So, not too much has happened since my last post. I'm just trying to live life, and figure things out, and have as much fun as I can while I'm living. Well, sometimes it's just hard to have fun, but right now that doesn't seem to be the case. As I've said before, I love Cedar City, and College life. I love everything (well, almost) about my life right now.
In CSIS 1000 (Intro to computer science--the worst class in the world) today we began the section on Microsoft's Excel program. Don't get me wrong, I'm not an expert at it, but I am familiar enough with it to know what most of the basics are. And the things that I can't figure out are in the "text book" we have for the class (Note: I use the phrase "text book" here loosely). Well, our professor had some things to take care of, so she left early, and told us to work on assignment 9I. So I'm working on this assignment, and I'm doing rather well (all things considered), and there's part of the book that doesn't really make sense, since we haven't covered it. Turns out, the TA didn't know the answer (she probably took this class a few years ago, possibly even before the newer version of Microsoft office), so I found out how to do it (in the book), and was able to help the TA. I'm blogging that because how often does anyone get to say that? Yeah, today in class I helped the TA.
I was able to write a sonnet (finally), it only took me about two and a half hours. Not too much fun, but it worked out all right, which is good since I have to turn that in today. I'm not exactly sure what else we will be doing in that class, but I'm sure I'll be able to figure it out. Right now I'm just trying to stop the inevitable, or in other words, I'm putting off my homework. I have to pick an essay out of one of my text-books, and write a reader's response to it. I have to interview 3 people, and write some things with that. I have to do about four math assignments. But I don't really have the motivation to get all those things started yet, so I'm not going to do it yet.
I am excited about tonight, however. Tonight is the second practice for the Intermediate Ballroom Dance Team, and I'm loving it so far. Things are going rather well, and I'm excited to get our routine down, though I suppose I should have practiced a bit more than I did for it... well, there's plenty of time for that. And this weekend is the retreat, which is going to be so much fun, I can hardly begin to hide my excitement.
All in all, life has just been really good today.
Thursday, September 11, 2008
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
And Life Goes On, and Keeps Going and Going and Going
So I'm sitting here, with writer's block, trying to pound out a sonnet, when it occurs to me I haven't updated my blog recently. Life has been busy lately, but I'll try to simplify things a bit.
Try-outs for Ballroom Dance were last Thursday, and they were a lot of fun. I did have to help the girls audition though, so my feet hurt a lot when I got home (especially since I haven't quite broken in my Latin shoes yet). I found out on Friday that I made the Intermediate Ballroom Dance Team!!! I am very excited. We had our first practice as a team yesterday, and that went really well. Also, we are going to be performing quite a bit it looks like, and we are going to be going on tour to California this next spring semester. We are also going to be practicing about 7 hours each week as a team (and then some, to make sure we have the routine down).
Not a whole lot is going on besides classes, I am in intermediate poetry writing, and that class is almost kicking my butt. Or, at least, it is now. Sonnets are very difficult to write, or they are for me anyways. I'm sure I'll get it soon, either that or I won't.
Anyways, that's about all that has been on my mind lately, just trying to get into school mode, and trying to balance personal life with work and homework. It's quite the juggling act.
Try-outs for Ballroom Dance were last Thursday, and they were a lot of fun. I did have to help the girls audition though, so my feet hurt a lot when I got home (especially since I haven't quite broken in my Latin shoes yet). I found out on Friday that I made the Intermediate Ballroom Dance Team!!! I am very excited. We had our first practice as a team yesterday, and that went really well. Also, we are going to be performing quite a bit it looks like, and we are going to be going on tour to California this next spring semester. We are also going to be practicing about 7 hours each week as a team (and then some, to make sure we have the routine down).
Not a whole lot is going on besides classes, I am in intermediate poetry writing, and that class is almost kicking my butt. Or, at least, it is now. Sonnets are very difficult to write, or they are for me anyways. I'm sure I'll get it soon, either that or I won't.
Anyways, that's about all that has been on my mind lately, just trying to get into school mode, and trying to balance personal life with work and homework. It's quite the juggling act.
Saturday, August 30, 2008
Back to Basics
Well, I'm back at SUU in Cedar City now, and boy am I loving it!!! One of the most exciting things (well, maybe not the most exciting thing, but it definitely makes the top ten list) is that Smash Mouth is coming in concert to SUU!!! How exciting is that?! And to make things better, I bought a ticket to the concert for $20, and I'm in the seventh row from the stage. Awesome!
Classes are going well beyond that, I have three English classes (crazy I know), and none of them are in the english building. One is in the General Classroom building, one in the Business building, and one in the Science building. It's not too bad however. One of them is Literature in Culture (and that class is fairly easy so far, just going to have to do a lot of service projects). One is ENGL 2010 which is required from everyone, but I like the professor for that, so it's not as bad as I had expected. And the third is Intermediate Poetry, which I am loving so far. We are working on the Haiku, which is more difficult than I expected, but it's still a really fun class.
Last semester I made the ballroom dance team. Apparently there was a technique class which I could have (actually should have) taken, but I didn't even know about it until halfway through the semester. So this semester I signed up for it, before I even came back to Cedar. I went to class for the registered time and found out the class wasn't going to start until after team try-outs, because that is what it was designed for in the first place. So instead of dancing I got a chance to talk with Mark (who is the Ballroom director, in charge of the whole program), and it sounds like I have a spot on--at least--beginning team for this semester, which I am very glad about. I still have to try-out, but things are looking good. Not only that, but I met the new assistant dance director (the previous one got married and moved away). Her name is Debrah (or something like that), and she seems to be a very awesome person, so I'm excited about that this semester. Try-outs are Thursday, so I should break out the dance shoes, and start practicing.
I have also had a chance to at least talk with some of my friends, and catch up with the rest. They all seem to be doing well for the most part, and I have a lot of different people to try to catch before the semester goes for too long.
All in all, it's been a very first week. I should probably go to the park and do some Chi exercises, since it helps to relieve stress, and I'm going to have to get into the habit of stress reduction.
Classes are going well beyond that, I have three English classes (crazy I know), and none of them are in the english building. One is in the General Classroom building, one in the Business building, and one in the Science building. It's not too bad however. One of them is Literature in Culture (and that class is fairly easy so far, just going to have to do a lot of service projects). One is ENGL 2010 which is required from everyone, but I like the professor for that, so it's not as bad as I had expected. And the third is Intermediate Poetry, which I am loving so far. We are working on the Haiku, which is more difficult than I expected, but it's still a really fun class.
Last semester I made the ballroom dance team. Apparently there was a technique class which I could have (actually should have) taken, but I didn't even know about it until halfway through the semester. So this semester I signed up for it, before I even came back to Cedar. I went to class for the registered time and found out the class wasn't going to start until after team try-outs, because that is what it was designed for in the first place. So instead of dancing I got a chance to talk with Mark (who is the Ballroom director, in charge of the whole program), and it sounds like I have a spot on--at least--beginning team for this semester, which I am very glad about. I still have to try-out, but things are looking good. Not only that, but I met the new assistant dance director (the previous one got married and moved away). Her name is Debrah (or something like that), and she seems to be a very awesome person, so I'm excited about that this semester. Try-outs are Thursday, so I should break out the dance shoes, and start practicing.
I have also had a chance to at least talk with some of my friends, and catch up with the rest. They all seem to be doing well for the most part, and I have a lot of different people to try to catch before the semester goes for too long.
All in all, it's been a very first week. I should probably go to the park and do some Chi exercises, since it helps to relieve stress, and I'm going to have to get into the habit of stress reduction.
Monday, July 7, 2008
And Summer Goes On
Wow, I am so busy. And yet, I am dying of boredom. I guess I have a lot of stuff I can do, just most of it is just busy work to try to get me through these next few months before school starts again.
Just finished with the fourth of July, that was a fun day. I got to hang out with my cousins, and had a barbecue... the fireworks weren't that great, but it was fun anyways. I also had a root-beer float, hmm hm.
I did a little bit more with my website this past weekend, I fixed my homepage (it doens't look like a fifth grader did it anymore, yay!), and I added a few little things... added a stylesheet or two, and bam! it's almost a differant website. I was also talked into adding a page for fractals, and I added links for that, but haven't been able to build one yet. All I have left to do is to fix my SUU, and Cedar City pages and add a fractals page, and my website will be completly remodelled. Yay!
Dance practice has just about killed me, I'm so sore, and I haven't even been practicing as much as I would have liked. Well, one of these days I'll be in shape.
That's all that I can think of that has happened in the past little while, now i'm going to go get some sleep.
Just finished with the fourth of July, that was a fun day. I got to hang out with my cousins, and had a barbecue... the fireworks weren't that great, but it was fun anyways. I also had a root-beer float, hmm hm.
I did a little bit more with my website this past weekend, I fixed my homepage (it doens't look like a fifth grader did it anymore, yay!), and I added a few little things... added a stylesheet or two, and bam! it's almost a differant website. I was also talked into adding a page for fractals, and I added links for that, but haven't been able to build one yet. All I have left to do is to fix my SUU, and Cedar City pages and add a fractals page, and my website will be completly remodelled. Yay!
Dance practice has just about killed me, I'm so sore, and I haven't even been practicing as much as I would have liked. Well, one of these days I'll be in shape.
That's all that I can think of that has happened in the past little while, now i'm going to go get some sleep.
Sunday, June 15, 2008
To Be Or Not To Be
Wow, it's been a while since I've been on here... A lot has happenend, and at the same time, not too much. I've just been hanging out in Vernal, not too much fun. Not as bad as I had expected, but still not so much fun. For the most part I'm just really bored. I've not as many friends here as I have in Cedar, and--contrary to what I had been told--there are no ballroom dance lessons here, which means no practice. Well, I could practice but only if I could find a dance partner. Hm... something I might have to look into.
I have found a lot of things here that I had put away into storage. One of them is my color gameboy, yep that's right, and in working condition as well. Unfortunatly I have sold all my games that work for it because I had thought I had gotten rid of it. I also found my pocket watch (needs batteries, but still...), and a binder that I had had in high school with some interesting ideas for web-design I used in my "web-design" class. To be honest, it was pretty much an advanced computer class and I had the opportunity to study what I wanted, which was web-design, so I had to find the curriculum myself. It wasn't very easy, but I think it paid off in the end. Everything I've done with my website I had to teach myself (except for the <html> tag and a few other simple tags). Anyways, I dug it out and did some editing on my website (the writing pages), and later I will be working on the rest of it (when I get motivated and a minute to work on it). What was in the binder was information on cascading style sheets, from "yourhtmlsource.com" which is a very good website I might add. Also, for anyone interested, I found that using PSPad editor for a html environment works rather well, along with Topstyle Lite, which is an environment designed specifically for CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), both are freeware.
I'm thinking this week I'm going to try to have a ballroom dance thing happen at the park, this thursday to be exact. The only problem is I don't know who is in town and who would be interested in ballroom dancing, so thus is the problem. At the park, the pavillions are designed wiht lights and outlets--that work if you know what you're doing--and i have some ballroom dance music, and a way to play it loud enough for the pavillion. I just lack people.
I now have a job at UELS, i've been working there--again--now for about two weeks. It's in the office, so it's not too bad. Monday through Friday, eight to five. Scanning files is actually what I'm doing. It gives me a lot of time to think... perhaps a little too much time some days. Anyways, that's mostly what has been going on in my life. Now I've got to go and fill out the FAFSA, yuck.
I have found a lot of things here that I had put away into storage. One of them is my color gameboy, yep that's right, and in working condition as well. Unfortunatly I have sold all my games that work for it because I had thought I had gotten rid of it. I also found my pocket watch (needs batteries, but still...), and a binder that I had had in high school with some interesting ideas for web-design I used in my "web-design" class. To be honest, it was pretty much an advanced computer class and I had the opportunity to study what I wanted, which was web-design, so I had to find the curriculum myself. It wasn't very easy, but I think it paid off in the end. Everything I've done with my website I had to teach myself (except for the <html> tag and a few other simple tags). Anyways, I dug it out and did some editing on my website (the writing pages), and later I will be working on the rest of it (when I get motivated and a minute to work on it). What was in the binder was information on cascading style sheets, from "yourhtmlsource.com" which is a very good website I might add. Also, for anyone interested, I found that using PSPad editor for a html environment works rather well, along with Topstyle Lite, which is an environment designed specifically for CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), both are freeware.
I'm thinking this week I'm going to try to have a ballroom dance thing happen at the park, this thursday to be exact. The only problem is I don't know who is in town and who would be interested in ballroom dancing, so thus is the problem. At the park, the pavillions are designed wiht lights and outlets--that work if you know what you're doing--and i have some ballroom dance music, and a way to play it loud enough for the pavillion. I just lack people.
I now have a job at UELS, i've been working there--again--now for about two weeks. It's in the office, so it's not too bad. Monday through Friday, eight to five. Scanning files is actually what I'm doing. It gives me a lot of time to think... perhaps a little too much time some days. Anyways, that's mostly what has been going on in my life. Now I've got to go and fill out the FAFSA, yuck.
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