Ummmm...

Still catching up on homework, should be able to post a real entry by Thursday night. In the meantime, let this photo grabbed off of Cuteoverload.com boggle your mind...




Weeeeeeee!! "The peeps are coming! The Peeps are coming!"

Whoa

I have a lot to tell y'all about my weekend but I am still working on homework for Wednesday. Unfortunatly, I am brain dead, in the meantime:

- Favorite moments of the conference, Session named "Sheherazade after 9/11: Muslim and Arbic American Writing", "Dream American: Cultural and Intercultural Critiques of the 'American Dream' in Late 20th century U.S. Latina/o Literary and Cultural Productions" and "And the Earth Did Not Swallow Them; Poetry and Prose by Central Valley Chicanas/os, Plenary Speakers Lillian Faderman, and Luis Valdez.

- There are some very talented writers coming out of the MFA program at CSU Fresno. My hats off to them and I kinda wish I lived near there so I could hang out with those cool cats.

-Got to see my family, cousins, grandma, aunts and uncles and met mi primo's novia Tracey. She's pretty cool.

-Finally got to eat at a couple of the restaurants that mi primo Jefferson is always blogging about. Yay me! Food...MmMms

-So glad that I got to spend time with my dad. Nothing like a four hours car ride to cover all those topics that we never get to talk about during the week.

And Dude, the season finale of battleStar Galactica rocked last night!

Oh yeah...

Happy eqinox y'all!

Hey all

Sometime I wonder if grad school is one big sprint through the semester

or just a contest to see who can function best on coffee and little sleep.


Sorry I have not been writing much lately but I cannot seem to hit my stride. Good news, I got a 10 on last week's group presentation and did well on that paper and on the paper for my Wednesday class.

I'm leaving for Fresno for a conference tomorrow afternoon, so I probably will not write again until Sunday or Monday. Peace out.

FYI

I got the other paper done in time for Wednesday class.

In other news, a local rooster named Super Chicken was birdnapped from the nursery where he lived with his caretaker.

Super Chicken is a local celebrity who likes to eat bugs at the nursery and greet visitors with an avian dance. SC was rescued from an uncertain fate after he was hatched for a class science project and has since been a loyal companion and fully people friendly presence. We are all offering little prayers that Super Chicken is returned home safely. His caretaker says he thinks SC is alive and well somewhere but I fear that a darker fate has met our feathered friend, Souper Chicken.

I'll keep an eye out for a continued story.

Tuesday Morning

It's way too early to be up but its my own damn fault. Good news is I actually finished my paper due at 4 pm a few moments ago - go me. The bad news is, I have one more paper to write tonight for Wednesday 7 pm class. I did it to myself, I can't really complain.

So I got up at 5 this morning, not usual for some but not my cup o' tea...er, not my cup of coffee. It is always a gamble to go to bed with a paper unfinished. The gamble is, will the letters on the screen in front of you start making sense if you stay up all night, will you wake refreshed after a couple hours sleep and be able to string together a coherent sentence or will you wake up groggy as all get out and S.O.L?

Knock on wood, I have woken up coherent and with my paper outlined in my head the two times I have had to finish a paper the morning of. Not a habit I want to get into but good to know that I am capable of doing it. Ah Graduate school...How many more years did I sign up for?

Wish You Were Here

Sunday lunch

Greek House Greek Salad, comes with warm pita bread.

Sunday Dinner

Homemade Udon with Rooster Sauce.
I would have a picture of the finished product but I was too hungry to go get the camera.

And no, I didn't use the chicken flavor packet, I used veggie bullion instead.

Catch you later.

Tuesday

Went to the gym and ran on the treadmill yesterday and still have homework to finish for tomorrow night. But all in all, I feel goooooooood. Good and tie-tie, I like this working out thing. I am hoping to get four days in this week. We shall see...

OMG...

So much homework, so many posts to catch up on but in the meantime,

This picture on CuteOverload caught my eye, this is tewtelly me in the mornings! I mean the fuzzy fro, not the beak.


I should (fingers crossed) have my week under control by tonight. No more waiting til the last moment to finish homework, like last week. Catch ya later.

Good for me!

Yes, it is a pat on my own back but it is also an, "it's good for me moment." I finally went to the gym today. JW and I have been talking about it for three weeks now but we have been talking each other out of going instead of motivating each other but that has now changed. We used an Elliptical machine for half an hour and then used three different machines to work out our backs. JW is taking it easy on me since I have never done weights before. But I am already seeing improvements. This is the new me:

Lemme 'xplain

"No there is too much, lemme sum up."
If you can name the movie that quote is from, you are a rock star.

Any who, I know there were probably a couple raised brows when all two of my loyal readers saw that I was working 8 to midnight yesterday. After all, I work at a University campus, what the heck was I doing working so late?

The union actually does this really cool late night program called Matador Nights. (We are the Matadors, just in case you didn't know). It is brand new this year. The idea is, we host these late night programs free to students with valid ID and they can bring one guest. We started with four this year, two at the main union and two at the satellite union.

Last night was Mardi Gras theme.
As a new Graduate Assistant, (Oh yeah, I still have to write about that promotion, don't I?) I figured that I should actually make it to the event this time. I have been joking that i was slowly building up to being involved: I knew about the first one(Halloween), I helped with set up for the second one (Winterfest) and was actually going to attend the third one. I guess with the fourth one, the only way to be more involved is to be on the planning committee. We shall see.

But I digress, with good reason as I will explain in a little bit. Last night I headed over early at 6:00 to help setup. It was so windy and cold last night that we ended up moving as much as possible indoors. Thank goodness I bundled up, I spent a good portion of the night outside handing out:


There is so much going on, I will try to list it all. There were free games at the Games Room, billiards, video games, poker. Next door at the Design factory, there was a spin the wheel and get free USU stuff wheel - T-shirts, pens, pencils, highlighters, key chains, posters. Outside these two places, we were asking for 'donations' for glow necklaces and bracelets for all proceeds to go to Katrina relief. We had a craft corner
(yes, we actually have piggy banks to paint) in the Pub, as well as a ministry group playing music (not a bad as it sounds) and a couple food stations: a drink bar (no alcohol), gator tacos (yes, real gator, farm raised) and jambalaya. Right outside the Pub was a caramel apple in a cup vendor.

There was a DJ in the Grand Salon for a 'masquerade ball' next to the Pub. At the Sol center, we had airbrush tattoos, face painting, first aid table for help and demos, a psychic for tarot cards and palm readings, and a Karaoke room. There was also cotton candy and corn on the cob right outside the Sol center. They at least had a little protection from the wind and it was well lit.

In the Northridge Center, there was 'speed meetings' hosted by one of the sororities on campus. I was never quite sure what that meant, I heard it being referred to as speed dating by our announcer/outside DJ sometimes and there was musical chairs and a hypnotist show later that night inside the main area. Right outside the Northridge center, the gals from some Delta Theta or what ever, were offering Mocktails ("Where's my mocktail?" - name that film - hint: Parker Posey is in it.) and there were fresh made mini donuts. Mmm, donuts....

We had an outdoor laser show, an outdoor stage for one of the campus' jazz bands (really good but I felt bad for the trumpet and sax player - so frio last night). We also had a stilt walker, juggler on a unicycle and a roaming theatre 'guild'(useless couple of wanna be theatre majors who didn't perform at all) outside. Our accapella singing group Acasola (on myspace) performed a couple different places and times. There was also a belly dancer who was suppose to be roaming around but it was so cold (do you notice I say that a lot?) we told her to go from building to building so she wouldn't freeze.


It was a fun night. We started letting guests in around 9:00 and we started clean up at 1:00. I got out to the entrance at one point and gave my previous boss a much needed bathroom break from clicking an entrance count (No WAY did we get an accurate count, there were two security lines with people checking IDs, wanding the guests and stamping hands). I stayed a little after he got back and helped hand out:

Food and drink were free but we asked everyone to turn in coins so we could do a count later and find out what the popular vendors were. We initially handed out 4 coins but told people they could always come back for more. In addition to the private security group we hired to watch and control all the entrance points to one main entrance and exit, we also had several Campus/LAPD officers there. The cops were cool, having worked these events before. I had the chance to chat with one of the cops while we were setting up the hypnotist show


(I was the point person - don't ask) and in addition to having a grand ol' time and being a real chatty Cathy, he shared that he rarely busts student for marijuana possession unless they have a ridiculous amount (intent to sell) because it is too much paperwork. He also told me that in 18 years on the job, he has never gotten in a fight with a smoker but he has with drinkers so he would rather deal with smokers any day. And no, in case you were wondering, I never saw any of the cops near the donut booth.

After all was said and done, I got home around 2:00 a.m. I had a really good time although I am sore from set up, all the walking and helping with clean up. I actually preferred walking around outside handing out beads to being point person for performing groups as I was warmly dressed, got to interact with a lot of people, wandered where ever I wanted to go, got to see everything and hear several of the performing groups. But hey, you volunteer and then go where they tell you they need the help.

Sorry for the really long post, I tried to break it up with as many photos as I could. There was a lot going on last night and I had a lot of fun. I only wished I had remembered my chap stick cuz ouch! this morning.

P.S. Answer to what movies I quoted in the comments section

Friday

Slept in, had mail in my inbox, spoke with Jess


Getting my taxes done today, working 8 p.m. to midnight, got a jury duty summons

Thursday Silliness

Me if I were an M & M.


Make yourself at the offical M&M website.

Wednesday

electronic

Tuesday

So glad I got my car back! Had to get it worked on yesterday.


Rhetoric of Women Class in the afternoon. My group is studying Hillary for our group presentation.

This Week in Photos

MONDAY
Day

Night


P.S. I'm peeved at the fact Blogger forced me to create a google account. I have enough logins to stuff and can hardly remember them, why would I want to make new accounts anywhere. Grrrr...

Whew!

This morning, I was asked to write a letter of recommendation and boy, is that hard work. It took me three drafts to get a letter I thought was any good. It was also a shock to realize that I have known Meesh and Ms. B for 18 years now! Talk about a long friendship. At any rate, I needed a break before tackling my homework for the week and since I was listening to my iTunes on shuffle, here is a soundtrack of my life entry. Some if it is pretty funny. I hope that you all had a great weekend.

1. Opening Credits: Please Send Me Someone/George Michael

2. Waking Up: Carrion/Fiona Apple

3.First Day At School: Cruz/Christina Aguilera

4.Falling In Love: Harder to Breath/Maroon 5

5.Fight Song: Round Here/George Michael

6.Breaking Up: What’s This Life For/Creed

7.Prom: If You Have to Ask/Red Hot Chili Peppers

8.Life: Goodnight Song/Tears for Fears

9.Mental breakdown: Pale September/Fiona Apple

10.Driving: Red Hill Mining Town/ U2

11.Flashback: I’m Not That Girl/Idina Menzel

12.Getting back together: Mississippi/Train

13.Wedding: Privilege/Incubus

14.Birth of Child: Twist in my Sobriety/artist unknown

15.Final Battle: Migra/ Santana

16.Death Scene: So Hard/Pet Shop Boys

17.Funeral Song: Everybody’s Fool/Evanescence

18.End Credits: ob-la-di. ob-la-da/The Beatles

February 14

I have expressed my views about Valentine's Day before.

This year, I would be in class tonight but my professor kindly gave us a reading assignment so we would not have to be on campus tonight.

So I am still single and that does not bother me at all. I do have a couple things that I like to do for myself on Valentine's Day. First, I buy myself new windshield wiper blades for my car. Since you have to replace them once a year anyway, it's an easy date for me to remember.

I also use to think that you were suppose to get a new toothbrush every 6 months and I chose Valentine's day and my birthday since they are roughly 6 months apart and again, both easy dates to remember. Turns out that you are suppose to get a new toothbrush every three months instead. But my system still works because that means I need to remember to get new toothbrushes for Cinco de Mayo and before/around Thanksgiving. Rock on.

So I am a big ol' nerd, I think that has been made abundantly clear in this blog. Hey, everyone celebrates Valentine's Day in their own way. If you have a significant other, I hope that you get to spend at least some of your day with them today. And if you don't, Happy Valentine's Day from a friend.

XOXOX

A Quickie

I will try to post pictures and some writing soon but to keep you up to date,

Friday
Went to Disneyland with T3 for her B-day. So much fun, so tie-tie.

Saturday
Sister in town, had big family brunch as she just had a B-day earlier in the week (34!)
Passed out on couch for an afternoon nap.
Watched TV until wee hours of the night (Saw Once Upon a Time in Mexico , I will have to write about that movie later)

Sunday
Got up fairly early, spent time with fam
Chatted on the phone with Meesh
Spent the afternoon reading for classes
Excerpts from The Mechanical Bride
The Medium is the Message I didn't quite finish that one.
and other assorted delights.
Watched the beginning of the Grammys (not too exciting)
Watched Battlestar Galactica (yes, i am a nerd)

So I hit the ground running this week. Have to jump offline and address some Valentine day cards that I already know will arrive late. Aarrgh!

Whoops

Okay, so I realized that a couple posts down, I wrote that I was keeping a journal for Comm & Ed and that I was excited about the class and thought it showed in my writing. And in the post previous to that, I complained about how awful the Comm & Ed class was. I'm having a little trouble keeping the Comm & Ed class seperate from my Rhetoric of Women class since they are both taught by the same professor.

That could get interesting this semester, huh?