pepperdine

This school is sucking the life out of me. Yes, I planned on going to school from 8am to 6pm everyday, but there were things I did not plan on.
Like the parking situation. Last year showing up at 8am guarenteed you a parking place, which I thought would be a bonus to taking an 8am class. Not so. Pepperdine is doing a huge construction thing that has closed the main parking lot for the administrative people and so they and all the constructions workers are taking all the parking spots. This normally would not be a problem, but Pepperdine is not a normal school. This school is built on the side of a mountain and you have to walk up a 45 degree angle street to get to the next building. If I park at the bottom, there are nine flights of stairs that I have to climb to get to my classroom. inaddition to eh flat places that connect the stairs. This path has been clased also, andso it's either up one steep hill or another and my clafs are killing me from all the hill walking. I like a nice flat campus, like UC Santa Barbara and Cal state Northridge. Chaffey was hilly, too. Maybe it's just my lot in life.
Another thing I did not plan on was 13, no make that 15 books in four weeks. Sure I don.t have to read every page of every book, and I am intelligent enough to skim things and comment with my general knowledge, so I'm participating in class, but not doing all the reading. This is not suggested for classes that test you, though. It is difficult to do that.
Also, I was not prepared to write 40 pages for one class. Luckily my morning class did not assign a paper at all, so I may get this done.
And I did not anticipate having to get a smog check when I don't have the opportunity to really do that. I hope I can get it taken care of before my paper work is due to the DMV.
And the last thing I did not anticipate was getting so tired of my classmates. There is this girl that is a total train wreck, and was loudly sick for a week. And the complainers, I'm done with tem. luckily school is only for a weeka nd a half more, and then I'm done! Well, I'll have one more class in the fall, and then I'll be done. Until I decide to do another Master's. . .

Those bastard Kings

The kings traded my favorite player away, to New York City, of all places, so I'm hating them for awhile. This is a video of Brian Boyle, talking about the trade and being in Boston for the summer and training for the upcoming NHL season, in New York.

sigh.

http://rangers.nhl.tv/team/console.jsp?catid=765&id=44634

This is really so I can watch it when ever I want, but he is a cutie!

Summer

I do not get out of school for almost a month and a half, but already my summer if filling up!
Right after I get to stop coming to school I will be taking a road trip with my sister Julia to St. George Utah for our first family reunion. I'm excited and apprehensive, both. I just hope we can all behave and try to get along for one weekend. That will be nice.
July will be hell, I'll be taking three classes, from 8 in the morning until 6 at night at Pepperdine to finish my Master's by December. As long as I can get the reading before the classes start I keep telling myself that I will be alright, but only time will tell. If I'm a little looney after that, I don't think anyone will blame me.
August will be: first, rest after hellish summer program. Then, take a road trip with my sister Beckie to help her drive her kiddies home after the reuniona nd her visit to the West. They live in South Carolina and we don't get to see them very often, sso they are coming out for awhile! Then, if my school ever decided when our start date will be for the fall semester, I'll know when school is starting. And August 31 I start my last Master's class!!! Yahoo!
So, crazy busy summer and the school year is not even over yet. I hope I can wait for it to get here!

Last Class

I think I'm overly excited about my current class being over. But I am really glad that I don't have to make the 40 mile round trip to Malibu once a week until July. And, I only have 4 classes left in this program. I also figured out how to link all of my Twit/face/blog pages together, so I think that's exciting. If I get a B in this class, I'll be golden. I suppose I should aim higher, but I'm fine being a B student. I'm not going to be a doctor or anything, this Master's degree is for more salary points. My students keep asking me what I'll do when I get this degree. They don't really understand that a degree doesn't mean what it used to. It's just a piece of paper that represents college classes taken which to me means more money a month.
In my class we're discussing the book Fast Food Nation. It was highly readable, and didn't turn me off fast food like I thought it would. Sadly. It did make me think about which fast food I wanted at the time. Oh well. One hour and 26 minutes left in this hell. I think I'll actually make it!

Conference Period

The other place where I experience boredom is in my classroom during my conference period. I'm given 53 minutes to take care of any business that I have to do, but I'm usually too tired or uninterested in doing anything to find something real to do.
I have done something really great, though. I just make the last payment on my car. The first car I've ever bought and it is not all mine. No one can take it from me, and if I lose my apartment, I will still have my car. I'm pretty excited about that. Now if I can only pay off my debt, I will not have to worry about losing my house. Stupid horrible economy.

Pepperdine

I am sitting in my "History of the United States" class, and I'm bored to death. So I thought it might be entertaining to start a blog. Of course I may only write when I'm extremely bored, so this may not be an interesting read, but it may keep me from making snide comments in class. We'll have to see.
Up until this week I was able to watch hockey games online on Tuesday nights, but now that the regular Hockey season has ended and my team (The Los Angeles Kings) did not make the playoffs, I need something else to do during my class. Tonight I already took about 5 quizzes on facebook, I updated my twitter, and wrote a vocabulary test for my tenth graders. I even took a few notes, but I haven't really been participating in tonight's lecture, "Urbanization and suburbanization of the United States."
So now I'll try to pay attention, but technically we still have two hours left.