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September 28, 2005
General Ramble Again
Turned in my Econ homework today go me. I think I did okay there was one question I wasn't sure of but the other three were fairly easy so it should be okay.
Spent a lot of the day resting, i hate migraines, I think it is a sinus/alergy migraine, I should probably see the doctor to get something for my allergies because they are pretty bad this fall, sigh I hate pollen.
Most of the sewing patterns arrived today which is nice, we still need to set up the whole sewing machine so it can be used though. We also bought some cloth and other essentials like pins and such last night.
Donuts have a ton of calories, I grabbed some krispy cremes at Target and they are 200 calories each, ouch.
Studied for Econ some, it is going to be mostly multiple choice so hopefully it won't be too bad.
Tutoring again tomorrow, think it will be 4 hours of tutoring again which is nice though long, then I'll study for math since I have a test in that class on Friday.
Hubby is sort of looking at a new perl, mysql job which is great it would be a nice raise and all for him. Hopefully he gets it. Only downside to that is I won't get the job working for him as his monkey and answering the insane emails he gets. Well I might not have gotten that job anyways. He'll likely wait till after he hears something positive or negative before bring up me being his monkey though too bad it would be a nice additional income.
Not much else going on head feels a bit better hopefully it will stay better for the rest of the fall.
Still half heartedly searching for a synagogue in the area. I really want a reformed synagogue with its own building and there doesn't seem to be anything that meets that need. There are a couple of reformed synagogues, but they look a little too reformed for me. Maybe I'll check out the Conservative Synagogue, growing two of three (maybe all three) of the synagogues we went to were right on the edge of Reformed and Conservative, so I don't think I would have a big problem with the slightly more Conservative temples. I should check some out though. Yes Rosh Hashana being next week is what made me think of that.
That's about all for tonight. Can't think of anything else really.
Posted by tabrizia at 10:05 PM
Twits Twits and more Twits
Twits suck and Jeri and Decoy are huge twits.
(Random outburst I know, ignore if you don't have a clue what i'm talking about)
Posted by tabrizia at 02:09 PM
September 26, 2005
The Books of the Jewish Bible
Okay so since I found this list in the book I am reading for History, The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of its Sacred Texts by Israel Finkelstein and Neil Asher Silberman. I will now list all the books in the Jewish Bible since I tend to get asked the question, what books are in the Jewish Bible it is just the first five books right?, a lot.
Torah:
Gensis
Exodus
Leviticus
Numbers
Deuteronomy
The Prophets:
The Former Prophets:
Joshua
Judges
1 Samuel
2 Samuel
1 Kings
2 Kings
The Latter Prophets:
Isaiah
Jeremiah
Ezekiel
Hosea
Joel
Amos
Obadiah
Jonah
Micah
Nahum
Habbakkuk
Zephaniah
Haggai
Zechariah
Malachi
The Writings:
Poetry:
Psalms
Proverbs
Job
The Five Scrolls:
Song of Solomon
Ruth
Lamentations
Ecclesiates
Esther
Prophecy:
Daniel
History:
I Chronicles
II Chronicles
Ezra
Nehemiah
Posted by tabrizia at 11:04 PM
The Patterns we got yesterday
Here are the ones we ordered:
http://www.smartcart.com/1sew/cgi/display.cgi?item_num=4090mc
http://www.smartcart.com/1sew/cgi/display.cgi?item_num=4490mc
http://www.smartcart.com/1sew/cgi/display.cgi?item_num=4491mc
http://www.smartcart.com/1sew/cgi/display.cgi?item_num=4696mc
http://www.smartcart.com/1sew/cgi/display.cgi?item_num=4864mc
http://www.smartcart.com/1sew/cgi/display.cgi?item_num=4486bk
http://www.smartcart.com/1sew/cgi/display.cgi?item_num=4574bk
http://www.smartcart.com/1sew/cgi/display.cgi?item_num=8587SIM
http://www.smartcart.com/1sew/cgi/display.cgi?item_num=5794SIM
http://www.smartcart.com/1sew/cgi/display.cgi?item_num=4947SIM
http://www.smartcart.com/1sew/cgi/display.cgi?item_num=4488SIM
http://www.smartcart.com/1sew/cgi/display.cgi?item_num=9886SIM
The couple that I still want to get eventually:
http://www.smartcart.com/1sew/cgi/display.cgi?item_num=4997mc
http://www.smartcart.com/1sew/cgi/display.cgi?item_num=4571bk
http://www.smartcart.com/1sew/cgi/display.cgi?item_num=4377bk
http://www.smartcart.com/1sew/cgi/display.cgi?item_num=4923SIM
http://www.smartcart.com/1sew/cgi/display.cgi?item_num=8913SIM
We also ordered a Salwar Kameez pattern set, but I don't have a picture of it.
Posted by tabrizia at 03:53 PM
Another Missile the Huricane plan
This may sound extremely dumb!! But I had this dream were rita could actually be stopped. I have very limited knowledge about hurricanes, but I?ve been reading a little and I understand my dream could be possible. If hurricanes are formed by the exchange between hot and cool air, then cooling or warming the air around should help slowing it down, right? In my dream a few hundred missiles were launched and formed a huge explosion warming the air near the top eye part of the hurricane which actually slowed down an eventually stopped it. Is this totally crazy? I know how this sounds and also that this would be very unlikely to work, I was just wondering if there is at least a tiny sense in this, could it work for a tornado perhaps??
And people wonder why I worry about the state of education in the US...
Posted by tabrizia at 10:47 AM
September 25, 2005
Our newest toy
We went to the Renfest on Saturday and picked up a couple new items there. I got some really comfortable black leather shoes. They are really nice and I love them.
We also bought a dragon seal and some wax, for all those letters I write... Okay it is just cool and I lost my last seal so I wanted a new one.
We also picked up 3 petwer dragons. Well really 4. We got a tiny one on a small blue stone, a medium sized on that is the knight piece in a chess set and a big one with two dragons fighting. They are all really pretty and we like them a lot.
We also picked up a smoke/purple colored vase with sea dragons etched into it. It is really pretty as well and will go well with the rest of the dragon collection.
Today we went out, I wanted to look at something at Joann's and we stopped by the sewing machine area. Which was having a sale. A very nice sale... We picked up Dan's new toy there.
It is very pretty and nice and has a ton of features. Plus it was almost 30% off. We also picked up some patterns so he can start making outfits. Though we didn't pick out any fabric. We figure he can practice some and make us Renaissance outfits for next year. Honestly if he makes me a nice outfit and cape we'll have paid for the sewing machine with just those two pieces. Yes period outfits are dang expensive. Anyways, the new toy isn't set up yet, since we need to clear out the basement some to set it up, which involves finishing up the kitchen. Hopefully this week (knock on wood).
We also made lots of soup yesterday and today and have 4 different soups in the new freezer now along with enough icecream to feed an army. You can tell where our priorities lie, yes in icecream and soup...
Posted by tabrizia at 09:50 PM
Just for a shock, I tested as a Socialist...
| You are a Social Liberal (80% permissive) and an... Economic Liberal (16% permissive) You are best described as a:
Link: The Politics Test on OkCupid Free Online Dating |
Posted by tabrizia at 09:47 PM
New Look in Honor of Halloween
Oooooooo spooky!
Posted by tabrizia at 01:04 PM
September 23, 2005
Cheaper Internet? Not anytime soon apparently.
Okay so basic history we have Speakeasy DSL. We love our Speakeasy DSL, but when you compare it to almost any other DSL package or Cable for that matter our DSL bill is large, huge, very high. Now note for our money we get a couple (10) static IPs, the ability to run as many servers as we want and 1.1/1.1 up and down SDSL. So it is a decent deal.
However, we are trying to cut costs a bit. So we decided to look into ways to save money on DSL and get faster service for downloads. Hey everyone else is on like 3/something we want it too. So today we took a look at our options. We know we can't really run servers if we switch providers so we looked at both ISP and Colo/Hosting options. So we looked at Verizon and Comcast. Verison is definately the cheaper of the two. Since if we went Comcast we would most likely get cable as well. Either way we would save a bit. With Verison the cost for DSL would be around $40, with Comcast if we don't have cable it would be around $60. If we do have cable it would be $60 for cable plus whatever their deal is to combine the two, so say about $100 total. Both choices would save money. Which is never a bad thing.
So then we look at Colo. There are not many places that offer Colo, which is different from hosting because with hosting they own the server and control the operating system and such. With Colo you own the box and can do what you wish with it. Prices for Colo were between $125 and $300. The $300 being more then we are currently spending.
So we check hosting. Most hosting places use Redhat, not really high on hubby's choice of Linux but liveable. Except most of them use Fedore Core 2. Which isn't suported anymore by Fedore... (spelling maybe off so bite me) Plus to get a server we like it is about $100 a month. Sigh. And Hubby would really want two servers anyways...
So apparently we are currently on the best plan possible for us. Too bad it isn't as fast as it could be and it costs a bundle, sigh.
Note we were getting part of the cost covered because we run messageboards for our guild (this was very helpful), unfortunately the autosubscribing script does not work right, which screws things up and is a pain and means that it was removed. So we are no longer getting any compensation. Which isn't a big deal, but it was nice while it did last.
Posted by tabrizia at 02:04 AM | Comments (1)
September 22, 2005
Econ, more Econ and a bit more Econ
Ugh so tonight I decided to sit down and do my Econ homework, since it is due tomorrow and all. It was nasty. It isn't hard just tedious. And I hate tedium. There were three units to do with about 15 to 20 questions for each so it was just a ton of work that felt more like busy work then anything else. On the plus side it is done, and now I can study my other Econ class stuff, oh joy.
Posted by tabrizia at 11:28 PM
September 21, 2005
Comments on article from below
First the article I am commenting on is posted in the post below this one.
Now my comments. First off I see nothing wrong with the fact that these woman plan to graduate and become Stay at Home Moms. Honestly to me this is part of what the whole Feminine revolution was about, the right to be equal to men, and to make our own choices. Not the requirement that all woman have to work.
It is rather annoying to me however, to read other comments on this post as if these woman are destroying all that woman have worked for in equality. So what if they want to stay home, that is their choice and right. They have the right to do whatever they want with their education.
Honestly, I plan to be a Stay at Home Mom as well, once I have kids. I would like to get my PHD yes, but I will be quite happy staying at home with my children and hopefully homeschooling them as well.
Economically it also makes sense for one parent to stay home with the children. Child care can be expensive. Looking at childcare in the area where I live it would cost about $210 a week for daycare for one child. So around $10,000. Now let's assume I have two kids. That is $20,000 a year. Assuming I get a job that pays $60,000 a year I lose $20,000 of that to childcare. Now let's assume I am paying 40% on my taxes because my husband is also working and I'm in the top tax bracket (numbers maybe a bit off here but hey it is estimation). On my $60,000 I am paying $24,000 in taxes. So I am losing a total off $44,000 to childcare and taxes. Which means yearly off my $60,000 salary I will be seeing $16,000. Plus with both me and my husband working most likely we will be eating out a lot more then if one of us is home to make dinner. A homemade meal costs around $5 or less per person, where as a restaraunt costs around $12 minimum per person. Which will take off more of the money I am earning.
Using my basic estimation, yes if we are in a lot of debt that $16,000 will be useful from a job. However, in general I know I personally would not want to work 40+ hours a week for a net gain of $16,000 a year. So yes staying at home would not harm me financially since to even make it worthwhile I would have to get a job at $60,000 a year, which is above the average wage.
I understand people who may be upset by the idea that people are getting degrees and hope to stay home with their kids rather then work . However, education is important for everyone, and it is nice to have that backup if it is needed. People do have the right to feel as they do and financially it often is actually not a bad thing for one parent to stay home with the children especially before they enter school.
So honestly I applaud the woman who want a college degree and still want to be stay at home mothers for their children. It is good to have the choice to do so and hopefully they will be able to follow their dreams and do as they wish with their lives. And if they don't well they will have their college degree to fall back on if something happens and they do need to find a job.
Posted by tabrizia at 07:27 PM
Article From New York Times
Article from the New York Times, I posted it in whole here because you have to be a member to see it on the site plus I don't think they keep them in archive that long for free members. I will post my comments about said article in the post above this to keep the length of this post down.
September 20, 2005
Many Women at Elite Colleges Set Career Path to Motherhood
By LOUISE STORYCynthia Liu is precisely the kind of high achiever Yale wants: smart (1510 SAT), disciplined (4.0 grade point average), competitive (finalist in Texas oratory competition), musical (pianist), athletic (runner) and altruistic (hospital volunteer). And at the start of her sophomore year at Yale, Ms. Liu is full of ambition, planning to go to law school.
So will she join the long tradition of famous Ivy League graduates? Not likely. By the time she is 30, this accomplished 19-year-old expects to be a stay-at-home mom."My mother's always told me you can't be the best career woman and the best mother at the same time," Ms. Liu said matter-of-factly. "You always have to choose one over the other."
At Yale and other top colleges, women are being groomed to take their place in an ever more diverse professional elite. It is almost taken for granted that, just as they make up half the students at these institutions, they will move into leadership roles on an equal basis with their male classmates.
There is just one problem with this scenario: many of these women say that is not what they want.
Many women at the nation's most elite colleges say they have already decided that they will put aside their careers in favor of raising children. Though some of these students are not planning to have children and some hope to have a family and work full time, many others, like Ms. Liu, say they will happily play a traditional female role, with motherhood their main commitment.
Much attention has been focused on career women who leave the work force to rear children. What seems to be changing is that while many women in college two or three decades ago expected to have full-time careers, their daughters, while still in college, say they have already decided to suspend or end their careers when they have children.
"At the height of the women's movement and shortly thereafter, women were much more firm in their expectation that they could somehow combine full-time work with child rearing," said Cynthia E. Russett, a professor of American history who has taught at Yale since 1967. "The women today are, in effect, turning realistic."
Dr. Russett is among more than a dozen faculty members and administrators at the most exclusive institutions who have been on campus for decades and who said in interviews that they had noticed the changing attitude.
Many students say staying home is not a shocking idea among their friends. Shannon Flynn, an 18-year-old from Guilford, Conn., who is a freshman at Harvard, says many of her girlfriends do not want to work full time.
"Most probably do feel like me, maybe even tending toward wanting to not work at all," said Ms. Flynn, who plans to work part time after having children, though she is torn because she has worked so hard in school.
"Men really aren't put in that position," she said.
Uzezi Abugo, a freshman at the University of Pennsylvania who hopes to become a lawyer, says she, too, wants to be home with her children at least until they are in school.
"I've seen the difference between kids who did have their mother stay at home and kids who didn't, and it's kind of like an obvious difference when you look at it," said Ms. Abugo, whose mother, a nurse, stayed home until Ms. Abugo was in first grade.
While the changing attitudes are difficult to quantify, the shift emerges repeatedly in interviews with Ivy League students, including 138 freshman and senior females at Yale who replied to e-mail questions sent to members of two residential colleges over the last school year.
The interviews found that 85 of the students, or roughly 60 percent, said that when they had children, they planned to cut back on work or stop working entirely. About half of those women said they planned to work part time, and about half wanted to stop work for at least a few years.
Two of the women interviewed said they expected their husbands to stay home with the children while they pursued their careers. Two others said either they or their husbands would stay home, depending on whose career was furthest along.
The women said that pursuing a rigorous college education was worth the time and money because it would help position them to work in meaningful part-time jobs when their children are young or to attain good jobs when their children leave home.
In recent years, elite colleges have emphasized the important roles they expect their alumni - both men and women - to play in society.
For example, earlier this month, Shirley M. Tilghman, the president of Princeton University, welcomed new freshmen, saying: "The goal of a Princeton education is to prepare young men and women to take up positions of leadership in the 21st century. Of course, the word 'leadership' conjures up images of presidents and C.E.O.'s, but I want to stress that my idea of a leader is much broader than that."
She listed education, medicine and engineering as other areas where students could become leaders.
In an e-mail response to a question, Dr. Tilghman added: "There is nothing inconsistent with being a leader and a stay-at-home parent. Some women (and a handful of men) whom I have known who have done this have had a powerful impact on their communities."
Yet the likelihood that so many young women plan to opt out of high-powered careers presents a conundrum.
"It really does raise this question for all of us and for the country: when we work so hard to open academics and other opportunities for women, what kind of return do we expect to get for that?" said Marlyn McGrath Lewis, director of undergraduate admissions at Harvard, who served as dean for coeducation in the late 1970's and early 1980's.
It is a complicated issue and one that most schools have not addressed. The women they are counting on to lead society are likely to marry men who will make enough money to give them a real choice about whether to be full-time mothers, unlike those women who must work out of economic necessity.
It is less than clear what universities should, or could, do about it. For one, a person's expectations at age 18 are less than perfect predictors of their life choices 10 years later. And in any case, admissions officers are not likely to ask applicants whether they plan to become stay-at-home moms.
University officials said that success meant different things to different people and that universities were trying to broaden students' minds, not simply prepare them for jobs.
"What does concern me," said Peter Salovey, the dean of Yale College, "is that so few students seem to be able to think outside the box; so few students seem to be able to imagine a life for themselves that isn't constructed along traditional gender roles."
There is, of course, nothing new about women being more likely than men to stay home to rear children.
According to a 2000 survey of Yale alumni from the classes of 1979, 1984, 1989 and 1994, conducted by the Yale Office of Institutional Research, more men from each of those classes than women said that work was their primary activity - a gap that was small among alumni in their 20's but widened as women moved into their prime child-rearing years. Among the alumni surveyed who had reached their 40's, only 56 percent of the women still worked, compared with 90 percent of the men.
A 2005 study of comparable Yale alumni classes found that the pattern had not changed. Among the alumni who had reached their early 40's, just over half said work was their primary activity, compared with 90 percent of the men. Among the women who had reached their late 40's, some said they had returned to work, but the percentage of women working was still far behind the percentage of men.
A 2001 survey of Harvard Business School graduates found that 31 percent of the women from the classes of 1981, 1985 and 1991 who answered the survey worked only part time or on contract, and another 31 percent did not work at all, levels strikingly similar to the percentages of the Yale students interviewed who predicted they would stay at home or work part time in their 30's and 40's.
What seems new is that while many of their mothers expected to have hard-charging careers, then scaled back their professional plans only after having children, the women of this generation expect their careers to take second place to child rearing.
"It never occurred to me," Rebecca W. Bushnell, dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania, said about working versus raising children. "Thirty years ago when I was heading out, I guess I was just taking it one step at a time."
Dr. Bushnell said young women today, in contrast, are thinking and talking about part-time or flexible work options for when they have children. "People have a heightened awareness of trying to get the right balance between work and family."
Sarah Currie, a senior at Harvard, said many of the men in her American Family class last fall approved of women's plans to stay home with their children.
"A lot of the guys were like, 'I think that's really great,' " Ms. Currie said. "One of the guys was like, 'I think that's sexy.' Staying at home with your children isn't as polarizing of an issue as I envision it is for women who are in their 30's now."
For most of the young women who responded to e-mail questions, a major factor shaping their attitudes seemed to be their experience with their own mothers, about three out of five of whom did not work at all, took several years off or worked only part time.
"My stepmom's very proud of my choice because it makes her feel more valuable," said Kellie Zesch, a Texan who graduated from the University of North Carolina two years ago and who said that once she had children, she intended to stay home for at least five years and then consider working part time. "It justified it to her, that I don't look down on her for not having a career."
Similarly, students who are committed to full-time careers, without breaks, also cited their mothers as influences. Laura Sullivan, a sophomore at Yale who wants to be a lawyer, called her mother's choice to work full time the "greatest gift."
"She showed me what it meant to be an amazing mother and maintain a career," Ms. Sullivan said.
Some of these women's mothers, who said they did not think about these issues so early in their lives, said they were surprised to hear that their college-age daughters had already formed their plans.
Emily Lechner, one of Ms. Liu's roommates, hopes to stay home a few years, then work part time as a lawyer once her children are in school.
Her mother, Carol, who once thought she would have a full-time career but gave it up when her children were born, was pleasantly surprised to hear that. "I do have this bias that the parents can do it best," she said. "I see a lot of women in their 30's who have full-time nannies, and I just question if their kids are getting the best."
For many feminists, it may come as a shock to hear how unbothered many young women at the nation's top schools are by the strictures of traditional roles.
"They are still thinking of this as a private issue; they're accepting it," said Laura Wexler, a professor of American studies and women's and gender studies at Yale. "Women have been given full-time working career opportunities and encouragement with no social changes to support it.
"I really believed 25 years ago," Dr. Wexler added, "that this would be solved by now."
Angie Ku, another of Ms. Liu's roommates who had a stay-at-home mom, talks nonchalantly about attending law or business school, having perhaps a 10-year career and then staying home with her children.
"Parents have such an influence on their children," Ms. Ku said. "I want to have that influence. Me!"
She said she did not mind if that limited her career potential.
"I'll have a career until I have two kids," she said. "It doesn't necessarily matter how far you get. It's kind of like the experience: I have tried what I wanted to do."
Ms. Ku added that she did not think it was a problem that women usually do most of the work raising kids.
"I accept things how they are," she said. "I don't mind the status quo. I don't see why I have to go against it."
After all, she added, those roles got her where she is.
"It worked so well for me," she said, "and I don't see in my life why it wouldn't work."
Posted by tabrizia at 07:22 PM | Comments (1)
Happy Ass Grab Day!
A friend was noting how soccer/football players like to pat each other on the ass before going out and playing the game. So we came up with a new holiday. Happy Ass Grab Day! With the motto 'show a little love, pet a butt.'
Posted by tabrizia at 03:48 PM
September 20, 2005
What are you?
Harry Potter Personality Quiz by Pirate Monkeys Inc.
I'm actually more J then P I think, if I remember other personality tests I've taken, but hey who doesn't want to be the BAD GUY!
Posted by tabrizia at 08:57 PM
September 19, 2005
International Drink Like a Pirate Day!
Arrgghhh me mateys. So I was talking with my mom on the phone and called today International drink like a pirate day. It might make an interesting holiday, don't ye think me mateys.
Posted by tabrizia at 09:03 PM
Argggh Matey talk like a pirate day!
Arrgh ye landlubers, today is talk like a pirate day. So all ye scurvy rats better remember. Or it is off to walk the plank with you while I drink rum!
Posted by tabrizia at 10:06 AM | Comments (1)
September 18, 2005
The Grocery Game
So I found a link to the Grocery Game from somewhere. What it is, is you clip coupons (blegh but okay) and then use a list provided (that you do have to pay for) to get the best deal on various groceries and such. Thus cutting your bill in half or more. So we decided to try it out for the first month and see if it actually works. Figure cutting the grocery bill would be nice since we tend to spend about $600 a month on groceries which is pretty high for just two people.
Posted by tabrizia at 02:04 PM
September 15, 2005
Two Kitchen Pictures
Here are two pictures of the kitchen I've put up. We're almost done except for the countertop. So here is a preview of the new kitchen. If you click on the links it will show you the full pictures of the the kitchens rather then the cut verision on the site.
First a picture of the old kitchen:
And now the new kitchen:
As you can see we're still missing the countertops. We also need to do some touchup painting when everything is done and we are planning on putting a stampped border of butterflies along the top area as well. However it is a decent look at the kitchen.
Posted by tabrizia at 11:39 PM | Comments (1)
September 13, 2005
Random Thoughts
Picked up the EQ2 expansion today, not sure it was worth it since I haven't played in over a month and with school and all probably won't have a ton of time to play now. We'll see how it plays.
Sims 2 Nightlife comes out tomorrow, it looks interesting, too bad I can't play it on the laptop, oh well guess I'll hang out downstairs to play it. Which is good, spend time with Dan that way.
Been sick the last two days with a cold and it hasn't been fun at all.
Reading Gilgemesh for history it is really good actually. Impressive what people wrote 3000+ years ago. They were quite good at getting their ideas across through a story.
Ordered new glasses today, my vision got worse, blegh, well my astigmatism in my right eye did anyways. The new glasses are hot. They are black frames with colours around the inside. Which I really like. I'm getting them with a new thing so that the lens change color in the sun, so I won't have to carry around my sunglasses. The glasses cost a fair ammount, but much cheaper then getting them without insurance, yay for vision coverage when your eyes suck.
On that note the eyedoctor has this new vision test thing. Rather then putting drops in your eyes and diluting the pupil to scan the retna. They have a nifty machine that gets a much better view and no drops that screw up your eyes for hours, bonus! It cost a bit more then the other way, seeing as the other way was free, but it is a better option overall, so it was worth it. Nice east and quick. My eyes looks good, which at least means I'm not likely to go blind anytime soon yay!
My foot still hurts, but it is much better then Sunday, which is good, was just a muscle bruise I guess, which I'm glad of broken bones would not be fun. Especially not in the foot, well let's be honest it won't be fun anywhere.
I'm somewhat off my diet because of the sick thing and the whole no kitchen thing. I need to get back on it, it was working well, though the counting calories thing is a pain. Maybe I'll use a spread sheet to do it rather then on paper.
Oh on that note, we now have a stove! They came yesterday and installed the stove and microwave, so of course we ordered in last night and tonight for dinner. Mainly because there are no dishes in the kitchen since we still don't have the countertop, so it is hard to cook still, but at least we can now if we want too.
Other then that not much else has gone on in the past 2 days or so. Such is the exciting life I lead. Of school and home with the puppy and hubby.
Posted by tabrizia at 11:39 PM
What Leading Dame are You?
| Katharine Hepburn You scored 28% grit, 23% wit, 47% flair, and 19% class! |
You are the fabulously quirky and independent woman of character. You go your own way, follow your own drummer, take your own lead. You stand head and shoulders next to your partner, but you are perfectly willing and able to stand alone. Others might be more classically beautiful or conventionally woman-like, but you possess a more fundamental common sense and off-kilter charm, making interesting men fall at your feet. You can pick them up or leave them there as you see fit. You share the screen with the likes of Spencer Tracy and Cary Grant, thinking men who like strong women.
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My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:
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| Link: The Classic Dames Test written by gidgetgoes on Ok Cupid |
Works for me Katherine Hepburn was my favorite actress for years, actually she still is.
Posted by tabrizia at 08:16 PM
September 12, 2005
Colds suck and my foot hurts
Today is my whine post. I'm not in class today because yesterday I fell down in a parking lot. My foot got caught in a pothole and I landed hard on my foot, knee and hand. My foot got the worst of it. My hand is fine though my wrist is a bit iffy. My knee has a bruise and my foot is in pain. It was really bad yesterday it hurt to move on it. I used a heating pad on it for a few hours last night.
This morning though we decided it would be better for me not to go to class, that way I won't be messing it up more by walking all across campus. So i am home today. Which isn't too bad, but it still hurts some, less then yesterday but still.
I also have a cold, half of it is alergies, I hate fall, all the pollen and such is out in full force and so is my urge to sneeze. But I apparently caught something as well, I had a sore throat/ear on Saturday and it expanded to a full blown cold yesterday and today.
So I'm at home in pain and with a cold, whine!
Posted by tabrizia at 02:07 PM
September 10, 2005
Parent Overload
Well today was family day. My parents were in town because my mom had some kind of dinner thing in DC this evening. So we were supose to meet them around 10am in DC, maybe go to the Smithsonian or something. We ended up just meeting them for lunch.
We went to a sport bar called Tommy Joes (maybe?), because we were also meeting family friends (good friends of my parents) and the husband of the group wanted to watch the Michigan football game. So we head down for the 12 o'clock lunch. After 15 minutes we finally find somewhere to park, yay closed streets and parking garages.
We get to the restaurant and the family friends are there but my parents aren't yet. My parents arrive shortly afterwards. We had a nice lunch, though it was fairly loud with the football game on all 8 or 10 tv screens in the place. Talked to everyone and spent about 2 hours there.
We head out and say bye to my parents. Then we head back to our car. We are only about 15 minutes from my inlaws so we decided to stop by and visit them.
We had been talking about visiting them tomorrow, but the traffic is supose to be horrible tomorrow. So we drive over, and surprise them, since they weren't expecting anyone.
We hang out with them from about 2:30 till 9:30 talk and have dinner. It was nice, and we got all caught up. My father in law is retiring at the end of the month, and they are going to Paris for 12 days in November which sounds like a lot of fun.
Over all it was a nice day, but dang there were a lot of parents seen and talked too!
Posted by tabrizia at 10:58 PM
September 09, 2005
Bored out of my Mind
My brain is slowly being drained from my body and my will to live is decreasing. I am in the middle of the discussion section for Macro Economics and it ranks high as the most boring thing I have ever had to attend. I think I would rather have a tooth pulled without novicane, or maybe a cavity drilled.
Heck I'd probably go for a finger being chopped off. It is mind numblingly boring...
The TAs voice isn't helping any, he has a slight accent which for some reason is really grating on my nerves, which is odd I normally am never annoyed by accents but for some reason he is really grating today and I am losing my will to live. Oh thank god he is done!
Posted by tabrizia at 01:31 PM
September 08, 2005
Math Proofs as Homework
So my first math homework is due tomorrow. And I have to prove: A = B if and only if (A is a subset of B and B is a subset of A). Which doesn't seem to bad until you get to the point where it is really obvious. However, it is a pain because it is obvious, yet proving something obvious is harder then proving something that isn't as obvious.
Sigh well I'm about half done, but I think it is going to end up wrong. Then again I guess getting the first homework wrong is better then getting the first test wrong.
Posted by tabrizia at 09:42 PM
September 07, 2005
This is why I hate spending money
Many students have not been able to acquire the Aplia package. Those students with the package should do the assigned work, but all deadlines for turning in assignments have been suspended until the bookstores make the package available to all students. Professor Terrell
Of course this comes up on the website after I spend the $60 on just the program because the bookstore has no more packages.
Posted by tabrizia at 10:00 PM
I have glasses again!
The frames came in yesterday so I now have glasses! and don't have to wander around at midnight in sunglasses. I am quite pleased with this fact, yay glasses!
Posted by tabrizia at 03:36 PM
Money doesn't grow on tree, despite what I wish
So yesterday in History I notice I have the wrong edition of the spine book we are using (spine book the main book which the rest of the books in the class spider off from). So I figure maybe there weren't many changes.
I head to the bookstore since I need to check on the Econ book because I really don't want to spend 60$ on the computer program only when the whole package is only $100. Of course they don't have the package, so no package for me it looks like I'll have to spend that $60. I also check out the history book and learn that yes in the past 9 years it has been majorly updated and I do need to get the newer version.
So I pick up the book for $40. Which was not high on my list to spend, on the plus side the last edition of the book which I did buy was only $4.50 so I didn't really lose money, I just spent money I didn't want to.
So in otherwords I get to spend an extra $100 on books for my classes that wasn't in my originial plan. Which sucks, but in the end since my Dad more or less pays for my books I can't really complain too much.
On the plus side I am getting money back from refunds, though mail in refunds are a pain because you spend the money and then get back the refund 8 to 10 weeks later.
Posted by tabrizia at 02:39 PM
September 06, 2005
Interesting Huricane Stopping Idea
So Hubby works somewhere where he gets a lot of interesting e-mail especially about ways to stop natural disaster type things. Anyways today he got the following two e-mails:
Would it be possible to drop a bomb, especially a thermal bomb, in the eye of the storm, thus disrupting the flow pattern and destroying the hurricane? I was wondering if such an idea has ever been analyzed or tried before. Could this therory be also used on tornatos, or, are they sustained differently.
He gets the e-mail about bombing hurricanes everytime one hits the US. It is rather amusing how many people come up with this idea.
my idea is to create a machine that can slow down the hurricaine. this machine is like a fan, maybe we could disassemble a helicopter, or a few, and i guess flip the propellor over so instead of lifting the helicoptor, it would be pushing air away. now what if we were to channel that air into a finer stream...and punch several holes into the clouds that make the hurricaine. would this slow the hurricaine down?
As my hubby said, Why didn't we thinkg of this before? We can stop hurricanes and typhoons with a GIANT FAN!!!!
Posted by tabrizia at 11:11 AM | Comments (1)
September 05, 2005
Who do they think they are fooling?
Okay so I am a member of a messageboard for various games I like. On one of these boards there are a ton of teenagers. There are some older people in their twenties etc. The majority is probably in the 15 to 20 range.
Anyways with teenagers you tend to get a higher concentration of idiots. Unfortunately it seems a sterotype, but I have noticed it to be true. Anyways there is a girl in the community and we'll call her Purple Duck (names changed to protect the idiots). Anyways most people in the community think she is a twit, she has done numerous twitish things.
So Purple Duck decides she doesn't like her reputation and creates a new allias which we'll call InluvwGerard. Now InluvwGerard fairly quickly makes it obvious that she is Purple Duck. Let's be honest it is really hard to mask yourself and pretend to be someone else. Normally you are found out.
And she isn't very good at. So in AIM Chat we unmask her and point out that Purple Duck and InluvwGerard are using the same IP at the same time. Since she isn't very smart, and they claim not to know each other she can't even claim they are in the same house and sisters. So we tell her we know who she is. She gets affronted and attempts to claim otherwise, those of us that have at least a basic bit of intellegence laugh at her (I'm mean so shoot me).
Anyways I mention a number of new names she can come back as when she creates a new persona for her multiple personalities the next day. Fast forward to this morning. First InluvwGerard has posted she is leaving the community last night. This morning there is a new post from a new person we'll call Hillary. Hillary posts and I feel the need to check between her and InluvwGerard off her first three posts. And shock they have the same IP.
Hillary also comes into the chat room, where me and another person who we'll call hanger are. She attempts to be a new person. Both of us knowing better, play with her for awhile. So I am now the grandmother of hanger. It is nice to have a granddaughter before I've had any spawns.
I don't know who she is trying to fool, but it obviously isn't working. I still find it amusing though and I am having fun making fun of her multiple personality problem (yes I have fun making fun of 15 year old girls, we all have our vices).
Posted by tabrizia at 08:04 PM
September 04, 2005
Random Rumbling
Went to the other bookstore today and they are out of the Micro Economics Packages to, so looks like I may have to bite the bullet and spend the extra 60$ blegh.
Went to the applestore as well and got my nifty keyboard cover thing for the laptop. Had lunch at the Jungle Cafe thing which was nice and got a sparkly glass. Also went to William and Sonoma, they had a sale on the stand mixers. So we got this one:
It was over 30% off so we got a really nice deal on it. Dan has been wanted one for a couple of years, so I'm glad we finally got him one.
Not much else going on it is a quiet holiday weekend. We watched the end of season 2 of Law and Order last night from NetFlicks and will start on season 3 this week. I have a bit of reading to do for homework but nothing major for any of my classes yet.
Oh I still don't have my glasses fixed hopefully I will by Tuesday, since the sunglasses look just isn't me.
Have a good day all I think I am off to play some Sims2.
Posted by tabrizia at 12:47 PM | Comments (2)
September 02, 2005
Classes, Books and the First few days of Uni
Well I've made it through my first three days of classes go me. So far my classes all seem fairly interesting. My Math class' professor is a bit odd, but what can you expect from a math professor.
Both my Micro and Macro Econ teachers appear to be interesting enough. Of course the fact those classes have over 400 people in them does not help at all. They are both in the same lecture hall and the discussion class is held in the same hall and not broken into smaller groups. I'm not really sure why they call it a discussion when there are over 400 people there, since 400 people do not discuss anything all together.
Ancient History looks interesting. I like the professor he seems like a nice guy. He spent the first class showing us the difference between his dog princess and humans. Well 5 minutes of the class but it was still entertaining. That class has 140ish in it but at least those discussion sections are broken down into groups of 20 which can actually hold discussions on things.
So so far I'm pretty happy with my profs, though it is odd to have all male professors, don't think it has ever happened to me before.
I had to drive myself to class this week since Dan was home waiting for the contractors and such. The parking lot I have is one of the closest there is for student parking. It takes 25 to 30 minutes for me to walk from my parking lot to the student union. Thank goodness for the north campus bus even if it does run every 30 minutes. The campus is huge I haven't gotten lost yet and feel pretty confident about finding my way around to my 4 classes this semester.
I am glad to report my laptop works in all 4 of my classrooms, no need to ask me how I know this :).
Oh so my MicroEconomics class requires use of a computer program, not a big deal. Except it is packaged with the new books, well the bookstore had run out of new books so I bought used, and the software costs 60$ alone. Ouch ick blegh. Plus it is only useable for the one semester, so it is $60 one semester use fee. Which sucks, so I'm going to check the other bookstore and see if they have any new copies of my economics book so I can return the used copy I bought.
Posted by tabrizia at 05:45 PM