I'm In Love With The UPS Guy

The UPS guy fequents our house on an almost daily basis because of my dad's company which is headquarted in the garage. Usually the delivery guy is the same person each time. Occasionally we will get someone unfamilar.
Sheeba loves the UPS guy for reasons we didn't find out until after Christmas of this year. During the holidays UPS hires extra help for delivering Christmas packages. I think they try to put two people in each truck instead of just one to make deliveries faster. So our newbbie UPS guy was afraid of dogs. He was so parinoid about dogs that he carried doggie biscuits with him everytime he got out of the truck. Sheeba of course loves everybody especially the UPS guys even before they started giving her treats. Now she expects treats anytime she hears the truck going by on the road or coming up our driveway. It's extremely funny to watch. If you happen to be outside when a UPS truck drives by (but doesn't stop at our house) she will howl and bark furiously while running down the hill to the road to try and catch up with the truck. Seriously it's very entertaining.
Okay, I'll try to get to the point of this post now. Today it was just me and my dad at the house. I was in the living room catching up on some reading that should have been done earlier (as usual) and my dad was in the kitchen working on his laptops. From my seat on the couch I had a perfect vantage point to see our driveway out the window. Sheeba started her traditional UPS howl and bark, and I saw her dash down the hill to the road. I knew even before I saw that big beautiful brown truck that it was UPS. My dad walked out to meet him because usually the packages have to be signed for because they are usually big expensive pieces of equipment for the computer systems he works with. I put my book down to watch the exchange of pleasentries (gosh, is that how you spell that?) and packages. I almost forgot the guy that delivered it today was the UPS guy that I'm in love with. Hence the title above^. So yeah, I was also admiring him. Where was I? Oh yeah, then the guy leans down to Sheeba and holds out a treat in his hand. It was so incredibly cute! You really had to be there to appreciate it.
When my dad came back in moments later we had a good laugh about all the UPS guys giving out treats to the local dogs. Good times, good times.
I pity the person who took time to read this lame post. It really was the highlight of my day though. Whoa, now I'm going to look like a total loser with no life!

Waiting

I'm in the computer lab waiting for Dr. Ramp to post the lecture notes for botany. Maybe we won't have class today. Oh, that would be fun!
Bad news...I got my calc test back today. 66. Yeah, 66. So since today is the last day to drop he went over everyones grades and let us see what the worst case scenario(?) would be if we stick with the class. I think I would be a fool to drop it now. Btw, worst case I get a C in the class but at least I wouldn't have to take it again. Oh but I am going to get all the points for extra credit because I have a perfect attendance. Go me!

The lesser of two weevils(?)

Okay, I got a bunch of grades back today so the best first. In Music I got a 95 on my fourth test. Then I got my poetry essays back. It was worth 70 points and I got a 56, I think. The visual aid part was worth 30 points. Thank goodness I got 30/30 on that part! So Ms. Yamin gave us our grade reports because thursday is the last day to drop. Like I'd be stupid to drop this class. Upon first glance she had averaged my grades to a C. Impossible. So I figured out that she had forgotten to include a daily grade in one column. It was a good thing I made a 13/13 on it too because that really bought my grade up. Now I have a B, maybe a B+. I'm perfectly okay with that. I've never liked English.
Big test in Calc today. That's the bad news. I thought I was prepared, but there were two problems that in order to get the final answer I needed to find the derivative of a quotient and then solve for zero(simple algebra). So I knew that for those two problems the best way (perhapes the only way?) was to use the Quotient Rule. No matter how many times I tried to work out the problem I kept getting stuck in the exact same place. In the end I finally took a guess at what I thought the critical points were and hoped that maybe that was right even if my work was inconclusive. Gosh, I love Calc but it's killing me. I'm going to be lucky to get a B out of it. Of course I thought there was no way I would get a B in College Algebra but I did anyway. And I seem to be doing better in Calc than College Algebra....
I'm trying to decide if I really want to go paintballing Sunday with the Outdoors Club or not. I'm not really looking forward to seeing Grant there. Ever since he told me he chews tobacco I've been really turned off towards him. I've even tried to avoid him at school, which is almost impossible since we have a class together. I wonder what the death rate is for people who chew. I'm guessing it's lower than people who smoke but really I have no idea. It's such a disgusting habit. I'm okay with people who smoke (I'm not the one killing myself. Ha!), but I can't think of a bigger turnoff for me than chewing. Let me say it again, GROSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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No English class today! Someone posted the note on the wrong door so we had a pow-wow about whether class was indeed cancelled (since none of us could remember what section of ENG 1020 we were in). We all decided to move the note from across the hall to the actual door of our classroom so that if Ms. Yamin did show up she would know that we had all seen the sign and assumed that class was cancelled. Wow, would you take a look at that sentence. Moving on, trying to ignore it. Don't really care anyways. I wasn't going to post anything else until I got my poetry anaylisis back so that I would have good news (hopefully). But class getting cancelled is way better than getting a good grade on a lame poetry essay.

So I've been doing my research on buying a halfway decent pair of skis, used or new. Mostly I've been looking on the internet, but I'm going to look at Play It Again Sports sometime this week hopefully. My friend Ha got her skis and boots there for sweet deal. Right now I'm really in love with HEAD E-Fit boots and Rossignol skis. However I am not set on getting either of those because of my limited, and lack there of, of funds. I NEED A JOB!!

Speaking of jobs...those people at Emory Rd. Garden Center never called me about my application. I think they must have thought they were doing me a favor not hiring me. I'm obviously overqualified for anything they would have me do inside, and apparently underqualified to work outside as I am a female and do not have bulging biceps. I didn't really want to work there anyways. I know the Ham store will always let me come and work if I really get desperate.

Oh, man. I am so stupid. I got my tax return back today. Unfortunately it wasn't my refund. Appearently I forgot to sign something. But you know what? I looked and I DID sign the d*** line!!!! There is however another line on another page that asks for a signature so that is what I assume the IRS is referring. So now I have freakin' twenty days to return it.

In lab today we checked on our African Violet experiments. My results were completly backwards to what was expected and what everyone else got. The leaf that was treated with hormones and planted had fewer and smaller roots than my leaf that was untreated. Dr. Ramp said that it was okay and normal for that to happen to at least one student each time the experiment is done. I feel better.

And life goes on...

I turned in my three poetry analysis plus three visual aids today in English. What a load off my mind!
My music appreciation professor came down hard on the class today. Apprently everyone did really bad on the exam before spring break. Everyone but...ME!!!!!!!!!!!! Ha! another A! So before she handed the tests back she gave us this huge, long, drawn-out lecture on the importance of taking notes, reading the text, and coming to class. Really boring stuff. The whole time I thinking that I must have done really bad on the test as well. I hate it when professors do that to me. Turns out I had absolutely nothing to worry about!
I got my outdoors club t-shirt today. Big whoop.

It's Raining...

We're having some wicked t-storms right now. Should be turning into some sleety-rain-snow mix tonight after temps in the eighties all this week. E. Tennessee has some majorly messed up weather.

I went to Ijams Nature Center with my Bot2 class this afternoon. There wasn't much to see though. I was able to identify trillium and got pretty darn close to identifying a flower called bloodwort. Yeah, it turns out I was on the right page just looking at the wrong flower. So close. Alex and I were the only nerds to remember to bring our wildflower books. In four weeks Dr. Ramp will be taking us back to Ijams to hopefully see a ton of wildflowers. Can't wait! It sure beats sitting in lab looking at slides for two hours. Not that we have to stay the full two hours.

Today I got to meet a lot of Mattie's friends at school. Including the infamous Wes R. He didn't look like how I imagined him. I thought he would be tall and blonde, but actually he's about my height and almost brunette. Weird. Nice guy though. M@ and his hilarous friend were there too. They tried to teach me to play Texas Hold'em. No luck. I still don't get that stupid game. It really doesn't appeal to me.

Oh yeah, I can't believe I almost forgot about this! My first class today was cancelled because my professor was sick! Yea for me! It was so awesome cuz I was actually feeling like I might barf all morning, especially while I was driving to school. So I was able to sit and talk with Mattie for a whole hour and finally got my stomach to relax enough to go to my next class. Where to my delight I got my exam score back and got to skip the rest of the class. Actually I stayed after I got my test back cuz I had some questions but after that my professor said we could leave early, way early. I got a 72 on my Calc exam. I think I made an 82 for the last one, but this one was way harder. I'll just be happy to pass Calc and not have to take it again. Seriously, what does Calc have to do with plant science and public horticulture? Oh and then I got my second exam in Bot2 back. First exam I totally surprised myself with a 93. I felt like I bombed the second exam though. So I was pretty happy to find that I made a 84! That's awesome for me! Now if I can get an A in Bot2 and Music Appreciation I think I might have a chance at making the Dean's List. I desperately want that. But I will probably also have to make at least a B in my Calc class as well. That could be difficult. I know I can get a B in Eng2 maybe even a B+, but not an A. I've never liked, enjoyed, or had any desire to do well in English. It's just not my forte. And you know what? I'm proud, proud, proud! Ha! Take that.

Everyone should take this quiz thingy!

Your Inner European is Swedish!

Relaxed and peaceful. You like to kick back and enjoy life.

Who's" Your Inner European?

It was going to be either Swedish or Italian. I think Swedish makes more sense because I do actually have a lot of Swed blood in me. It's kinda hard to believe though. I look more Italian if anything. Don't Swedish people usually have blonde hair, blue eyes, and pale complexions?

Learning to use blogger

yes, it worked! i've just been trying to figure out how to post pics using hello. oh, and i finally discovered how to edit my links list. that one for PSTCC is a direct link to the Outdoors Club web page. the AlpineSki is what i use to check out the slope reports for skiing. lets see, then there's Mugglenet. VERY important to be up on all the HP news. GCCKnoxville is a website for my church. not much going on there. actually quite boring. Cataloochee, that's where i learned to ski! must pay homage. US Botanic Garden, gobs of useful info there. and finally ISAF. i decided to put this one up cuz it looks pretty darn awesome even though it has no connection to me. i think i forgot about Homestarrunner. excellent for wasting time. that's about all i got. maybe i'll find some more sites that are worthy enough to be linked with mine, but for now that's it.
*Edit*(this is like the third time....)
i forgot about Innate. that one is for Carla's site. trying to throw a little buisiness her way. check it out!

Trying to get my "creative muse" working. man, I'm having a tough time of it. Poetry analysis sucks big time. And I have to do three. I'd rather be doing calc.