Wednesday, December 31, 2008

MCAT Studying

I love this. Here is some of the advice from my MCAT study guides...

Try to have fun with the test.

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Bellydancers really do rock!



So ever since this crap has happened, I've barely had time to think. I've had finals to take and give and grade, plus final reports and presentations. I've had to close accounts and file credit fraud claims. Probably the worst thing thing that these people stole from me is TIME! Holy crap this stuff is time consuming.

The major upside is that my dance community is absolutely amazing and has given me so much support. Not that any of them will read it here, but I wanted to thank the girls & guys who have really gone out of their way to help me; Courtney for the awesome sword, James & Sheridan for the delicious sounding zills, Pamela for covering my dance shift, Cynthia for the use of a beautiful costume. You are all amazing. There are still other offers of love and help that I haven't mentioned, but it's all so wonderful. So although this beautiful costume is gone, I know I'll get to enjoy a whole new set of pretties! THANK YOU!!

Saturday, December 6, 2008

People Rock.


My car was broken into on Thursday night. They smashed out 3 windows... I guess they couldn't figure out how to unlock the doors. I had two tires in the back seat of the car, because I'd just bought winter tires and was going to put the summer tires in my storage unit the next day. I guess that was just too tempting for these people. So the busted into my car, stole my tires from the back seat as well as the other two in the trunk. They also emptied my center console which had some chargers and my blue tooth in it. They took my school bag, with calculators and a couple of electronics I need for classes. They stole ALL of my professional bellydance gear. Music, costumes, sword, fire, veils, etc... Aside from costing a ton of money, that stuff is so hard to replace! They also took my $45 coffee mug that comes with a year's worth of free coffee (so basically they stole 10 1/2 months of coffee from me).

I'm not sure what's going to happen with it all, yet. My car is getting new windows today. It spent the night at the garage so that it wouldn't snow and ruin the interior of my car.

Random bit of funniness: they stole 4 tires & belly dance gear, but they left behind several text books. Obviously these geniuses are not college grads or they'd know that they could get more money for the books than for the tires.

Things that were not stolen: stereo, black diamond head lamp (they left that on the seat), an ammo can, my text books, my school parking permit, and fortunately all of my students' labs that I have to grade.