now I've gotta go to the Reflector to do some stuff I told Judy I'd do, and she says I can't do it tomorrow since it's a holiday. $#%#(&

So that makes it about a 12 hour work day.


Dear weekends,
We were once good friends. I'll miss you.
Love,
Andy

P.S. My f'n feet hurt

My financial situation is a little better now.

But now my weekends are non-existent for a while. Work in an hour, work most of the day tomorrow, I think I'll even be working most of monday.

What's this mean? I may not have time to ride my bike. My last collegiate race could have been Nationals last October...

sucks even more to read another mu cyclists blog and see that he and his roommate are in New Mexico for a week or so putting in base mileage for this season.

#%()*@&

WARNING: if you don't like cusswords stop now.

I SAID STOP!





My financial situation is fucked!
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tired

is the word of the day.

Staples should be a good introduction into the world of retail, but it's not going to be all that rosy.

And a late happy new year to you. If you've got some kind of resolution good luck with that.

if

you see one movie this year (since 2005 is almost over, we'll say this post is for 2006) make it Crash.

It might be the most powerful movie I have ever seen...now if only I can figure out what it means to me...

A little freezin' in December

Rode about 40 miles with another guy this afternoon.
Weather wasn't too bad...mid-30s with a nasty, but not as nasty as the other day, cold wind. Did a couple loops of the Apple Cup course.

He put me in the pain box a couple days ago, today wasn't as bad. Almost visited the pain box once, but could have handled a little more. The scales just said I weight 206, I expected a little closer to 200 because of how good I felt on the bike. Much better than my first couple rides since taking some time off.

That's it for now....gots to find a job...or start pawning stuff off like Nell did.
F'n hire me people...I've got numbchuck skills and "i'm good with computers"(that ones for you scott, if you remember when we heard that said over and over again years ago)

music

some music is hard to stop listening to

check it.... Ne-Yo "So sick"

Yeah...books

As long as Ronnell answers the doorbell I'll have three new books arriving at the house today.
Postsecret: Extraordinary Confessions from Ordinary Lives
The Rose That Grew From the Concrete - 2Pac
Found : The Best Lost, Tossed, and Forgotten Items from Around the World

Should be quite the exciting evening. Actually if Ronnell doesn't feel like being a lazy bum all evening then we'll go play ball after I get off work at 9...then took at the books for a few minutes before putting them in my "to read" pile.

My teeth are killing me right now. Actually it's just one wisdom tooth that's doing it. If this continues I'm going to have to find some industrial strength pain killers.

Speaking of books...I'll have another post soon related to books...

So...

its been a while since I've done any blogging. My bad.

Last weeks was very hectic, as I had one huge project for a class due (about 75% of the grade in the class) and one unit plan and a paper revision due in another.
Stayed up all night one day last week, and got lots done...just went through the next day in a daze. Which was ok, 'cause that's the last day of class for me.

Finals week is this week, but I've got none..so it's just work and finding a job. Got an application for the hospital Ronnell works at with good possibilities of work.

Went on my second bike ride since MTB Nationals and Ben put me in the pain box. Not a fun place to visit. (Note to self: avoid pain box)

Obviously lots has happened since the last time I posted...as I remember I might just post it up.

Oh, sold my mountainbike...so i've got a little more money to help pay off credit cards, just no more mountainbike.
Fire up your little violins and play a little tune for me (if you don't know me you have no idea what this means...so sorry)


I'm out like a fat kid in dodgeball

F'n CompUSA

Way too many f'n people at CompUSA at midnight. Scott and I drove by there cause he was thinking about getting some stuff but the line was from the door, along the front, along the side, and clear to the back.

In other news, I read some article in a magazine the other day that said saying "f'n" or other derivatives isn't cool. I disagree, and therefore shall continue to use it.


Happy late Thanksgiving to you. Mine was good. Thanksgiving lunch at Uncle Jim's was great. Couldn't get anyone to go with me to the plaza lighting (thanks a lot for beeing oversees booger :) so I simmered at scotts. Just now realized why I've been snacking so much the past 4 hours....no dinner. So I shall drink some more caffeine, eat a not so much frozen anymore pizza, and watch a movie with scott downstairs.

snow

I want snow.

lots of it.

If it's going to be chilly, there should be snow. Pennsylvania spoiled me.

A little better

Looks like I'm probably going to be able to student teach next August. The Associate Dean in the College of Ed and an advisor allowing me to take one class while I'm student teaching.

While it is great that I'll be done earlier, next fall will probably be my roughest semester yet. I also hate thinking about not being able to race mountainbikes with the team, but I doubt I'll have time to train like I'd need to. And no time for working either. So no money, so by the end of that semester will I even have any bikes?? hmmm...

Overwhelmed

Feeling a bit overwhelmed right about now.

$ - don't have any. Credit card companies call at least once a day (4 companies each day, around 5 or 6 calls per day).
Mostly worried about Thanksgiving and Christmas break. The only chance I have of financially surviving the breaks is finding a job. But how do I find one that will allow me to work just a few weeks?

School - if I could get one class created for me next semester I could student teach next Fall and be done in December. If my advisor would have made it clear to me that I needed to take it this semester this wouldn't be a problem, but she made it sound like it would be good to take it, not that it would save thousands of dollars.

So now do i become a part time student next semester (only have one education class schduled unless I can get the other one added, in which case I would have a full load) and figure out the financial consequeces of it, or add classes I don't really need and stay a full time student?

The College of Education can suck it.

Long ago

Haven't posted in a while. If you can read dates you already know this (if you can't read dates so well then listen up. Just above the title is the date this post was made. If you look back you can see on what date the last post was made. A little subtraction and you've got how long ago my last post was. TA-DA...you be a genius now)

Going out of town can really zap your energy. When I came back from Pennsylvania I was tired from the trip and what I had to do to get back on track, but also from being sick.
So basically that week was just spent trying to feel better and sleeping as much as possible.
So last week was spent trying to catch up some more, and feeling better.

Now I need to get started on a project for a class that I should've started on a few weeks ago. Not due for a few more weeks, but it should take a while to piece all of it together. At the same time I've got plenty of non-school related stuff I should be doing. Making sure the Cannondale (my mountainbike) is in good working order so I can sell it. Finding someone to buy an almost fully built computer (or figuring out if the motherboard is what's making it not work, getting a new one, and selling a working computer) and so on.
I need money, I've got stuff I can get rid of to get money, just haven't made the time...

Da Vinci Code

I'm trying to finish up The Da Vinci Code.

Got it here at work with me. I've decided to keep it in my bag until it's finished. Otherwise, I'll never finish it. I've only been reading it for 5-6 months.

I really like some of the ideas in the book. It's supposedly based on facts also. I almost wish I hadn't found a little film about called something like "The Real Da Vinci Code" which shows the foundations for a couple of the main ideas of the book (such as there being a bloodline from Jesus) were based upon lies.

Back to the whole book reading taking forever thing. It kinda ticks me off. I start a book. Then I start another one, and then another one. (And I've got about 8 more at home that I plan on reading) That's why I've been reading this book for so long.

Should you care? Not really...but you already read it so HA!

Useless

Feeling pretty useless this week.

Drag myself around the reflector for as many hours as I'm schedule to, then come home and basically get in bed. This wouldn't be a terrible thing if I got back out of bed and got some work done, but I don't.

Damn you sickness, damm you

suck

work really really sucks.
If only I could afford to take a day off and be miserable at home instead of extra miserable at work.