Tuesday, September 19, 2006
Oooo!
If you're noticing a change, then congrats. You pick up on things fast. "Life of a Jayhawk," as well as "The Optometrist" have undergone facelifts! Blogger, the Google company that hosts my blogs, recently redid their software, so here's the results! Everything should be the same, but if you have any questions about the new format, let me know!
Monday, September 18, 2006
The Black Hole of September
Wow, where does the time go? Sorry about the outage.
Life goes on here in Kansas. I've been posting a lot on my second blog, "The Optometrist." You can find that link over there on the right-hand side of your screen. Stuff's been happening the world that's more exciting than my life, apparently.
I've had two tests so far, one in psychology (easy) and one in russian (hehehe...nervous laugh). I have a test in geology on Wednesday night (Argh!) when I already was going to skip my scheduled Bible study for Navs music practice. Talk about bad timing.
Speaking of geology:
The lecture is fine. Straightforward, easy, notes typed out for you already when you come in. Pretty much the epitome of a slacker class. To fufill the lab requirement, though, I had to take the optional lab which bumped my time in geology up to 5 credit hours. Yuck. The lab is terrible. The T.A. is brand-spanking new to the whole newfangled "teaching" thing and hasn't a clue what he's doing. And he smells like glue. I've identified probably over 30 rocks and minerals in that class so far.
And to what avail? To satisfy my one lab science requirement for the j-school. Argh!
On the other hand, my journalism class is going quite well. The lecture is at 8 in the morning, which puts a damper on things, but the lab is later, and more one-on-one, hands-on style. I haven't gotten to write any hard-hitting investigative pieces yet, but they will come. Hopefully.
Other than classes, life goes as usual. I'm still playing my guitar for Navs and my church, and hopefully will be playing my saxophone for some instrumental thing my church may or may not be doing.
I will get to go home in early November, thanks to the amazing skills of my sister! She recently aquired the lead in the high school version of "Kiss Me, Kate." She's Kate, obviously. My parents are flying me home that weekend on frequent flyer miles (thank you, Singapore) to see her! And I get to come home for Thanksgiving and Christmas to boot. Yay!
I think that's about it for the update. I'll try to be more regular.
Read "The Optometrist" for a different view of the world around you!
Life goes on here in Kansas. I've been posting a lot on my second blog, "The Optometrist." You can find that link over there on the right-hand side of your screen. Stuff's been happening the world that's more exciting than my life, apparently.
I've had two tests so far, one in psychology (easy) and one in russian (hehehe...nervous laugh). I have a test in geology on Wednesday night (Argh!) when I already was going to skip my scheduled Bible study for Navs music practice. Talk about bad timing.
Speaking of geology:
The lecture is fine. Straightforward, easy, notes typed out for you already when you come in. Pretty much the epitome of a slacker class. To fufill the lab requirement, though, I had to take the optional lab which bumped my time in geology up to 5 credit hours. Yuck. The lab is terrible. The T.A. is brand-spanking new to the whole newfangled "teaching" thing and hasn't a clue what he's doing. And he smells like glue. I've identified probably over 30 rocks and minerals in that class so far.
And to what avail? To satisfy my one lab science requirement for the j-school. Argh!
On the other hand, my journalism class is going quite well. The lecture is at 8 in the morning, which puts a damper on things, but the lab is later, and more one-on-one, hands-on style. I haven't gotten to write any hard-hitting investigative pieces yet, but they will come. Hopefully.
Other than classes, life goes as usual. I'm still playing my guitar for Navs and my church, and hopefully will be playing my saxophone for some instrumental thing my church may or may not be doing.
I will get to go home in early November, thanks to the amazing skills of my sister! She recently aquired the lead in the high school version of "Kiss Me, Kate." She's Kate, obviously. My parents are flying me home that weekend on frequent flyer miles (thank you, Singapore) to see her! And I get to come home for Thanksgiving and Christmas to boot. Yay!
I think that's about it for the update. I'll try to be more regular.
Read "The Optometrist" for a different view of the world around you!
Monday, September 04, 2006
An Odd (un)Labor Day weekend
It most certainly was an Unlabor Day weekend. I did the exact opposite of what the title assumes.
Ha!
Anyways, it was a weird one, to say the least. Saturday passed without incident. Loren and Stefan were home and Kendal was hanging out with friends from elsewhere most of the weekend. Sunday came around, and I was not able to find a ride to church. Turns out most of the Navs people that go to my church were on a Navs leadership retreat thingymabob. So, in lieu of the real church building, I downloaded a podcast of a sermon from August 13th. Yay technology! I had my own little church right here in my dorm room. Then the Mittelbergs (my aunt Beth, uncle Mark, and weird cousin Julia) called me up to invite me to dinner! The parents were in KC visiting Julia, who works in Olathe. So we went to Molly McGee's on Iowa St. here in Lawrence. Really really good buffalo wings. We stayed the entire duration of Ms. Congeniality on TBS (they had a buncha TVs there).
After dinner, it was just relaxation time. I talked to my family, finished up some journalism hw, etc. Around 11:30, I glanced at a headline about Steve Irwin's death (link to my blog entry)
and wrote in my blog about it before CNN even had it on it's ticker! It certainly was shocking news.
Today's been a boring Unlabor Day. Did a bunch of reading, started the Navs bible study, and watched "Pirates of the Caribbean."
Unlabor Day indeed.
Ha!
Anyways, it was a weird one, to say the least. Saturday passed without incident. Loren and Stefan were home and Kendal was hanging out with friends from elsewhere most of the weekend. Sunday came around, and I was not able to find a ride to church. Turns out most of the Navs people that go to my church were on a Navs leadership retreat thingymabob. So, in lieu of the real church building, I downloaded a podcast of a sermon from August 13th. Yay technology! I had my own little church right here in my dorm room. Then the Mittelbergs (my aunt Beth, uncle Mark, and weird cousin Julia) called me up to invite me to dinner! The parents were in KC visiting Julia, who works in Olathe. So we went to Molly McGee's on Iowa St. here in Lawrence. Really really good buffalo wings. We stayed the entire duration of Ms. Congeniality on TBS (they had a buncha TVs there).
After dinner, it was just relaxation time. I talked to my family, finished up some journalism hw, etc. Around 11:30, I glanced at a headline about Steve Irwin's death (link to my blog entry)
and wrote in my blog about it before CNN even had it on it's ticker! It certainly was shocking news.
Today's been a boring Unlabor Day. Did a bunch of reading, started the Navs bible study, and watched "Pirates of the Caribbean."
Unlabor Day indeed.
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