A Thousand Words or More...

I drove to my Mom's today. I guess I'm staying here for the weekend. Haven't really decided yet.

Hallie and Boo are officially FAT. All I could do was laugh at the sight. I can't believe it, but it's the truth.

Boo really likes Raven. Hallie really hates Raven. I don't know how long I can handle the hissing coming from Hallie.

I'm extremely bored. I've been worrying once again how I'm going to pay for school. I made an Excel worksheet and listed all of my income and all of my expenses. If I work 20 hours a week I only go in the hole about 170 dollars a month. I'm not sure how I'm going to pull off the 20 hours a week at work whilst going to school and getting good grades, but I need to figure something out.

All I know is I'm enjoying doing nothing right now because once I go back to Oklahoma I know I'm going to be busting my butt with school, homework, and work.

especially when I'm involved. I don't have much more to say.

I'm glad she came back when she did, it was clear outside when I was looking for her and now it is raining.

Raven got out earlier. Hallie and Boo tore up the screen on the back door at the bottom a long time ago, so there was enough room for Raven to get herself through. I dunno how long she was out but it was probably at least an hour. After about 15 minutes of calling for her and freaking out, she came strolling up the side yard and right up to me purring away as usual. Now that she is back in the house she hasn't left my lap. I was really mad at her but I can't be mad at the cuteness.

I made some blueberry muffins earlier and she decided to eat about a half of a muffin. Weird cat.


Tomorrow is Worlds of Fun day. I don't know whether to be excited or scared. I'm still not sure of all who is going. I should probably go to bed and wake up at a decent hour and figure all that out. Oh and Lora finally gets back from her week vacation at the lake. Here goes the last week of Summer vacation.

Thanks to Amanda for finding this.

about calling off the wof trip this Saturday. I have a sneeking suspicion about one of my "friends" that might end up in a BIG verbal argument. Let's hope that's not the case. I hate when people try to start stuff. We are in college now, let's be grown up.

Grades were posted earlier.

Very BIG surprise there.

Here's the results:

Computer Programming -- A
Band -- A
Physics II -- B
Calculus II -- B
Psychology -- C

Semester GPA -- 3.0

Yes. The B in calc II is not a mistake! I don't know how it happened but it did. Ok well I have an idea how it happened, but it's unbelievable! I kicked some butt on that final! I was worrying for the longest time that I got a D in there. Whew!

I have to go to admissions and fill out a paper to get my calc grade replaced from fall. After that my overall gpa should shoot up there a bit.

I'm excited about my good semester. I knew I could do it. I think I finally found out my routine in studying/work/friends/whatever else. Basically it involves going to class in the morning, sleeping through most of the day, studying all night, and working on the weekends.

Now I'm going to enjoy my next two weeks without worrying about school. Finally.

Here's what is new in my life to worry about:

My "check engine" light came on yesterday while I was riding around talking to people on the phone trying to gather people for a storm chase. ( I couldn't get anyone to go with me ) Now, I've never had the light come on before so I kinda freaked out. I called my dad and he had me bring the car back home, and he looked at things. The problem wasn't apparent so we took it to Ford this morning. They said it was a transmission problem. Ok so for those of you that have been in my car anytime in the past YEAR, know that something was funky with my transmission. Well over the past two days, things have just went downhill with my car kicking in and out of gear. Then the light comes on. So that has screwed over my storm chasing for the rest of my vacation it seems, also my trip to my Mom's for the weekend. I have to take my car back to Ford Tuesday. He said that it may take a few hours to a few days to fix my car. ARG. I might get a rental during this period, or I might have to drive my Dad's truck. I want neither, I want my car fixed, I want to be able to go down the road to see the storm leaving/coming. Neither of which I will be able to do if I don't have MY car. I think if I wasn't so happy about my grades, I'd be really really upset about my car. Anyway, I guess we got an extended warranty when we bought the car, so I'll only have to pay like 100 bucks if something is crazily wrong with my transmission. yay.

Went storm chasing last week down in Southern Oklahoma. It was interesting. Saw a pretty good storm organizing and then got caught in a hail storm. That was about it. Oh and found out that there is a mountain range in Oklahoma. I knew of a mountain range in OK but I figured it was like the Ozarks here in Missouri. Oh no, that's not how it is. They are mountains.

So I'm home now. Pretty boring. Last night I watched the entire first season King of the Hill. I'm working on the second episode of the second season. Which is the one about the tornado. One of my favorite episodes.

Marshall seems weird with a Wal-Mart Supercenter. The place really creeps me out. I've been there a few times and it is full of people I graduated with and a lot of high school kids.

There's more I wanted to share on here but I forgot it already, I told you I'm watching King of the Hill.

Oh and the chances of weather are killing me. I hate this less that 60% light chances. Arg.

Someone posted this in our class message board. I'm going to miss physics class.

In addition to notes about Physics I took during this class, I also took to writing down nuggets of Dr. Mason's wisdom that drew particularly large amounts of laughter from the class. I compiled those quotes into a list that we can all enjoy and chuckle at to relieve some finals week stress.

Mason's revamped demo: "The way I used to do this was . . . Illegal . . . Because it was a . . . Bomb"
Yelling at an annoying teapot: "In this case you're boiling liquid nitrog- oh, stop it!"
Regarding the new clickers: "The new clickers are sexier" (why?) "Well, they're bigger and can do more things"
PowerPoint typos: "Work and Ideal Ga? Ideal gasss . . . ssss"
What's the answer to the clicker question?: "Yeah, e (I don't understand) is the right answer. Ha Hah!"
Electric Innuendo: "Let me rub this rod here . . . (riotous laughter) every year! Every year!"
More electric innuendo: "I bring up my charged rod; I had to rub it a little"
Even more electric innuendo: "I'm going to whack the front row" (swinging his rod)
Dangerous demos: "There have been times when I've been shocked where you don't want to be shocked"
5 seconds later: "Okay, we start this up, and it gets go-whoo! That hurt!"
If that wasn't Mason teaching, then who was it?: "What, Wednesday? What happened Wednesday? Class? We had class Wednesday?"
Mason's art skills: "And now you see the equipotential lines from these two point charges are (laughter) . . . hey, come on!"
Testing the fire alarms: "Yeah, it's like the starship Enterprise - red alert or something"
Hope it was a girl: (after being whistled at while bending over to pick something up) "Thank you."
Physics rebel: "Danger, 15000 volts, authorized personnel only. Nobody authorized me. I can do anything I want!"
Right-hand contortion: "I want you to leave your left hand in your pocket the next three weeks"
Academic pimp: "I was tutoring . . . well, how far do I want to go with this? Well, I met my wife as a tutor"
And which way does the current go?: (after showing several versions of the right hand rule) "And what's this? This is the queen's wave!"
Is he talking about the fuse or something else?: "I don't blow anything!"
The humorous qualities of a good dramatic pause: "The reason I don't blow . . . my fuse"
And finally, not so much a quote; that time when a girl dropped her keys onto the floor in front of Mason and he, without missing a beat, picked them up, put them in his pocket, and started to walk away without saying a word.

Yay!

Since my last post I realized that no matter what I get on my physics final, I'll get a B. So my motivation for studying for my physics final approached 0 real quick. I was at my final for about 2 hours anyway. I'm sure that this will be my lowest test score in the class this semester. Mostly because I truly didn't know what was going on. I'm sure I will not need to know about batteries for meteorology if I will, I'm probably going to be screwed.

Not knowing my calculus grade is killing me. And the fact that the University hasn't posted the day when grades will be available is making it worse. I'm starting to get the "what if I failed" feelings. ARG.

I still don't know when I'm going to be leaving for home. The storm situation looks pretty tempting for tomorrow, so I'm defiantly going to stick around for that. I'm realllllll hesitant on going home because ever since I've moved down here all the storms have been hitting home. I'm sure if I go home they all will hit here. Yesterday my mom called me again with tornado sirens blaring in the phone. Today Kyle called me screaming about a wall cloud with a funnel. What is the deal? IM IN FREAKING OKLAHOMA!!!! You'd think since there is all this hype of "Oklahoma is in the middle of tornado alley" there'd be a friggin tornado around.

Anyway, if I go home I'm sure one will tear right through Norman.

I'm going to get a C in psychology. Yay. I had my calculus II final this morning. I think it went well. I'm pretty sure I'm going to pass that class. Whew.

Finally I got something other than an F on a psychology test. I got a 76% which makes me happy. I'm not sure what I'm going to get on my final percentage I just know it's somewhere between 72.8% and 74.8%. Guranteed a C there.

Last night grades were updated for physics II, I currently have a 86.24% in there. I was shocked at the RAISE in my grade from 82.something% to what I have now. If I do well on the final, (fat chance of that, but it is possible if I start studying), I could pull a B in there!

Sometimes I wonder why I live here. It's not getting better.

I truly hate Mc Donalds. I do. But I have a weakness for their McFlurries. Something about mini m&m's and vanilla ice cream. Actually I bet it is just some kind of mental thing because it has a weather word in it. flurry. I don't know.

Yesterday was exciting. I was mother's day shopping at the mall, and I walked into New York & CO to look at some shirts and the next thing I know, Darren's song "I Like The Way" was playing in the store. It made my day. I'm wondering now if they are releasing the song on radio. They haven't even released ILTW in Europe or Australia. I wish more people here would appreciate the work of Darren. I'm sure his time will come.

Today has sucked for what has past. I spent most of the afternoon studying for my calculus test before I was somewhat rudely ran out of the kitchen by obnoxious loudness. It is finals week. I wish people would respect that. Looks like I'm going to be spending a lot of this weekend/week at the Library at school. HA. Lucky me.

I'm trying to organize a Worlds of Fun/Oceans of Fun trip with my friends back home. Somehow I'm seeing this to be a failure. Something just seems weird when everyone I contact says they can go. Oh and if you are reading this and you think you are entitled to go and I or one of my personnel haven't contacted you yet, call me, and yell at me, and I might let you go. :)


I dunno what my deal is but my postings lately have been of a upbeat nature. Really, at least right now I am pretty pissed off. Just to let you know.

where you just kinda want to go scream "what the heck is going on?!" Yeah that's kinda how I feel right now.

Although I am in a very good mood, mostly about the calculus test.

OHh and as I was sitting here reading a few things I hear this loud "help me I am dying" cat scream from the living room. I dunno what quite happened but I do know Raven was flipping out. I thought something fell on her. I guess she just saw something out the frontroom window. Crazy cat.

I got a 75% on my calculus exam 3. I can't possibly describe the happiness I am feeling from this. Last semester on the third exam I scored an 11/50. What a major improvement. Also my instructor announced in class that there would be a "slight" curve on the final grade. For the first time since I left Missouri Valley, I feel like I am going to pass ALL of my classes.

Here is the run down:

Psychology -- I could get a B in this class if I get a 100 on the fourth exam, and a 10 on my learning journal. Probably won't happen but I'm projecting a C, in this class. However if I get a D, I'm not going to cry about it. I hate that class. Never ever again will I take another online class.

Computer Programming -- Worst class to have at 8:30 am MWF. I currently have an A in there, but I'm thinking it might get bumped down to a B after the final. No biggie.

Physics II -- Chillin. I've passed all the tests, doin' great on all the homework, discussions, and clicker points. Currently at a B. I need 30 points on the final to pass. I already have 10 points from an extra credit test we did. Now the deal is: I have no CLUE, as to what is going on in class now. You'd think magnetism would be easy. HA. Anyway, I'm projecting a C for this class.

Calculus II -- Like I said I'm doing a lot better than I thought I was. The final is cumulative, so hopefully it won't be too hard. Projecting a C for this one.

I really wanted to get all A's and B's for this semester, but I'll settle for B's and C's. I think working all those hours during the first 3/4 of the semester kind of killed the A-B goal.

Oh, and I'd thought I'd mention that the keyboard on this computer in the Nielsen sucks!