Alright, I feel in the mood to post, so here we go.
I just got back from a semi-annual event here at Concordia, called Coffeehouse. It was TOTALLY SWEET. It was this big talent show thing, with lots of people singing, and playing guitar and drums and bass, and doing hilarious skits, and dancing the Pony Dance from Fresh Prince of Bel Air, and absolutely gut-busting songs, and....and....wow. It was amazing.
On top of that, I am really happy 'cause I GOT A JOB TODAY!! Yes! Robin is employed!! I talked to the manager at Jimmy John's, and he was really nice and basically hired me on the spot. So, if you happen to be in Austin on this Saturday or Sunday, come by and visit me at the Jimmy John's on Red River. I'm working on Saturday from 8 am to 3 pm, and Sunday from 5 pm to 10 pm. Those hours work really well for me. I am very happy with them. I don't have too much of an idea exactly what I'm going to be doing, but I think it will either be working the register/taking orders, making sandwiches, cleaning, or getting stuff ready to go in the little ingredients boxes.
Well, that's all I wanted to share for tonight. I will talk to you later, world!
~Kera
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Well, I guess late-night posts will be the norm now...
Hello world! I have been told that I need to update my blog, so here goes. Let's see if I can scrounge up enough random facts about my recent life to make up a post.
Methinks I shall post my class schedule and explain it a bit. Then I can tell random stories about what's been going on with my classes and such without you going "Huh?" too terribly much. (BTW, forgive me if I sound really crazy. It's been a long day and I'm in the tired sillies right now.)
Monday:
-Gen. Zoology (8 am)
-breakfast/break (9 am)
-Freshman English (10 am)
-Chapel (sometimes) (11 am)
-Break/Lunch (11:20)
-New Testament (1 pm)
-Chemistry I (2 pm)
-Break (3 pm)
-Choir (4 pm)
-Dinner (5 pm)
-Praise Band (6-8:30 pm)
Tuesday:
-Chapel (leading the praise songs) (10:40 am)
-Lunch/Break (11:40 am)
-Government (1 pm)
-Chemistry I Lab (2:30 pm)
-Dinner (5 or 5:20 pm, depending on when lab gets out)
Wednesday:
-Gen. Zoology (8 am)
-breakfast/break (9 am)
-Freshman English (10 am)
-Chapel (sometimes) (11 am)
-Break/Lunch (11:20)
-New Testament (1 pm)
-Chemistry I (2 pm)
-Life and Leadership (3 pm)
-Choir (4 pm)
-Dinner (5 pm)
Thursday:
-Gen. Zoology lab (9 am)
-short break/lunch/break (11:30ish am)
-Government (1 pm)
-Break (2:15 pm)
-Choir (4 pm)
-Dinner (5 pm)
Friday:
-Gen. Zoology
-breakfast/break (9 am)
-Freshman English (10 am)
-Chapel (sometimes) (11 am)
-Break/Lunch (11:20)
-New Testament (1 pm)
-Chemistry I (2 pm)
-Break (3 pm)
-Dinner (5 pm)
That is my life. The pattern repeats, and repeats, and repeats...And it will soon be updated/changed. I applied for a job at a sandwitch shop, Jimmy John's, just down the street from my dorm. I shall be making sandwitches as a part-time job. Whoohoo.
Ok, that sounds bad, like I won't like working there. I think it'll be fun. I already met the manager and the two people who were working there this afternoon when I dropped off the application, and they were really nice. The place is small, about a five minute walk or less from my dorm room, and there's no hot stuff involved, so I won't have to worry about burning myself or others. It's just making sandwiches, and I can so totally do that. Or maybe cleaning, and I can, again, so totally do that.
Let's see...what else is going on in my life? Oh! I hope and pray that maybe chemistry is taking a turn for the better....? *knocks on wood* I got an 83% on the test we just took, and we had a supplemental test section for bonus that we took today, and I'm pretty sure I got a lot of it right. And I did well in lab today. Whoo hoo!(That's the non-sarcastic way to say whoohoo, by the way. XD )
Well, at the moment, I honestly can't think of anything else that's interesting to say. Maybe tomorrow I'll come up with something. We can always hope for an interesting development in my social life, or some random fun thing to happen. I'll talk to you later, world!
~Kera
Methinks I shall post my class schedule and explain it a bit. Then I can tell random stories about what's been going on with my classes and such without you going "Huh?" too terribly much. (BTW, forgive me if I sound really crazy. It's been a long day and I'm in the tired sillies right now.)
Monday:
-Gen. Zoology (8 am)
-breakfast/break (9 am)
-Freshman English (10 am)
-Chapel (sometimes) (11 am)
-Break/Lunch (11:20)
-New Testament (1 pm)
-Chemistry I (2 pm)
-Break (3 pm)
-Choir (4 pm)
-Dinner (5 pm)
-Praise Band (6-8:30 pm)
Tuesday:
-Chapel (leading the praise songs) (10:40 am)
-Lunch/Break (11:40 am)
-Government (1 pm)
-Chemistry I Lab (2:30 pm)
-Dinner (5 or 5:20 pm, depending on when lab gets out)
Wednesday:
-Gen. Zoology (8 am)
-breakfast/break (9 am)
-Freshman English (10 am)
-Chapel (sometimes) (11 am)
-Break/Lunch (11:20)
-New Testament (1 pm)
-Chemistry I (2 pm)
-Life and Leadership (3 pm)
-Choir (4 pm)
-Dinner (5 pm)
Thursday:
-Gen. Zoology lab (9 am)
-short break/lunch/break (11:30ish am)
-Government (1 pm)
-Break (2:15 pm)
-Choir (4 pm)
-Dinner (5 pm)
Friday:
-Gen. Zoology
-breakfast/break (9 am)
-Freshman English (10 am)
-Chapel (sometimes) (11 am)
-Break/Lunch (11:20)
-New Testament (1 pm)
-Chemistry I (2 pm)
-Break (3 pm)
-Dinner (5 pm)
That is my life. The pattern repeats, and repeats, and repeats...And it will soon be updated/changed. I applied for a job at a sandwitch shop, Jimmy John's, just down the street from my dorm. I shall be making sandwitches as a part-time job. Whoohoo.
Ok, that sounds bad, like I won't like working there. I think it'll be fun. I already met the manager and the two people who were working there this afternoon when I dropped off the application, and they were really nice. The place is small, about a five minute walk or less from my dorm room, and there's no hot stuff involved, so I won't have to worry about burning myself or others. It's just making sandwiches, and I can so totally do that. Or maybe cleaning, and I can, again, so totally do that.
Let's see...what else is going on in my life? Oh! I hope and pray that maybe chemistry is taking a turn for the better....? *knocks on wood* I got an 83% on the test we just took, and we had a supplemental test section for bonus that we took today, and I'm pretty sure I got a lot of it right. And I did well in lab today. Whoo hoo!(That's the non-sarcastic way to say whoohoo, by the way. XD )
Well, at the moment, I honestly can't think of anything else that's interesting to say. Maybe tomorrow I'll come up with something. We can always hope for an interesting development in my social life, or some random fun thing to happen. I'll talk to you later, world!
~Kera
Sunday, October 14, 2007
A late-night update
Hello, world. It's getting a bit late, (for me it's 5 'till 11) and I'm tired, and I have a zoology test at 8 tomorow morning for which I still need to study a bit more, but I felt like writing a post anyway. Yay for procrastination!
I went to a party at my zoology prof's house today with a lot of other biology or zoology students. It was a blast. We hung out in his gorgeous backyard, gazed at his really pretty pond, looked for frogs in his stream, searched for grasshoppers in his field to use as bait to fish in his pond....ate hamburgers, talked, and basically goofed off in the gorgeous outdoors weather for a few hours. I had a ball.
Then after we had fun at his house we went to a bridge where a colony of bats roost. There are supposed to be about seven million bats there. Seven million. That's a lot of bats. And as we learned really quickly, a lot of bat poop. Or guano, if you want to get technical. And many little dead bat bodies on the ground.
So we stood and sat around waiting for the bats to come out en masse, and they don't. We wait some more, and a few come out, but they don't fly out like we were watching for. They just swoop around under the bridge a bit and then go back into their little crevasse. We wait some more, and it starts to sprinkle. I love my zoology prof...he's so funny. We were all feeling the sprinkling rain, and he says "Feel that moisture? That's bat pee. They're peeing and the wind is blowing it over here and that's the moisture we're feeling on our bodies." So we're getting grossed out and saying "I really hope that's rain, not bat pee, because I will freak out." And then it starts raining harder, and my prof finally says "Oh, wait, it's rain." It was hilarious. He had experienced the wind-blowing-bat-pee-so-it-feels-like-rain thing before, so he had a reason to think that.
The bats never really came out. That was because they could sense the rain and it's a big hassle to fly in the rain. So they were waiting it out.
Ok, now I have to study for my test a bit more and then get some sleep. My test is over sponges, protozoa, and mammals. Whoohoo.
G'night, world.
~Kera
I went to a party at my zoology prof's house today with a lot of other biology or zoology students. It was a blast. We hung out in his gorgeous backyard, gazed at his really pretty pond, looked for frogs in his stream, searched for grasshoppers in his field to use as bait to fish in his pond....ate hamburgers, talked, and basically goofed off in the gorgeous outdoors weather for a few hours. I had a ball.
Then after we had fun at his house we went to a bridge where a colony of bats roost. There are supposed to be about seven million bats there. Seven million. That's a lot of bats. And as we learned really quickly, a lot of bat poop. Or guano, if you want to get technical. And many little dead bat bodies on the ground.
So we stood and sat around waiting for the bats to come out en masse, and they don't. We wait some more, and a few come out, but they don't fly out like we were watching for. They just swoop around under the bridge a bit and then go back into their little crevasse. We wait some more, and it starts to sprinkle. I love my zoology prof...he's so funny. We were all feeling the sprinkling rain, and he says "Feel that moisture? That's bat pee. They're peeing and the wind is blowing it over here and that's the moisture we're feeling on our bodies." So we're getting grossed out and saying "I really hope that's rain, not bat pee, because I will freak out." And then it starts raining harder, and my prof finally says "Oh, wait, it's rain." It was hilarious. He had experienced the wind-blowing-bat-pee-so-it-feels-like-rain thing before, so he had a reason to think that.
The bats never really came out. That was because they could sense the rain and it's a big hassle to fly in the rain. So they were waiting it out.
Ok, now I have to study for my test a bit more and then get some sleep. My test is over sponges, protozoa, and mammals. Whoohoo.
G'night, world.
~Kera
Friday, October 12, 2007
Random facts about my recent life
Alright, well, I suppose it's time for a second blog post. Let's start with the drama that's been going on with my classes.
I am currently a college freshman halfway through my first semester. I'm a biology major, which I love so far. Well, I love the biology part. A nasty little side effect of a biology degree is all the chemistry classes you are required to take. I'm making a high A in zoology (the most awesome class I've ever taken in my LIFE!), a solid A in English, either lower A's or very high B's in both Government and New Testament....and I'm most likely failing Chemistry.
It's not the content. I grasp at least 70% of what's going on in there from just being in class. It's the stupid assignments! All the homework must be done using a computer program that isn't compatable with my new Vista laptop, and then submitted online. If it's a minute late, it's automatically not accepted. And lab writeups...wow, don't get me started on lab writeups. And every day when we come into class, we have a quiz. Every day!
Normally, I wouldn't care too much. I'd just pull through and pass the class with a C or drop it and take it later. But since I'm a biology major, and biology majors have to take a lot of chemistry classes, I can't just drop the class and take it next year. Next year I have to take a more advanced chemistry class. It's cumulative. And I can't just barely pull through with a low C. There's this little thing called a "scholarship" that's not going to let me do that.
My college has some awesome scholarships, yo. If you graduate with an overall GPA of 3.5 and a ACT score of 28+ (or something I can't remeber on your SAT) , you get $10,000 a year. If you have a 3.25 and a slightly lower ACT/SAT score, you get $8,500. If you havea 3.0, you get $5,000. Something like that. I did good in high school. I qualified for the highest scholarship avaliable with my 3.5 and ACT score of 31. So now instead of costing me $23,500ish a year, college is $13,500 a year. MUCH more affordable. BUT. If my GPA drops below 3.5, I get no scholarship. At all. I don't go down to the next bracket. I get 0 academic scholarship money. (And not to sound snobby or anything, but my dad makes too much money for me to get much else in the way of scholarships.)
So I was going to drop the class today, as it was the last day that you're allowed to drop the class, but in order to do that your advisor has to sign the drop-class-sheet. He said that it is a very bad idea to drop Chem. If I were to take chem at a community college over the summer, as I was planning on doing instead, I would not get as good of an education, and I would have a hard time coming back and doing ChemII.
So I kept the class. And now I have to work my butt off just to get a C this semester. But overall, I think (hope) (pray) that it'll work out.
Ok, on to more awesome things. My advisor, zoology prof, and all-around most awesome teacher I've ever had, Doc Meissner, teaches field biology classes all the time. The class meets only once a week to prepare, and then they go on a trip to study the biology in the field. After the trip, they come back and take a test and get their credit hours. Well, this spring, over spring break, the field biology course is Tropical Biology, and it takes place in BELIZE. As in, tropical Central-America palm-trees-and-crystal-blue-water Belize.
Guess who's going to Belize this spring break!!!!
I'm so incredibly excited!! I can't even put it into words. I have to tell the complicated story of how I got signed up for this trip.
I'd been hearing about this Tropical Biology course since pretty much the beginning of the year. The field biology courses are a really popular thing here at my college and they fill up very quickly, especially since there's only 9 slots. I really wanted to go, since I'm a biology major (And who wouldn't want to go to Belize and get credit hours for it?). So I talked with my parents about it.
Well, the other day I went to check how many slots were open for the trip. There were only two left. So I instantly called my mom and told her that I had to know if I could go fast. "Oh, I have to talk to your father" was the response. No surprise there. I stressed the need to know quickly, and left it at that.
So over the next two days I went back and forth with my mom, who had turned into the middleman. She said Dad dosn't want me to go into even more debt (the trip costs about $1,350 ish on top of tuition), so I replied that I'd get a job over Christmas break. So back and forth we went.
Today I was talking at lunch with my roommate, Kelci, about the trip, and she said she wanted to go too. And that if I were going, she would definitely go because she wanted someone that she knew to go with her. So I called my mom immediately and said "Kelci wants to go, but she'll only go if I do." Back and forth, she says yes, we go to the office and put our deposits down. Done. Kelci and I are going. YES! We totally lucked out, too. We got the very last 2 slots.
About 20 minutes later, we're meeting with the prof to let him know we signed up to go on the trip, and he said he thought we might have. The office had just called him up to let him know that the class was filled up, and that just 5 minutes after we had taken the last two spots, someone came in and tried to register. If Kelci and I had waited just ten minutes, we wouldn't have both been able to go!!! How awesome is that? Thank you Jesus!!
Well, this has been very long and rambling. But I got the story down on paper! Kinda...
I am currently a college freshman halfway through my first semester. I'm a biology major, which I love so far. Well, I love the biology part. A nasty little side effect of a biology degree is all the chemistry classes you are required to take. I'm making a high A in zoology (the most awesome class I've ever taken in my LIFE!), a solid A in English, either lower A's or very high B's in both Government and New Testament....and I'm most likely failing Chemistry.
It's not the content. I grasp at least 70% of what's going on in there from just being in class. It's the stupid assignments! All the homework must be done using a computer program that isn't compatable with my new Vista laptop, and then submitted online. If it's a minute late, it's automatically not accepted. And lab writeups...wow, don't get me started on lab writeups. And every day when we come into class, we have a quiz. Every day!
Normally, I wouldn't care too much. I'd just pull through and pass the class with a C or drop it and take it later. But since I'm a biology major, and biology majors have to take a lot of chemistry classes, I can't just drop the class and take it next year. Next year I have to take a more advanced chemistry class. It's cumulative. And I can't just barely pull through with a low C. There's this little thing called a "scholarship" that's not going to let me do that.
My college has some awesome scholarships, yo. If you graduate with an overall GPA of 3.5 and a ACT score of 28+ (or something I can't remeber on your SAT) , you get $10,000 a year. If you have a 3.25 and a slightly lower ACT/SAT score, you get $8,500. If you havea 3.0, you get $5,000. Something like that. I did good in high school. I qualified for the highest scholarship avaliable with my 3.5 and ACT score of 31. So now instead of costing me $23,500ish a year, college is $13,500 a year. MUCH more affordable. BUT. If my GPA drops below 3.5, I get no scholarship. At all. I don't go down to the next bracket. I get 0 academic scholarship money. (And not to sound snobby or anything, but my dad makes too much money for me to get much else in the way of scholarships.)
So I was going to drop the class today, as it was the last day that you're allowed to drop the class, but in order to do that your advisor has to sign the drop-class-sheet. He said that it is a very bad idea to drop Chem. If I were to take chem at a community college over the summer, as I was planning on doing instead, I would not get as good of an education, and I would have a hard time coming back and doing ChemII.
So I kept the class. And now I have to work my butt off just to get a C this semester. But overall, I think (hope) (pray) that it'll work out.
Ok, on to more awesome things. My advisor, zoology prof, and all-around most awesome teacher I've ever had, Doc Meissner, teaches field biology classes all the time. The class meets only once a week to prepare, and then they go on a trip to study the biology in the field. After the trip, they come back and take a test and get their credit hours. Well, this spring, over spring break, the field biology course is Tropical Biology, and it takes place in BELIZE. As in, tropical Central-America palm-trees-and-crystal-blue-water Belize.
Guess who's going to Belize this spring break!!!!
I'm so incredibly excited!! I can't even put it into words. I have to tell the complicated story of how I got signed up for this trip.
I'd been hearing about this Tropical Biology course since pretty much the beginning of the year. The field biology courses are a really popular thing here at my college and they fill up very quickly, especially since there's only 9 slots. I really wanted to go, since I'm a biology major (And who wouldn't want to go to Belize and get credit hours for it?). So I talked with my parents about it.
Well, the other day I went to check how many slots were open for the trip. There were only two left. So I instantly called my mom and told her that I had to know if I could go fast. "Oh, I have to talk to your father" was the response. No surprise there. I stressed the need to know quickly, and left it at that.
So over the next two days I went back and forth with my mom, who had turned into the middleman. She said Dad dosn't want me to go into even more debt (the trip costs about $1,350 ish on top of tuition), so I replied that I'd get a job over Christmas break. So back and forth we went.
Today I was talking at lunch with my roommate, Kelci, about the trip, and she said she wanted to go too. And that if I were going, she would definitely go because she wanted someone that she knew to go with her. So I called my mom immediately and said "Kelci wants to go, but she'll only go if I do." Back and forth, she says yes, we go to the office and put our deposits down. Done. Kelci and I are going. YES! We totally lucked out, too. We got the very last 2 slots.
About 20 minutes later, we're meeting with the prof to let him know we signed up to go on the trip, and he said he thought we might have. The office had just called him up to let him know that the class was filled up, and that just 5 minutes after we had taken the last two spots, someone came in and tried to register. If Kelci and I had waited just ten minutes, we wouldn't have both been able to go!!! How awesome is that? Thank you Jesus!!
Well, this has been very long and rambling. But I got the story down on paper! Kinda...
Wednesday, October 3, 2007
My first blog post ever!
Hello! Some of you may know me, and some of you may not. I am known throughout the small section of cyberspace I prefer to frequent as Keraliel, or Kera, or sometimes as Robin. Whichever name you know me by, I hope you won't be too terribly bored by what I will be writing here.
I have decided to start this blog as a way of keeping track of what I'm doing in life, and to share it with my friends. Honestly, I had no intentions of ever starting a blog until about 30 minutes ago, at about 11:00, when MightiMidget (a friend from CleanPlace, a forum I like to visit) asked me if I was going to make a blog for NaNoWriMo. I said I had never made a blog, but it looked like fun. So here we are.
Some of you are scratching your head, thinking, What is NaNoWriMo? This funky-sounding noun is short for National Novel Writing Month, an annual event in which crazy authors from around the world all try to write their own 50,000 word novella in the month of November. I am signed up for this batch of insanity (My username is Keraliel, for those of you who are also willingly insane) and this blog, along with telling of my every-day or every-week life, will update you on how things are going.
Well, that's it for the moment. It's nearing midnight, and I still have a few things to do before bed. Until my next post!
~Kera
I have decided to start this blog as a way of keeping track of what I'm doing in life, and to share it with my friends. Honestly, I had no intentions of ever starting a blog until about 30 minutes ago, at about 11:00, when MightiMidget (a friend from CleanPlace, a forum I like to visit) asked me if I was going to make a blog for NaNoWriMo. I said I had never made a blog, but it looked like fun. So here we are.
Some of you are scratching your head, thinking, What is NaNoWriMo? This funky-sounding noun is short for National Novel Writing Month, an annual event in which crazy authors from around the world all try to write their own 50,000 word novella in the month of November. I am signed up for this batch of insanity (My username is Keraliel, for those of you who are also willingly insane) and this blog, along with telling of my every-day or every-week life, will update you on how things are going.
Well, that's it for the moment. It's nearing midnight, and I still have a few things to do before bed. Until my next post!
~Kera
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