Tonight instead of working on my essay on logical fallacies in my favorite tv show for Advanced Comp and my essay on the social relativity theory for Criminology, I watched an old movie and treated myself to a Hideaway Pizza (half Paradise Pie and half Mediterranean). If you haven't ever seen "Clear and Present Danger" starring Harrison Ford, I recommend it. It's slightly smarter then your average action movie, so it's worth your time. As I was watching it, I did manage to get another chapters worth of definitions completed for Criminlogy, so it wasn't a total waste of time.
In watching this movie, it's plot and central theme seems awfully reminisenct (sp?) of recent political actions....but that's all I'm going to say about it. If what I have said interests you, then watch the movie for your own conclusions.
Anyway, today was a good day, I found out that I get to go to Vegas for a work conference in June, so I'm looking forward to that! Oh, and I got a promotion as well! :)
Monday, March 24, 2008
Saturday, March 22, 2008
Life has no rewind button
Well, here was my last spring break of my college career and it's over. Did I go out of town, do anything new, take a vacation? No, No and no. Real life after college has had me in it's jaws throughout my entire college experience, so I did what everyone else who isn't in school did. I went to work. It only now just dawned on me at 12:33 in the morning on the last day of spring break that I've never really had a spring break moment. Never went to Cancun or Florida, never drank until the worm in the bottom of the bottle told me to stop. Do I feel like I've missed out on anything? I'm not sure, but I don't think that I would change anything if life came with a rewind button. Specifically speaking, I wouldn't change anything about how I worked full time all through school and took 13 years to complete a 4 year degree. I might change other things along the way, but not the basic structure. I've had too good of a time, believe it or not, by doing things this way, I feel I've gotten more out of what was being taught in the classroom because I also saw the real world application of it the next day at work, instead of waiting for graduation to come and then I frantically try to remember everything from school when starting that first new job.
Working through school has afforded me the opportunity to try on several careers to best decide what would be the thing I want to do most in life. I've run movie theatres (both multi-plexes and small town one screeners), managed several video stores, worked for a candle and home furnishings importer, been a 411 operator, coffee barista, I was a pastry chef for a single weekend, accounts payables and accounts receivables clerk, collections clerk, sales and catering assistant, procurement clerk, business affairs secretary, production analyst. I've worked for family owned businesses and a huge coporate conglomerate. While working for one of the largest movie studios in the world, I also spent my nights pulling shots at the local *$'s. I've also been a in-home child caregiver and babysitter. All in all, every single one of these jobs have made me who I am today and I wouldn't trade any of these positions or erase any of them from the past...that is if life had a rewind button...
Working through school has afforded me the opportunity to try on several careers to best decide what would be the thing I want to do most in life. I've run movie theatres (both multi-plexes and small town one screeners), managed several video stores, worked for a candle and home furnishings importer, been a 411 operator, coffee barista, I was a pastry chef for a single weekend, accounts payables and accounts receivables clerk, collections clerk, sales and catering assistant, procurement clerk, business affairs secretary, production analyst. I've worked for family owned businesses and a huge coporate conglomerate. While working for one of the largest movie studios in the world, I also spent my nights pulling shots at the local *$'s. I've also been a in-home child caregiver and babysitter. All in all, every single one of these jobs have made me who I am today and I wouldn't trade any of these positions or erase any of them from the past...that is if life had a rewind button...
Friday, March 21, 2008
Closed roads in my brain....
Do you ever wonder why the everyday things that you always remember to do, suddenly disappear from your brain's schedule? Like when you are trying to give information like your address or phone number to someone and then you just draw a complete blank? I sometimes feel that the information is located down a road in my brain that didn't inform the rest of the brain that it is down for some type of service. Then I'm forced to babble incoherently until the electrical forces of my thoughts find a back road into the information store.
The same thing can be said for my ability to read and retain information or deadlines. I mean I read in the syllabus that we were to have this blog set up by Wednesday last week. I make note of it and then completely forget to mark said information on the road map of thought, so now it's over a week later and I'm re-reading the syllabus and thinking "Son-of-a-%&*#!" So I hope that I still get some partial credit for at least attempting to "write"a wrong here. Can I just say...I'm taking 20 credits this semester as well as working a 40 hour a week job, which is one of those excuses that I so loathe to hear, but I'm not above giving out.......
The same thing can be said for my ability to read and retain information or deadlines. I mean I read in the syllabus that we were to have this blog set up by Wednesday last week. I make note of it and then completely forget to mark said information on the road map of thought, so now it's over a week later and I'm re-reading the syllabus and thinking "Son-of-a-%&*#!" So I hope that I still get some partial credit for at least attempting to "write"a wrong here. Can I just say...I'm taking 20 credits this semester as well as working a 40 hour a week job, which is one of those excuses that I so loathe to hear, but I'm not above giving out.......
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