Fresh, Hot Wastes of Time

Well, maybe it is, but there’s not much going on lately so I’ll just bore you.
• There’s a huge lice outbreak at the elementary school. Rumor has it that 80 kids have teh boogs. We all hate the nit comb.
• The in-laws made it through Ike okay, although they lost power for [...]

First grade of my graduate student career: 97.
Can’t get too excited, because it was on a paper that counts for 5% of my final grade. Still though, not bad.

I graduated from St. Edward’s yesterday, with my BA in Communication. And, I believe, a 4.0 GPA.
Starting graduate school this fall! I’ll keep going as long as I keep having fun.

Done, done, done. I am done with school. Had my last exam as an undergraduate tonight. I’m 99 44/100% certain I have a 4.0 GPA at St. Edward’s.

I was inducted into Alpha Sigma Lambda, the adult honor society, last weekend. Tonight I got an email congratulating me on being elected a member of Lambda Pi Eta, the communication honor society. I know that a faculty member had to have pulled some strings on my behalf since normally students from New [...]

I ran into people talking about gutta percha three times in the last week. I’d never heard of it before.
I got invited to join the honors society at school.
I also submitted a paper about Disney’s parks and how they relate to Fisher’s Narrative Theory for presentation at SOURCE, my school’s annual conference, and it [...]

I really love the professors I’ve had at St. Edward’s, but their communication can be the pits.
There was the instance where I waited a year for them to finally come up with a decision on whether one of my transfer credits would count towards my major. I heard back last semester - no, it [...]

Given my history, it’s no wonder that I’m having nightmares about my Capstone course, which is the last required course I need to graduate. One nightmare involved my completely forgetting to go to class - a perennial favorite of the dream machine in my brain. The other one last night had my professor [...]

One of my communication professors has recently published a book on the subject of Powerpoint presentations. Having had him for two classes, I can testify to the awesome-tude of his Powerpoints. Check him out if you get a chance. I’m not making a dime off this; just passing on something helpful:
Save Our Slides by Dr. [...]

Last week I found out that my usually very dependable for-pay email forwarding address wasn’t delivering any of the emails that my daughter’s teacher was sending me. She mentioned a newsletter at our parent teacher conference, and I was all, “Whaaaaa? Newsletter?”
Then earlier tonight I realized that none of the email to my [...]