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Soooooo bored...so very very bored. I am at work. I don't feel like making phone calls and scheduling interviews, so I'm working on an IRB application instead. Soooooooooooooo not exciting.
I have a date tomorrow night :-).
I talked to Guy yesterday. He was making an awful lot of effort, possibly because I wasn't really responsive at all...hmmm, I wonder why? He asked me "when he gets to see me." The real question, I think, is "does he get to see me?". I think he finally figured out that I was making a very concerted effort to be a bitch, and he even figured out why, all by himself! But that doesn't make it any better. And I don't really care. I have a date tomorrow. Oh yeah, and he's already shopping around for tickets back to Ivory Coast for the end of November. Apparently his dad hasn't been burried yet (he died at the end of July, so this confuses me... but he wasn't too forthcoming when I asked, so I didn't push it). He's mentioned that he doesn't know what he's doing (i.e. where he's living) after December, and he's made it pretty clear that he misses "home," which he considers to be France or Ivory Coast, I'm not sure which. So I really don't foresee myself messing with this whole situation for very much longer.
Jason came over to pick up his key last night :-). I think he'll be fun to live with. The only thing that might be a problem is if I want to bring people over; specifically, male people...for the night... Because supposedly (according to Lauren and all of our friends who are constantly trying to set us up) Jason "likes me." (Yes, don't worry, I already feel like I'm in middle school). So aside from a few comments, he's made no effort to do anything about this liking of me, so I'm not really going to worry about it. But I imagine there will still be some level of guilt if I bring someone home... Anyway, I hope the whole roommate thing works out. I do like him, but I don't know yet if I want it to be more than friends, and I think that the whole being roommates is definitely a confounding factor. Oh well. I need to get all my men straightened out anyway ;-).
My busy busy week is almost over. Tonight I have my evaluation midterm. This is the professor's first time teaching, and we really have no idea what's going to be on the test. We do so many activities in class that we have a grand total of like 5 pages of notes. Everybody seems to be freaking out a little about that; I'm of the impression that it'll just be a more general, practical exam where we have to apply what we've learned, so I'm not too worried about it.
So today:
8-12 Work (though more like 12:15pm, since I got here late)
12:30-1:45 Sex Education
2-ish-4:30ish Eat? Study? Go home and take a nap and watch Oprah? Work on my internship proposal?
5-8 Evaluation (midterm, stupid qualitative research activity where we have to interview people in Ramsey)
8:30-> Hanging out with Karl and Jon?
Tomorrow:
morning: make phone calls, schedule interviews
morning (later): finish internship proposal
4-6:30 Potluck luncheon? maybe not, I have a date :-)
7:30 Out!
I love my slackass weekend schedules. I should probably conduct my needs assessment, or at least get started this weekend. So maybe I'll get that ready tomorrow.
Damn I'm bored. I don't really have anything left to write about, but I don't really want to be working, either. I spent half of my worktime yesterday figuring out how to use our new digital voice recorder. A valuable activity, since I will eventually have to use it to do these interviews. But I probably didn't need to spend quite so much time on it. Oh well, it's cool. It records up to 22 hours! It's completely digital, you can separate recordings into 5 different files, with up to 199 recordings in each. You can name your files. You can store pictures and files from the computer on it, and you can upload your recordings directly to the computer. You can set it so that it stays off until the sound around it reaches a certain decibel level, and then it automatically starts recording. It really is pretty cool.
Hmm, my boss is back. I should get to work. Should, should, should is the operative word here.
I had interesting dreams this morning, mainly about various weather phenomenon. Some about hurricanes. One particularly interesting one about walking next to a field and actually seeing 3 brand new tornados form right there in front of my eyes. The third was the coolest because it was a little less like a tornado and a little more like a ghost. It was just a small tornado at that point, so you could sitll see the shape of the ghost, which was a farmer standing on the back of a manual plow that was being pulled by an ox. Very cool. A woman walking in the field wasn't paying attention and walked right into him, and they grabbed hands and she prevented him from moving forward for a few moments. Pretty impressive given that the farmer was actually a tornado. I guess rain at night will give you strange dreams. Good ones though :-). Deepa was also in the dream. Apparently she was a lesbian. Weird.
My hair is looking pretty bad today. I should wash it. Maybe that's what I'll do this afternoon. And start laundry. But probably not, I really should study. Or take a nap.
I have a date tomorrow night :-).
I talked to Guy yesterday. He was making an awful lot of effort, possibly because I wasn't really responsive at all...hmmm, I wonder why? He asked me "when he gets to see me." The real question, I think, is "does he get to see me?". I think he finally figured out that I was making a very concerted effort to be a bitch, and he even figured out why, all by himself! But that doesn't make it any better. And I don't really care. I have a date tomorrow. Oh yeah, and he's already shopping around for tickets back to Ivory Coast for the end of November. Apparently his dad hasn't been burried yet (he died at the end of July, so this confuses me... but he wasn't too forthcoming when I asked, so I didn't push it). He's mentioned that he doesn't know what he's doing (i.e. where he's living) after December, and he's made it pretty clear that he misses "home," which he considers to be France or Ivory Coast, I'm not sure which. So I really don't foresee myself messing with this whole situation for very much longer.
Jason came over to pick up his key last night :-). I think he'll be fun to live with. The only thing that might be a problem is if I want to bring people over; specifically, male people...for the night... Because supposedly (according to Lauren and all of our friends who are constantly trying to set us up) Jason "likes me." (Yes, don't worry, I already feel like I'm in middle school). So aside from a few comments, he's made no effort to do anything about this liking of me, so I'm not really going to worry about it. But I imagine there will still be some level of guilt if I bring someone home... Anyway, I hope the whole roommate thing works out. I do like him, but I don't know yet if I want it to be more than friends, and I think that the whole being roommates is definitely a confounding factor. Oh well. I need to get all my men straightened out anyway ;-).
My busy busy week is almost over. Tonight I have my evaluation midterm. This is the professor's first time teaching, and we really have no idea what's going to be on the test. We do so many activities in class that we have a grand total of like 5 pages of notes. Everybody seems to be freaking out a little about that; I'm of the impression that it'll just be a more general, practical exam where we have to apply what we've learned, so I'm not too worried about it.
So today:
8-12 Work (though more like 12:15pm, since I got here late)
12:30-1:45 Sex Education
2-ish-4:30ish Eat? Study? Go home and take a nap and watch Oprah? Work on my internship proposal?
5-8 Evaluation (midterm, stupid qualitative research activity where we have to interview people in Ramsey)
8:30-> Hanging out with Karl and Jon?
Tomorrow:
morning: make phone calls, schedule interviews
morning (later): finish internship proposal
4-6:30 Potluck luncheon? maybe not, I have a date :-)
7:30 Out!
I love my slackass weekend schedules. I should probably conduct my needs assessment, or at least get started this weekend. So maybe I'll get that ready tomorrow.
Damn I'm bored. I don't really have anything left to write about, but I don't really want to be working, either. I spent half of my worktime yesterday figuring out how to use our new digital voice recorder. A valuable activity, since I will eventually have to use it to do these interviews. But I probably didn't need to spend quite so much time on it. Oh well, it's cool. It records up to 22 hours! It's completely digital, you can separate recordings into 5 different files, with up to 199 recordings in each. You can name your files. You can store pictures and files from the computer on it, and you can upload your recordings directly to the computer. You can set it so that it stays off until the sound around it reaches a certain decibel level, and then it automatically starts recording. It really is pretty cool.
Hmm, my boss is back. I should get to work. Should, should, should is the operative word here.
I had interesting dreams this morning, mainly about various weather phenomenon. Some about hurricanes. One particularly interesting one about walking next to a field and actually seeing 3 brand new tornados form right there in front of my eyes. The third was the coolest because it was a little less like a tornado and a little more like a ghost. It was just a small tornado at that point, so you could sitll see the shape of the ghost, which was a farmer standing on the back of a manual plow that was being pulled by an ox. Very cool. A woman walking in the field wasn't paying attention and walked right into him, and they grabbed hands and she prevented him from moving forward for a few moments. Pretty impressive given that the farmer was actually a tornado. I guess rain at night will give you strange dreams. Good ones though :-). Deepa was also in the dream. Apparently she was a lesbian. Weird.
My hair is looking pretty bad today. I should wash it. Maybe that's what I'll do this afternoon. And start laundry. But probably not, I really should study. Or take a nap.