well, i haven't updated in forever, and this is going to be pretty short also because soon here i have to eat and go to work...that's pretty much all i've been doing. work, eat, sleep. i live for wednesdays. only 4 more weeks, i tell myself. and then we're gone. i have a few extra days off coming up. plane tickets have been purchased, now i'm ( Read more... )

i am now dually employed at wendy's and cracker barrel. i'm working at both places about 3 days a week. i will be getting out of cracker barrel about 3 hours earlier than wendy's. i'm washing dishes. both jobs suck. i can't wait to get out of here.

well, i don't have a whole lot to report. tomorrow is my birthday. at the moment, the only determined things are to have a picnic, and drinking at the apple. today, work. friday, work. blah. i'm so tired of work. i'm applying at cracker barrel for an undetermined position for an undetermined ammount of hours, in the hopes that i don't hate ( Read more... )

1) i am done with finals! i am done with this semester! yaaay! ich bin fertig!
2) i hate waiting...

sigh. it's been superstressful. i've had multiple papers to write...i've been writing since monday. it's my own fault, really, and i want to kick myself for it. i've gotten almost all of it done so far, and all i have to work on, really, is german. which i'm putting off right now. i just really don't want to do it for one reason or another. ( Read more... )

Our third and final field trip as a class was to Fort Donnellson in Dover, Tennessee. This exhibit stands on an actual battle ground and fort. It is, like Homeplace, run by the park service. The duties of its staff mostly consist of maintenance of the parks widely distributed “exhibits”, as well as the visitor’s center, where a housed museum ( Read more... )

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“The National Register of Historical Places is the Nation’s official list of cultural resources worthy of preservation.” The website offers just that. It provides four ways to locate historical places. I found the website easy to use, and well focused. The user can choose from four links to locate the type of registered locations that they ( Read more... )

The second trip that we made as a class was to Homeplace 1850. This is a museum experience that provides visitors with an accurate representation of what it would have been like to live on a farm in Kentucky in 1850. This museum is part of the park service. This particular field trip was my personal favorite. Again, due to time constraints, our ( Read more... )

During one of our class periods, we took a trip to Fort Campbell in Kentucky to visit the museum for the 101st Airborne. While there, we saw various exhibits dealing with areas that the division had been in, and the duties that they had performed while there. We also saw various vehicles and weapons that are used by this division. It was all set ( Read more... )