February 28, 2007
Someone is withholding information that you need in order to move forward on a certain project. You are not able to make your next major career move until you understand this piece of the puzzle. Be pro-active instead of sitting back and waiting.

 

True on mulitple levels.  Marilyn

have been writing a take home test for our shared students in the Materials class.  I typed it up to day.  They will do it when we are gone to the conference next week.  She added a little spin on it that I loved by getting them to find articals to inform their essays.. I am not looking forward to reading and grading the essays... but it will keep them busy while we are gone. 

 

Went swimming with Noelle yesterday after teaching six hours... my legs ached from standing so much... I basically stunk up the pool by body is pretty fatiqued right now so my fifites were bearly 45 seconds and quite a few slower than that...  after swumming Kristin, Nicole, Noelle and I went to the Thia restaurant in town.. it was really good.  Fun to be with women I respect and love. 

 

I am disappointed that I did not get an interview at UN-CG and I am getting nervous to hear from EM-U... I really want to get my next year(s) decided.  I am getting really tired of trying to live on about $14,000 a year.  I probably shouldn't say that, I don't want to jinx myself.. knock on wood...  

 

It is 58 degrees here today... I am wearing summer clothes.  After the cold weather earlier this month it is nice to have it warm again.  And I want to go back to Michigan?  Have a great day.  Love and kisses, Marilyn    

Well I have heard from the four members of my committee with approval to change my proposal to reflect the reality of the situation where some people so not want to be interviewed.  The only person I have not heard from is my chair. 

 

The second section of drafting and the Junior studio seemed to go well today.  But my legs are aching from walking around so much.  During the Junior studio I got over half of the projects graded for the Materials class and wrote a new take home test for them to do while we are gone to the conference in Austin.  Joan and I are excited about this new format for this test.  Well, I have made it through a week of teaching for Julie and it seems to be going well. 

 

Going to swim then to dinner with Kristin and maybe Noelle and Nicole.  I am really tired right now.  I am really looking foreward the conference and spring break following right after it. Need to get more rest.  At least this week I have been able to sleep beyond sunrise. 

 

Oh I heard from North Carolina at Greensboro and they do not want to interview me... oh well.   

 

Love and kisses, Marilyn 

To see Rob-ert Ken-nedy J-r. who came to talk at the university.  It was really good but long.  He spoke for an hour a half off the cuff.  It was amazing....  He has a lot to say that I agree with in relation to our current gover-nment.  I especially agreed with him about the Un-ited Sta-tes media... we no longer have news here, but information about entertainment.  News about the state of the world and our hard choices is long gone... for promotions of product and servies and holl-ywood... But then again I am a flaming liberal and proud of it.  Liberal Feminist!!! to boot.

 

Well I sent an email tonight to my committee about modifying my proposal.  I hope that my committe will approve the change to my proposal.  I have not be able to do three of the interviews (because people will not call me back) and need premission to delet them from my proposal.  Only time will tell. 

 

The drafting class went really well, today.  This group likes my sense of humor... they were overwhelmed at first because we were starting the drafting package with foundation plans, floor plans, reflected ceiling and electrical plan, exterior elevations, millwork details, and a section.  Once I introduced the package then we went into detail of the foundation plan.  It is due in two weeks, and they got the plan pretty far today.  So all in all it seemed to go well.  My materials class is asking when I will be back which is nice.

 

Hope your day went well.  Love and kisses, Marilyn  

I have been feeling kind of badly that I have not been writing as much as normal, but as you know I am busy.  But when I have check my friends blogs (except Carole) they also are not updating as often as they have... maybe it is an alinement of the stars, tee hee.  It is funny that almost everyone who reads my blog said it is about time you let your hair down woman... about my drinking Saturday night... I do get very tightly wound sometime... nawh all the time... tee hee

 

I graded yesterday my juniors projects... some were pretty good and others were not complete.  It is hard for studnets to understand that they have to be working on projects every day in order to get the work done.  Once they get behind there is no way to catch up. 

 

It rained most of the day yesterday, icing the trees even more, about 1/4" made it pretty, but not threatening.  The ice is gone today, thank the lord... 

 

During spring break in two weeks... my friends from Latvia Kristine and Kaspars are coming to visit on the 13th and Tom and Bette (friends from Michigan) are coming on the 17th.  It will be really nice to see them.  Hope your day is good.   

 

Love and kisses, Marilyn 

Well I woke up to a thin layer of ice on stuff outside.  More rain today, which should melt the ice. 

 

Last night Kristin and I partied at my house  she made her famous chicken pot pie and we were going to watch a movie... Rear Window by Alfred Hitchcock... but I ended up getting loaded, tee hee..  We did have a great dinner, I started drinking when we were assembling the pie... then it had to bake for 45 minutes... Well... I was saying that it was going to be a double margarita night... but my bucket of margaritas in the freezed had a frozen layer and unfrozened layer.  I mixed them together and poured them in my glass... well that unfrozen layer was much stronger than normal... hmmmmm and I had not eaten much during the day... hmmmmmm 

 

As dinner cooked, Kristin and I were talking about guys... she had a really good first date last week and has not heard from the guy... So we were talking about that and all of the sudden this orcal like personality overcame me and I was guessing that he really connected with her and it scared him... so he is hoping to just run into her at school rather than seeking her out... She called it the Musing of the Margarita... it was pretty funny.  I had a second double wammy drink with dinner and we started watching Yo-u've Got M-ail.  Half way through I was in a liquor induced fog and half asleep on the love seat... She left half way through the movew at about 7:30... I didn't get up to walk her to the door, but did get up to lock it.. I went to sleep on the sofa and staggered up to bed at 1:00 after drinking two glasses of water... I woke up this morning at 9:00... I didn't have a hang over drinking water really helped with that... I don't think that I have gotten that drunk more than four times in my life... I think I needed that down time... I apoligised to Kristin this morning that I checked out last night and she reminded me that I had to blog about the Musing of the Margarita.  So here you are Kristin.  Tee hee.

 

Hope that your day will be good.  Love and kisses, Marilyn 

 

    

With coffee.  Hey there I made it through, my first half a week of teaching four and a half classes.  I sent the grading off to Julie for the drafting class so that really lessens my load.  At the end of this week I am going to Florida to work with my client over the weekend.  Then I come back and fly to Austin, Texas with Kristin and Joan on Tuesday.  Spring break is the next week, which will really be appreciated.  I am really tired, I can get to sleep pretty well, but I seem to wake up at sunrise and cannot get back to sleep.  Grreeehhh.

 

My students and I met at the mall yesterday to look at retail design.  I think it made things more understandable for them, we could see the impact of the material selections in multiple ascpects comparing one to the other.  I came home and sent the drawings that I did this week out by email.  So she could interact with the drawing.  Then I went to the chiropractor and massage.  Luke and Ellen and I had dinner of stake... it was really good and fun. 

 

Tonight Kristin and I are getting together for dinner and a movie probably here at the house.  I am going to try to take a nap sometime today.  l may have to do something about my faucets in my kitchen sink and master bathroom shower.  One is hard to turn off.. the other dripping.  Luke suggested that I try replaces the o ring.  Hope that your day will be good.  Love and kisses, Marilyn    

So many poeple work really hard to have something, such as working hard at school to get your degree, to get a good job and pass the all important accreditation test.  One of my friends sisters just passed her RN exam.  I have been reading her blog for a while.  She usually updates it weekly and my friend for a while was not very good at keeping his blog updated, so I would read hers.  I got to know here by reading her blog... She is a young wife and mother and has been going to nursing school for four years while balancing a young family, work, school, and all of life's other challenges.  She has really good support from her family, but that does to make her accomplishment any less viable.  Her excitiment at passing her nursing boards brought tears to my eyes.  Congradualations Heidi great job.  Now you can relax back into a more normal life. 

 

I guess part of me is looking forward to getting back to a more normal life too.  While I have loved school emmencely, it would be nice to not have this writing anvil hanging over my head.  Although I do understand that once these pressures are over, they will just be replaced by others... needing to publish, needing to do presentations of my work... needing to teach and grade and oh yeah... live life to the fullest.  I think that this is part of the process.  As we finish one really hard task we begin to prepare for another life that will be different in some aspects, but the same in others.

 

Hope your day is good... I almost got blown out of bed last night with the wind gusts.  Love and kisses, Marilyn

Taught from 8:30 to 4 with one hour off for lunch.  Went okay.  Morning class was good afternoon was okay.  Swan with Noelle.  I am really tired.  I take my students to the mall tomorrow to look at retail design.  It warmed up this week.  Today the wind kicked up 40 miles an hour.  Hope all is fine.  Love and kisses, Marilyn