One door opens and another closes!

This of course is finals week and so at my practicum a whole bunch of people are leaving since they're finishing their practicums for spring semester. And then a bunch of new people are coming for their summer practicums and then I'm staying because I'm doing both spring and summer. And anyways today one of the other people who is staying was telling those who are leaving that they still should come around and stuff, even though they're done. But this is something that I've come to notice, which is that when you move on to other things and try to go back to something it isn't the same. For example at the starting of the school year I was really sad when I left my old ward and started going to the one that I'm in right now. So in January I decided to go visit that ward and pretty much after going back one time I didn't want to do that again. Because alot of the old people where gone and there were all these new people that I didn't know and so it wasn't the same anymore. Basically saying that once you leave something it'll never be how it was before again. So it's better to just go on to new places and new things and not worry about what happened before, because it's never going to be the exact same again.

Finals Week!!

Once again it is finals week and I'm on campus studying for a final, but the nice thing about it is that this is the last final of the week. I actually only ended up with two finals, which was because the practicum related classes don't have finals in them. (they're more paper writting classes) So at the moment I'm studying for my research methods final, which actually is going pretty good and so I'm not to worried about it. The sad thing of the day is that in about six days from now I'll be cleaning dorms again as a summer job. (sigh) But it's better then some jobs I have had so you know that's how it goes. Well, it's exciting in about an hour my apartment is going to have a end of the semester part and we're going to the canyon. So that should be quite fun, but of course when we return from that I'll be doing research methods again...!!

To think when I was 17 I got $5.15 at a job...!

Today I had to go to a stafff meeting at work and guess what I found out? I found out that apparently they are raising minimum wage AGAIN...didn't they just do that like twice in the last two years? Yeah...apparently it's now going up to $7.35 and when I was 17 I got $5.15 for like three years straight. (well I got like a .20 cent raise by the end) So when I have working teenagers I'll have to say "well, you know I got $5.15 when I worked in high school so $12.15 is nothing to complain about." Haha...actually it probably won't go that high...but it could if they keep raising it every year.

Some of you will think that this is quite funny...!

So today I was at a practicum/staff meeting and our supervisor who used to live in Roosevelt started talking about how slow/fast people talk. And she went on to tell us about how they used to live in Los Vegas and then they moved to Roosevelt. So she called a housing realtor and this guy just kept talking extremely slow, and so she says that it's a country thing. Since city people talk really fast and country people talk really slow. But I wasn't to surprised by this little bit of news, since I've heard this sort of thing before. Have any of you uintah basin people heard this before also?

End of the Semester is Near!!

So usually by this time in the semester I'm usually really busy and wanting it to end really, really soon. But this semester has been really strange, because for the last few weeks I've had homework or a paper due on about tuesday. So I'm really busy on monday and tuesday but then by about thursday and friday I'm extremely bored because I have really nothing to do. Well, I suppose if I were wise I'd read every chapter in every text book, and then I wouldn't be bored and I'd ace all of my classes. But who really wants to do that if they don't have to? So anyways, this week especially has been rather boring because it's spring break with the school district and so I haven't had to work all week long. So finally today I went and got some books/novels at the library, just because the only thing that I have to turn for the rest of this week is a resume for my pre-practicum class.
But just so you all know (depending on the classes your in) the last year is really quite easy, and just awhile ago one of my freshmen roommates told me that she thinks that being a senior is probably easier then being a freshmen. So I must say that I have to agree, but that's because the only hard class I even have this semester is Psychological Statistics. And the rest are practicum related classes and research methods, so you know nothing to hard.

Bad day!!

So today I went to work to find out (we actually were told on monday that this was going to happen) that I am of the 10 of the 15 mentors who are being laid off, basically we can stay until friday but then we have to leave. And they were picking from the people who have been there the longest to stay, and since I just started in October I was one of the 10 to be laid off. Basically they are keeping five mentors because there are five grades. I was shocked to find out that they were actually laying off people because of how it's a work study job. But the reason for the lay off is to do with the fact that they're putting all this work study money into the university due to the 1.5 million budget cut. I suppose the furlough over spring break didn't totally solve the problem, and to think I'm going to graduate to a depression...maybe I really should go to graduate school after all.
Also, I found out that from my fine job that I now have lice...because one of the fifth graders who just moved over here from Palestine got it and passed it around the school. So it looks like I have to now try to get rid of this lice, because my head won't stop itching..............................................................................................................................................................
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April Fools...I got you!!!!! Actually I have not been laid off and the whole lice thing was an April Fools joke from our supervisor, she told us that this girl from Palestine was passing around lice. And we all believed her...sad huh?
But sad story about being laid off, so my roommates dad just got laid off yesterday...along with 400 others in the same company. And then they're laying off some others at the end of the summer, and basically they're hiring college graduates...because they won't have to pay them as much. But luckily he gets like this 6 month pay deal, so they'll be fine as long as he gets another job within six months.
But still I'm graduating to a depression? Not cool!