Social Policy is killing me. Anyone know anything about policy analysis?
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Is it May yet?
Sunday, September 30, 2007
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
IMPORTANT AMENDMENT
It is of utmost importance that I correct my favorite books comment.
My favorite FICTION novels are The Grapes of Wrath, followed by Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
HOWEVER
The greatest book of all time is......................
Eats, Shoots and Leaves by Lynne Truss.
Oh my goodness, it's an amazing expression of my soul. I am obsessed. It's a grammar and punctuation book. *sigh* If I could meet Lynne Truss, I'd probably kiss her right on her British mouth; that;s how much I love her. Haha, really.
That is my only amendment, and I couldn't have just edited the post. It deserved its own post.
Sincerely,
The Suz
My favorite FICTION novels are The Grapes of Wrath, followed by Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
HOWEVER
The greatest book of all time is......................
Eats, Shoots and Leaves by Lynne Truss.
Oh my goodness, it's an amazing expression of my soul. I am obsessed. It's a grammar and punctuation book. *sigh* If I could meet Lynne Truss, I'd probably kiss her right on her British mouth; that;s how much I love her. Haha, really.
That is my only amendment, and I couldn't have just edited the post. It deserved its own post.
Sincerely,
The Suz
My Posts are Becoming Scattered and Boring. I'll Try to Fix It.
In Chemistry class today, we discussed light. Color doesn't exist in a dark room. Did you know that? To me, that's completely mind-blowing. Color only exists because light exists; therefore, take away light, and you take away color. I don't like knowing that when I go to bed at night, all the amazing colors that make up this world just don't exist. It seems to me that it's a bit like the ostrich with its head in the sand. Chemistry. Psh. Dumb.
Laura called today. She's back home in Havre de Grace (is that how you spell it?) because her sister just gave birth to Lilly Ann. Supposedly she incredibly adorable with curly black hair and little Asian eyes. I'm excited to see pictures. Although spending so much time with Lucy has seriously deterred me from wanting kids of my own within the next decade, I still think they are so freaking cute...in pictures...not crying...and not vomiting all over my nice jeans. Yuck. She'll be back next week, and I can't wait to see her again! I feel a bit incomplete when I can't walk to Mechanic Street for dinner and some Q.T. with the Cookes (watching Andrew play the Wii and shake his head at Laura and me as we gossip and giggle and Lu spits up all over me).
I called Grandma this morning. I slipped on the dewy grass on this hill to get to campus and face-planted. I slid alllllll the way down this hill, and got grass stains on my breakup jeans (the very expensive and very nice jeans that make my butt look great that I bought after the breakup: hence, my breakup jeans, haha). I called her in a tizzy asking what to do to keep it from setting in while I sat through classes until 3pm. She wasn't sure what to do except hope and make sure to pretreat when I got home with some OxyClean (I have none). At least the jeans are a really dark wash, so it's not that noticeable.
I need to start reading my new book (it's not so new anymore, I got it 2 weeks ago and haven't picked it up since). It's by the same author as new new second-favorite book (next to John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, of course), Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. Jonathan Safran Foer is amazing. This new one is Everything is Illuminated, which was made into a movie a few years ago; you may have seen it. It's about a young Jewish man who collects memories of his family: dirt, photographs, watches, etc. He suspects that a woman in a photograph with his grandfather was the woman who saved him from being killed during the Holocaust. He goes back to the Ukraine, where his grandfather was from, and searches for the woman. It's really an amazing movie, but I've heard, like so many other book/movie combos, that the book is much better. I highly recommend Mr. Foer, so go pick up one of his books!
Ok, I'm off to do some homework.
-Suz the Great
Laura called today. She's back home in Havre de Grace (is that how you spell it?) because her sister just gave birth to Lilly Ann. Supposedly she incredibly adorable with curly black hair and little Asian eyes. I'm excited to see pictures. Although spending so much time with Lucy has seriously deterred me from wanting kids of my own within the next decade, I still think they are so freaking cute...in pictures...not crying...and not vomiting all over my nice jeans. Yuck. She'll be back next week, and I can't wait to see her again! I feel a bit incomplete when I can't walk to Mechanic Street for dinner and some Q.T. with the Cookes (watching Andrew play the Wii and shake his head at Laura and me as we gossip and giggle and Lu spits up all over me).
I called Grandma this morning. I slipped on the dewy grass on this hill to get to campus and face-planted. I slid alllllll the way down this hill, and got grass stains on my breakup jeans (the very expensive and very nice jeans that make my butt look great that I bought after the breakup: hence, my breakup jeans, haha). I called her in a tizzy asking what to do to keep it from setting in while I sat through classes until 3pm. She wasn't sure what to do except hope and make sure to pretreat when I got home with some OxyClean (I have none). At least the jeans are a really dark wash, so it's not that noticeable.
I need to start reading my new book (it's not so new anymore, I got it 2 weeks ago and haven't picked it up since). It's by the same author as new new second-favorite book (next to John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, of course), Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. Jonathan Safran Foer is amazing. This new one is Everything is Illuminated, which was made into a movie a few years ago; you may have seen it. It's about a young Jewish man who collects memories of his family: dirt, photographs, watches, etc. He suspects that a woman in a photograph with his grandfather was the woman who saved him from being killed during the Holocaust. He goes back to the Ukraine, where his grandfather was from, and searches for the woman. It's really an amazing movie, but I've heard, like so many other book/movie combos, that the book is much better. I highly recommend Mr. Foer, so go pick up one of his books!
Ok, I'm off to do some homework.
-Suz the Great
Saturday, September 22, 2007
Swallow Falls
Today my roommates, Star and Eric from the other side of our duplex, Star's mother and little brother, her mother's boyfriend, and Jenna from 2 doors down (she's Sean's, also from the other side of our duplex, girlfriend) went to Swallow Falls near Deep Creek. Whew, that's a lot of explaining for one group! I climbed all over the rocks, swam a little (more like waded in the 2 foot water), and lay in the waterfall. After we played for a while, we went to this place called Smiley's. It's like a backwoods crap version of Chuck E. Cheese, but with disgusting pizzas that cost twice as much as anywhere else. I played a ton of skeeball and tried the batting cages. I am not a baseball player. The ball was pitched so that a 6-year old could knock it out of the park, but I still couldn't quite get enough force behind it. Good thing I have a sense of humor. I just shook my booty everywhere and looked as ridiculous as possible to try to make the people behind me laugh a little.
Warren visited for a few minutes today, and it was positively delightful. I miss him sooooo much! Graduation sucks if I'm not the one doing it! He said I looked really happy and that he was proud of me. He's such a sugar dumplin'. He's coming back up for Homecoming, which is in just a couple of weeks, and said we'd make a date.
HA! For anyone who heard the Tom story (Andrew's friend he tried to set me up with): he wants to meet me again. Is this man a glutton for punishment? My loud and angry "how do you sleep at night?!" wasn't enough to scare him off? So weird... But yeah, he wants to meet again, and I don't think it's wise. He can't explain the ethics of his job to me, and I can't ever waste my time with someone who has flexible ethics because the paycheck pacifies those icky "I'm a bad person" feelings. Yuck.
I am officially on a diet. Laura and I are working at it together, and we're going to lose 25 pounds by December 15. I have no clue why December 15, but she chose the date, haha. No more sweets, no more excessive alcohol, and no more cream-based soups (which is my big calorie killer). We are going to be walking nearly every night (Sundays off!), and hopefully I'll get my chubby little behind back in shape! When Ivan and I broke up, I sort of gave myself a strict therapy regimen of Chardonnay and Totino's frozen pizzas (Jacquie: Thanks for constantly weighing 110 pounds and letting me gain it all, despite alllllways splitting the bottles and pizzas with me! You're the best! Ugh...) So, hopefully I can get back to a normal size...or at least a pre-breakup size!
My sorority, the great and wonderful Kappa Delta, got 10 new girls this fall! Word on the street is, I might have a new Triplet and/or a new Niece! That's exciting! Our family, which Lindsey (my Big) and I once thought was just we two, is now growing so quickly! I love Katie (my Twin), and I can't wait for our family to add even more amazing KD ladies!
Ok, that's all for now. Mom called me today and said she read the blog, so it's giving me hope that at least someone is still reading.
Love you all!
Suz
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Random Updates of My Life Happenings
So Warren gets here on Friday, and I haven't seen him since last Spring. We were on staff together last year for the RA thing, and became the very closest of friends. I am sooooo excited to see him again, even if he's only staying in the burg for a few hours. His goddaughter's 1st birthday party is Saturday afternoon, so I understand that that's more important.
School is going pretty well. My Social Policy class is really challenging and a lot of work, but it's the most relevant course I've had so far to what I want to be when I grow up and jump into the big girl world. We have this semester-long project (GAG!) analyzing a current social policy, and I chose S-CHIP, which is State Children's Health Insurance Program. We lobbied in Columbus this summer with Freedom School, and I really believe in the policy. Google it. I has been in place for the last 10 years, and expires September 30. It's a huge deal! It provides health insurance for children whose families are above the poverty line (kids below qualify for Medicaid) up to 300% above, but whose families still can't afford health insurance on their own. S-CHIP is the cement that fills the crack that kids keep falling through. Anyway, I'm very excited because I (along with 4 other people I recruited to do the project with me) are analyzing a very relevant policy about which I am very passionate. That makes for some mighty good learnin'!
SGA is kiiiiiiilling me! The Student Affairs Chair before me left me nothing to figure out what and how the hell I'm supposed to do anything. I just found out that I have to plan a mixer (dance type thing) for Homecoming. I need to turn in the risk management form 3 weeks ahead (it's 4 weeks away), and I have to meet with 3 different and very busy people before I can turn it in! AHHHHH! I am putting together a VERY detailed binder for my successor. This is such crap and I won't do it to the next person just because it takes a little more time and effort.
Little Lu and I are very best friends. She's huge now, and just yaps all the time. It's all incomprehensible, but she sure has a lot to say. Everytime she sees me, she gets a huge grin on her face. Well, I get a huge grin when I see her, too. We're in looooove, haha. She also has this very strange reaction to me: she spits up if I even touch her. At first, I thought it was a cute accident. Then, it came to the point where I'd touch her arm and BBBLLLEEEHHHH all over. I started bringing a jacket everytime I visited. I think it has slowed down now, but for a while, I thought, Jeez, I wonder if I have this effect on everyone. Haha.
I'm excited to graduate! Ugh, I'm starting to get Senioritis. My mantra is quickly becoming "C's get degrees," which is awful....but very true. GPA matters in high school. It SEEMS to matter in college. Then...you realize it's a VERY small 3 numbers on a resume that is greatly outshined by everything else down the page. Ah, well. I will still succeed and keep high goals in my mind. I'll just be happy with the B instead of the A this year!
Ok, leave comments and love.
School is going pretty well. My Social Policy class is really challenging and a lot of work, but it's the most relevant course I've had so far to what I want to be when I grow up and jump into the big girl world. We have this semester-long project (GAG!) analyzing a current social policy, and I chose S-CHIP, which is State Children's Health Insurance Program. We lobbied in Columbus this summer with Freedom School, and I really believe in the policy. Google it. I has been in place for the last 10 years, and expires September 30. It's a huge deal! It provides health insurance for children whose families are above the poverty line (kids below qualify for Medicaid) up to 300% above, but whose families still can't afford health insurance on their own. S-CHIP is the cement that fills the crack that kids keep falling through. Anyway, I'm very excited because I (along with 4 other people I recruited to do the project with me) are analyzing a very relevant policy about which I am very passionate. That makes for some mighty good learnin'!
SGA is kiiiiiiilling me! The Student Affairs Chair before me left me nothing to figure out what and how the hell I'm supposed to do anything. I just found out that I have to plan a mixer (dance type thing) for Homecoming. I need to turn in the risk management form 3 weeks ahead (it's 4 weeks away), and I have to meet with 3 different and very busy people before I can turn it in! AHHHHH! I am putting together a VERY detailed binder for my successor. This is such crap and I won't do it to the next person just because it takes a little more time and effort.
Little Lu and I are very best friends. She's huge now, and just yaps all the time. It's all incomprehensible, but she sure has a lot to say. Everytime she sees me, she gets a huge grin on her face. Well, I get a huge grin when I see her, too. We're in looooove, haha. She also has this very strange reaction to me: she spits up if I even touch her. At first, I thought it was a cute accident. Then, it came to the point where I'd touch her arm and BBBLLLEEEHHHH all over. I started bringing a jacket everytime I visited. I think it has slowed down now, but for a while, I thought, Jeez, I wonder if I have this effect on everyone. Haha.
I'm excited to graduate! Ugh, I'm starting to get Senioritis. My mantra is quickly becoming "C's get degrees," which is awful....but very true. GPA matters in high school. It SEEMS to matter in college. Then...you realize it's a VERY small 3 numbers on a resume that is greatly outshined by everything else down the page. Ah, well. I will still succeed and keep high goals in my mind. I'll just be happy with the B instead of the A this year!
Ok, leave comments and love.
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