Tag: Celestial


Did You Say Meow?

6
November

Well, I went through my makeover, but I can’t really talk about it or show pictures until after Thanksgiving. It had a pretty good reception at school on Friday.

I was going to go Christmas shopping yesterday, but I couldn’t figure out what to get anyone. I’m going to go the day after Thanksgiving with the help of Klonopin. I have already bought one present. I wanted to get everything over before the major rush of shoppers, but it looks like that’s not going to happen.

I’ve decided that I’m going to learn to drive sometime in the next few months. That way I can go visit Nana more often. I would say that I could go on my days off next semester, but that would just be Saturday and Sunday. I think I may have surprised my dad by saying that I need to learn to drive soon.

I had an interesting experience on Wednesday. The President of the Social Work Club got into a fight with a girl with braids and a tattoo. According to “braids”, “President” had slept with her husband. They’d been having a lot of arguments that day, and things were just escalating. Well, it culminated in a fight; 2 fights actually. The fight was between Diverse Populations (we’d gotten out early) and Art of Interviewing, both in the sense of time and where it was happening. The first time it was stopped, “President” went to the Social Work chairperson’s office to cool off. “Braids” was left to pick up her stuff. Well, as she picked up her stuff, she was insulting “President”. “President’s sister” was in the hall and she went after her. Somehow “President” heard and she came out there looking thoroughly pissed. They fought and a chair was thrown. The campus police came and took all 3 girls to their station. There were about 5 people out in the hall when the fight began, probably all Social Work majors, and no one knows who started the fight. I guess the police figured out because I saw “President” in Bibb-Graves Hall on Friday. I thought that “President” probably threw the first punch because of the SW student amnesia. I also thought that both girls would get expelled. I also think that whoever stepped on my toe owes me an apology. You’d think they would notice that they’d stepped on my toe. If they can’t figure that out, then are they going to be able to feel it when they run someone over?

Oh, I had a lovely experience on Tuesday when I went to register for classes. My account had an encumbrance against it. Apparently, my financial aid hadn’t gone through. Well, I went on Thursday and paid off my account before walking up to the Financial Aid office and asking what was going on. My financial aid paperwork had gotten “stuck” while it was being processed. The girl in the office went ahead and approved my Pell Grant and loan, both of which were small considering last year’s income. Of course, just a few minutes ago I looked at my fee and payment information. I’m not going to get my money back. The Pell Grant paid, but they took it away with the “Bal of Financial Aid”. WTF? That means that they’ll do the same thing next semester and I’ll have to pay some more. You know, full rides should literally be full rides. I shouldn’t have to pay, and I shouldn’t have to have my grant and loan money taken away. I need things like new clothes (which I need since I’m falling out of some of mine) and school supplies that I can’t get when they take way my money to balance out my financial aid.

I hate to beg, but can anyone please volunteer to help ask Question of the Day or Daily Debate questions on Celestial? I’d just need people who could ask questions on Monday, Wednesday, or Friday. You wouldn’t have to ask thought-provoking questions. Just ask something interesting. The QotD could be about a lyric from a song, a line from a movie, or a survey-like question. The DD doesn’t have to be what’s going on in the news. It can be something silly or serious. Please help me, guys/girls!

7 comments » | Alabama A&M, Alabama Weirdness, Family, Internet, Message Board, School

Pivotal

10
March

It took me about 30 minutes to write my 4 page autobiography on Tuesday. I feel like I left out a lot, but I couldn’t exactly give them my entire life story. I couldn’t even give them all the highlights/lowlights. I mentioned Dadada/emotional abuse, growing up with my mom’s depression, Stephanie, Elijah (briefly), how well I’d done in school, how I dropped out of school, my depression (briefly), why I was driven to choose Social Work, why I chose A&M (vaguely), and why I wanted to specialize in Mental Health Services. I didn’t mention psychosis, panic/anxiety attacks, paranoia, etc.

I did my two midterms yesterday and they were fairly easy. My lab midterm was interesting. We hadn’t covered the musculoskeletal system, but somehow the teacher decided to put questions related to that system on the test. Of course, these questions were part of a matching section that featured a wordbank, and many of the questions were like this:

Where two bones are joined and there is pivoting movement

The answer? Well, I figured it was probably pivot joints. I mean, that was just a guess, but I think I was probably right about it. ;)

I’ve got Celestial back up and running. Of course, now there are no pretty themes or hacks, so I doubt anyone will want to be there. I also bet there will be people going, “I don’t want to go there, it looks ugly.” I’ll install hacks and themes when I have time. They’re not things that I can just sit down and do in ten minutes. They take a while, and I’m always afraid I’ll screw everything up when I start playing around with the coding. Of course, that fear partially comes from my amazing ability to screw things up when I start messing with the coding.

I had an anxiety attack/breakdown thing last night. I had already called my mother earlier in the evening, so I decided to tough it out. When my roommate finally came in, I had been crying, but, as usual, she didn’t notice. She got on her computer at about the time I started trying to go to sleep. Sometime during the night, one of her friends dropped off their child for my roommate to babysit while she (the mother of the child) went to a club. The child was there when I woke up this morning. He’s been there before. In fact, he was there when I bruised my wrist so much banging it a while back. I don’t really feel comfortable having a child in our room, especially since there are rules against babysitting and I don’t particularly want to get in trouble for something like this.

I have two pretty major assignments to do this weekend–my presentation for Camping and a take home test for Biology. I’m more worried about the former than I am about the latter. A take home test should be pretty straight forward, especially since its multiple choice. The presentation, though, will be trying. Even if I do everything right with preparing it, I still have to do the actual presentation, which won’t be a pleasant experience.

One of my books I ordered from Amazon.com came today. It was one of the Lost Slayer books. Unfortunately, it wasn’t the second book in the series, so I still don’t get to progress from the first book (which I originally read back in 2002). I hope the other books come soon. According to Amazon, they shipped yesterday, which means they’ll be here…eventually.

Plugs: Ally, Aurora, Chelsea, Elerah, Mollydog, Pia, Robbie

9 comments » | Alabama A&M, General, Internet, Mental Health

She Bites

25
April

Molly seems to have a bit of a love of chewing on the arms of my parents and me. It seems like one of those things that little puppies do. Hopefully, she will grow out of it soon because its so painful. I know she doesn’t mean to hurt any of us, but that doesn’t mean that it doesn’t hurt.

I’ve done about half of my research paper, which is due next Saturday. I need to finish it, and I still have the other essay to write, which is due on Tuesday. Blah. I’m procrastinating. I don’t know why I’m stalling so much on this, but I just don’t feel inspired to write. I don’t like writing when I’m uninspired.

I was considering undoing the password protection on the entry “What Went Down” and making it a public entry, but I don’t want even more drama with the person that the entry is about. I don’t want anything else to do with her. I’m not joining any boards that I know that she’s at because I don’t want to be around her. I also don’t want to have to deal with her affinity for calling me a “fat slob” or telling me to go “suffocate on my fat”. What she said didn’t upset me as much as it shocked me. I didn’t expect that kind of behavior from someone her age. Of course, it was reminiscent of my former boss’s behavior last summer when she said something about me being in the refrigerator. Somehow these people seem to think that saying something bad about my weight will somehow injure me. Though I have had issues in the past with people’s comments about my weight, the insults that were made by these two people didn’t upset me. I think I’m starting to grow as a person…no pun intended.

Speaking of my weight…I can’t really tell if I’ve lost any lately. If I obsessively weighed myself everyday, I might know. Of course, if I obsessively weighed everyday then I would probably quit eating when I didn’t lose x number of pounds in a 24-hour period. I would become so obsessed with making the number go down that I would sacrifice my health in the meantime. That’s why I made the decision when I had the surgery that I was not going to become one of the people who weighed everyday. I decided I’d only weigh at doctor’s appointments and whenever my Nana makes me weigh at her house. That way I won’t become fixated on some number and lose sight of my real goal, which is to be healthy.

I think that starting after school ends, I will be looking for some new Moderators and Super Moderators for Celestial. I’ll mainly be looking for people who are already active members there. So, if you’re interested in becoming a Moderator or a Super Moderator, then start posting on Celestial. You don’t have to post like a million times…just post at least a couple of posts a day if possible. Not many. I don’t expect people to give up their offline lives in order to post a million times a day on my boards. I’m not unreasonable.

I made a theme image for JetRockit, but I doubt it’ll be used. You can view it here…it’s a Buffy/Angel theme with pictures from “Surprise”. No one has said anything about it on there, and I’d like to at least have some feedback. I mean, I know its not as good as most folks do, but still…I like it.

Plugs: Alx, Ang, Angela, Chrissy, Erin, Iris, Jackie, Jaclyn, Jeni, Julie, Kasie, Kat B, Kelley, Krissy, Kristie, Li, Maj, Mellybelly, Nicola, Rose, Sarah, Sarah, Simone, Stacey, Stephanie, Steve, Tara, Tess, Wendii, Whitney

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