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  1. alive and well….

    November 2, 2010 by shishnit

    Forgive me blog, it has been over 30 days since my last entry.  I have been busy.  I took the new job.  The odd thing is that every day I see someone from my past 6 years in the education industry…at my new employer.  Ok almost every day. My new boss is an old co-worker.  My old co-workers are often my new co-workers. That aspect, I love.  It has been a big change for me to learn new processes for old work tasks.  In many cases, there is no process and since I’m very P&P (policy and procedure) in nature, this is maddening.  But I’ve greatly calmed down.  When there is no P&P in place, then there’s also no one to yell at you that you did not follow it.

    I bought a new car in October. A 2008 Honda Civic with just over 12k miles on it.  I love this new car.  LOVE IT!  I’m totally a Honda girl, through and through and this car is the best one I’ve ever owned yet.  I thought it was champagne colored or tan.  Turns out after I read the registration I found that it is gray.  It looks metallic but not any color to me really.  Either way, I love it!

    Today is Rick’s birthday.  Things with he and I have been rocky and that might be part of the reason why I haven’t been blogging.  At least for the time prior to 10-11-10, which was my new job start date.  (I won’t forget that one will I?)  Things have been up and down and that’s to be expected in marriage but I haven’t been so keen on writing about it because this go around I have tons more respect for my husband than the first go at it.

    I’m alive. I’m doing rather well.  Things aren’t too bad.  Education is totally worth it.  Totally.  I’m proud of myself. Lately I’ve spent far more time facebooking my life piece by piece. I wish facebook kept a running list of your updates so I could just post those here.  That’s a feature I should patent eh?

    Also….my son, Bucky…Keith…he’s turning 18 in 20 more days.  Talk about woah!

     

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  2. what then?

    July 16, 2010 by shishnit

    I’ve been enrolled fulltime in college since January of 2005. I work hard at it and I currently have all A’s and one A- (i hate that teacher!) and am carrying a 3.95 gpa in grad school.  Some days (today being one of them) I hate it and can’t wait for it to end.  Then other days (today also being one of them) I realize that soon enough I’ll be done and then what in the world will I do with large chunks of my time? I always thought I would just read more books, do more freelancing, have some highpowered job to stress me out perhaps…but seriously I’m concerned with what I will do with that time.

    Perhaps I’ll take up macrame and learn how to paint ceramics.  Oh wait..I’ll be a Grad school graduate..not an old lady….hmm let me rethink.

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  3. since I “do” get A’s….and I “can” use spell check…

    May 16, 2009 by shishnit

    Most often my classmates are not always all that smart and since everyone thinks they can get a Masters…..sometimes people enroll and this turns out to be not true for certain enrollee’s.  One of my team classmates posted this sentence today in our joint learning forum.

    “…that may be true I just tend to over think and overdue things at time and sense I’m seeking an A I was willing to do so”

    He wanted to put together a chart that was not required of the assignment.  Since when do we add more work to what we’re meant to do?  I find school to be on the mark.  The professor gives you an assignment you do what the professor wants of you, you get an A.  You add to it or interpret the assignment you’re own way…and it is always a disaster.  College is very much about following the rules of the boss and the teacher is always boss.

    This dude can’t even properly use his spell check. (which is a free feature of the system)  SENCE I think he’s stupid I’m doing the assignment as stated, not with a chart or his stupid bullshit ideas….ie: my own “A” way….SINCE I do get A’s.  (oh check me with my big headedness…..lol….but SINCE I can spell…I overruled him!)

    p.s. I think he meant “over do” not “overdue” too…and “times not time”…gahhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!! Fucktard.

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  4. A

    May 2, 2009 by shishnit

    Oh my gosh how I struggled. I spent hours upon hours agonizing over gap analysis and benchmarking and learning all the new tables I had to learn. I told Rick I was not going to get the same grades in my Masters program. I told myself not to be dissapointed and to just struggle through and put forth more effort than I had in the past.

    Oh…Rick, when I told you I wasn’t going to get A’s …oh how I lied.  Can you say “My wife got an A in her first masters class!”…oh I know you can. Now say it loud because I did and I’m so excited and you’re busy at work not answering your cellphone so I just had to blog about it.

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  5. what non-students do on a Sunday

    February 22, 2009 by shishnit

    Now that I’m in midair between my undergraduate program and my Masters program, I am largely bored.  I should have tons of time to blog, but it seems I’ve forgotten how to waste time effectively.  I have been reading quite a few books and you’d think I’d want to somehow document this time, but again, no such desire.

    I spend my time taking long baths, reading, thinking about all the things I should be doing with all this free time, and just as I’ve always know about myself, when I have too much time on my hands, I grow bored, lethargic and un-useful.  

    I have spent the majority of today doing nothing but

    Washing dishes

    Wondered what happened to Akismet??

    Eating rice pudding

    Washing comforter

    Cleaning spilled mess off of living room floor (mess spilled so long ago, it was dried up in a corner where I didn’t see it!)

    Read other people’s blogs

    Downloaded some new songs on the Ipod

    Took a long hot bath

    Read two chapters in bath

    Got dressed

    Realized we have lost $7k in value on our house in a mere 10 months!! (zillow.com I both love and HATE you!!)

    Told Rick about the $ 7K loss

    Even though I said to myself, “myself, lets not tell him”

    Myself did not listen

    Realize that that’s the same $7k the government just gave us

    We’re still even?

    Shopped realtor.com and saw house I fell in love with for NOW $25k less than what we paid, with a fireplace

    Put slipper socks on my cold feet

    Lamented no fireplace

    Wasted a lot of time

    Checked student website for my last grade to post (sprinkle this one throughout my entire day!)

    Think about stupid rule that says must be in “GR” status (graduated) to begin Masters program

    Managed to blog

    Will eat some dinner soon

    The End

    Since I have nothing else to stress about at the moment, aside from 7k loss, must get last grade posted to begin rush status to be in gr status so I can start spending my Sunday’s studying.  I am fucked in the head because apparently I hate all this free time. 

    The REAL End

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