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Yeah, but why didn't Rachel call someone to help them herself?

Good point! It would have been better if they didn't force the cell phone in so that Larry could make that call at the end.

try the recipe that john's talking about. krista brought me some and it was really fucking good. i <3 me some spinach lasagna.

does anyone else bother with hotmail accounts anymore? i haven't been able to get into mine for days because of this new windows live thing. i did a google search and found lots of complaints from ppl who couldn't get into their email, and also this post:

Hello i live in Kenya and i just opened my windows live email I.D and i am loving it everyday

this shit is srsly annoying me though.

All my personal stuff is on Gmail now and spammy/ordering stuff is on Yahoo.

Ha, that prompted me to look at my email and I got a reminder that I had agreed to go to this tonight:

http://www.genart.org/event.view.htm?itemid=2145

I have too many friends still using hotmail. I finally convinced one to switch to gmail, and gmail prompty suspended his account for a few days because they thought he was a spambot for some reason. :(

my plate is full tonight, stew making, baby sitting, record release show going, beer drinking, regret making, etc.

who put the prompt in the prompty prompty prompt

what a weird word

mss (dpm)%

am i an evil person for only emailing my family from my hotmail spammy/ordering account, and leaving my personal gmail account non-family?

my mom does spam me with bs forwards though.

kevin, i hope you are scheduling the regret-making after the baby-sitting.

my mom is coming to town to make latkes tonight.

baby-making, regret-sitting

Enjoy that xp

kevin, i hope you are scheduling the regret-making after the baby-sitting.

yeah, i'm *hoping* i won't have to do the baby sitting as caring for an actual infant baby scares the living crap out of me. i told them they should just prop the kid up on a bar stool during soundcheck. they sell earplugs there, i don't know what the problem is.

The problem is that can she even hold her own head up yet? Actually she probably can, she's older than I originally thought.

they've got a car seat, strap that thing to a stool.

Baby is going to be posting here tomorrow bitching about tall people at shows.

They raise 'em right in Chicago.

I just ate a scone that didn't completely suck. This is a breakthrough.

a winner is you

apparently kids are still into ska? and have ska bands? i don't know if this is reassuring or worrying.

It gives them a reason to learn the trombone, I guess.

I like it when brass instruments stay relevant.

^^^i have very mixed feelings about this. although, one of our best trombone players started in ska.

good ska is good music, bad ska is bad music

pparently kids are still into ska? and have ska bands? i don't know if this is reassuring or worrying.

-- Jordan, Monday, December 10, 2007 2:36 PM (Monday, December 10, 2007 2:36 PM) Bookmark Link

that depends, is your retirement heavily tied to the porkpie hat industry?

AWESOME!!! I'm off the babysitting hook!

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41309FJKX6L._AA240_.jpg

YAY time for party!

getting references for grad school = ;_; x 1,000,000

i am going to get one from my boss, no biggy. but academic references are important. i am trying to get one from a prof. who i only had for one class, but it was psychology of religion, and my majors were psych and religion, and he gave me an A-. however, i sucked overall in psych so if he looks at my overall gpa for that major then i am screwed. meanwhile, only two of the religion profs i had are still teaching at w&m and i didn't do too impressively in either of their classes (one gave me a C+ and a B, other one gave me a C+ and a B-). i got good grades in other religion classes but none of those profs are there anymore, most are probably retired and i can't remember their names anyways because it was 7+ years ago. what was i doing in college?

i need two refs. for one school, so that's not too much of a problem, i can use my boss and hopefully the psych of religion prof. but the other school wants three references. for the third do i use a) a professor who won't remember me and who didn't give me very good grades or b) my boss from richmond

ugh

I don't know what I'm talking about, bbbbuut... Maybe it's ok to use the Richmond boss since you haven't been in school for so long?

i emailed one of the religion profs anyways, asking if i can send her my resume and update her on what i've been doing since graduation and we'll talk about a reference once she's had a chance to read it. if i feel like her reference will be no good i can just not use it.

now for a nap

maybe you should ask your mom

Argh, I really want to skip band practice tonight because I feel like shit but was told this Friday's show is too important. :(

Where is the next show?

Schubas. Label guy will be there.

Eep

I wouldn't think a prof being at the same school you graduated from is a requirement for using them as an academic reference? If that's the case I'm never ever going to be able to go to grad school because most of the profs I would ask for a reference have left MTU by now.

Oh man, I would hate to have to get refs for grad school. I've been out of school for 3 years and my last 2 semesters were trainwrecks. Right now though my boss likes me and I'm going to be enrolled in undergrad again, so I guess I have a second chance.

Nick, have you decided what you're going for? Did you say it and I missed it?

My finger hurts. I cut it on a stone crab claw last night and there is a flap of skin hanging off of it. So worth it, though nomnomnom.

Yeah, I have no idea what I would do either. I could do R1chard D4vis, and then maybe track down the one professor whose class I actually liked, participated in, and did okay in.

Where did you eat, Jesse?

What Dan said, unless Nick means that he can't track down the profs who have left or retired. (Although I would think the school might be able to help you with that.)

I ate at the restaurant where I work. Hunched over a stainless steel prep table in back. Have you had stone crab?? so YUM!

And so sharp!

There's a prof in the English department who was my advisor, my thesis advisor, and whom I took a couple of classes with, including freshman and senior seminar and an independent study. I've also kept in touch with her over the last few years, so she'd be the ideal candidate for a reference. After that, I imagine I would probably ask the chair of the English department, who's no longer there but who Google tells me is now at Cal State-Fullerton.

Both folks who'd be my first choices are now at UW-Milwaukee.

Well, I was stubborn enough that I don't have to come to rehearsal tonight after all. I hate shit like this, though. I don't like feeling like I have to defend how sick I am.