Finals are this week, and I have studying to do. So I can pass. And not fail. This is important. So when i have more time, or time when I have a break I will blog more. Future posts to look forward to:
The incident
Jenn
Lori
Living
Blogging
Also, what do you think of
this? I don't have time to research it right now, so I thought I would get the opinions of others. Let me know what you know.
I had to write them down because I know I will forget them.
That's all for now.
So...I think it's time for me to start a gasoline log. Today I bought 3/4 of a tank of gas. It was 2.21(9, I'm not going to put the last 9 in there is I do anymore of these, you can just visualise it yourself) and I paid 29.30 for 13.203 gallons of gas at the Shell station on Hodges right off of JTB in Jacksonville. I know that 2.21 actually isn't bad considering what it is in the rest of the country but I think almost $30 in my economy car is getting a bit pricey and it wasn't even a full tank.
So, that test I talked about in my last post. The one that I took on Wed, and only needed like 58 points? Well I got them, and then some, I got a B in the class. When I checked last night I didn't actually think they would be up. We have NEVER gotten grades back that quickly, I didn't think it was possible, I was like, "Is this a joke?" So I knew L was worried about it so I e-mailed her to let her know, because I figured I wasn't the only one who didn't expect a grade for a while. She e-mailed me back saying she had seen the grades, also got a B, and this is her first non-A grade so she is mad. Which is to be expected when everyone walks out just hoping that they got the 58 points necessary. You know the test wasn't just hard, it was a little crazy. The average was an 80.5...out of 120 (which is a D). I beat the average with an 87 (which is a C). So she is mad because of all the trick questions, which I have been mad about since we started school, because it isn't just this one class. But anyway, I figure if L is mad about her grade, she won't be the only one, so who knows? They might let us refute questions and then our grades will go up. But first we have to go back to campus to pick up our tests so we know what the questions are. We were supposed to keep our test but she forgot to tell the proctors, so we have to wait until Monday to get them back.
I'm very boring recently so there isn't much to post about. When Jenn calls me she asks over and over, "So, what's going on with you?" And I keep saying over and over again, "Nothing, I'm boring. I study, worry, take exams, repeat." She's not the only one, people ask over and over. I'm about to scream. Nothing is going on. I go to school. That's it. Stop asking. I'll tell you if something happens. A watched pot never boils or something like that. The same thing goes for grades. Don't ask me how I did on a test after I take it. I don't know. I have to wait until I get my grades. That will be at least 2 weeks. Don't ask. It makes me mad. I'm tired of worrying about it and I don't want to think about it any more than I have to. Stop asking.
School is going okay. Just okay.
I didn't get a high enough score on an exam. The only exam that you have to get a high enough score on. So I have to retake it. Which is okay because they jammed it in with another test and we were all rushed. Some people passed it. Some didn't, to me the important thing is that I did well on the other test, a test I couldn't have retaken if I wanted to. The bad thing is that I have to retake it. It is something else to worry about. It is also embarrassing to admit that I have to retake it. But I'm up front about it. And deal with what I think people think about me when they know it. Someone even came up to me the other day and said, "so Malissa someone told me you didn't pass the exam" to which I replied "Nope," and she went on to ask when we have to retake it. She didn't pass either and in all actuality they really haven't provided us with much exact information. And I didn't mind her asking or talking about it. But I have to wonder who told her and what the rest of the conversation was like. I'm paranoid like that.
On the upside I only have 2 more weeks of this and I'm done with this year.
We took an exam last night. It's a class with only one exam. Everyone is a little iffy. Or so it sounds. The class has a total of 206 points. And we've earned 86 so far. Everyone should have the full 85 points unless the weren't paying attention (the 1 point was a tv assignment and not everyone had a tv and they took the submission tool down early so some people didn't turn it in, I e-mailed it in, so I got credit for it). So anyway, I think we decided we needed a 49% or 59 points to get a C. You know there is something wrong with a LOT of people are worrying that they didn't get a 48%. And to top it all off I had a difficult time making myself study. I think we all did. I did so many searches before that exam for completely ludicrous things it was ridiculous. But what I was really dissapointed with was that I spent a lot of time studying things that weren't even on the exam. And I'm worried because at the end I found things I thought I had answered wrong so I changed my answers and that's never a good thing. But I thought that the answers I had were wrong so I couldn't just leave them even though you are always supposed to go with your first answer. So. Stop asking me how I think I did.
Friday I got a forwarded e-mail from a pharmacy manager at target in Ocala (via a professor). She was looking for a summer intern, and I was very excited because I was looking to be a summer intern. Woo-hoo! Who cares that it is like an hour drive, it's a job! Making money! And I'll get experience! So I e-mailed her back immediately. I told her I was interested and that if she was still looking to let me know and I would get her whatever information she needed. I went home because Saturday was the coating ceremony and I waited to hear back from her. I figured that since it was the weekend I probably wouldn't hear for a couple days, which was okay. So I waited. Then monday I got an e-mail from the same professor that sent out the first e-mail that the offer had been retracted because that Target won't be able to take on an intern this summer. But to keep them in mind when we have our degrees and want a job. Did I get an e-mail directly from her acknowledging that she had recieved my e-mail but couldn't take on an intern after all? No. I'm offended by this. I took my time to reply to her when she obviously didn't even know what was going on. She spoke before she even bothered to check with the company to see if she could have an intern. Interns are a company thing, not a store thing. Did she bother to acknowledge me in any way? No. I'm very upset with Target right now, and I probably won't ever work at one ever just because I'm offended right now. How long would it have taken to e-mail a few people back and thank them for their interest and tell them there had been a mistake and they would not be able to take on an intern. She could have used the same e-mail for everyone and sent it to multiple people. Instead she takes the cowardly way out and doesn't even acknowlege the fact that she wasted my time.
Very mad.
And I really wanted
this, and I knew when I said I did I wouldn't get the job, because I just don't have that kinda luck these days.
Wow, who knew there were so many differences in
horseshoe luck beliefs?
Another post. Hmmm...I posted some stuff to flickr from Easter, but I doubt anyone would be interested in that. I really need to get a pro account so I can post as much as I want there instead of trying to moderate what I post and edit things so they won't be as big. I just hate to make the leap. Eventually though.
Hunts chocolate pudding snack packs are the best thing in the entire world and don't let Bill Cosby try to tell you that Jello is better, it isn't. Even though Hunts is the catsup company...they still make the best pudding.
I'm feeling ver insecure about school right now. I'm waiting for a LOT of grades to come back, it's been a while since we took the exams, and it will be a while before we find out and all the waiting is killing me. I just played texas hold em poker over at yahoo. I'm not very good, but it is usually fun. I learned lots of stuff about moose hunting in Montana, of course it could have been total lies, but interesting nevertheless.
If you are bored you should jump over to flickr and browse. It is totally cool to see everyone's photos and it totally makes me want to travel and take lots of pictures of everything. It also makes me want a new camera, because I want to take those excellent quality photos that I'm just not getting right now. I think I might have lost last years digital vacation pictures. As I am thinking about it right now I'm not sure where they went to, maybe they are still on nikky's computer. If not I may have lost them forever. I will have to check at home to see if there are any CD's laying around that have them on it. Who knows? They could be anywhere. But right now I really don't have time to worry about them. Less than a month until school is over though, and I will have time to breathe and look for whatever I want to and relax and not have a million things I should be doing but can't seem to force myself to do, and I can practice this
transparent screen thing all I want. Because it is totally cool. And maybe this time while I'm home I can actually find that bookstore (because it moved) and read some books.
Okay, that's all for now. Work to do.
I'm still here. I had an exam today, and I had another one on Monday with tons of stuff in between so I've been busy, but what else is new? I've been busy for a while. So I couldn't post because I ALWAYS had other stuff I HAD to do. But now I have a half a second to breathe, so I'm posting. Of course, with all the school busy-ness I have also been very boring. Nothing exciting ever happens.
Traffic here has gone crazy. The last 3 days there has been stop and go traffic on my way to school. I-95 couldn't possibly get busier or have more accidents on it. There was one right in front of me today, in the lane next to mine. Apparently someone "forgot" that there was constant brake lights going, didn't pay attention, and rear-ended something. The girl in the front car, which wasn't damaged hardly at all, got out of the car right in the middle of the road to yell at the girl who hit her. A police officer drove right past them. He was going to another similar accident, the only real difference was that they had moved off of the road.
So now, you know why I haven't been posting. Maybe now that I have a couple days to not worry too much about an exam, I will actually remember things that I think are worth posting. But maybe we will just have to wait until I graduate for that. We'll see.
