Has anyone ever heard of that saying???? cuz i was a little taken back when a girl in my engineering group (and all my classes for that matter) said that to me the other day...

I was telling her how stressed i am with all of my projects and stuff, and how no matter how much tI'me i was spending on it all and all the work i was doing, it still felt like i wasn't getting anywhere

she said one of her grade school teachers told her that when she was little...

ok, so the answer is "a piece at a time" (and i know this is prolly gonna piss off some elephant lovers/non meat eaters, but it's just a saying, ok ;) )

so from this little... i don't even know what i would call it... i realized i needed to focus on one project at a time, and then once that was done with, i could move onto another.

however of course, just as parts of an elephant would go rotten if it just sits there too long and doestn get eaten, projects have due dates and other factors like group members...grrr. so after scheduling out my days, i have managed to put the head down for a few days (head is sr design... the building we've been working on all year) and have managed to ingest and fully digest 2 of the legs!!! got HVAC out of the way the other day with the help of another girl in my class, and then the past 2 days have been the lighting project (another group though) and we presented that this evening!!!
now i just have to start to nibble at the masonry project, oh... that's not a tasty one :( and then construction management, ahh, another group project...

but at least i have completed 2 of them!!! now only 3 to go, plus finals, plus rowing.... ahhhh, elephants are big animals!!!!

oh, and i had a job interview today!!! yeah, but i don't think it's much to get excited about... i mean it's a job, but not engineering, but it's dept of transportation "sun guide control center" something to do with transportation... but i don't know anything about transportation.... oh well... I've wasted enough time writing this... time to go study for an HVAC test I have tomorrow... eeek :(

and what's all this talk about snipping certain body parts??? i have never heard it being done to a woman, why on earth would anyone ever do that??? that just sounds absurd!!! oh well... people do strange things to their kids i guess... (it is just done as babies right?) ahhh, i don't want to think about it!

im out...

we have a new pope!

but why would anyone ever choose a name like "Benedict"??? especially since 15 other's had already choosen it (made that mistake), it just sounds like eggs...

and he had a cool name already, what's wrong with "Joe"???

Pope Joe ;) I like that better

it was necessary... i had to do it... i coudnt put it off any longetr... i needed a night of PROCRASTINATION and it felt GREAT!!!

i feel like I've been going non-stop forever...

i took the FE on Saturday... i didn't realize an 8 hour test would take up 12.5 hours of my day... not to mention drain the hell out of my brain as i sat there for through the second part of the test... just staring at the test booklet and playing Eni-meni-minni-mo for 4 hours... it was ridiculous, i think out of the 60 questions in the second part, i "knew" only about 5 of them... YIKES!!! well i don't get the results for a while so until i find out if i passed and am done or failed and will be taking it again in Oct, I'm just gonna forget all about it!!!

and Saturday night, Sunday all day (after practice) and today (the tI'me from when i got home from practice until it was due at 3:30) i have been working on that stupid senior design building project... i just want it to all be over with!!!! NOW!!!!

but i spent a good hour lunch break with jacks ranting back and forth about rowing and how we are both SO annoyed at everything in life right now

and rowing is killing me... I'm sucking SO bad right now... it's so sad, but i just can't wait till it's over... i never thought i'd say that, and i know once it's over I'll prolly be so sad and regret ever saying it, but there ya go, i can't wait till it's over!!! only 27 more days!!! then i can drink again too!!! ohhh, i could soo go for a drink right about now.

ok, so after i handed in what i had actually finished (not nearly all of it) i went to the athletic dept... i needed to talk to my coach. well jacks was there talking to hI'm at the tI'me!!! so the two if us pretty much blew up at hI'm letting out all of our frustration of what he's putting us through right now... (maybe I'll get into that later... not in the mood to right now)

then i went to dinner and saw yassi!!!! i love yassi!!! she's the sweetest girl in the world!!! and we had been talking about going dress shopping for our formal banquet in Clemson this weekend, but couldn't find tI'me for it... till i came up with my brilliant plan: when we are both totally overwhelmed with school work and the need for sleep, WE SHOULD PROCRASTINATE AND GO DRESS SHOPPING!!!!

SO WE DID!!! it was great to be doing something... anything other than school work and thinking!!! and we both succeeded!!! both got a dress to wear this weekend!!! (and I'm excited cuz i need it for my engineering senior banquet coming up in a few weeks too!!!) even better, i charged that to my mom's credit card... happy (late) birthday to me!!!

ahh, but now I'm soo tired, i could try to get some work done, cuz i know i have so much to do, but NOPE!!! I'm going to sleep ;)

hey, and anyone know of any architectural (structural or some civil) engineering internships in the buffalo area??? i need a job!!! and my locations are limited to Miami and buffalo...

ok, i had a realization the other day in class that i am totally screwed and going to have to practically kill myself in order to finish everything this semester.

first of all, i am stupid for signing up to take the stupid FE (fundamentals of engineering exam) for this spring... TOMORROW!! because it's a pass fail test... and after my practices and studying, passing doesn't look all that likely. but it's an 8 hour test!!! 8 hours which i don't have, not to mention all the hours i've spent studying for the stupid thing... ahhhh, and what pisses me off even more is the fact that im one of only 3 people in my class who are even taking it this spring (it's offered only twice a year) because everyone else is waiting until they have more time (like the fall or nest spring after they graduate) to actually study for it...WHY DIDNT I THINK OF THAT?????

ok, so aside from the FE, i have the due dates of 5 big projects coming up... only 1 of which i have even started yet... and that's the one i have been working on since august... and i want to kill 4 of the other 5 people in my group... since i know how to do the stuff i have gotten stuck doing plumbing and drainage in addition to all the other shit i already had to do with the stupid building...

the other projects are:
2) designing a HVAC system for my apt (and figuring out all the cooling loads and stuff... i don't know how to do that)
3) designing the lighting and electricity of my apt (but that's a group project... but the girls im working with don't do shit!!! go figure) (and yeah, i picked my apt again... don't have to go far to do the analysis ;) )
4) designing the structure system of a big masonry building for my masonry class... yeah... um....
5) cost analysis and all that bullshit for my senior design building (and yes... with the same bastards im working on senior design with... grrr)

ok, and then finals are coming up... ahhhhh!!!! it's still too soon to even think of that though....

and rowing!!! oh god ROWING!!!! i think i already f'd that up... the past 2 days at practice i totally lost my seat to mot just 1 person, but to 3 people!!! meaning if i want to get back in the boat, 3 people have to get really sick come time for the ACC championships... i know that's horrible to say, but ahhhh!!!! and another senior on the team who has been sucking worse than me even, burst into tears today about 3/4 through practice, slightly causing herself to hyperventilate... well deep down all i was thinking was thank God it was her not me, or even her before me... cuz once that happened and went on for a good 10 minutes, our coach had to send us in to the dock... we were out of time!!! no more pieces!!!!

so now that i have efficiently wasted a good bit of time writing this, i guess i need to get back to studying for that stupid test... :(

and (e:amanda), you know i love ya... but you may miss him, but how on earth would you have time for him right now??? well aside from all your "shots" hehehehehehe, my little alcoholic ;) i gave up on all that boy stuff for now... no time!!! :( but if im still here for the summer ;)

ahhh, that means i still have to find a job!!! ahhhh, why doesn't anyone want to hire me??? I'm not a total moron all the time... am i???

ahhh, now i really want a drink... STUPID STUPID DRY SEASON!!!!

may 15th can't come soon enough!!! ;)

if only something like this would happen to me, it would totally make my day!!!

so my friend Eric was walking home from dinner this evening when this guy (kinda older, really didn't look like a student) comes up to him and asks Eric if he smokes weed (and from the look of this guy, he's had his share of it)...

so in an attempt to get rid of the guy, Eric responds "no" and tries to walk away

(wrong answer) then the guy then stops Eric and asks him if he would take a pee test (drug test) for him for $5 because this man "really needed to get this job, but he wasn't going to be able to get it if he took the test"

now Eric, the nice, ethical boy he is, said no and continued to walk away... only to shortly after realize what had just happened, burst out laughing, and to immediately tell me when he got back to his apt...

i always share my stupid drug testing stories with him (and others), but his story totally beat mine to the ground...

i think that's hilarious... some random guy just asks him for some pee... i think he should have tried to bargain for more money. if the man was that desperate he would have found a way to pay it. what would have been even funnier was if Eric had been on crack or something... but no, none of that happened, but still... i just wish someone would ask me for my pee, i'd feel so honored!! ;)

maybe next time i have drug testing I'll go up to some random person i see and ask them if they'll pee in a cup in front of the drug test lady for me, so I wont get kicked off the team, hehehe... oh, and offer them $5 of course ;)

on a side note, my phone is in bad bad shape... parts were falling out of it today, the back keeps falling off and the battery keeps unlocking itself to the phone and it shuts off on me mid conversation... happened 3 times just last night while i was talking to (e:amanda) :( after 3 years with this one, i think it's finally time for a new phone :( and hopefully i wont drop the next one as much as i have with this one... the poor thing... i think i would stop working and start falling apart too if i was dropped that many times...