I'm thinking if I can convince my former Calc teacher to move the multivariable calculus (aka Calc III) to MW at 10am I'll go for the minor. I can't tell him "move the class from TTH at 4pm" and NOT take the class! It'd be kind of nice if he did because I'll have 3 classes on MW (10am-12pm, 12pm-2pm, and 8pm-10pm) and then only 1 class on T (8:25am-9:50am) and 2 on TH (8:25am-9:50am and 2pm-4:50pm). I'm wanting to have ONE day in the week open so I can leave that option open for work and take Sundays and Saturdays off from work. Course, I'm thinking in GENERAL on working one day a week next semester or fewer hours in a day. I don't know. I'm finding I get all these opportunities to do things, but I just DON'T have time to do them! I'm kind of tired of telling people, "I'll see if my schedule allows it." Either that, or I'm just tired in general. I'm still trying to figure out, though, what I want to do. I still need to get my art in somewhere. I'd either do it in the winter at MPC or the summer at MPC. I'd also like to take speech at MPC instead of CSUMB. I'm still trying to get out in 4 years if I go for the minor. If I decide to take the extra Policy classes though, I'm gonna shoot for 4.5 years. We'll see though. LOTS more time to decide all this since I can't even register for classes until the 21st of November!

I'm currently signed up for ASL 202 (my last and 4th semester of it), Stat 250 (statistics), Bio I (that funky 8:25am class and 3 hr lab), and a TTH photography of nature class (my art on TTH 10am-12pm). I dunno if I'll take off the photography of nature and do multivariable calc instead or not. Depends!

HAPPY NOVEMBER!

So...I got a 100/100 on my ASL iMovie (yay!) and a 100/100 on my ASL dialogue from last night (yay!) and a 90/100 on my ASL demo/story (yay!). I've got a 94% in ASL! YAYAYAYAYA!!!

2nd...I got a 94/100 on my Chem II test (yay). Not as high as I'd like, but it's STILL good. I've still got a nice A+ in the class.

¡HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

The picture below is the Mugglenet fan art contest winner (Sharon Young) and I absolutely love this picture.



This one is the runner-up winner (Sarah Sheehan) of the same contest. Another great picture!



If only I could draw as well as these two people...

As for school...nothing really new. I haven't decided what to do about the math minor. I have a few more months to decide, though. As for last week (my CRAZY week), I survived! About died by the end of it though. Still haven't gotten ANY grades for what I did last week, though. I dunno...maybe I don't want to know...We're getting to the point in Sign Language where we're starting to make-up a lot of our own stories and such. Scares the dickens out of me because I'm NOT good in making up SHORT stories especially in another language! I just hope my next one is better...

Work is going good. We're getting ready for Christmas, yes, already. Tomorrow the Christmas decorations are going up! We're promoting Robert Sabuda's newest pop-up book. He's an AMAZING pop-up illustrator/designer, but our store is going to look like you walked into some white/glittery fairy book or something. We have all these 3-D designs and stuff that are going up all over the store. 3-D snow flakes, 3-D snowman that has something move on him, 3-D doved "popping" out of a sign, 3-D penguins ice skating, etc. It'll be interesting. Our GM wants to start the Christmas music now too. *cringes* I have no love for Christmas music now...after you hear it for 2 months...Let's hope we can get her to put it off for a few more weeks. I dunno, though. Christmas books and music have already come into the store. Oh well, I suppose.

Well, must go off and do some homework. Laters

So...I was thinking of NOT doing the math minor because multi-variable calculus wasn't going to be offered in the Spring, well...Come to find out, Heath (my calc I and II prof) might be teaching multi-variable calculus in the Spring, any ways! I've always said that if he teaches multi-variable calc I'd take it (in the fall, that was), but he didn't. Now I find out he is! I don't know what to do now! Do I double-major? Or do a minor? Or do neither? I need to find out, though, if I need to do double-Service Learning and double-capstone if I do decide to do a double-major. If I don't, it's only 4 more classes I'd have to take to get a double-major, which I'm being told is the best way to go. I might end up taking multi-variable calculus any ways, but I'll decide this all tomorrow (some way or another) when I talk to Celeste.

That is all for now!

Top of October to ya!

So...I'm working on a ton of projects and papers for my various classes. They're all due somewhere towards the end of October. I'm ACTUALLY trying to do things ahead of time...what a novelty, considering I waited until today and yesterday to start an outline for my SBS class book discussion. 320 page book, in two days! My outline, 1.5 spacing is 18 pages long...The requirement? 7. Oh well

So get this...Spring 2006 class schedule is already up. I can't register, yet, of course, but I don't even know what to take! I am thinking, now, of double majoring. Marine and Coastal Ecology, is my primary major, but I was thinking of doing an emphases on Environmental Policy, but they turned it into a Concentration, so now I'm thinking of double majoring and tossing out the math minor. If I do the minor or the 2nd major, I'm going to have to take another semester worth of classes, either 3 (for math) or 4 (for 2nd major). I'm going to need to do some summer classes, here...or start packing on the units. I'm on schedule to graduate in 4 years with just one major and nothing else, though. That's a good thing! I'll decide, sometime, on what I want to do. If I decide to do both those majors, they're so closely related, I'm sure I could pull it off. I'll have to talk to Celeste, sometime.

Any other news...Hrm...not much! I still can't wait till Goblet of Fire comes out! All for now.

Happy end of September! (since I forgot to say Happy September... )

My update...well...school is going...I'm swamped in assignments and projects that are coming up this week. It's a pain. I have a project due a week from this Tuesday. And another one due 2 weeks from tomorrow and another one due 2 weeks from this Thursday. I'm...slowly getting behind. I have my first chem test this Tuesday...*sighs* It's just been crazy for me. Going into my 5th week, though. My, how time flies...

On top of school...I got sick! Two weeks ago tomorrow I came down in a small cold. No one could tell I had a cold, but I just felt slow and like I had a cold. Had a small sore throat, sniffling, stuffy head, not much. It went away by last Sunday and I felt fine that. Well, Mon night or Tuesday I got that sore throat back again! And it came back with a VENGENCE! It's a sore throat I've never felt before. It hurt to swallow or eat. My mom looked at my tonsils on Thursday afternoon and told me my tonsils were really swollen and they had white patches on them. I could tell by looking at my throat in the car that they were swollen and that's saying something because I can never tell usually. I felt yucky still on Friday so she basically said you're going into the doctor today. Called and got me an appointment at 2:50pm, which wasn't a GOOD time because I had work at 3pm, but my boss basically waived me being late because I was going to the doctors. I saw the doctor and explained what was wrong. So she went to go get one of those wooden spoon type things to help hold my tongue down and got a light. She didn't have to look long. When she looked at me she looked kind of startled. She's all "I didn't even need this (the wood thing)" and then said "well, I can understand why you're having trouble eating!" She said that my right tonsil had a bacterial build-up on it and they were splotchy. She wanted to do a strep test to see if I had strep throat. She did and I was negative on the test so she gave me antibiotics, a solution to gargle (it's part lidocain (sp?) to help numb the pain), and 600mg motrin to help with the swelling and pain. Now, I must say, that over-the-counter motrin is 200mg and you can't exceed 6 pills in 24 hours. I have to take a 600mg motrin every 6 hours! I also have to take an antibiotic every 12 hours. It's been loads of fun. I've been waking myself up at 6:30-40am to take my antibiotic and motrin. I get a little funny feeling from the motrin, but it's hardly even noticeable. So...yes...feel sorry for me! It hurts to eat, talk, and drink. I've come to the conclusion...warm/cold/plain liquids (i.e. water/hot water) and popsicles are my best friends! Anything solid such as hard bread, taco shells, big pieces of food swallowed aren't fun. I have to chew everything to a pulp or it hurts going down. I have a new found sympathy for people with strep throat...! Or my brother when he had his tonsils out!

Oh! On Thursday I went into the eye doctor. I'm getting new glasses. They're not frameless. They have a frame on the top, none on the bottom, but it's like a light gold and they're more oval or smaller in general than my glasses now. They're Vera Wang too...LoL. *rolls eyes* It's going to be like night and day compared to my glasses now. The doctor said that my eyes moved up a whole new strength. My eyes are gonna hurt some when I get them, though, but I'll be too happy to see! I'll be able to read the boards at school without squinting! I'm excited...!

So, yeah, I'm being the expensive child this year. Mole removed, orthodics, new glasses, my whole throat thing. All I need to do is go see the dentist and hope no cavities! That'll be some other time though. To think, all this and I'm not even 20, yet...I'm fallin' apart!

I spent $212.81 on books, so far, this semester. I'm still missing one book. I can't remember if I ordered it from work...or if I couldn't or what...I just realized I'm missing it too...any ways...It's $233.73 less than I spent last semester! Yay for me! My first semester still holds the record of the least I spent, but...considering I only had 3 books that sem (1 txt book, answer guide book, and hardback non-fiction book) it's kind of hard to compare. I have to have 11 NEW books this semester, but I own one of them already so I've only had to buy 10 new books. The thing that REALLY helps...is my Chemistry book, with that included it makes 12 books total. But I get to use my chem book from last semester so I'm saving myself $154.