I see trouble ahead

I definately see trouble ahead with Psychology. It's this lovely foreboding feeling. I feel like I have to tie myself to a chair to get things done. Why or why couldn't we just do chapter quizzes.

Today was an interesting day. Left the house late so by the time we got through AHC and the lights getting into MC I just barely made it to class this morning. Then the girl who didn't email me her information for her presentation was like oh did you not get my email (before I said anything). Then the other two who did send me stuff proceeded to read directly from my handout instead of mentioning the items i didn't put on there. Very frustrating. Then German where it was really obvious who actually learned their numbers over the weekend and who didn't. Luckily the woman in the back was gone who is as annoying as nails on a chalkboard. I crossing my fingers she dropped but I don't think I'll be that lucky. Children's Literature the teacher showed us how storytime should happen by using the book old mcdonald had a farm. She dressed in a farmers hat we all had to sing and then draw with our finger in the air the letter EIO. No work today. So took the T2 home which is like a 30 minute bus ride but it's pretty. Gives me a chance to go over German. I have an interview on Friday for Giggle in Friendship Heights. They sell baby stuff. Hopefully that goes well and they pay. Definitely would have better hours. Then had a really nice conversation with Aaron from German class. Now it's off to study for the possible pop quiz in history and read for aerobics then bed. You get an extra day for the shakespeare quote. Guten Nacht

First Week

So survived my first week of school. Schedule is kind of crazy. I forgot how tiring getting little sleep was. Plus my dad switched to cafeine free soda so yeah this week was interesting. Almost was tempted to drink coffee. Bought some caffeinated soda so all good. Let's see History is good.Teacher is funny. I'm going to have to take really good notes since theirs no text book and his power points are all pictures. Had my first Dance Aerobics workout. Started to really get sore during work but got through it and was fine on thursday. Child Growth and Development isn't bad. Lots of group table discussion and off course I get a very quiet table. So unlike the shy person I am the stage manager in me comes out and I start the talking usually. German is fun. Teacher can be kind of funny. There is one woman in the class though that is really annoying. The guy that sits next to me, Aaron, is nice. We've actually had somewhat conversations lol in between learning Ich Bin Beth and Eins Swei Drei. It's actually the only conversation I have had with anyone at the school so it's refreshing. Children's Literature is fun. Teacher reminds me of Ms. Frizzle from Magic School Bus. I get to make a children's book based on another book. I'm basing mine on If you give a mouse a cookie. (If you give a monster a milkshake). Not a big fan of my psych class. It's online and I miss the engagement of the teacher. The material is so dry and all my assignment is is defining key terms and coming up with an example of each. Some don't really have examples. Sigh it's annoying.
           Otherwise life continues. Hoping to make a couple new friends at MC. LOL Maybe the cleaning woman will be right and I'll meet a boyfriend. It would be nice. Especially since I'm helping Ronelia in planning her wedding it'd be nice to have a date. Not to mention companionship. Ah well. Que sera sera. Maybe I should learn that in German now. Not sure when the next post will be not that anyone reads this other than me.  So I have no idea on the last shakespeare quote so oops here's then new one.
Love sought is good, but giv'n unsought is better

Stupid Stupid Stupid

Not sure why I did it but I agreed to go to work tomorrow night. I just couldn't say no. I tried but I was bumbling and everything. So I gave up my last day off before school starts. (Shaking head) I mean yeah it means more money but really? Is the 6 hours I'd be working minus the taxi fare really worth giving up my last day of freedom cause even when I do get a day off of school AND work I'm probably still going to be doing work. (Shaking head again). I am an idiot. And since I'm under 90 days I can't call and be like wait there was something I really needed to be doing. Ugh.
      In school news my Psychology class online posted the syllabus and guess what this idiot bought the wrong textbook. So I ordered a new one which should be here tomorrow which is good because it's a lot of work not necessarily hard but I'm going to have to keep track of it. Basically every three chapters I have An Assignment, a discussion, and and Exam. Assignments are I have to list all the key terms for each chapter define them in my own words (points off for not being original enough) and then give an example. There are probably at least 30 terms (there were more in my wrong book) per chapter. So thats going to be time consuming. Then the discussion's are a minimum of 700 words in essay format. And they must be submitted through a plagerism (sp) website (5 points off if I don't). Not sure what those will be like cause she hasn't posted them yet. Exams are going to be an hour long short answer. Graded as soon as submited so those I'm actually the least worried about. So grading 5 assignments @20each= 100; 5 discussions @ 20 = 100; 5 exams @100 each =500 so my grade is out of a total 700 points. We shall see how this goes.
Too tired to do Shakespeare. Does anyone even read this thing anyway?

Realization

So I'm starting to realize just what I've signed up for with going back to school. I have my schedule at Target for the first 2 weeks of school and I am looking at the times available for homework and study. It's tight. 1st week of school (monday-Sunday) I'm working 31.5 hours with the possibility of more because I have two days off in a row and I might pick up another shift if I drop my labor day shift. 2nd week of school I'm currently at 25.5 hours but it's likely I'll get a shift on Sunday. Taking 17 credits with my classes starting 8am or 9. Add in that now that I am carless I usually don't get home til 1hr 15 1hr 30 after my scheduled shift ends. I'm just going to make sure that I have everything scheduled including the online class. And that I take advantage of the days I'm not working after school.

In other news I've decided I'm going to make myself a 90 days cake. It seems like it is a huge accomplishment. Everything seems like it is before 90 days or after 90 days. Like after 90 days I'm definately becoming a trainer which I hope is a pay increase. Hoping to advance to team lead maybe around december. Not sure how fast you can advance. But I definately (never spell that right) think I deserve a cake. Ugh I just realized I missed Project Runway. Oh well.

Getting a hair cut on Saturday. Mine is getting too long. If I reach behind me I can't touch the end. That's my judge. Haven't decided how short. I need the ponytail for work but other than that I don't know. Well it's been fun. Night all Oh beore I go Last night's quote was from As You Like It.

Having nothing, nothing can he lose".- (Act III, Scene III)

The (insert number) stages of Back to school

So everyone knows the like 7 stages of grief. Not sure I could name the all. Anyway I have recently felt like there must be a certain number of stages  of going back to school. 1st stage the anticipation stage or the question stage will I get in and if so what in the world am I going to take. How long will it take me? Will I get a job when I'm done? Then you have the matter of fact stage or the list stage. Ok I got in now what? So then you make your trillion and one lists of everything you need to do or get or people to talk to.  Next we have the shopping stage. Where you spend way too much money in the hopes that this time you will stay organized the whole semester. This is tied closely with the excitement stage where you can't wait to go and you think about all the people you are going to meet and all the things you are going to do. Then you hit the Panic stage which is where I am currently at now. In this stage you second guess everything in a way it's like the second question stage. Am I taking too many classes? Am I stupid to be trying to work 30 hours and go to school? When am I going to find time to study and do homework? Am I taking the write classes. Personally I don't know what happens after this stage. Hopefully it's something like self confidence or like the guy in the adam sandler movies that say "You can dooo it". Who knows only time will tell. Classes start Monday.
Last posts Shakespeare quote was rom Merchant of Venice.
Here is tonights : "The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himsel to be a fool." (Act 5, scene 1)

not a real post.

I was going to post but it's been a really long, crappy, and painful day at work. Working tomorrow 11:30-8. No idea how I'm going to make it. Monday I'm off though so that will be wonderful. K tired. Going to watch an anime episode and maybe another then bed.

School

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So I think I might have scared away people with the length of my previous posts but I am really not planning on them all being that long. Also while I will try and post everyday they won't all be this soon after each other.
         I just have a couple of things to add to the end of the last post. I know I know there's more? Just a little bit. The LOD that I blanked out on last night is named Felicia. Really nice not as scary as the others. Also one of the reasons I'm really glad Eduardo is changing my schedule so that I can hit 90 days is because after 90 days I am eligible for a promotion and Marlys keeps saying I'm good enough to be doing more. So we will see what happens after the 22nd. K done with Target for now.
     So I'm going back to school in the fall well really a little over a week. In the fall sounds like it's  month a way. I start August 30th. I think I'm kind of a mix of really excited and terrified right now. I was always one of those kids that loved back to school. Getting your school supplies and getting organized. Terrified because I really really want to do well. Surprisingly it's not the education classes that scare me it's the general requirement classes. At Hillsdale there were a lot and they were the classes that I did the worst in mostly because I was so theatre centric and to me it was more important to focus on my major classes and getting the current show running smoothly. I'm not doing theatre this semester so I should be able to focus. Below is what my class schedule looks like.
Us History Colonial to 1865 9-9:50 MWF
Dance Aerobics 11-12:15 MW
Child Growth and Development 8-9:15 TTh
German 9:30-10:45 TTh
Children's Literature 11-12:15  TTh
Psychology Online Class
              So that's 17 credits. No a bad schedule I think. All classes done by 12:15 which means I can be to Target by 1:30. When i change my availibility I'm going to say 2 on MW just because I'm going to want to shower after aerobics. And only one class on Fridays. I was going to take Fencing 1 but it conflicts with children's literature. So History and Psychology scare me the most. I like history I ust know with history comes papers and I am terrible at writing papers. and Psychology is more of a fear of the unknown. I don't know what to expect and it's also online which is new. I'm curious about History because there is no required text. It's weird. I contacted the professor because there was a list of 6 optional books. He said we get to choose which of those books we want to read based on what interests us. I got 3 to try out. So we'll see. Ok Done for today. Again this one is long due to background info. Answer to last nights quote is Merry Wives of Windsor. TTFN

"If you prick us, do we not bleed? if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?". - (Act III, Scene I)

Welcome and Introduction to working at target and background info they will not be all this long.

Welcome and thank you for coming. So I decided to start this blog for a couple reasons. One I've been writing really long status's lately and I figured this would clear up my facebook page and two it gives me a chance to empty out my head of all the randomness that's in there which hopefully will help me focus on school. For the most part this will be an update on my life for those of you who are interested but there could be some instances of silliness (ex. I could write about the dream I had where Denzel Washington was trying to kill me with a remote controlled grenade in the Whole Foods parking lot) so be forewarned. I welcome comments so please do. One more disclaimer be prepared for possible grammer and spelling errors. This is inside my head hence the randomness so I could go off on tangents. Also I'm treating this first blog as an introduction so there will be a lot of background information on somethings.
           And so it begins.... So today was a really good day. I'm starting to the that maybe my room was in the wrong fung shui (sp?) and when I moved it around especially my bed my chakras were all lined up nicely. This year has not been the best for me. It's been one of those years where if it could go wrong it did for the most part. This month however things have been starting to improve. I've been wearing my crocs to work and while my feet still hurt a little, it is nowhere near as painful as it once was. Noone has said anything about the crocs so until they do I'm going to keep wearing them. I need to get a new pair though cause these are getting worn down.  Back to the day woke up at 8am which usually means I'd wake up tired but really it wasn't bad. I lounged in bed a bit. Then tidied up my room. I really want to try and keep it clean. With the new desk/table it's not as roomy as it was and also with the desk and school starting it's going to be easy for stuff to pile up.
            Kind of dreaded going to work today because the schedule for the 1st week of school was posted today and I knew my schedule changes weren't going to be accepted because I won't hit 90 days til Sept. 22nd. However the schedule wasn't bad. I've been working mostly afternoon shifts anyway which is especially good for me because to get to work at 8am I have to wake up at 5:30 and leave the house by 6:30.  So the schedule was afternoons and only one day I had a conflict so not bad. I saw I was scheduled to do reshop (items that customers return going back on shelves) downstairs which isn't my favorite job but I'm fast at it so they assign it to me a lot especially downstairs which is where I know where things are the most. However they changed me to push (take items from the back room and put it on the shelves usually things we are low or out off) upstairs which was cool. I don't know what it is about pushing but it makes the day go much quicker than reshop. Ok quick interruption to explain the hierarchy of people working at Target so you understand future posts. So on the sales floor you have Hardlines (Anything that is off carpet and on tile majority of non clothing products), Softlines (anything on carpet usually clothing and jewelry), and Guest Services (Cashiers, Food Avenue, and the actual guest Services). Now the worker bees are called Team Members. I am a Hardline team member. I work mostly on the bottom floor so I know the most about Domestics, Market, Cleaning supplies, etc. Above the Team Members are Team Leaders. My team leaders ranked from favorite to least favorite though I don't really dislike any are (Katie, Robert, Mike G, Tumis, Sandra, and Victor). There is another one but I don't know his name lol. Usually there are 2-3 Hardlines team leads working at the same time because their shifts overlap. Then above them are the LODs. I can't remember what LOD stands for but you could consider them the Managers. They make sure that everything is going right and everyone is doing their job. They can be scary and you definitely do not want them on your bad side. However if you can stay on their good side they are pretty cool. Luckily I've been good about staying on the good sides of the LODs. The ones I work with mostly are Marlys (She's likes to tease me about doing my job quicker and she gives me icecream or cookies lol), Candy (She's head of the safety commitee she's also the one who did my final interview which we started off by talking about backstreet boys), OMG one of the names just flew out of my head which is sad cause I really like her it'll come to me, and Eduardo (who is in my mind the hardlines LOD he is responsible for our schedule). Ok back to today. Told you there would be tangents. So we did really well today staying ahead of the pushlines (literally lines of carts in the backroom full of stuff for us to push) so at the end of my shift at 8 there was only one small cart. Eduardo was the LOD at night today so he was in a good mood. I went up to him near the end o my shift and mentioned that I knew that being under 90 days that my schedule wouldn't change and that I would find someone to cover my shift the day it conflicted by 30minutes. I just wanted to make sure that once I hit 90 days that the change of availability would go through cause I wouldn't be able to keep finding people to cover me. He not only said that he'd be able to bump my schedule a half hour on the conflict day but that he would keep in mind that the earliest I could be at work is 1:30 when making the schedules up to 90 days. So yay!!!!!
           K well this is a lot of info. I have more to say about my classes and things but seeing as it is 11:15 and noone knows about this yet I will post this link in my facebook and right about my classes and back to school stuff tomorrow.        
I will try and end my blogs with a Shakespeare quote not always related. Bonus points for naming the play though answers will be posted in the next blog. Night all
"This is the short and the long of it". - (Act II, Scene II).