A MUST READ, I PROMISE!!!!!!!

Oh my goodness are the best words to describe my weekend rendezvous. First, I must fast forward to the craziest event that occurred this weekend. My friend and I decided to try this club that we had heard a lot about. The location of the club should have been enough for us to know that we should not go, but being the stubborn and curious girls we are, we went anyway. When we arrived, I was so disgusted. The guys were rough and acted as if they had never seen females outside of there family members before. They were trying to get our attention in all of the wrong ways. Once we got inside, the first thing that we noticed was all of the smoke that hit our faces. The second thing that we noticed was the guy on the stage with his buns out and a leather strap on his penis! Yes, we walked into Ladies' Night at this club. This is why all of the guys were outside because there was a stripper inside! We could not believe our eyes. He came through the audience and picked up girls and laid them on the floor. Then he brought out a chain and tied the girls up. It was amazing. For his grand finale.....let's just say it involved his penis, ice cream, and whipped cream. It was sooooooo funny. After all of this excitement, he cleaned himself up and walked off stage, but on his way off stage he walked passed me SLAPPING ME ON THE ASS on his way! I was so stunned; I did not know what to do! I just turned and looked at him, then at my friend and we just laughed. The look that he gave me was more shocking then the slap! He even approached me numerous times afterwards asking me would I help him get "ready" to go back on stage, for a hug, my name, and then my number. I said no to the first, yes to the second, lied about my name, and said that I guess I would give him my number. He walked away and we left before he could get my number. There were two strippers after him, but we didn't pay attention to them, we were enjoying the music. We were so bored with the strippers and desperate women; we just left and headed downtown. There were a lot of other things to my weekend, but this was definitely the highlight!

Another Week

As I end another week of my life, I recap of what an extremely busy week this has been for me. I had three papers due, a test, a test review, river city writers, and many assignments. I was skeptical about how everything would work out at first but I knew that if I relied on my faith and if I took my time and tried my best it would get done. Not only was there class work, but I am human with a social life and a job, so balancing everything is sometimes a challenge. But that goes for life period, not just this week. I am glad that I did get everything accomplished that I set out to do. I am also glad that next week is not looking as full as this week was. Hopefully, I will actually have some nights that are worry free. Already, I have an Intro to Art test on Tuesday and a Sociology test on Friday, but if that is all I have to deal with, I am okay with that. I just hope nothing else is added, but if something else is added, I'm going to get it done just like always.

And the Evening's Readings.......

Going to the Galloway Mansion was a very interesting adventure. I was surprised, but my roommate decided to come along with me. When we walked in, we noticed that the Mansion was beautiful and appropriately decorated. It made me feel good being able to describe to my roommate the different publications done by the authors. Once we were seated, I noticed how early we were. I was very surprised, because I am RARELY early for anything. As time moved on, I felt myself getting impatient because I knew we were going to start late. I was enjoying the atmosphere, but I wanted to enjoy the atmosphere of my room. I had been busy the entire day and I was ready to relax. We finally got started and Rebecca Skloot introduced herself as well as the following readers Christine Keneally, Josh Prager, and Stacy Sullivan. The all came up and read, of course one at a time. I listened and I found it interesting to see them read their own books. I always feel weird when I am reading my poetry to someone, so I wondered how were they feeling as they read. There were people standing around, so it was sort of hard to pay attention with all of the distractions and my short attention span did not help. I enjoyed the readings and I am glad that I was in attendance.

No Child Left Behind Speaker

Yesterday morning I attended the speaking for English class. I feel really bad because I don't even remember his name. He discussed No Child Left Behind and the issues of our school system. The topic was uninteresting to me, but his tactics made me listen. I honestly feel that there is nothing that can be done to better any school system. No one can force anyone to learn. It has to come within the person to want extra knowledge to succeed. The school that I came from had every type of student attending. We had the brains, the bad, the stupid, the lazy, and the forced. By forced, I mean they only came to school because they were forced. All of us attended the same high school and many of us are scattered around doing different things. The school system is trying so many things such as uniforms, No Child Left Behind, and standardized test to gain improvement. I fail to understand why hasn’t anyone noticed that these changes are not helping? In my opinion, it is making things worse. No one likes all of these to be forced upon them. When you force people to do something, human nature usually makes people want to rebel. It all depends on the student. You can send every person to Yale for free, and there will still be people who will flunk out, drop out, or graduate. The curriculum does a play a part in WHAT we learn, but IF we learn depends on the students.

Did I change my mind?

Okay, so I've been working on part three of my paper. At first I thought that I was going to have trouble expanding my opinions into three to four pages but apparently that is not the issue. I was writing my intro paragraph and my opinions began to pour out. I was thinking how great and easy this paper was going to be after all. One I got to my second paragraph and I stated my first topic, I decided to find some resources that would support my idea, when I came across some information that began to change my opinion. I could just change my topic to support the information that I found. I still agree with my original opinion that will not work. Instead of worrying about if my opinion will be long enough, I am stuck worrying about what actually is my opinion. I can not believe I let this happen. I am usually so firm about my opinions but I am just going to have to evaluate the pros and cons of minimum wage and living wage. Hope it doesn’t take long, I had no plans of working late on this paper and hence why I began so early.

Just this one Class

Today is going great so far. I stayed awake in all of my classes and I got the work done that I needed to have turned in today. I still have a load of stuff to get done before I can completely relax, but I'm glad my Anthropology test is now in the past. Don't get me wrong, the class is very interesting, but the tests are so hard! As much as I want to blame the difficulty of the tests on the teacher, I really can't. I'm not sure what's wrong with me, but whenever I read the questions on the tests, it feels like a different language. I know what the problem is, I just don't know how to study for this class. I have always been able to study for tests and do just fine when I wanted to. This is not the case for Anthropology. I began staring on Friday. I thought it would be studying but turns out I was just staring at my Anthropology book for about four hours and I didn't remember a thing. The test was today, so of course I stared again yesterday. I felt so bad that I couldn't study I didn't know what to do. I hope that I don't encounter anymore classes like this for the next 3 years.

Long Days Work....

I did not think that I would ever get off work today. The internet was not working at my job. I never noticed how much I actually depend on the internet when I'm at work. I couldn't get any work done because all of depended on the internet. The only thing that I could do was read my Anthropology book for my test on Tuesday, but it was not happening. I kept finding myself day dreaming. I sit right by a window a work, so all that I could think of is all of the possibilities on such a beautiful day. If someone asked me right now what did I read, I would have to make up some bs. I hate to admit it, but it's the truth. I had intentions on getting a lot of my work done so that I would not have to think about putting it off on the weekend. I haven't done homework on the weekend in years. I can not remember the last time I managed to get homework done on the weekend. The closest that I have gotten to doing homework on the weekend is the one Saturday that I sent my group members my paper for peer review.

A few things down, and a few more to go

Yesterday, while I was getting a parking pass, I got back to the car and noticed that I had a parking citation. So I had to go back to the parking services office to file an appeal. That sucks to know that they don't give you any time after you have just bought a car to get a parking pass. All is well though. I have managed to not let that get me down! I hope that they decide to dismiss my ticket because the parking permit was $25 and the citation is another $25. So I will hate to spend $5o just for parking when I have other things that I need to pay for. Oh, well. I did my part by doing the necessary procedure to fill out an appeal. Then I got insured so I'm glad that's out of the way, I can drive knowing that I'm legal now. I also managed to turn in my financial aid papers. I still have to wait for my mother to give me her tax return before I am home free. At least I have done my part, so that’s good. Guess I can check these things off my list!

Okay, Who Pressed Fast Forward......?

Oh my goodness. Where did all of this stuff come from? I have so much to do that I just can not believe it. Don't get me wrong, I love being a busy person because I hate being bored, but how did I get so much to do so fast. It's unreal how all of a sudden I got this load of stuff to do. My poor planner probably wants to kill me. Me and highlighters have become best friends, and it is sickening. Once I find a place to start, I will be just fine. I just managed to finally get my papers together for my financial aid. I feel so late in getting it done, but I either didn't have the time to fill them out or I seemed to forget, but they're done now. I stopped blogging for a second and got those done, lol. I have resulted to multi-tasking. I sure hope that will help. If I have this much piled on me with school being 15 hours and work being 16 hours a week, I feel for the parents who work. I am so blessed that I don’t have any major responsibilities. On the bright side, I'm healthy, happy, and not failing college! Lol, I’m not letting anything stress me out. I plan to pick something and attack it until I can check it off my list and that will be a wonderful feeling!

I HAVE A NEW TOY!!!!!

I BOUGHT A CAR YESTERDAY!!! I was so happy to finally get a car! It's a 99 Saturn coupe. I haven't really been a fan of Saturn, but the car is great for me right now. I love the leather seats, the weird third door and the sunroof. The lot had just gotten the car so they had not cleaned it yet, so I still need to clean the inside. The car lot gave me some free car wash tickets so I went to wash the outside of it, but the inside is next. I had a few problems that I have to take care of; I have to get a tune up and some new breaks. I got the oil changed yesterday, so that's okay. I bought it outright, so I won't have a car note! Now, every month I am responsible for the car insurance and my cell phone bill. The rest of my money is for whatever I want to do. I am so happy and proud of myself. I called all of my friends yesterday and I was amazed at how they all told me they were proud of me. They were also surprised because I'm always talking about how broke I am, well in my opinion; I was broke because I couldn't spend any money since I was saving for a car. I hope that if I continue to take of the car, it will bring me many years of satisfaction, well until I buy myself a Benz, lol.

Oh Great

This has been the worst day that I have had in a while. Yes, my consecutive wonderful days has come to a halt. First, since I live in Richardson Towers I was awaken by a 5 am fire drill. The entire building had to go outside at 5 a.m. We finally got back in around 5:30 a.m. I ended up falling back to sleep around 8:00 a.m. Then I got to my class and received a grade on my test that I could not believe. The test was so easy that I went so fast through it that I bubbled in a few wrong answers on mistake. I was so mad to see that I made such careless errors. Once I got work, I saw a student that it is one of my classes and she told me we had an assignment due tomorrow. I instantly panicked. On top of this assignment, I hadn't received any feedback from paper that i sent to all of my group members. I sent it to them on Saturday to give everyone plenty of time to write me back before Tuesday’s class. I had only gotten one back. Then I made sure that I went through and answered all of the questions to the papers that I got so my peers could do their papers. I still had to do my other assignments for my other class and I manage to get those does. I remembered that we had to go to the River City Writer's thingy so I talked to the teacher about it and made arrangements to go. I was supposed to buy a car today but my brother did not come and get me. Then the person that I was going to ride with couldn't take me. Everything just crowded me and I felt like my world was crashing. Nothing that I planned to do worked out today. I'm hoping that since I do all of my assignments for English on time, and I am always there that my grade will not be affected. It's almost 11:00 and still I have one person's feedback. What am I going to do?

And it's Friday......

It's Friday! I am so glad; well really, it doesn't make a difference to me since my entire week has been lovely. I am just so used to being glad for the weekend. My week has been so great, that I haven't been trying to fast forward to Friday like I normally do. I am curious to see what this weekend brings. I have a few things lined up that I thought about doing, but we will see what I will actually get accomplished. Can I just say I feel wonderful? Okay, back to what I was saying, I thought about going out tonight or Sunday. Some of my friends have been trying to get me to go out, but I usually just don't want to. This weekend, however, I plan to have a little fun. Yesterday, I mentioned going to work out and just like I said it did not happen. The girl that I was going to work out with ended up staying with her boyfriend, so I Just went back to room and took a nap. It was a great nap and it lasted a little longer than I expected. I don’t plan on taking any naps this weekend just have fun doing whatever I want!

Minimum Wage Propaganda Poster

From my understanding of the research that I have done with the minimum wage posters is that different states have different requirements regarding the minimum wage posters. Many states require that employers have the poster whereas some states merely recommend that an employer post the minimum wage poster. The U.S. Department of Labor says that posting requirements vary by statute; that is, not all employers are covered by each of the Department's statutes and thus may not be required to post a specific notice. Not only are there minimum wage posters, but there are other posters that are required or suggested as well. On the U.S. Department of Labor website, they have a chart to inform the public of which posters are required for employers to post in the workplace.
The minimum wage poster only includes two images. One image resembles a United States flag. On the opposite side of the flag image, there is a United States of America Department of Labor seal. The entire poster is red, white, and blue, which are the infamous colors of the United States. There is also a large image of a telephone number for people to use if they have questions or comments. By placing the number on the poster, I think the Department of Labor is trying to convey is that like America, they are willing and ready to help anyone who may have issues or concerns with employment and minimum wage. The poster is very patriotic and serious. There are not any fun colorful pictures. I think the poster is supposed to look serious to force employers to feel that it is necessary to have the minimum wage poster in their workplace. Also the poster is intended for those who are employed which are usually an older group of people who take their job seriously. The words “employee rights” are very large to stress that employees are important and to catch the attention of employees.
The following information for purchasing a minimum wage poster was found on a website called Business Know How where employers are able to purchase most types of posters that may be required by their states. It reads,” Compliance with labor law posting requirements has never been easier. The combined State, Federal & OSHA laminated poster for Tennessee includes current (at the time you order), up-to-date posting requirements so you don't need to search for all the required labor law postings yourself. The Tennessee labor law poster is available in English or Spanish versions.” Even though some of the posters can be downloaded for free, this website charges different rates for package deals. I decided to play around with the website a little more and I came across a part of it that allow browsers to choose which state the poster is needed. I chose Tennessee to see what kind of propaganda I could find. On this page the website targets the employers with sincere gestures, as if by purchasing the poster from the Business Know How site it will make life easier by saying,”Save time and gain peace of mind. Order the combined all-in-1 State/Federal & OSHA poster for your Tennessee workplace today. Then, when your order arrives, hang it in a place in your business that your employees visit regularly. If you have more than one office location, you'll want to order one poster for each location.”
I was also able to locate a page on the same website that offers a labor law poster kit, “Comply with both federal and Tennessee labor laws by displaying these labor law posters in your office. Each kit contains two laminated posters - one Federal labor law poster and one Tennessee state labor law poster - that contain the latest, most up-to-date labor notices required for your state.”
In my opinion, this minimum wage poster is another tool that people have decided to make money from. It seems to have begun as a simple poster to inform employees of their rights in the workplace so that they will not be treated unfairly, instead employees do not pay attention to them and others are getting rich from it. The poster itself contains so much patriotic detail that it demands attention from any American, not just an employee.

My Day.......

Today was a cool day. My first class was scheduled to start late because we had a speaker. The class usually begins at 8:00 but today it started at 8:50. It was nice to get some extra sleep, and it was good sleep too. Then my second class was cancelled, which means I had two hours until my 3rd class. Being who I am, I went to my dorm and took a nap, ha-ha. I went to my last two classes and then here, to work. Today has gone very smooth. All I have to do is make it through a half an hour then I'm home free. My friend and I have been talking about going to work out. Honestly, I don't feel I need to work out, well except my stomach, but I could do a few crunches in my room. I'm just going to work out just to do something and of course, look at boys. (Smile) But knowing us, we probably will have a million excuses why we don't feel like it. Actually, it may be her this time, because I actually want to go. It's just too pretty outside to sit inside. Guess that I will have to wait and see.

THANKS!!!!

I have been in such a wonderful mood and I love it! This week has been so great. For me to say that entire days are good is a huge change for me. Usually, I am able to say that certain parts of my day are good, but never a whole day. So far, this week has been great. I hope the feelings that I have last as long as possible. I have this burst of energy and happiness like never before. I'm not sure what the cause of my new attitude could be. No Boyfriend? Great weather? Better study habits? God? Something in the water? I don't know, but I have been in such a good mood that I haven't even been hungry! I, not hungry, something weird is going on! When I was studying last, I was actually studying. I mean, usually just memorizing stuff will get me to pass a test, but I was reading my sociology book. Even after I just read the definition of the terms, I still felt like reading other information. Normally, I don't enjoy reading school related material, but last night was completely different for me. I am not sure what whom or what I owe gratification, but thanks!

So Excited!!!!!

Well, we are back. I hate to inform you that my blog is not about how drunk I was, how high I was, or what I can not remember. My spring break did not include any of the above. I saw a few friends that were out on break as well, had a few laughs, but nothing too extreme. I did mange to get some of my English homework done, and I must admit, I did not think that would happen. Oh yea, I became single over the break as well. I broke up with my boyfriend and I am not feeling any regrets, which I think is a good thing. Well, not a good thing for him. Anyway, I am excited about the snow. I have been waiting for it, not because I enjoy snow, but because it means the warm weather is on its way! After it snows once in Memphis, that's it. Once we get a few inches and it all melts away, spring is coming. I can not wait for spring and summer. They are my favorite times of the year! I promise I am like a totally different person when it begins to warm up outside. I'm different in a good way though. I just can not wait. I'm ready to just speed through these last few weeks of school, make A's on everything and get it over with.