Mon 26 Sep 2011
Hello folks. I’ve started a new blog. It’s over here.
www.iquittedfacebook.blogspot.com
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Fri 3 Dec 2010
For now, the end has come. Generalismo may be opened up at a later date, but for now it’s going to be closed down 
Until we meet again, good wishes to you and yours 
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Thu 9 Sep 2010
Well, it isn’t so much today in particular that I want to address as it is just life in general - in this day and age.
My days start at 5:30am. I have gotten a 1.5 hour cleaning job each morning at the university, plus I expect to be cleaning two or three hours a week off campus (housekeeping) besides that. It’s certainly less housekeeping than at other points of my life!
After cleaning (with a jolly crew leader, incidentally! I love him!) I go to anatomy class at 7:40am. I take notes furiously; the teacher is fast and very good. I rewrite all of my notes at another point in the day, which sometimes takes me two hours.
AFter A&P, I go to Spanish class, which is over around 10:30am. Then I go home and cook, eat something, start rewriting notes or doing homework. Then I go back to campus at 12:40pm for Chemistry, during which I am usually kind of lost. I have to do that work over again at home, which, apparently, is the way in which the professor expects us to learn (to fully grasp the concepts and take for our own by teaching ourselves). I don’t know how I feel about that, but I rework my problems at home anyway.
Then I have bible class, which I don’t enjoy too much but the teacher is nice about it. It gets me reading the bible more, anyway.
Then I go home at 4:00pm, and eat and do homework.
Homework seriously takes so much time. It can take hours to rewrite my notes, plus time to read the textbook before class, and to memorize things. And that’s just A&P. Then there’s chemistry problems to be worked (which are mostly math), Spanish to be memorized (although that’s not too hard for me, since it’s first year Spanish and I know most of it already), and bible papers to be written.
Surprisingly enough, I only have two papers due for the whole semester and they’re both for bible.
The schedule in the beginning of this post is only MWF (except working, which is every day). I have a lighter load on Tuesdays and Thursdays, which are Chemistry and A&P labs, volleyball, and help sessions.
And thus is my life. Busy busy busy, and for the most part, it’s flying by.
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Mon 6 Sep 2010
Consumer Spending Increases; Healthy or Ill?
New York Times Headline reads: Discounts Help Lift Back-to-School Sales.
“Back-to-school season started off on sale… that lead to a decent 3.3 percent increase in revenue… a 3 percent increase and above ‘represents a healthy US customer,’ said Jharonne Martis, director of consumer research for Thomson Reuters.”
Do they expect revenue for stores to just increase and increase and increase? When will there come a time when people are satisfied and say “Enough,” and stores stop trying to cheat us by making their clothes more and more cheaply so they can make more profit?
I only need so many clothes a year. You only need so many clothes a year. If you go through five pairs of jeans a year, then you buy five pair of jeans next year. However, if they start making jeans so they wear out faster and you go through more than five pairs, then you do need more clothing. This is immoral of the stores.
In a more ideal situation, people would make clothing that are long lasting, at a cost that covered the labor and materials and paid the clothes maker a wage enough to live. Making clothes that lasted a long time would make the cost of clothing less for the clothes maker, because he would have to buy them less frequently, and therefore he would need to charge less money for his clothes because he would need less to live on.
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Wed 16 Jun 2010
has a big week coming up. This post will probably be posted after most of it’s over. Someone called and asked me to clean a duplex that is currently empty of tenants. This means lots of *heavy* duty cleaning. The last apartment I cleaned was pretty intense. So Monday and Tuesday, after regular clients, I’m going to head over to work on that. On Tuesday, I have a concert to play in the evening. Wednesday is regular cleaning, and on Thursday I have an extra client in the afternoon. Friday was *going* to be moving day, but in view of the rest of my week, we’ve pushed it forward to Monday
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Fri 28 May 2010
Contrary to the rules of the library, I have brought in a thermos that is (was) filled with a berry shake; about 3/4 cup frozen blueberries and raspberries, 1/2 cup cottage cheese, and milk. It was very good! They have a cafe down in entrance to the library, and there are lots of people who have coffee up here (and the security guards regularly walk around and tell people what they should not be doing), and no one cares, so I guess they won’t care about my sealed container of shake.
Last week I started working out again. I started with something that I knew would be challenging - pull up negatives. I used to be able to do at least 8 of these. When I tried to do one at the park, that’s all I could do – one. So I started with 5 sets of 6, with no set time of rest in between. Then I did a leg workout Tuesday, which went wonderfully (I discovered I can use the 26 lb kettlebell for squats and lunges!), and yesterday I did a complete upper body workout, which consisted of 12×5 knee pushups, 12-10-8-6-12 of shoulder presses, bicep curls, and tricep kickbacks. The 12×5 is just 5 sets of 12 repetitions, with one minute of rest between. The 12-10-8-6-12 is a pattern that is supposed to start with a lighter weight (for the 12 reps), heavier for the 10 reps, etc, until you reach your almost maximum at 6 reps. Then you get a little lighter weight and with no rest after the set of 6 reps, perform the same exercise to 12 reps. That is called a superset. I love that setup of reps/sets, but I wish I had a lot more weights! I only have two 5 lb dumbbells, along with an 8lb exercise ball and one 26lb kettlebell. I love the kettlebell, though!
Oh, I have some kind of exciting news, and that is that I have all of my classes set up for George Fox University (which, hereafter, may be referred to as GFU). I’m taking biology, chemistry, bible, Spanish, and weight lifting. It’s so exciting I’ll not only have fascinating classes, but a whole weight room to play in.
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Thu 13 May 2010
For the pats few days I’ve been running, and I’ve happened to do a lot of other physical activity. Biking, for one, and I did probably 12 hours of raking. Instead of being dead tired (though I am tired right after), I feel like I’m on fast forward. It’s great! All I need to do now is start getting up earlier so I can get everything done that I need to do
Well I’m in a rush again while blogging, so this is all for now.
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Sat 1 May 2010
Fox! They have accepted me as a student (and Porter, as well, but that is no surprise to me ) and we are planning on attending starting in 2010. I’m so excited! Very excited We’re going to move, and have a bigger apartment (read: more than one room!) and be in a community of the same people for a number of years. And mostly other students who are working at the same place in life that we are. Although I guess we’ll be kind of odd because we’re married.
I guess that’s all the news for now. Got to run before the library closes
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Sun 18 Apr 2010
The problem is, I don’t have anything to blog about!
Last night the band and I finished recording six songs that are going to be put on a short CD that we’ll be selling at our busking and other events. It was fun, but by the end I was running out of energy and I lost any interest in socializing (since we were done recording, we were sitting around waiting for the CD to finish burning). But it was fun overall
It’s so warm here today! And it was yesterday. It’s 57 now but I’d expect it’ll be around 70 this evening.
Well…I can’t think of anything to write for now. Ta ta.
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Tue 30 Mar 2010
In very good news from school, I got my grades and my GPA is temporarily at 4.14, or something like that And I say temporarily, because I’m sure before long I will some upon harder courses and it will drop like a rock. Or, when I transfer to a university I’ll find that more challenging and have a more average GPA.
I’m still waiting for the SAT scores! They are to be available Thursday and I’m getting so impatient. Tsk tsk.
I’m waiting to be able to take these earrings out (that I’ve been wearing for five weeks) and wear others. That is also making me a bit impatient, being so close to the end. But I need to just relax and be happy that it’s almost the end. I’m afraid I’m going to be pretty disappointed, actually, because I’ll spend a few seconds changing the jewelry and then that will be that.
I’ve decided not to take courses this spring term, for various reasons. Instead, I will be trying to spend as much time as I would with school applying for scholarships! Writing essays, filling out paperwork, etc. I think I need to apply to at least two a week and see how that goes. It might even be fun.
I finally mailed out my check to the IRS. I filed with Turbotax.com, which was incredible – they calculated that I had to pay almost $250 *less* than the figure I had calculated doing taxes myself. That was for federal self employment, however, and I declined to file state taxes with them because they charge money to do that, and I figured hey, I can fill out a few pieces of paper myself, as I have for the past eight years or so. I know I don’t own them money (I’ll get a huge refund of $2!) but for some reason I’ve been putting it off. I guess it’s because I’m in a new state with new forms. I can’t just look at the old ones and fill out the new ones similarly (with updated figures, of course).
I just got my computer back from Best Buy with a new keyboard. A key had fallen off of mine and I didn’t want to just pop it back on there so I brought it in to get a new one. It’s so nice My warranty is almost up, though, and it looks like this will be the last of the anonymous-computer-giver-laptop, which, because of the warranty on the last one, has lasted six years. It’s very nice to have a new keyboard, though, and if anything goes wrong in the next few days I might have a chance of getting a new computer
Wow, so this entire post was pretty much about money and grades.
I’ve just about done all of my online task that I wrote down before I got online at the library. It’s a good feeling After that, though, I think I’m going to run out of things to do online. It seems like it used to be possible to spend hours and hours just doing nothing online. Now I can’t seem to find things to do. It feels kind of like it used to when I got home from a long trip with my family. Having not had regular internet access, I had grown accustomed to not being online and I couldn’t find that much to keep me occupied online. After a few weeks, though, I’d be at it again and waste hours online.
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