If you're looking to save money, invitations is an area to go.
For a count of 50.
"Discount" wedding stationary online - $40
Office Max wedding stationary in-store - $30
Office Max wedding stationary with online discount - $20
Wow.
And I knew a bride that spent $7 per invitation. My goal is optimistically a $1 per invitation.
02 November 2007
28 October 2007
All Hallow's Eve
When I look at my facebook mini-feed, I am impressed, amazed, and jealous at the Halloween excursions of my friends. How does anyone have the time for this?
I have a midterm due tomorrow. It should be 1000 to 1250words; I'm at 404 write now. I have been so unmotivated to do this paper. I was so turned on by the Indo-European research I did for a midterm two weeks ago, and I am so turned-off by the caliphate-ulama debate this midterm deals with. I feel like I have no command of the subject matter.
In another subject I have no passion for, I have a ten-page paper due on Thursday. I have done only an hour of research so far. Mostly this is because the primary source archives I must use are only open between 8-4:30. But a large part of it is that I'm fully convinced the assignment is going to fly once I start.
Not only that but I have a 15-20 page paper due on Nov. 15th as a make-up from a summer class Incomplete. I have only done about an hour of work on it. And finally on Nov. 15 I also have the first book review of my college career on Mark Smith's Early History of God. My boyfriend took this class two years ago and what I have heard has made me very excited about this read.
Also, I have to go to Chicago next weekend to the Art Institute for an extra credit assignment. I am just amzaded at the sheer amount I am writing this semester. In December, I'm going to have to take an inventory.
I have a midterm due tomorrow. It should be 1000 to 1250words; I'm at 404 write now. I have been so unmotivated to do this paper. I was so turned on by the Indo-European research I did for a midterm two weeks ago, and I am so turned-off by the caliphate-ulama debate this midterm deals with. I feel like I have no command of the subject matter.
In another subject I have no passion for, I have a ten-page paper due on Thursday. I have done only an hour of research so far. Mostly this is because the primary source archives I must use are only open between 8-4:30. But a large part of it is that I'm fully convinced the assignment is going to fly once I start.
Not only that but I have a 15-20 page paper due on Nov. 15th as a make-up from a summer class Incomplete. I have only done about an hour of work on it. And finally on Nov. 15 I also have the first book review of my college career on Mark Smith's Early History of God. My boyfriend took this class two years ago and what I have heard has made me very excited about this read.
Also, I have to go to Chicago next weekend to the Art Institute for an extra credit assignment. I am just amzaded at the sheer amount I am writing this semester. In December, I'm going to have to take an inventory.
My Achilles heal is throbbing. I back myself into a corner with the workload to a point where I cannot get it done. Either that or I must have no self-disipline whatsoever.
This was the first semester my boyfriend and I were actually invited to a Halloween party. Ironic this is the first year it was really impossible for me to go.
This was the first semester my boyfriend and I were actually invited to a Halloween party. Ironic this is the first year it was really impossible for me to go.
27 October 2007
Kanye West Stronger Video
I always liked Kanye West. Really, it was just because his material included commentary on collegiate life, in addition to the standard hip hop topics.
And considering MTV has much more pressing issue like California teen dating shows, Youtube is my main source of new music videos and news.
15 October 2007
Midterms
Does it not seem illogical, if not downright stupid to schedule the homecoming game the weekend before one of the heaviest weeks of the semester? Apparently not to my school's administrators.
Everything is working against me now. Between Halo 3 and all the homecoming festivities right outside my door. I have no idea how I am supposed to get any work done. This semester I feel like a graduate student, almost.
A midterm test tomorrow on comparative politics.
A midterm paper tomorrow on the Indo-European problem.
A journal of articles I am supposed to have analyzed with brilliance and prose as if I were pioneering new scholarship.
Not to mention my regular hour and a half of Latin homework.
Thursday, a draft of a historical question I am supposed to discover the answer to my November 1st.
Everything is working against me now. Between Halo 3 and all the homecoming festivities right outside my door. I have no idea how I am supposed to get any work done. This semester I feel like a graduate student, almost.
A midterm test tomorrow on comparative politics.
A midterm paper tomorrow on the Indo-European problem.
A journal of articles I am supposed to have analyzed with brilliance and prose as if I were pioneering new scholarship.
Not to mention my regular hour and a half of Latin homework.
Thursday, a draft of a historical question I am supposed to discover the answer to my November 1st.
08 October 2007
Clearblue Pregnancy Test
This is a pregnancy test marketed to men. What on earth are people thinking of?
28 September 2007
Hating Your Dream Job
I am starting to hate my job.
It's a position in the student government, appointed, not elected, and paid decently. I applied for it the year before and didn't get it, but did for this year. I was well prepared, well presented, and had a letter for recommendation for the person who had held the position before me. I was the best candidate.
Albeit more and more I find I philosophically disagree with a lot of other people here. My opinion seems to be in the minority, and there's not too much value in trying to persuade someone who's been doing this longer than you and feels much more attached. It seems people like to think more in a fantasy than in the reality because the reality is less flatering. The stress on image, on looking good, on making the organization look good, is not something I agree with. I think the language "looking good" should be replaced with "doing good."
I get to choose my own hours pretty much, and my own work objectives to a certain degree. I have a personal office, desk computer, window, and door. It's a great job for someone with a lot of personal initiative, someone like how I was when I was first hired. For someone without that initiative, it is an opportunity to be very lazy.
I don't respect my boss. He doesn't understand my job and gives me poorly-thought out tasks of little value to complete that don't pertain to my job. I don't respect his supervisor either, who is playing WOW on his gaming laptop in his office every time I stop by. I can blame my superiors for a lack of initiative, but I recognize that is not accepting any blame myself. But with my shortage on personal inspiration, I don't see many other sources as well.
It's a position in the student government, appointed, not elected, and paid decently. I applied for it the year before and didn't get it, but did for this year. I was well prepared, well presented, and had a letter for recommendation for the person who had held the position before me. I was the best candidate.
Albeit more and more I find I philosophically disagree with a lot of other people here. My opinion seems to be in the minority, and there's not too much value in trying to persuade someone who's been doing this longer than you and feels much more attached. It seems people like to think more in a fantasy than in the reality because the reality is less flatering. The stress on image, on looking good, on making the organization look good, is not something I agree with. I think the language "looking good" should be replaced with "doing good."
I get to choose my own hours pretty much, and my own work objectives to a certain degree. I have a personal office, desk computer, window, and door. It's a great job for someone with a lot of personal initiative, someone like how I was when I was first hired. For someone without that initiative, it is an opportunity to be very lazy.
I don't respect my boss. He doesn't understand my job and gives me poorly-thought out tasks of little value to complete that don't pertain to my job. I don't respect his supervisor either, who is playing WOW on his gaming laptop in his office every time I stop by. I can blame my superiors for a lack of initiative, but I recognize that is not accepting any blame myself. But with my shortage on personal inspiration, I don't see many other sources as well.
24 September 2007
Role Models
I am not the only one who has far less motivation than they started with. My role models have all seemed to slow as well.
For one, that book didn't get published quite as soon as it was supposed to, despite taking a semester off on sabbatical. For another, that Master's degree is taking years longer than first anticipated. He no longer talks about the subject with enthusiasm, but about his girlfriend whom he hopes to marry. Perhaps if it weren't so hard to return to the teaching profession (public secondary school), he might have already done so.
I can think of others, with such grand plans of going into corporate business and making lots of money, or simpler plans like graduating or leaving the college scene. But I suppose the world rejected them, or didn't give them what they wanted, so they stay for a few more years and maybe will get that Masters.
We are all suffering from a lack of passion.
Is there something in the water? There is a myth here that if you touch the water in the river that runs through our town you will never leave. The university turns on the fountain in the beginning of the orientation season through the fall to mark the freshmen while they are young. We never stood a chance.
For one, that book didn't get published quite as soon as it was supposed to, despite taking a semester off on sabbatical. For another, that Master's degree is taking years longer than first anticipated. He no longer talks about the subject with enthusiasm, but about his girlfriend whom he hopes to marry. Perhaps if it weren't so hard to return to the teaching profession (public secondary school), he might have already done so.
I can think of others, with such grand plans of going into corporate business and making lots of money, or simpler plans like graduating or leaving the college scene. But I suppose the world rejected them, or didn't give them what they wanted, so they stay for a few more years and maybe will get that Masters.
We are all suffering from a lack of passion.
Is there something in the water? There is a myth here that if you touch the water in the river that runs through our town you will never leave. The university turns on the fountain in the beginning of the orientation season through the fall to mark the freshmen while they are young. We never stood a chance.
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