I can’t believe it is the end of April. The weather has finally given us spring, the days are growing longer and it is just a wonderful time of year! If I could just freeze time for a while, it would be on a day like today! The weather is in the low to mid 70s with an occasional nice breeze. Hopefully May will be this nice for the whole month. Yea, I know it must rain from time to time, but while I am sleeping would be the perfect time for that!
I finished my English Composition Class with an A! I was very pleased with how well I did. I was worried for nothing. I enjoyed the class, however I have to say, once the research paper was turned in, the rest of the writings were easy and fun.
I also completed the Modern Political Thought class with an A-. I really enjoyed that class. Kevin Arwajo makes his lectures interesting to listen to. I have to say that his exams are not always easy, but they are fair. I believe my grades don’t show what I really learned.
I will post my final English paper and my review of Pink Floyd The Wall sometime.
The summer session is going to be a lot of work! I must be crazy taking Philosophy and Theology at the same time. I worked on this weeks theology class and it took me most of the afternoon today. By the time I quit for the day, I had seven pages typed (of course that is double spaced). I also had to type the answers to a couple questions for my Philosophy class and read about St. Francis De Sales so I can write a book report him.
Not to mention I am also taking the advanced computer applications class online, and needed to answer and submit some questions for that class. That class is going to be a thorn in my side! That should be the easiest class I have, but the instructor has taken the flexibility away. From his writings online, I am not impressed by him at all. He sounds like he wants to be a dictator or something and demands respect instead of earning it. Maybe I am wrong, but that is how his writings come off to me! I had hoped to work ahead in that class, but he has made it so that will be difficult. Then he plans to have a 1 hour window to take tests. I guess he doesn’t believe in technology being used to give flexibility!
So all in all, I will have a busy schedule for the next 8 weeks. (16 for the computer class). But after the 8 weeks, I am giving myself a break until the fall session. As of today, I have 48 credits toward the 120 requirement, so I am well on my way. If everything goes as planned, I will graduate 2 years from this month!
Tomorrow is the final day of my English 104 Composition writing, and my Modern Political Thinking 202 classes. Then starting Tuesday, I begin Catholic Theology and Philisophical Thinking. I also start a 16 week class online for Advanced Computer Applications.
I am trying to get my final Bibliographic essay completed for tomorrow. I started writing it and after writing four pages, I realized it was getting as long as my research paper itself. I rethought what I wanted to say and started over. It still looks like it will be four pages in length, that would be half the size of the actual research paper. My research paper was written about the lack of current computer technology books at the DeSales University library and many of the public libraries. I am debating wheter to post my paper on this site. What do you think? Email me if you think I should publish it here.
For Modern Political Thought, I have an exam tomorrow that I am studying for. The final exam is the last of three exams. This one deals with Fascism. Both Musolini and Hitler’s time. One of our assignments was to watch Pink Floyd’s The Wall. I enjoyed that since I watched this movie when it was on the big screen in 1982. Of course back then, I watched it for the music and never really understood the meanings behind the movie. Now, I enjoy the music and understand what is happening. I had to write a paper on it explaining Pink’s relationship with society and government.
I also had to read the book Night by Elie Wiesel. This was about his experience as a jewish boy and living through the holocust. It was a good read, and I plan to start another category on this site to talk about books and movies I have read and seen. This will be one that I review. Another will be Animal Farm as I had to read that for this class when we studied communism. That was also an enjoyable book, however the first time I read it was before studying communism. It was even better reading it the second time know who each character represented in real life.
Well, I better get back to my studies. I hope to finish these last two classes with an A in English and a B in Political thought. So I better get to work.
This week if you turned your TV on at all, you probably heard parts of the voicemail that Alec Baldwin left his daughter. He was portrayed as a bad father and such. I think the message was very inappropriate for a father, however I also feel it was just as bad if not worse to have let this recording be heard by the general public!
This is an eleven year old child. It has to be devistating for a child to hear such anger from her father, but then for the whole world to hear this! No matter what the child does or where the child may go, it has to be in her mind that people know her dad’s words to her. Even if she doesn’t believe her dad’s words, she now has to contend with the public thinking she is rude pig that needs straightening out! Or at least that is what her mind is telling her. She doesn’t need straightening out, just loving guidance impartial to her parents fights. She is a child caught in a battle that she has no control over. She is the one paying the price for her parents hate toward each other. She is innocent, and needs to be left out of Alec and Kim’s issues! Both parents need to learn to support her no matter what, even if it means not getting their way with their former spouse.
Both Alec and Kim should be held accountable. And the media isn’t so innocent either. Don’t they stop to think how much damage to a little girl this will do? Is the dollar so mighty that an innocent child must pay the price? Come on people, this child is worth more than our entertainment.
Finally, spring has arrived! This past week, the weather began to warm up. This weekend is absolutely wonderful. The weather on Friday was in the 60s and on Saturday we had sunshine and temps in the 70s. It felt so good putting on a T-shirt and just being outside. Today is suppose to be a bit warmer. Actually a it may get a little too warm. The forcast is for temps in the 80s with lots of sunshine. I don’t particularly care for it that warm, but after waiting so long for warm weather, I will take it!
I worked in the yard a little yesterday. Trimmed a couple bushes on the side of the house and the holly bush by my back porch. They look very nice with the trim job. I still need to do some weeding in the flower beds, and just basic yard clean up. I hope to do some of that today, but I must also complete some school work as well. We bought some steaks for the grill this evening, so I can work in the yard and cook at the same time!
Well, spring is here, and I hope it stays a long time. I am in no hurry to have summer weather, so a long spring would be nice to have! Yes I will complain when it gets too hot. I hear people say “You complain when it is cold, and you complain when it is hot.” This is true, I don’t like very cold or very hot weather. The best time of year is spring with temps in the upper 50s in the morning and mid 60s to low 70s in the afternoon. So yes, when it is extremely cold or hot, I will complain!! If you don’t like it, tune me out 