Appreciation of Robert's Rules

Today was the swearing in of Congress. Now I dare not reveal anything political - yea or nay - good or bad, so don't expect me to slip on anything here, but I will say that I've always had an appreciation for procedure and rules. In high school I was part of a Model Congress club and it was instant love. Aside from the friendships and good experiences I had, I really appreciated how the process worked and what it means. I remember joking often during debates, since I was shy and never really felt that I could speak in front of my peers, I never got up often, however I always was a great behind the scenes person and love parliamentary procedure....I couldn't help myself. I really was paying attention even if I didn't talk much. (I have to get back to this later)

While watching C-Span, yes I like C-Span and have no qualms admitting it when topics of interest come up in Congress, and I did find solace in how we accomplish things and how it's meant to be done in a certain way. Now I know that there are individuals who say, it's unimportant. Or it's not needed, but I say how else are we too be a fully functioning government if we don't have laws or guidelines for us to follow? Don't be ridiculous uninformed people, things have to happen in a certain way or else we'd have a complete mess!

After the swearing in, the day was spent with minute introductions on upcoming bills and proposals that would be coming up to the floor in the upcoming days, etc. More interesting to me, was the fact that all these discussions were being done prior to the reading of the Constitution, which is coming up in a few days.

***unfortunately .....after writing a great post....the site didn't like me and it didn't save....I'm so upset. It was such a great ending to a post. Maybe I'll replicate it but as for right now...I'm going to walk away and not yell at my browser.....*

Where in the world is my pencil?

It's been many a days since I last sat down with keyboard and my thoughts....I had wanted to write, there's been so much going on, but at times, the time just didn't make it possible. I mean, i had to find time to sleep, right?

There's much to record. First, I made the quick, split-second decision to start taking graduate courses in September. As of today, I am not quite sure if that was the best decision for me, but I will say the journey has been ridiculously enlightening. I had to make these whole new group of decisions on my own, with very little input from others for guidance. I didn't like that very much. I realized that I don't have a supportive group around me to bounce ideas off of. It reminds me of being little and having no one to talk to and no one to play with. I usually play off these thoughts and never share with anyone - so no one has a clue. But I always know that I can write them here and at least for a few posts, they'll make sense to me. The classes I chose are the typical introductory classes. Learning of this and foundations of that. What made it challenging was understanding how I can learn and what I need to do to get work done. This, was the biggest obstacle, I feel of them all. Somehow I found myself ::stressing:: out so badly to write my first paper (in years) that I must've stayed up all night feeling inadequate and wondering how I was never taught how to do this and feeling how big of a failure I am for even trying to attempt this huge feat.

Those were pretty low days. Which followed other low days of reading and not understanding what the heck I was reading! Here I'm thinking it's something to do with my un-officially-diagnosed-but-tested-but-not-by-a-psychologist learning disability, luckily for my sanity, it really was the course work. :) Yeah, I felt some huge camaraderie when one day I initiated a conversation with classmates (no one ever talked before class) and turns out the entire class felt more unified in those first few minutes than when we first started! Since then, the camaraderie has turned into commiserating and we all keep our wits about us when we can interject a few quibs here and there or else we all may just go bat crazy.

Months later, I am now finding myself with a mere 3 classes left for the fall semester and wondering how I will ever survive writing 4 1/2 papers before the 20th. I have considered getting a plaque engraved for the desk and chair which I claim at the library a few towns over. They must start feeling sorry for me seeing how they see me so often. I think there may be a "no food" policy, but I broke it when I came in with a huge salad and spread out it's splendor for 5 1/2 hours since I didn't want to leave and lose my spot.

Yes these are the things that I go though. How's your week been, bloggerinos?

ND: What writing papers has done to me

An Original verse.....

A pencil a pen and a highlighter are talking in a drawer. The pencil says I hope my lead is good enough to finish I’d hate to disappoint. Nah the pen says, you’re all right. The highlighter says I can’t want to see my way and mark it all over from top to bottom. You should be fine, the pen says. Well what about you, the pencil asks the pen. Well, considering that I’m always lost when someone needs me, when they do put their grip on me and find me, I usually just drip all over their hands. -

And the wind has it by a nose

It's sunny out today and I didn't have any hopes to leave the house. Not due to lack of energy but mainly due to being tired and needing a few hours to decompress. I didn't make the trek to the campus library today hence the fact that I still have my pajamas on. Oh well, maybe I really need the day.

I'm looking forward to seeing my really great bestest friend mon A.mie. I'm super excited about it. I haven't seen her in at least 5 years or so. We met overseas in France, while studying abroad, and now she's is living on my coast and I'm really happy about our reunion. It should be good.

Today's realization

Firstly as I await a meeting with my school's librarian I have become to realize quite a few things about myself, the world, the youth of america, my fellow students and nature. (I know it seems like quite a lot for a short period of time but I figure well, why not think about substantial things instead of hohum redundant things like poor programming and ridiculous name calling...) Anyways in brief, below are the realizations in no particular order/

-while I drive, I often think of my mother. My thoughts stream of her while happy, cooking, discussing an important topic and stressing how important school and education is (specifically from Ms/HS/college)

-today's youth I feel have fallen into the grips of social media as if oxygen is being depleted on our planet. More traditional means of communication are lacking and this is in part as to why many areas of our society are "out of sync" or "lacking in morals. ethics. etc"

-somewhere, somehow ppl are becoming worse drivers. now I know what you're thinking, but maybe car crashes are down. that's the safety features and the increase of enhanced technologies in our motor vehicles, it makes henry ford proud. which then leads to....

- why are we so distracted these days? i mean aside from the apps, social programs, the updates and tweets and the statuses and poking and messaging that we encounter every nanosecond i often wonder, have we forgotten what it's like to look up? check out the clouds rolling by. see the leaves changing colors. the birds migrating south. the winds becoming crisper on our skin.


again.....it's just a thought.
have you had an original, uninterrupted one lately?

And on the Sabboth...

I resorted to be a couch potato, if only, for a split second. Okay, more like a day, but man, I enjoyed it. I watched some football and saw some of my favorite shows on tv and became one with the pizza I was eating. It was a nice day. :)

Knit 2 Sushi 1

Today I will have to consider a brain dead day. I'm not sure why considering I have so many things to do. Schoolwork mainly being one of them. I actually spent the day on the couch just me and my dysfunctional laptop. I so can't wait to I can buy a new one. Maybe one day. Right.

I really did though, spend the day watching news, watching crap tv and basically vegging out. I really shouldn't have. I should have been reading. But I didn't. I'll regret that later I'm sure.

I did have plans to meet up one of my knitting groups. I had a longstanding "we wanna go for sushi one day" agreements with one of my knitting friends. So we tried to meet up earlier but as my luck would have it, it's a long holiday weekend and apparently here, everyone was going somewhere RIGHT as I was trying to get some dinner. Oh well. Sushi ran late and I went to check in at the place to see if others had shown up. Luckily no one had so then I hopped into a Party City. I never shop there I didn't even know what to expect, but it's completely covered in Halloween stuff so it was almost a turn off. I browsed through anyways.

I got a call from a friend back home about going to a Halloween party. It got me thinking about a costumer, but I'm not committing to anything yet. I just can't.

Ideas for costumes:
Linda Richman from SNL
A creepy fortune teller
an Elf