It's the day before Thanksgiving break here in Boston, and I'm a little frustrated. First of all, I didn't remember to update my blog when I said I wanted to. I'm almost three weeks later than I said, actually, so that's a pretty big fail.
Secondly, I didn't go to my British Literature class today -because it's pointless. We don't do anything in that class except discuss the reading, and it's not even insightful discussion, so anything I missed I probably figured out on my own, or I could have figured out from reading the summery analysis on Sparknotes.com. So I emailed the assignment that was due today to my teacher, and she says that she always sends back a "receipt" email letting me know she at least got the email, even if she hasn't read it yet. I sent this assignment last night around midnight, and I still haven't gotten my "receipt." So that's frustrating because I don't know if she has my assignment or not, and I really don't want to lose points on my final grade because she didn't check her email.
Thirdly, my little work minion on Mondays and Wednesdays is useless. I gave her stuff to do yesterday, and it wasn't even a lot, like something I just did in 10 minutes -TEN MINUTES! I gave this to her yesterday and told her I wanted it done while she was still here because there was still stuff that needed to get done before the break that I'd finish with my other assistant tomorrow. I come in to work this morning and low-and-behold, the work I gave her yesterday sits, untouched, exactly where I left it. She didn't even try to do it. So I asked some of the other people that work around us what they thought of this particular assistant and they tell me she never does anything that they can see. So I may be looking for a new assistant next semester. We'll see.
IN OTHER NEWS:
Pizza is a vegetable, according to Congress. I'm really glad Congress felt that the vegetability of pizza was a matter so pressing that it needed to be solved above all of our other problems in America, like homelessness, the national debt, and the failing education system, just to name a few.
Netflix has hit an all-time low in stocks this week. Not surprising, seeing as how Blockbuster's new commercials kick Netflix's ass!
And Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich is carrying around a new Social Security plan he wants to initiate that will allow young workers to tap into their SS for private investment accounts. So far Gingrich is the top GOP candidate for the Republicans, with 23.2% ratings, closely followed by Mitt Romney, with 21%
In my personal news,
I handed in my second short story for my fiction class. My favorite part is the first paragraph. So here it is:
Once a month, my father would drive us out to this mall a few miles outside the city, and carry a yellow and green collapsible lawn chair to the lower level of the Macy’s there. He would set it up like we were about to enjoy a barbeque in the backyard, and sit down in it in the middle of the aisle between the shoe department and the bedding section. My older brother and sister hated these weekends, because they could have been out with their friends, or working or something, but Dad always made them cancel whatever plans we had to sit in the middle of Macy’s.
I don't have any personal affiliation with Macy's or any sort of special love for the store, but I thought it was a good place for this story, so I used the name...a lot.
I will probably not be working over the Thanksgiving break, which is a little sad because I like working, but it give me time to look into buying and learning to play the ukulele, because the ukulele is supposedly the simplest instrument to learn...we'll see if that's true.
Go to 17:53 to watch one of my favorite up-and-coming bands, Lady Snow and the Laser Bears -they play the ukulele.
http://median.emerson.edu/player.php?mid=14109&p=1&n=10
--sorry I couldn't insert the actual video.
So I guess that's it for today.
Thanks for reading,
Amy Liz
--Happy Thanksgiving! <:>==
