Almost sleepy time....

Look! I'm blogging...just like Megan told me to.

So, just in case you wanted to know, some people are ridiculous when it comes to assessment....if you say that you're going to create a lunch and learn program wouldn't you figure that the students are going to learn something from that??  AND, if you're going to assess it...would you put in the Methods of Assessment category  that you will "assess the program"? No shit sherlock...of course you're going to assess it, hence the name of this process.....

I have no hard feelings about that at all of course.  I went to Reno this past weekend.  Lake Tahoe is GORGEOUS!  I'll post pictures sometime soon.  University of Nevada, Reno is also quite pretty.   I really like my job lots on most days.  Sometimes they just don't give me enough to do.  I'm sure I'll regret posting that at some point soon. :)  I have managed, however, to schedule lots of meetings that involve trips across the street to Baskin Robbins.  

I made Andes mint brownies today and forgot about high altitude, but they may have turned out ok anyhow! :)

I've also decided that, next time I move, I'm getting an apartment with a washer and dryer in it.  Doing laundry is expensive.

Plane tickets are also expensive.

I like broccoli.

Youshi says hi....actually he said "let's go to bed mom"...but that's close to hi.

I love fishes cause they're so delicious.

That is all.

Miss you guys lots! You should schedule a skiing/snowboarding/tubing trip to come see me!

Love love

Stories from SD

Well, not really. I don't have any stories really. I'm just going on with my boring life.

I went to NYC a few weeks back and visiting there makes me want to move there. I absolutely adore it. And I mean, I love being in a city with my friends. San Diego has been so boring since you all left. I have such a hard time here when I'm not at work...and I have a hard time at work.

I've been watching lots of movies (using my netflix) and catching up on x-files episodes before the movie this weekend.

Dani and I are going to Colorado in a few weeks to visit our sorority sister Shannon. I'm really looking forward to it! Then...I get back right into the swing of things. School starts and we're back! Ah! I can't believe the summer went by so fast.

So yeah, no real updates, but I felt like posting to let you all know I'm still here...getting by.

Texas

So... I'm in Texas. I never thought I would say that sentence in my entire life. Weird.

After two and a half days with my mother and loaded belongings in the car (in addition to my grandparents' unexpected accompanying us on the road), we finally made it to San Marcos. That's Marc-us, remember (dumb). A few co-workers greeted me when I first got here, made sure I got settled enough to get started until Monday. And since then, it's been a little crazy. There are days I sit on my couch and wonder how I ended up here, what the hell am I doing here, and what was I thinking? There are days I spend in the river, floating down for an hour and a half, realizing why I loved the outdoors so much as a little kid. And then, there are times like right now, where I also sit on my couch and wonder why I'm not in California anymore.

One of my new (as in, she's new too) co-workers mentioned I always seem so happy, so perky, and that if she were me, she would be unhappy and miserable and not so excited to be here. And I said sure, there are times I'm not so excited to be here, but there's also a part of me that recognizes (also in part due to my parents' pointing it out) that the first three or four months for me, in any new place, I'm miserable. But I need to get settled, to figure it out, because if I'm miserable, and my students get here and they're miserable, and they see me unhappy-- they're going to wonder why they need to be happy at all too. And I don't want to influence them in that way.

Anyway. Pictures eventually. I just got my computer today, so I'm slowly catching up with the rest of the world again! Woo!

-M

Hmmm

So, tomorrow I'm giving a presentation to the student affairs division.  I'm kinda really nervous cause I want it to be fun and exciting, but you can only make assessment so fun and exciting. :)  My Powerpoint does cool things though.

My grandpa is also having open heart surgery tomorrow (mom's dad, the farmer).  He went in for a check-up yesterday and they found out that the two major veins or arteries or whatever in his heart are 80 and 95 percent clogged.  They can't do a stint because of the blockage, so they're taking veins out of his leg and putting them in his heart.  This would be a fairly common procedure, but he's diabetic and his kidneys are only operating at 38 percent on a good day.  So, I'm kinda scared.  The doctors say they don't know what to expect...his kidneys could fail during surgery or he could wake up on dialysis.  My mom flew up there today...just in case.  Anyhow, I should find out about his surgery right before my presentation tomorrow.  He better be ok, or else I might have to sign myself up for grief therapy or something.

On the bright side, I've made friends!!!  There are three young (under 30) single girls who all hang out together, so we're having a "girls night" soon.  Then, there's Jan (the vp) and Diana (director of the counseling center) who are also super cool, and we've done dinner a couple times.  So yay!:)  They're totally not as cool as you two though!  Ok, I'm old, so I think I'm going to bed! (yes, at 8:30pm). 

Miss you guys!! 

TAI

We're going to Warped Tour! Woo!

Megan has a job!!!

So, I just read everyone's blog and thought that I would post a blog full of excitement for Megan having a job!!! WOOOO! Yay Texas State! (cept it's in Texas, I know that's no good Kim) :) If you ever need any help, my mommy will take lotsa care of you cause you're kinda close to her.  

I'm super excited cause when I meet with my vp tomorrow, I might convince her of our need for institution-wide learning outcomes! (I know, I'm a dork).    

I should do laundry, cept it may involve getting off the living room floor, and I'm quite comfortable here.  Oh, and I get a new phone tomorrow, woo!!

Life is good, and I have 1 friend here!  Yay friend! :)  Miss you and love you guys!

Things I Need to Do

One
Load PhotoShop onto my computer in order to create a new header for our blog

Two
Finish my shopping for New York

Three
Start planning trips to visit the two of you!

Also, I started a tumblr...it's another type of blog. Feel free to check it out. It's on the right with megan's and my blogspot blogs!

Check Us Out

Ten points for Kim for making our blog pretty! Ten points for Jessica for actually saying something. And ten points for me because I have no life and sit at my parents' sloooow computer for as long as I can put up with it.

So... today is the supposed O-Day. I say O-Day because it's "Offer Day." Because both Texas State and UPS said I would hear from them today. And I'm scared. And nervous. And trying to not realllly think about it. But, as you know, that's too effing hard to even attempt.

I put in about six other job applications in over the last several days. UCSC, CSUN, UCR, UGA (yes, Georgia), and Georgetown. -shrug- I figure it can't hurt, right? I'm also debating (depending on today's events) on submitting my application to Pasadena City College (see, Kim, then you could see me allll the time!) and the City of Claremont. I know, they're all around home. And I'm not sure why that is (well, except for UGA, UCSC, and Georgetown), but they're jobs that kind of excite me. Darrell's good friend from grad school is the Assistant Director at UGA and I talked with him a bit yesterday, since I met him at NASPA and he helped me coordinate our day trip up there when we were there in April for ACPA. They left me a message this morning... I'm assuming about scheduling an interview... but I haven't checked it yet. I'm all nerves today, I'm telling you.

Enough about this job shiz. I'm going to the beach tomorrow; waiting for Doug to wake up from Grad Night (woo Disneyland) and we're going to visit our high school teachers; and apparently not going to my oral surgeon consultation (PS. Having no health insurance or dental insurance kind of puts a block in the plans of having two teeth removed. Eep.)

That's all. :)

It rains in Utah...

So, I'm blogging (for the first time ever woo!)  So far, Utah has been an interesting adventure to say the least.  Instead of mapquest's 11 hours and 40 min, it was a long, not so exciting 17 hours in the car.  Some of the mountains were pretty though! :)  I'll suggest that when you guys come to visit that you fly!:)

My apartment is lovely; however, there are still elephants who live above me.  I think they go to bed around 10:30 though.  No one is beside me though! Woo.  There are also pretty, fake hardwood floors, and I love to play with the electric fireplace.  There's a switch to turn it on and off.  

Work is interesting.  Everyone is really excited to have me there, and I'm really excited too.  I've just realized that everyone is on such different levels.  It's going to be a really long process (especially with all these committees they're put me on).  There's also this one lady who isn't particularly fond of me cause she wanted my job, but it's my goal to make her like me.  Hopefully, tomorrow I'll get my email address and computer login information and key to my office.  

Tomorrow, I have to take poor Youshi to the kennel.  I think he may end up hating me.  He's doing really well though.  He's even playing fetch with me! He misses you guys though.  

This is kind of a depressing blog and has really short sentences just in case you haven't noticed that yet! :)  I just miss San Diego lots!!

 I do really like it here and look forward to all I'm going to be able to do and learn.  :)  I also got to meet everyone at a retreat today!  It's really cool because I met with the Assistant Provost today, and he's really excited about collaboration stuff!

Ok...I'm going to bed now cause I'm still old, and I have to wake up at 6 a.m.  In case anyone has a lack of meetings in the next few weeks, I have plenty you can go to!!! I miss you guys whole bunches!! Love love

Dr. Crentist

I went to the dentist yesterday and the entire right side of my mouth drilled and filled! Seven fillings in all. And I have two on the left side they are filling next week. YAY! Ugh...I don't hate the dentist, I really don't. It's the whole...I'm a grown up and I have to pay for it that I don't like! :)

Just stopping by again to say hello, let you know I changed the blog again- I am going to load photoshop back on my comp this weekend and make us a nice pic for the top. I'm also going to chat with Anna about using html so we can get the blog looking nice.

That is all for now. I should get ready for work, I told them I'd be in around 10...boo.

Hope all is well.

Stokely Out.