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Post by Pkia on Feb 11, 2006 17:04:42 GMT -5
It's hard keeping up with everyone's goings ons and I must admit that I am rather out of the loop. I'm shocked to realize who's in University, or looking at them right now, or finding out what overachievers some of you guys are. Give a girl some help, and share your life in a nutshell! How's school, work, extra currics, and anything else major that takes up your time? What do you do?
My life as of February consists of school, volunteering, extra currics, and socializing. In regards to school, I'm in my second year at university double majoring in History and Political Science (and a potential minor in French, if I can swing it) that would give me a specialization in International Relations and Global Governance. I'm currently taking the history of the holocaust, Vietnam war, and colonial Canada, statistics, and Middle Eastern politics. I'm taking dance and yoga lessons. I'm volunteering for a soup kitchen in downtown and tutoring an ESL student in conversational English once a week. I also volunteer from 9:00-3:30 once a week at an elementary school for a grade 3 class. 8 year olds make my day I also tend to go out too much on the weekends (and, *cough*, during the week). I'm becoming a regular at "my" bar. It's kind of like Cheers, but with a rougher crowd and dancing
And that's me in a nutshell right now. What are you up to?
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Post by Fluffy on Feb 12, 2006 12:53:04 GMT -5
I know you know what's up, pkia, but for everyone else's quick reference, my life as of February goes like this:
I'm taking a class on Irish history, independent study. I work from about 7:30am-7:30pm, six days a week, on my bookstore (with another four hours on the seventh day as well), so I'm busy like crazy. I'm also trying to learn more about the management of online book sale sites right now, because that situation is changing a lot, and I'm back to blogging for the shop so I can track what I'm learning (and what I'm learning about books, since that's constantly ongoing as well). My spouse, meanwhile, is as busy as I am, taking five classes toward his philosophy degree.
But! Tuesday nights, my brother, sister, spouse, spouse's ex-roommate, and other friends come over to play Killer Bunnies and the Quest for the Magic Carrot, an awesome card game; we still go to concerts once in a while at a favourite venue up north (we're not volunteering as much because of time constraints); and hardly a day passes without some Very Weird Thing happening (like my old pal [Larzo] asking me to look for shooting scripts for the telly series "Angel," season 4, eps 9-end. Any ideas ?!). So we're super-happy. In about a month here, Hart and I will celebrate our first year together (we have only been married for about two months of that). Yay ;D
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Post by Pkia on Feb 13, 2006 16:04:19 GMT -5
Oh, did I say I tutor one ESL student? Make that two. I apparently can't say "no" even when I'm already going crazy!
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Post by hermoine on Feb 13, 2006 16:27:31 GMT -5
Here goes...right now I'm a first year student in Junior College, aiming to study law at University. I'm also studying Italian outside school and will be sitting for my OWL this year, and after that I want to learn spanish and german, because I'm a complete language freak. I'm part of a Mini-EU Assembly representing France; basically what we are is like the EU Parliament but we're students, each group representing a country, and hence, whatever the topic, we have to speak in the name of our country and in our country's views. Tis' cool! We do want to win to spend a week in Brussels. ;D (free croissants if we do! :
Quite recently I've taken a big liking to icon-making, so many of my posts on livejournal are filled with them.
And that's it for what I can remember...my life in a wee nutshell.
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Post by nancy on Feb 14, 2006 19:15:53 GMT -5
I just turned 18 (well, some two months ago) and this is my last semester of high school. I am going to be sitting IB exams this May, which isn't scary, and turning in about a million essays and things this week or next, which is a lot scarier. I have finished my french lessons and will be taking the DELF (I hope I can still take the one for teenagers though) sometime this year, and have now been studying german for 7 months (I am also a language freak. =)) Me and my friends organized a literary café, and we meet at a friend's house once every 3 weeks to discuss books. In that group, by the way, we're all looking into engineering as carreers, but we're still very intellectual... I have been playing some soccer and a lot of basketball. Partly because I love sports, and partly because the past two or three months have been difficult friends-wise, and it's hard to talk, and I swear there's nothing like forgetting about it for a couple hours and just trying to score a basket from whatever distance. I am also involved in an IB yearbook project, and it's turning out awesome, in an IB student organization that we made up (almost) a year ago ago... we're having t shirts made, hopefully REALLY this time. I am also tutoring people in my class (like, 7 people, I'm swamped... but they're all my friends so it's all good) in maths, and some younger students in very, very basic physics... I have a couple service projects going on (I used to count tutoring, but I sorta feel like I'm using people, so not anymore) and I'm only missing 9 hours to finish the required hours (without counting the tutoring.) One of them involves helping out some people to make bookmarks and stuff for some people who help with some big project, but I'm not so sure what it is all about. I'm also tutoring three kids in english... I'm also very much into physics lately. And I have decided to major in biotechnology next year, maybe with a minor in physics or in languages, will have to see that. I wonder what good would a minor in languages do, lol. I used to have a band but we broke up. It's the third time we do that, with pretty much the same people. I just might give up on them. And yeah that's pretty much it. I'm very involved in school this year.
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Post by KoNeko on Feb 14, 2006 19:57:12 GMT -5
Wow. Let's see... I'm doing my MA in philosophy at the moment, having put my legal career on hold for a bit. (When I'm done here, I'm 6 months away from finishing my masters in law back in Australia, and I'm definitely going to do that too.) So besides having classes/seminars/independent study units in various aspects of philosophy, I'm also currently TA-ing a class called "Race and Gender Issues in America" which I initially found hilarious since they got the only non white, non male, non American in the department to TA it, but I really love it now. I do the occasional lecture (class of about 100) and lead three discussion sections (25 students each) per week. I'm also going to be teaching this stuff starting next semester - 2nd year grad students get teaching/lecture gigs as opposed to just leading discussions or grading.
I'm also involved in student politics here, which I definitely have a love-hate relationship with at the moment if anyone's read my journal. In my spare time I usually hang out at home and do homework, try to watch TV (not that there's much time for that) or hang out with friends at our regular haunt where one can buy a pitcher of almost anything for $6. I had a bunch of exchange student friends last semster who have all basically gone home , so I'm pretty sociable at the moment since I like talking to random people. And yeah, that's about all at the moment I think.
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Post by Nie on Feb 14, 2006 23:35:15 GMT -5
I'm currently working for a small software company from home. You'd think that would give me more time to be here but that doesn't seem to be the case. Because my work environment is in frot of my own computer at home when I have free time I tend to opt to be doing something that isn't computer related, like going for a walk, cooking, cleaning, doing the shopping, visiting a friend... Pretty much anything that will get me out of the house for a while.
I was meant to be going back to college (Tafe for you Aussies who know what I'm talking about), but that fell through. During the two days of enrollment my boss kept putting off and putting off coming up to give me the money for the course (I was meant to be studying programming so I can do more for the company), so I missed out on getting in. I was a little disappointed but I'm getting over it. Now I'm just getting annoyed again because the big boss is overseas and the guy that's meant to give me work when the big boss is gone keeps using the time to catch up on his own stuff. So I've been spending the last week tryign to think up useful tasks for myself to do so I don't get into trouble for not doing any work when the big boss comes back. I've done alot of thinking and alot of researching, but haven't come up with much.
Apart from that, I'm in a loving relationship with my boyfriend, Alex. We've been together for a little over a year now and we're going to be moving from where we are now in with some other friends of ours who need someone to help them out for a while. We have two cats now, an all black cat called Elaine, and a white cat with grey stripes called Malkav. They're really cute. I've also been doing drawing in my spare time, but I don't have a scanner so I haven't been able to post any of it.
I think that's about all that's happening with me for the moment. I'll add anything else that springs to mind.
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Post by vinny on Feb 15, 2006 13:21:49 GMT -5
life in a nutshell eh?...lets see what i can do...
i work most weekends, 4hrs saturday and sunday, helping in the back of a pub/restaraunt. thats about £40 a week.
school, or rather, college, it going not as well as i thought it would. im studing ICT, Religious Studies, Media, and Psychology, all for AS/A2 level.
my love life is currently none existant, im single and..(well, not exactly happy, but i dont mind)
im trying to start to make some chainmail (like the old armour), youd be suprised how expensive some of the rings and tools are!
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Post by Pkia on Feb 15, 2006 21:55:55 GMT -5
Oh, and lovelife... I've been trying to forget about that.
I'm currently kind-of sort-of not-really dating my ex-boyfriend. Oh yeah, I'm still trying to figure that one out Basically, I have the benefit of having someone to go out to Valentine's Day with, but the pain in the ass of not understanding what's going on. I'm also kind-of sort-of not-really seeing my other ex-boyfriend at the same time...
We have Model-EU's over in North America, too, Herm, except we do Model UN's instead I was going to participate in the University one this year (they were going to Harvard!) but, alas, it was fabulously ill-timing for me and my semester's workload. They're apparently great though - Brussel's sounds awesome! What language do they conduct the event in, though?
Chainmail... how wonderfully random ;D
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Post by nancy on Feb 15, 2006 22:23:40 GMT -5
Sounds a lot more interesting that MY love life. I was smitten with the guy from a rival school for the longest time. He happened to be my friend's friend and all, that's how we met. He was... well, I suppose he still is... supeer witty and really smart (he's IB and predited 44 out of 45 points, has an A average, got 800 on the maths part of his SAT, etc.) and really funny and strange, he does things like going to the gym at 1 am or whatever. He also turned out to be a complete jerk. My other friends, who do not know him, say this is what I get for liking guys my own age and not older ones... but I dunno. He was so nice, and he made me feel like he kinda liked me too... then he started acting weird... then he invited my friend to the prom, then uninvited her and invited another friend and that was the end of it.... and I just feel really stupid about having liked someone like him at all. And I still don't have a prom date.
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Post by Pkia on Mar 14, 2006 0:04:31 GMT -5
Oh, did I say I tutor one ESL student? Make that two. I apparently can't say "no" even when I'm already going crazy! Make that 4 ESL students. My "self-preservation" gene is apparently turned off. I've also finally broken things off with the kinda-sorta-ex-boyfriend that I was still seeing after an unpleasant revelation through a mutual friend. I've realized that I have a serious problem with liking people who aren't good to me? Yeah. Not fun. And what a skeezy skeezy boy, Nance. No point in feeling stupid about having liked him... people send mixed messages, and this one is apparently a bit of a twit. I certainly hope the second friend of yours he asked turned him down!
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Post by Me on Mar 14, 2006 1:57:21 GMT -5
I have no life. Well that’s not true, but it seems like no one says that anymore.
Righto! I should really stop saying that non-word.
Well this is my first year at university. (why did they let me in?) I’m planning to double major in psychology and political science, or at least minor in political science. We’ll see how things go. I’m currently taking a political science course, math (eww), cognitive psychology and intro to biopsychology. I have a really cute mentor who I like to see because he gives out hugs. I am currently “studying” for next weeks finals (really looking forward them )
Outside of school I have karate classes twice a week. Those are fun. My instructor is cool and very easy to talk to. We had a nice chat last week where we just talked about life. I now have real goals, granted they're small but it's something.
My love life is currently nonexistent. Oddly enough I’m alright with this fact.
I go home about once a month. That’s always fun actually. My mom is convinced the school is starving me so I get all my favourite foods at home. Plus she’s worried sick that I’m freezing to death here so she’s always getting me warm clothes.
I plan to stop being lazy and get a job sometime this year. We’ll see how that goes, because really I’m liking my jobless life.. Well aside from the fact that I have less money to spend. I’m an excellent consumer so really the less money I spend the better? I’ve taken a hiatus from volunteer work because this month has been crazy and will only get busier.
Spring Break starts next Thursday. I’m planning to spend a nice quiet week sleeping and catching up on TV shows. Of course the great part is I get to see friends over break so that’s awesome. My roommate’ sister is coming down sometime next month so we’re going to be touristy and see the sights southern California has to offer. I’m excited. I’m a major dork, I’ve seen all these places.
Right then there’s the fact that I’m traumatized and need to speak to a counselor or someone. I’m avoiding that issue right now though.
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Post by nancy on Mar 14, 2006 17:50:23 GMT -5
And I have a prom date dince yesterday! lol, I feel like such a silly girl, but yeah, I *am* excited. I'm going insane because the arts evaluator is coming in like 10 days and it turns out I actually needed to have some investigation... some now I gotta do two year's worth of investigation in a much, much shorter time. And I have a new band, though we haven't practiced yet... not together. We've written and practiced and whatnot. Seems like it will work. The band consists of me, a friend, and 3 15- or just-turned-16-year olds. They make me feel old. Everyone needs a counselor.... that's just my theory anyway. I am also now more shy than I used to be... I'm having a hard time talking to people I don't know and sometimes even people I do know and my friends know... they say I need a counselor, but I say they need one... which is how I came by that theory. In a way, it's sort of an upgrade from my "everyone has low self-esteem" theory from freshman year. I am also trying to shake this kid I don't really like off my back... but she comes and looks for me and hugs me and I can't do this without hurting her. Majorly. And she's kinda depressed, she says, maybe just for attention because she always wants it but maybe for real, I dunno, but I hate it. Oh, and Liz (I'll call you that now, eh?) my other friend actually said yeah to this guy. I'm currently very a)surprised... no, more like shocked b) Sad c) Pissed. People are weird things.
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Post by Lianne on Mar 19, 2006 1:51:41 GMT -5
well my life has been so so crazy lately.
I turned 19 in december, and living in canada that allows me to drink alkeyhall and such. So ive been to the bar pretty much every weekend for the last two or two and a half months. But i never really drink at the bar, i just dance dance dance haha.
My school work load has been so heavy i think i will need a forklift to finish off the semester. School is almost done for the summer though and its crazt because it feels liek the semester just started.
I have about five reports due a week, and a quiz in at least one class every week, so thats why im nbever on here anymore.
My love life is stupid, but its my own damn fault. so we shall see how that one plays out i guess.
I am a second year biology major at Lakehead University, and i waste my days hanging out int he study/coffeehouse on campus playing pool and laughing all day long. Then i usually go to work for 4 hours till close and come home and do homework, chat onmsn and sleep. my client at work is closed on weekends so i dont work on the weekends so i catch up on school work on weekends. Yay and i go to my favourite nightclub on saturday nights.
So yeah thats it i think? for now at least
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Post by Calavera Diablos on Apr 16, 2006 10:51:49 GMT -5
I'm finishing up (hopefully) my last semester at the jc, so I can transfer back into Otis in the Fall. Once spring break is over in a day, I go back to my digital art, sculpture, life drawing, and art history classes. Sculpture is the only one worth talking about... I'm finishing up my plaster mold for a latex monster mask (photos will be posted later ;D), a project that has been taking more than three weeks long in the process. I had to make the monster head out of clay, cover it in plaster, chisel off the back of the plaster, pick the clay out of the mold, layer the latex in the mold, blow dry the mold (repeat the last two steps, like 9 times...), now all I have to do is carefully peel the mask out and paint it.
Been working odd jobs for friends for quick cash, along with selling a few old videogames and art pieces. Have yet to ask my father if I get my old eBay research job back. I've been trying to get a new job practically since last year, but my available hours just aren't appealing to the managers.
My freetime is being spent on developing a webcomic based on strange and funny things that have happened to my friends and I. I'm also working on making a comic based on our "Closet Gamer Sunday" d20 Star Wars campaign. Now, even that has been put on hold since ACen is coming up fast and I haven't starting sewing my outfit yet. Melissa managed to convince me to do some Original Cosplay, so we're going as punk/gothic ninjas. I managed to find this awesome black and red brocade fabric with cherry blossom branch patterns, which I'm going to turn into a long (and removeable thanks to giant safety pins) sleeve kimono wrap top. I still need to find a liner fabric and work on details for the pants, which need about 30 buckles to be added to it. Oh, and I need new sexy boots since my creepers are now covered in plaster and paint and fail to look appropriately cool anymore.
I just found a great new doctor and am working on trying not to punch my Jungian psychiatrist in the face. I told him how I felt like he wasn't taking me seriously and our talks are going along much better. Yup, I think it'll be another four months before I can even attempt to fully trust that guy. I really do need help, but unfortunately I am paranoid and suspicious of every stranger's motives. Even if he's getting paid to listen to me whine.
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