Guess what came on iTunes shuffle today while cleaning my dorm room?
"Overrated!"
"Overblown!"
It made me think of you. ^_^
also, you girls might like this:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29107616/displaymode/1107/s/2
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
My turn!
Hello again, ladies and gentlemen.
I have four job interviews this weekend. The first one is at the Wisconsin Humane Society Wildlife Rehabilitation Center on Friday. The second at the Wildlife in Need Center in Oconomowoc on Saturday. Then two at the Racine Zoo on Sunday. Holy lord.
I'm really hoping they go well.
Things have been pretty good lately. Working a lot, reading a lot for classes. Feeling kind of lazy today. Ah well.
We're growing up....
I have four job interviews this weekend. The first one is at the Wisconsin Humane Society Wildlife Rehabilitation Center on Friday. The second at the Wildlife in Need Center in Oconomowoc on Saturday. Then two at the Racine Zoo on Sunday. Holy lord.
I'm really hoping they go well.
Things have been pretty good lately. Working a lot, reading a lot for classes. Feeling kind of lazy today. Ah well.
We're growing up....
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Common Decency
It's surprising how much I can hear about people and still not lose my faith.
Despite everything I have been told and everything I know, I still assume people are decent when I meet them. It takes significant evidence to prove to me that someone is not a kind person... I'm way too trusting and I don't understand why. My trust has been betrayed again and again, yet somehow I still assume that people have other best interests at heart.
What will it take? I know people who have been abused, I know people who have been raped. What will it take to make me stop blindly trusting the people I meet?
Will it get me in big trouble at some point in my life?
Despite everything I have been told and everything I know, I still assume people are decent when I meet them. It takes significant evidence to prove to me that someone is not a kind person... I'm way too trusting and I don't understand why. My trust has been betrayed again and again, yet somehow I still assume that people have other best interests at heart.
What will it take? I know people who have been abused, I know people who have been raped. What will it take to make me stop blindly trusting the people I meet?
Will it get me in big trouble at some point in my life?
Saturday, February 14, 2009
練習中文
I haven't posted to this one in awhile!
I have to put away laundry and practice and shower so it's going to be short, but I just wanted to share this. Our Chinese teacher passed around a list yesterday for us to put our emails on in case we wanted to be partnered with an international student from China so that they could help us learn Chinese and we could help them learn English. I of course signed up even though speaking the language makes me nervous (got to get over that sometime, heeee ^_^;). I got an email from a Chinese student already! We are just coordinating schedules to see when we can meet but wow I am excited and nervous. It doesn't help my confidence levels that all the international students' command of English is already amazing by the time they get here whereas I am just starting second semester Chinese... but I think this will be really cool. :)
I also started reading Iron & Silk, the one recommended in a previous comment on this blog, and it's a really good book so far (I'm about halfway). Excellent suggestion. :)
oh yeah, and happy valentine's day to you two girls. enjoy. <3
I have to put away laundry and practice and shower so it's going to be short, but I just wanted to share this. Our Chinese teacher passed around a list yesterday for us to put our emails on in case we wanted to be partnered with an international student from China so that they could help us learn Chinese and we could help them learn English. I of course signed up even though speaking the language makes me nervous (got to get over that sometime, heeee ^_^;). I got an email from a Chinese student already! We are just coordinating schedules to see when we can meet but wow I am excited and nervous. It doesn't help my confidence levels that all the international students' command of English is already amazing by the time they get here whereas I am just starting second semester Chinese... but I think this will be really cool. :)
I also started reading Iron & Silk, the one recommended in a previous comment on this blog, and it's a really good book so far (I'm about halfway). Excellent suggestion. :)
oh yeah, and happy valentine's day to you two girls. enjoy. <3
Sunday, February 8, 2009
An interesting weekend.
Well, this weekend was interesting.
Thursday: Reid's birthday. Made him a cake, went out to get mexican for dinner.
Friday: I don't remember to be honest. I think just chilled in Reid's room. Some time after midnight we hear a ton of sirens and some guy walking down the hall swearing. We figured someone got arrested and went back to sleep. I thought about going into the hall and asking them to be quieter.
Saturday: We went to Oshkosh to celebrate Reid's birthday with his parents. Then we got a text from David saying that some kid from Thomson (Reid's dorm) died friday night by falling down the stairs. That's right, the stairs right by Reid's room.
So it has been pretty unsettling. We even saw his roommate (a guy in several of my classes) moving out his loft and stuff, we thought at the time he was just moving. But now he has a single room.
It makes you feel really mortal. That guy had no idea it was his last day. Treated it like a normal day. Spent $5000 towards a career he will never get to be a part of. Got drunk just to have fun like a normal weekend. Probably didn't even talk to his family that day. And dear god, his family. How sudden. He died in the hospital so I'm hoping they had time to get here...
It makes you think what if. What if that were me? Reid? David? Any of my friends? How many people would that affect? How would I feel?
And there's no record of it. Even though I didn't know him, I want to buy him flowers and put them in the stairwell. I feel like it's disrespectful to just keep going. Life doesn't stop for everyone just because it does for one person. The first time I realized that was back when Jack Doyle died. I took a walk and saw all of the people driving or walking their dogs and the sun shining and it just seemed so wrong. They didn't know, they couldn't care. It makes you wonder, what is that person you pass on the street going through at the time?
Moral of the story: You never know.
Sunday: Got to fly in an airplane. Reid's pastor is part of a club that owns a little 4 seater, so we flew from oshkosh to fond du lac and back. Reid and his brother Preston got to fly it. It was amazing! Helped bring the mood up a lot.
Thursday: Reid's birthday. Made him a cake, went out to get mexican for dinner.
Friday: I don't remember to be honest. I think just chilled in Reid's room. Some time after midnight we hear a ton of sirens and some guy walking down the hall swearing. We figured someone got arrested and went back to sleep. I thought about going into the hall and asking them to be quieter.
Saturday: We went to Oshkosh to celebrate Reid's birthday with his parents. Then we got a text from David saying that some kid from Thomson (Reid's dorm) died friday night by falling down the stairs. That's right, the stairs right by Reid's room.
So it has been pretty unsettling. We even saw his roommate (a guy in several of my classes) moving out his loft and stuff, we thought at the time he was just moving. But now he has a single room.
It makes you feel really mortal. That guy had no idea it was his last day. Treated it like a normal day. Spent $5000 towards a career he will never get to be a part of. Got drunk just to have fun like a normal weekend. Probably didn't even talk to his family that day. And dear god, his family. How sudden. He died in the hospital so I'm hoping they had time to get here...
It makes you think what if. What if that were me? Reid? David? Any of my friends? How many people would that affect? How would I feel?
And there's no record of it. Even though I didn't know him, I want to buy him flowers and put them in the stairwell. I feel like it's disrespectful to just keep going. Life doesn't stop for everyone just because it does for one person. The first time I realized that was back when Jack Doyle died. I took a walk and saw all of the people driving or walking their dogs and the sun shining and it just seemed so wrong. They didn't know, they couldn't care. It makes you wonder, what is that person you pass on the street going through at the time?
Moral of the story: You never know.
Sunday: Got to fly in an airplane. Reid's pastor is part of a club that owns a little 4 seater, so we flew from oshkosh to fond du lac and back. Reid and his brother Preston got to fly it. It was amazing! Helped bring the mood up a lot.
I'm sad no one's online. I really want to talk about my weekend... o well. I hope it means y'all are off having fun.
Well I had like a mini-party in my room which was exciting because I don't think I ever had any friends in my room first semester. And tonight there were like 8 of us which was nice. It's funny because by the time it ended it was me and 4 guys.... weird considering I never had many guys friends in high school.
All in all a very fun day. I need to have more weekends like this one.
Well I had like a mini-party in my room which was exciting because I don't think I ever had any friends in my room first semester. And tonight there were like 8 of us which was nice. It's funny because by the time it ended it was me and 4 guys.... weird considering I never had many guys friends in high school.
All in all a very fun day. I need to have more weekends like this one.
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Awkwardly Honest = Friends?
In the last weekend-beginning of this week I have had two awkwardly honest conversations about my social life. Both times the two people have been wonderfully nice about it and offered to be my people. I'm just hoping it actually goes some where. I'm chilling with both of them Friday and I really hope that will just be the first of many.
So this leaves me wondering.... is an awkward degree of openness required to start a friendship?
So this leaves me wondering.... is an awkward degree of openness required to start a friendship?
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