I supposedly am going to have a job where I will help people with computers. I am unsure how I will go about this, seeing as I know nothing about computers and seem to be incapable even of helping myself. Case in point: Yesterday I decided to download the Mozilla web browser on my computer. (I believed this to be a somewhat, vaguely computer geek thing to do, but this may not be true. Or maybe it would have been true had I done it a long time ago and now it is a completely passe thing in computer geek land. The point is I do not know. But maybe when I have a job where I am surrounded by computer geeks, I can meet and befriend some nice boys who will speak of nothing but such things, and then I will know such things.) Anyway, the downloading went okay, and this inspired me to make other changes to my computer. So I began doing things to my email. To make a long story short, the end result was that I deleted everything currently in the inbox in the place where I would like my email to be and moved it into my old and apparently useless version of Outlook, and it was only by luck that nothing else was lost and that I was able to stop this.

But before I really have to worry about knowing things about computers, I have this wonderful last semester in which to revel in doing little work of any kind. I have a new plan for my class schedule. In this plan, I have, officially, dropped the Jews in the Ancient World class I was taking pass/fail and am now, unofficially, auditing the course. This means that I am just showing up to the class and listening to what I want just because I want to, and I don't have to write any silly papers to prove that to anybody. Isn't that a lovely idea? This new plan also enables me to take German pass/fail, making all that tedious homework business unnecessary. So that leaves my business school classes as the only ones I am being graded for, and this includes the crazy seminar where we all do nothing and get As. Unfortunately, the other two classes have each decided to throw every possible kind of business school assignment they could think of into one semester. However, I think I will be able to manage this slight inconvenience.

Also, I would like to apologize to my marketing classes a little bit, because I think I have been complaining about them with some bitterness recently. I do not find marketing entirely uninteresting or useless. When I selected marketing as a major, I was genuinely interested in the idea of a career in marketing research or other analytical sorts of marketing things. And while I have often found my marketing classes to be much more about BS and silliness, sometimes they are not. I have so far found my pricing class quite tolerable. I think the professor is funny and, even more, his speech is intelligible.

And now I must enjoy another three day weekend.

- posted by Darcey @ 3:22 PM

 
Ryan seems to think I have to take this quiz right now. I am not entirely sure this is true, as my mind generally becomes blank and indecisive whenever I am asked to talk about myself. So I will put the questions below, but I will reserve the right to manipulate or sarcastically avoid them as I see fit, especially if they involve the word "favorite."

THREE NAMES YOU GO BY:
1. Darcey
2. George
3. pretty much just Darcey

THREE SCREEN NAMES YOU HAVE HAD:
1. chipitgeorge
2. daceyduck
3. screen name I covet: wraydar (see post below)

THREE THINGS YOU LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF:
1. definitely not my feet (see Ryan's blog)
2. I get good grades
3. I got a job

THREE THINGS YOU DON'T LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF:
1. utter lack of physical coordination and other basic skills
2. utter social ineptness
3. anxiety

THREE PARTS OF YOUR HERITAGE:
1. German
2. Irish
3. Hoosier

THREE THINGS THAT SCARE YOU:
1. airplanes
2. bugs
3. pretty much anything else you can think of

THREE OF YOUR EVERYDAY ESSENTIALS:
1. watch
2. socks
3. jeans

THREE THINGS YOU ARE WEARING RIGHT NOW:
1. watch
2. socks
3. jeans

THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE BANDS OR MUSICAL ARTISTS (at the moment):
I warned you about that "favorite" word. Instead, here are three CDs my aunt bought me the other day after I told her I was interested in getting some greatest hits CDs:
1. Billy Joel
2. Linda Ronstadt
3. Collective Soul

THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE SONGS (at the moment):
Again with the favorite. Here are the first songs on each of the CDs above:
1. Piano Man
2. You're No Good
3. Heavy (never heard of it, not sure Collective Soul, while a fine band, has enough "hits" to qualify for "greatest hits" CD)

THREE NEW THINGS YOU WANT TO TRY IN THE NEXT 12 MONTHS:
1. living in Wisconsin
2. owning a car
3. being a grown up

THREE THINGS YOU WANT IN A RELATIONSHIP
1. another person
2. comfort
3. happy fun and joy

TWO TRUTHS AND A LIE (in no particular order)
(Hint: Two of these things I had never done before today. One I do most everyday but have not yet done today.)
1. Today (Friday, a.k.a. Thursday night) I went to Steak n Shake at 3 am.
2. Today I swept my bedroom.
3. Today I watched television.

THREE THINGS ABOUT THE OPPOSITE SEX (or same) THAT APPEAL TO YOU:
1. sense of humor
2. intelligence
3. a little muscle, but not too much muscle, because that's gross

THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE HOBBIES:
1. reading
2. Spider Solitaire
3. sleeping

THREE THINGS YOU WANT TO DO REALLY BADLY RIGHT NOW:
1. have a warmer nose
2. never leave college
3. not be scared of airplanes (see above)

THREE CAREERS YOU'RE CONSIDERING:
1. successful technical services engineer
2. failed technical services engineer
3. mediocre technical services engineer

THREE PLACES YOU WANT TO GO ON VACATION:
1. beach
2. Europe
3. home

THREE KIDS NAMES:
1. Emma
2. Joseph
3. Ben

THREE THINGS YOU WANT TO DO BEFORE YOU DIE:
1. Get old
2. Have perfect, wonderful family
3. Have perfect, wonderful career and other perfect, wonderful stuff

THREE WAYS I AM STEREOTYPICALLY A BOY
1. endeavoring to become computer geek
2. enjoy eating a lot in one sitting
3. uncomfortable when someone cries

THREE WAYS I AM STEREOTYPICALLY A CHICK
1. dislike bugs and other gross things
2. generally weak and helpless
3. able to spend long periods of time looking in the mirror

TEN CELEBRITIES I'D TOTALLY DO (in no particular order)
Exercising right reserved at the beginning to manipulate question as I see fit, I choose instead to classify the people mentioned in Ryan's answer into the following categories:

People whose appearance is unfamiliar to me:
1. Peter Wingfield
7. Josh Turner
9. Gabriel Byrne

People who are old:
2. Clint Eastwood
5. Paul Newman
8. Al Pacino

Attractive people:
3. Johnny Depp
4. Jude Law
6. and, for lack of a better classification, Edward Norton

- posted by Darcey @ 3:57 PM

 
My Last Semester

I think I have my schedule worked out now, assuming the class I go to at 4 is not unbelievably horrible for any reason. I am learning German. Contrary to what Webstac says, German does not meet on Fridays. Therefore, for my last semester, I will finally be able to be a good b-school student and not have class on Friday! This sounds like a good schedule as I type it, but it does not seem that way so much when compared to my roommates' schedules, or lack thereof. So, anyway, German - I have not taken a foreign language in over four years. Apparently, nowadays, they involve online workbooks. Very advanced. Foreign languages at Wash U also seem to involve more work and much more class than they do at Lawrence Central High School, but I suppose that is to be expected. But it has been fun so far, though I keep having this strange desire to speak French in class whenever I need to say something that I don't know how to say in German (which right now is everything that doesn't begin with the phrases "My name is..." or "The man is wearing..."), because it doesn't seem like I should speak English. I suppose that will pass, seeing as I will be spending so much doing things in German.

I also have two tedious marketing classes, one of which is starting in a few minutes, and also the continuation of my silly b-school seminar from last semester. Yesterday he gave us back our "term papers" from last semester (ten pages of hasty, entirely Internet based "research," heavily relying on several highly reputable Wikipedia articles) and was telling us how he was reading them over Christmas. Note that this was after our grades (As) had been turned in. And this semester there doesn't even seem to be a paper. So that is a fine class. And then I am taking a class about Ancient Jewish history, which I hope to find interesting. But now, unfortunately, I must go learn about the wonder that is Pricing.

- posted by Darcey @ 2:35 PM

 
Weather Update

My family (along with, you know, everyone else in the state, but everyone else is not my concern) is not having good luck with the weather. After the record snow collapsed the roof on the piggies, the record rain has flooded the cows. Luckily, they have been able to get a boat ride to go and feed all the starving calves. (Also, as an update on the piggies, very few of them actually met their end in the roof incident, despite early estimates to the contrary.) I'm sure everyone reading this can really relate to the difficulties of feeding livestock. But in other serious family/weather-related news, the flooding down there plus the snow/ice up here prevented my grandmother from coming up and getting her hair done.

Also, speaking of getting hair done, I have used the gift certificate for a cut and color that my mother gave me for Christmas and had my first experience coloring my hair. However, as I was not really that excited about this experience, the hair stylist put in highlights that you can barely see and that didn't really cover the gray hairs my family was so very concerned about. The cut did look cute, when she spent 30+ minutes drying it, but since I have no intention of doing that, ever, assuming I even knew how, it now looks pretty much the same too.

I enjoy doing nothing. I enjoy reading for fun. I enjoy playing the Sims. I understand there is a new version of the Sims, but I do not have that. I am stuck playing the old one, where I am trying to have a baby, but Social Services keeps taking it away on grounds of neglect. Stupid little brat. It's amazing how fast time can go while you are doing nothing, and now there is only one week of doing nothing left.

- posted by Darcey @ 11:36 AM