bodhi_citta

this is the first image you see when you click on "style for short women" on msn.com tips of things to avoid and things to wear if you are ( like me) midgetesque.. i believe the lesson here is avoid giant rulers?? cause i have to say it definitely DOES make her look short. Something I shall keep in mind

I just noticed my last two posts referenced wasting time.. I SWEAR that yesterday was quite productive!

soooooo when I went to the open-house for the SSW program back in whenever the hell it was, I asked the coordinator if doing a dual-diploma was possible, he said absolutely! lots of people do it. What he DIDN'T tell me is that you have to actually be registered as both an SSW student and DA student, meaning I should have accepted both acceptances. Without having been told this I assumed it was like Trent where you just take the courses you need and then at the end you figure it all out. Well I didn't find out till I arrived on Tuesday that this is not the case. So since then i've been running around to different coordinaters/administraters trying to work this all out. I need to get exemptions from psych courses in order to make room in my schedule to take the DA courses and then I need to register in the DA courses. I managed to get hold of the Drug and Alcohol coordinator yesterday and he sent an email off to the registrar to officially register me as a DA student, So I spent last night/this morning shuffling my schedule around in order to fit the one course I need to add this semester in order to meet the critera for both programs which is Intro to Addictions.. Well the bloody computer wouldn't let me.So i should up at 8:50 this morning to beet the line and spoke with someone in the registrars office who informed me that I cannot register for this course until Monday and that is assuming there is still room then as it is reserved for full-time DA students. I tried to explain to her that that is essentially what I am ( once the email is processed) and coud she pretty please speed the process along? but no.. so now i need to wait till monday HOPING that I can get into the course. IF i don't it makes everything more complicated (ie. it would involve being here an extra semester for one bloody course!!) so i am a slightly cranky girl this morning.. but i'm going to the lecture for the class today assuming everything will work out adn they will let me in.. cause otherwise i came all the way down here for nothing.

O M G I don't think i've been up and active at 7 am in years ( pathetic I know) but I made it! and thanks to Karen I even made it to my first orientation session ( which p.s was a COMPLETE WASTE OF TIME) they spent an hour going over info that could literally have been provided to us on a double-sided piece of paper.. ONE double-sided piece of paper. but no .. they had to waste an entire hour of our lives.. at 8:30 in the morning, at least I got to see the wellness center which looks very lovely and they have a HUGE cardio center so i'm pretty excited about going there. after we all trundled back to fleming my new buddy and I discovered we had nothing to do till 12:30 at which point we had a 15 minute lecture on how to log in to the computers ( no i'm serious) and then our "student advising" session which consisted of " hi i'm your adviser , i'm also the librarian, k bye!" and my favorite part of the day :
" here are 2 second year students here to tell you all about the advising system and why it's so wonderful"
" hi , my name is ____ uh... yeah i never used my advisor but i wish i had, so you should"
" hi , my name is _____ i also never spoke to my adviser but should have , so you should to"
soooo akward.
,then we had our three hour gap, literally the bloody fools scheduled orientation with a huge 3 hour gap in the middle. so we sat around for a while, then i decided since i'm sitting around anyway I should by books etc.. so in the end the day was not a complete waste of time, i got books, a bus pass and my student card. I also managed to find out exactly what I need to do to do a dual diploma, which it turns out is a LITTLE trickier than i thought it would be but is still doable. Excitingly though I discovered that the girl I met at the open house in the summer is doing EXACTLY what i'm doing! a dual diploma in SSW and drug and Alcohol counseling with an aboriginal emphasis. kinda kooky seeing as I'm pretty positive we are the only two doing that. so other than the fact that the actual orientation part of orientation today was a tiring, if not completely wasteful day.

well tomorrow is my first day at college!! i even get a ride to school for my first day ( yeah karen!). it's not actual classes, just orientation, which i am DREADING! i'm not really clear as to what's going on, all i know is it's mandatory and i have to be there by 8:15 and from what I can tell, i'll be doin a fair amount of sitting around.. should be good times! ( did i mention I won't know anyone? so i'll be sitting around by myself?.. best bring a book with me). I am hoping that i'll be able to address my transfer credit situation so i can sign up for the one course i need first semester for the drug and alcohol counseling diploma. I'm also considering the aboriginal emphasis option so i need more info on that, hopefully all of this can be accomplished tomorrow.

p.s i also hope i don't get lost.
p.p.s see how happy my new bulletin board is?!?! it's full of postcards and love from different peeps.

I'm terrified that I'm going to sleep in on tuesday.. or any day really, I SUCK at getting up it's my "biggest weakness" as karen said. attendance is mandatory in my program if you don't go you don't pass. It's the only thing that really worries me because it's the only thing that could really keep me from doing well. With that in mind i'm making myself get up at 7 tomorrow ( which is the time i have to get up on tuesday) I WOULD say i'm going to get up and go sit in a coffee shop and read but I have a horrible feeling they'll all be closed since it's labour day.. so I'm not sure what I'll do to keep myself awake !!! GAH!

BAH! my sleep schedule has been turned around AGAIN!!! it drives me batty that I naturally gravitate to a nocturnal schedule. It's particularly irritating considering that I HAVE to be up and at school starting next week, GAH! I'm embarrassed to admit that going to school 5 days a week is something I haven't done since highschool... this should be interesting.

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You are... 1% unique and 33% herdlike (partly because you, like everyone else, enjoy vampires). When it comes to friends you are normal. In terms of the way you relate to people, you are keen to please. Your writing style (based on a recent public entry) is overcomplicated.

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I just made ENTIRELY successful mock chicken noodle soup.. I'm soo pleased right it's exactly what one needs on wintery-stormy night. It was also entirely too easy - took literally 10 minutes to make and then just let it sit there for an hour. for anyone who's interested here's what I did
                    -    saute onion, carrot and mushrooms till soft
                   -   add about 6 cups water with 3 cubes of vegetarian "chicken"  bullion
                   -  add sage,thyme,2 bay leaves and about 1/4 cup of nutritional yeast
                    - add any type of noodle
                    - add yves "ground chicken"
                    - simmer for about an hour, remove the bay leaves and enjoy!


soooo good! seriously

I LOVE Snow...

     that is all

I'm seriously struggling with my classes right now, mainly cause I haven't been doing anything.. but can you really blame me? I just finished reading the MOST tedious article ever about the learning behaviour of Betta fish.. seriously, they taught them to swim through a hoop and then analyzed the HELL out of the results. Then I had the pleasure of reading 9 pages of statistics OH JOY!. NOW i get to read about the effect of postiive and negative reinforcement on the acquisition of superstitious behaviours using college students as subjects. should be uhh.. interesting?? I hate that I'm in a "social science" I'm not interested in science!!!! at least next semester i'm taking courses I'm actually going to be interested in, Advanced Abnormal, and Dreams and Dreaming.. then I'll actually do the work ;)

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 23.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next three sentences in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.


" The final end of this dangerous ( to the psychiatric profession) and subversive ( also to the psychiatric profession) experiment to find the Question to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything, he thought.
There would be some celebration with his fellows tonight, and in the morning they would meet again their unhappy, bewildered and highly profitable patients, secure in the knowledge that the Meaning of Life would not now be, once and for all, well and truly sorted out, he thought.
"Family's always embarrassing, isn't it?" said Ford to Zaphod as the smoke began to clear."

soooo..... my life seems to fall apart on a semi-regular basis, which is pretty much not acceptable. I've come to the realization that the main issue is my avoidance of .. well.. everything. So in light of this realization I'm going on a semi-permanent computer-usage plan. that means. 30 minutes in the morning. and 1 hr at night. that is all. obvz if i'm doing school work that's different but the internet will be shut off for anything but internet. soooo from now on , if you need to reach me the best way is over the phone.

I just found a copy of "The Economist" magazine buried under the rubble in my bedroom. I have ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA how it got there......

I have a cold, a rash, upset dairy stomach, and my roomie is abandoning me. also i can't nap. i'm NOT a happy camper