If there are any of you who missed it on facebook, I PASSED my Thesis Defense on Thursday!!
I still have a boatload of edits and rewriting to do on it! (They really probably could've failed me.) So I've got a couple weeks to fix it and get it ready to turn into the Graduate School November 16th! I might be getting an extension of a week, but we'll see what they say. Gah!! I can't believe it is so close. I felt very relieved when it was done. Whew. Big step.
It wouldn't be quite so bad, but I'm working down in Longmont scoring standardized tests, 3rd grade math, and I'm gone from 7-5! So that's most of the day. So I really shouldn't be typing this right now either, haha.
I am definitely not a good picture blogger as of late--someday I'll post some pictures on here too.
But for now, this'll have to do. I am supposed to have my Thesis Defense next Thursday. Which, if you don't know, it's a big deal! It is what determines whether I get my Master's degree or not. Eek. Scary. I do not have a single slide made for it, and I just don't care about my thesis, which is a bad thing because I have to for another couple weeks. Then I, maybe, can decide not to care about it, pretty much ever again.
I have a number of things I have not allowed myself to do until I have my Thesis done and into the grad school. These are supposed to serve as motivation for me to work and finish. I have not written or typed an actual list, so I thought I'd take this little bit of time before choir tonight to compile that list, so that it's written and will hopefully clear my head so that I can focus on my current most urgent task!
1. Read The Hunger Games (trilogy) & watch the movie
2. Read The Hobbit--before the midnight showing, which I will attend!
3. Begin watching Dr. Who--I gotta find out what it's all about
4. Watch the new Sherlock Holmes BBC TV series
5. Watch the BBC Merlin TV series
6. Eat my Cadbury Creme Egg that's in my freezer
7. Watch Lark Rise to Candleford
8. Play FreeCell, Bejeweled, or Tetris
9. Buy Cafe Rio the next time I'm in FoCo or Denver
How could I forget?!
10. DO A PUZZLE!!!!
Well, I think that's a pretty good list--a bit outta control. There were a couple other things that honestly should've been on that list, but I already broke it and did them. So too late now. K, that's a pretty good list of 10 things I really want to do! So this is a good thing. Wish me luck. I think I'll make it pretty clear when I finally do finish...so, we'll be in touch. ;)
Well, it sure has been a while. I always do that. None of the interviews I had back in June have worked out. & I had a few more that didn't work out either. Then right at the beginning of August, American Income Life offered me a job to be a Life Insurance Agent for them. No cold calls. Anyway, I felt I had no other choice. No one else had offered me a job!
So I started an 'online' course to learn everything about life insurance (who knew there was so much to learn?!). I hate studying for it (no surprise), it has been really hard for me to retain all of the details! It's crazy. & frustrating. But it has sorta been getting better.
I have still been sending in my resume when job opportunities pop up. Well, it paid off on Monday, RFI Ingredients in Loveland (19.4 miles away, not bad!), called me for an interview. So I had one this morning! I really do prefer the idea of a steady 8-5 M-F job where you know what your paycheck is, and you go in and come home. Sigh.
One of the coolest parts of this job, is that if they decide to hire me, I will get to go to New York for a week of training! Umm, yes, thank you I'm totally available to go! ;)
So...I would greatly appreciate all of your prayers in my behalf, that they choose me for the job!! I'm tired of studying about life insurance. & I found it hard to concentrate on that today. I should hear about this job, hopefully by Tuesday next week. She had some more interviews, and I think is done on Monday with that process. So I was one of the first ones. Gosh, I hope that she wants me. I know I don't have the experience they'd prefer, but someone's gotta take a chance on me!! :/
So...I have a 1st interview tomorrow at Leprino Foods, and I got a 2nd interview with RegWest for next Tuesday morning. So that's extremely exciting.
And my professor still hasn't read my thesis, which I sent him the first copy back in April, and he hasn't read a lick of it (apparently). Sigh. Makes me think I won't be able to meet the July 6th deadline. We'll see. I suppose it's still technically possible. :/ My other committee members are being awesome, and are willing to help me out more than they really are required, which is pretty great.
I have plenty to do with my job hunt and thesis...and what have I spent far too much time doing?! Watching video blogs on YouTube. Yes, vlogs that people I don't know have made...
I may be borderline obsessed right now. Whew, at least it's just borderline? I am behind on almost all of my real (irl=in real life) friends blogs. But somehow, I just haven't pulled them up (it's mostly those of you having them private, because I have to pull it up to see if you've posted), because I feed compelled to watch 'just one more' YouTube video. Somehow that's a more appealing alternative than reading about my friends who I know. Sigh.
Anyhow, it's been fun, but I think I need to stop watching so many of the old ones, and maybe I can mostly just watch the new videos as they come out.
The main vloggers that take up most of my YouTube watching time are the vlogbrothers, Hank and John Green. I flip flop on which is my favorite, and have subscribed to some of their other channels on YouTube as well. I think my favorite really is John though. Their 'Lizzie Bennet Diaries' are pretty funny too. I've been enjoying them. Between all of them, I know I've spent a few hours watching their videos. So...I decided I might as well blog.
I do really wish that some of my friends would start some video blogging, it'd be awesome!! I'd love to watch videos from people I know, and I know some pretty great and funny people. I'd love April, Michelle, Christy, Chloe, Ryan, Ashley, Bryn, Nicole, Brittney, Jamie, Vanessa, Mary, Joan (to name only a few!)...to start a video blog! It'd be so much fun! I would totally watch it, and I bet you'd get other subscribers too. So much fun. Then I would keep up on your lives even better! Awesome.
Anyway, if you have a little time to kill, I thought I'd post 2 of my favorite vlogbrothers videos. Well, this first is just a FAQ video, but it's a good starter since they've been making videos since 2007.
How to Become a Nerdfighter: FAQ
Aren't they just awesome?!? I love the way they film, and the way they talk, and most of what they say.
This next one is one of my favorites, though the one that has probably my favorite line is, I think, in the video after this one in my vlog playlist on youtube (username:caroljoyath2o), "Love and Romance Questions ANSWERED."
Well, I'm heading to bed hopefully much sooner than later. I finally had to succumb to the fact that I have a cold. Ugh. I hate being on cold medicine, it makes me feel so draggy and heavy-headed? Anyway, not pleasant but preferable to the alternative. I guess.
In case you didn't see on facebook, I have a job interview first thing in the morning! It's entry level lab work. So in a way I'm sorta over-qualified for it, but I just need experience, and want a job, and specifically, one in Greeley, which it is. It's ~6.6 miles from my house, much more appealing than a commute to Fort Collins or Denver!! We'll see.
It's Warren Laboratories, http://www.warrenlab.com/index.html. Which is a food safety and nutritional labeling laboratory that "specializes in all your food microbiology needs, as well as nutritional labeling, shelf life studies, allergen testing, and various other chemical analyses."
I don't know much about the tests that are listed on their site, but I'm willing to learn, and I feel really excited about this job! Which I didn't expect. So I think, as my friend Anna believes, it means something.
I hope I feel this good about it after the interview--and more importantly, that they feel as good about me!!
In addition to that--Vanessa comes tomorrow!!! She's flying into Denver tomorrow, then we're driving to Utah Thursday for Michelle Rotar's wedding!!!!!!!!!!!!! I can hardly stand it!!! It's gonna be awesome!
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