Internships and Phone Interviews

Yesterday I had my first ever phone interview for an internship with the Parks and Recreation Department of Anoka County. This particular internship looked very good to me because it pays $11 an hour. Fantastic. I applied, didn't think I'd even get an interview because I didn't fit the requirement of having the right major... that and I got a rejection letter from the county...although I did apply for another county job as well so I'm assuming it was that one. Anyway. The phone interview screwed me over I'm pretty sure. It just felt pretty awkward and I think the only part where I impressed them was when I told them I could use Word, Office, Excel, Powerpoint, and Access, plus I can do graphing stuff. Otherwise I think it went pretty poorly. I felt like I hardly had any time to actually formulate a thought, because it was on the phone and not in person, and I felt like I had to answer really quickly otherwise there would be an awkward silence, which I think would have been avoided had I done it in person. Which I would have done, if I hadn't had both a morning and an afternoon class. You think for someone who talks on the phone for her job, 6 hours a week, I'd be able to do a phone interview fantastically. But no, it went poorly. I don't have much hope, except a tiny spark. Which will be put out tomorrow when they call and tell me I didn't get the job. Well, pray for me anyway because it would be a fantastic job for my summer.

Better News

The problem is, as Eric said, resolved. We are having the wedding 2 weeks after the original day (August 18th instead of the 4th, mark your calenders) and it was ok to transfer the date at the reception hall so we're set. Now we just have to call Clyde to make sure he can do that day...and Linda for our photographer too. But the 2 big things are booked. Unfortunately we have to postpone the honeymoon until January. Well, the real, actual going somewhere honeymoon. We're still going to do something for a few days like go to Eric's cabin or something, but our actual week and a half trip is postponed...oh well, it gives us something to look forward to mid-year! And my first semester senior year is going to suck, so it will be nice to have that after it ends! Plus it gives us time to save a little bit more money, which is good since we were going to be a little tight for the honeymoon...and now we won't! So everything works out well for us! Mostly.

Bad News

Crap. The church is booked for the day we booked everything else. And our backup day is booked at the reception hall. So now we're screwed. And nobody is in their office today/anymore so we can't figure anything out until tomorrow. What a bad day.

Reception Hall

Before I write this post, I would just like to express a bit of concern I have about blogging. No one commented on my last post, which is not unusual but somewhat sad, but not only that, not a lot of people are commenting on other blogs or writing new blogs. Are the blogs dying? I hope not-it's one of the few ways I can easily keep in touch with my family. Please keep blogging everybody, and commenting too of course.

Now, the actually post. All I really have to say is that Eric and I booked our reception hall this weekend! Yay, we got the day we want! We're doing it at Greenhave Golf Course in Anoka. It's really nice, and very decently priced. We also booked Clyde for our dj too, which is nice to get that done. Tomorrow we're booking the church, because we haven't done that yet-hopefully we'll get it! We're also going to call the photographer and book her too, so we get all the big things set for our big day!

Social Justice:A Christian Perspective

The better title for this post would be "the class from hell" but that's not the technical name for the class so I didn't use it. The class had so much potential-I've actually read a lot of interesting stuff but mostly because I had to read 2 full books and a lot of encyclicals and church documents, which I've never really had the opportunity to read before. Unfortunately, the professor is awful and she is the entire reason the class sucks so much. I think I'm on my 5th revised syllabus for the semester (although it might be the 6th), which really screws you up when every other week you get new assignments, old assignments are sometimes kept sometimes thrown out, and she just piles on work without explaining it. It's really awful. In class is just as bad because like I said, she never explains anything and she has a really poor teaching style. No one ever gets what she's talking about, she just jumps into a topic with no introduction or explanation-I think she thinks we're already supposed to have a background in some of the stuff or maybe she thinks she assigned different stuff. Who knows? She is the most disorganized person in the world and the class is horrible. If I get a bad grade, if anybody gets a bad grade, it is no one's fault but hers because she doesn't teach, doesn't explain stuff, changes topics and assignments all the time, and I don't think she knows who anyone is even though we're supposed to have a percentage of our grade be attendence/in class participation. Great. I cannot wait for this semester to be over, even though I like most of my classes, because this class literally is the class from hell. I think the devil is punishing me for not joining his side. Ok, maybe that's extreme, but it's realistic for how the class is.

Easter break

Once again, here I am with nothing to write about. Nothing interesting anyway. Today, at 3:10 this afternoon, my Easter weekend starts. Although technically I'm skipping class so it's not supposed to start until 9, but whatever. What's Easter weekend without Holy Thursday mass? That's honestly the reason that I'm skipping, and that's probably the best reason you can come up with anyway. I get tomorrow off and Monday off of school, which is fantastic, and the only homework I have over the weekend is a little bit of philosophy (as long as I get my paper typed up today anyway!) and some German, which again, is excellent. I have a dentist appointment on Monday and a doctor appointment an hour after that, so it will be a little rushed, and then I have to get back to school since I work at 6, but a day with no classes is great! Easter should be fun-Friday we're dying eggs and Eric and I are checking out Greenhaven and booking the church at some point this weekend too, Saturday watching little children, Sunday Easter dinner at noonish with the fam (unfortunately without Matt and Laura) and Easter dinner at 6 with Eric's fam. Pretty good weekend ahead of me, and I'm looking forward to it.

My Weekend

I really have nothing else to post about so I'm going to write about my weekend. I know, not very exciting, but whatever. Actually, it was a really good weekend. Friday Eric and I went to V for Vendetta, excellent movie. We also went to a dance that south campus at St. Thomas had in Chaska I think, which was really fun and we won a $30 target gift card since we both played poker the whole night and won enough chips to get enough tickets to get one pulled. Go us. I am a lot better at cards now so I might go some Tuesday night with Eric and Gina and Josh when I'm not working and have $5 to spare. Saturday went to watch Kendrick play baseball at Northwestern-it was fun to watch even though they lost both games and the northwestern students were extremely rude. Then Eric and I went to Gina and Josh's for dinner and to watch Saw 2, which was better than the first one (not hard to do) but still not fantastic. Next time I think we'll just play a game. It's really fun to go to their apartment though; we go every couple of weeks, they make dinner we bring dessert, it's nice to spend time with some family members on a regular basis without having to drive very far. (I know, 1/2 an hour isn't far compared to everybody else, but it's hard to make the time to go home sometimes) Today I've been working on homework most of the day, but I've gotten a lot done and I'm caught up on every paper for the next 3 weeks (I have a mini project but that will be easy and stupid so I'm not worrying about it) and with my reading until Wednesday, which means I have an easy week ahead of me. Thank goodness-after last week I need it! Wednesday Eric and I are going to the Twins game with Gina and Josh and some other people which should be fun, Thursday I'll be going home for Easter weekend! Yay for what should be a good week!

La de da de da

If you read my comment on Matt's latest post you'll see my comment that says I should post an intelligent blog post. However, that is not going to happen. I have nothing intelligent to talk about at 11:30 at night after a day of class, work, and homework (I have to write 2 papers for 2 different philosophy classes, as well as figuring out this stupid injustice report that I have to do for my stupid theology class). Registration is coming up soon but neither of my majors are offering very much; however I do have to take classical philosophy which is being offered next semester so that takes care of 1/4 classes. I'm also taking the honors seminar class that is being offered-2/4 classes. That's about all I could figure out to take, so I decided I'd do something fun. I looked around and found classical mythology-3/4 classes covered, and 1/2 my classes are in the classics department. I'm taking almost the entire classics curriculum next semester, since it's not an actual major or minor here. How funny is that, in an ironic sort of way? I still need a 4th class, which might either be a theology class depending on if the new professor we're hiring adds any good upper level classes that I could take, otherwise I'm going to try to take Global Search for Justice, which is our core requirement that we are supposed to take during our junior or senior year. I should do the honors, but I'm not stupid and I'm not going to do that to myself. I already know the class is going to suck because the only way it's good is if you do it as a j-term abroad, which I can not afford to do since I am getting married in a year and a half. Plus juniors don't usually get into it anyway, so I'd have to wait until my senior year, and by that point I'd be married and definitely wouldn't want to be gone for 3 weeks. Although it would be very cool to go to India and learn about and do social justice. Ah well, I hope enough people sign up for classical mythology so it won't get canceled and so I won't have to figure out yet another class since I'm already short on classes.

Position Paper

For my biomedical ethics class I need to write a position paper or case analysis, and I would prefer to do the position paper because I feel it gives me more leeway and availability to express my opinion. However, I am having a very difficult time finding a topic that either interests me or has enough information or is important enough to write about. I would like to write about something in the genetics realm, anything related to it, such as gene therapy, required prenatal screening, selective abortion, whatever. I need to choose a topic but I can't really think of anything, and the ones I listed are either too broad, too narrow, or I just don't want to do it. Any suggestions for a topic?