ubiquitouslyme

I had THE CRUD last week. THE CRUD consisted of stuffed sinuses, green junk in the nose and lungs, and a nice, hacking cough. It was bad. I was sorry to miss Chansons de Sacred Stone, the baronial business meeting and the canton business meeting, but you didn't want me there. Really. I missed a class Thursday and a meeting with the dean, with whom I had left a VM that I was sick and needed to cancel. She replied back saying she was scared to call me, as she was afraid she would catch it over the phone I sounded so bad.

So I basically lost a week there. I laid on the couch and played WoW.

Today was my first day back at RCCC. I had to help a student connect to blackboard and his email this morning - it took us an hour and change. Why this student has not yet had the mandatory computer class I do not know. You are supposed to have to take it the first or second semester you are there. I'm wondering if they are still testing you on this when you take your entrance tests. They were...

My boss wants me to crawl around and plug in some new calculators we got. She's less flexible than me, so I'm the plug / cord monkey.

Tonight I am in my Visual Basic class. I have had the Java class, and the eCommerce class, so this is just the same. Just different syntax. But, since I am taking this course out of order (I should have taken this one first), he is going much slower than I need. So I have some down time...

Which means I can update LJ!

It's been a busy week. I have a psych test tomorrow, on three chapters - intelligence, social psychology, and psych disorders (depression, schizophrenia, OCD, etc.). I was also drawn into going to a student government meeting the other day (free food and I was broke) and now I am running for Secretary/Treasurer for the 2006-2007 school year.

It's kind of a weird student government, because it covers both North and South Campus of a community college. Each campus should really have its own government, but not enough people are interested. And the SGA budget for the year is like $100,000. We don't have any sports teams but we are picking a mascot. And we have such a wide variety of age groups attending - since Pillowtex went out of business, all the people who worked in the factories are going back to school on someone else's nickel. I think we might actually have more people over 30 as students than the just-out-of-high-school crowd. But all the stuff the SGA does is geared towards the teenyboppers. Like hula hoop contests.

The SGA for the last big event this years, is spending $5000 to have some comedians come in. It just seems like a lot. I know people enjoy it. My suggestion, for next year, at one of the events hire masseuses (masseuseaux?) to come in and give free (to the students) shoulder rubs.

I don't know, I guess I am turning into an old fuddy-duddy...

In other news, the school has a Relay for Life team and I am on it. I will soon be setting up a webpage through the official website, so if you'd like, you may donate to our cause over the internet once I get the page set up. For those who don't know, Relay for Life raises money for cancer research, and we will be walking throughout the night at the Rowan County Fairgrounds.

Ok, enough talk for tonight...

Today was my first day at RCCC. It was fun! I think the Intro to computers class is going to be good, even though I know a lot about computers already. I like my English teacher, she's sort of a free spirit, and is really cool. She just got the news yesterday that she would be teaching our class, so we talked for a bit and would get more info Thursday...