Spent 16 dollars and am up $50. Won the $50 on a single dollar play. Think its my time to quit. I have enjoyed pulling the slots with my cousin & her friends who are spending the night at my place as they head back home.
I think that I am in love. Got to work this soundboard tonight for the "dance" we did at the Jr High Gathering. So many buttons, so little time. Granted, I love anything with buttons. Always have, always will.
Anyway, one of the courses that I am taking is BA 1121 (Business English). This instructor for some reason must think we are back in grade school and not college, cus we are going to have spelling tests. Now these tests are not weekly, but a lot of the time only 48 hours apart. Each test has twenty words that we must learn, and then we will be tested on 10 of the words, but will not know which 10. If this was the only thing we were doing in this class, then I would not worry too much, but its not. We have a lot of material to cover in this class and the other class's that I am taking.
Being that I suck at spelling anyways and I can not memorizing things in a really quick time period, this is not going to work for me. So I did something I've never had to do before: E-mail an instructor on the first day of class.
Below is a copy of the e-mail I sent to my instructor. I feel I got my point across and was very business like. lol. I hope that she will change things, cus if not, I might have to go further up the chain with this, and I really do not want to. This is not how I really wanted to start the term, and really do not want to have to fight on this, but I will.
Anna,
I was looking over the class schedule for BA 1121 tonight. Right now I am feeling very overwhelmed and am very concerned by the amount of spelling words that we have and the frequency at which we are tested on them. My concerns come in that having twenty words to learn in less then forty-eight hours, most of the time, is too much in addition to the other material that we need to cover not only for your class, but also the other courses in which I am enrolled.
For someone who is a moderate to good speller this might not be a big issue. But for someone like me, who is not good with spelling and not good with memorizing things in a really quick time period, this will not have a good outcome for me. With this being ten percent of my grade, I feel that this will have a detrimental impact to my grade in more then one way. I feel like this could be the the straw that might very well kill my grade in this course.
I know that it might seem like this is early to be saying these things, but I know myself very well. I know where my limit are and feel this is beyond my capability's. In addition, I am very busy inside and outside of the classroom. I am going to school full time and working two jobs, one of which is also full time. Even if this course was my only course I was taking at CNM and I only worked one job; I feel there has not been enough time given to memorize these words.
In the business world, an area in which I work daily, we have different tools at our disposal to make sure that we have spelled these types of words correctly. I fully understand the power that knowing the correct spelling of these words might bring, but am very unsure if this is the correct way to be going about it. If the spelling tests were no more then once per week and if we only had to memorize the actual ten words we are to be tested on, then this might not be as big an issue for someone like me.
I really do not want to see this adversely effect my grade in your course or my grades in the other courses that I am enrolled like I fear it will. I hope that you will take what I have written under advisement and maybe change the amount of words and the frequency of the spelling tests. If you wish to talk with me more about this, please feel free to reply to this e-mail message or you can call me on my cell phone at xxx-xxx-xxxx.
Respectfully submitted,
Kevin Stuart Murray
Student - BA 1121
- Location:Home - Albuquerque, NM 87113
- Mood:
bitchy
At Flying Star Cafe in the north valley for lunch with a coworker. This guy takes old school to the extreme. In case you could not tell, this guy is using a typewriter!
Stopped off for a visit at my old office this afternoon, and they had this on their whiteboad. Cracks me up.
I was so ashamed of how dirty and cluttered it had gotten, that I did not take a "before" picture. I will say that I am happy boy now thats its clean. I really need to work to make sure it stays this way!
People seem to panic with the prospect of the big ass snow storm hitting the east coast. As we were at the store last night to get a few things, there was plenty of milk.
Another great beautiful Albuquerque sunrise as seen from my first class seat. Getting ready to push back from ABQ to DFW. Then on to DCA.
Standing in line at KrispyKreme to pick up donuts for the office. The line is very short. Maybe a 5 or 10 minute wait.
This is the fire hydrant outside of my office. I think it has a small leak. Lol.
| ( Click here for lyrics to Lets Go All The Way. ) |
When you watch the music video for "Lets Go All The Way" by its self with out fully knowing the lyrics, there is a different mental image painted for the viewer then if you are to watch the video and read / know the lyrics. When you watch the video by its self you might be scared and think the song is about violence or hatred based on the images used in the video.
As far as I can tell, this is far from the truth. When you look at the lyrics (click the link above) and then watch the video again, it really starts to take on whole different meaning. When I look at this song / video, I see a lot of different symbolism in it. First I see a message of inclusion in it.
The video shows all different types of people from all different backgrounds in the video getting along. There is a part where you see too guys, a person in a business suit and a guy with a shaved head in a leather jacket, circling around looking like they are about to get in a fight. Then all of a sudden they each start dancing. The lyrics talk about "ain't nobody jealous" and "look at them rich kids, poor kids // everybody together on the same side". The message here, if it was intended or not, is inclusion and everyone getting along. Not what you would expect from this video or a band called the "Insane Clown Posse".
But the other message of symbolism I see in this song is one talking about heaven. With lyrics like "ain't nobody left out // everybody gets to go (everybody) // it can never be to crowded // come on we still pickin up some more", it really screams Lutheran to me (granted, that might be cus I am a Lutheran). Then there are more lyrics like "there are no sickness // no sickness, nobody has to die(nobody has to die) // everything’s answered // right then and there // never have to wonder why(never have to wonder why)"
I really am not sure these things are the message they were trying to get across with this song, but after looking deeper, its the two things that I take away.
- Location:Work - Albuquerque, NM 87107
- Mood:
thoughtful - Music:Insane Clown Posse - Lets Go All The Way!
I love our watermellon (Sandia) mountains and last night they looked good. Another reason I love living here.
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