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Dear Samantha:

Congratulations on your MS Degree! You are officially cleared for fall 200815 graduation!

Your transcripts will be updated by the Registrar's office by January 9th.  If there is no hold on your account, your diploma will be mailed via UPS to the address you indicated on your graduation application from January 14-20. A signature is required. All account holds must be resolved prior to the release of your diploma.

Congratulations again! Good luck in  your future endeavors!

Sincerely,
Cheryl

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I R A LIBBERRIAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I think when a professor ends up with two discussion threads full of students trying to understand a project that is freaking them out AND worth 25% of their grade, perhaps someone should 1) take a second look at the assignment and 2) give us another gorram week. We're supposed to be writing, or maybe editing, or doing something to a collection development policy AND writing up something about an underserved population for this policy. 7-10 pages but really half of them are written for you...maybe?

Ugh, forget it, it's not due until Sunday, I'm gonna stop stressing.

So, I thought my annotated bibliography project for INFO 893 was due this upcoming Friday.

It's due tomorrow.

AIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

*gets to work*

I just want to let you guys know that my new quarter for class just started. As usual, I am freaking out over how much I have to get done over the next 10 weeks. I will survive, but it is a lot of reading and writing.

Anyhoo, I am reading my flist every night because it is sort of my habit when I get home from work, but I might not post or reply as much as usual. But I am lurking. Just so ya know.

(and even though I know I will be eliminated immediately due to lack of time, I signed up for bsg_lims *shakes first at spitefairy* Come and join the party, if you wish).

WOO-HOO! I got into the Practicum course for next quarter so I can get credit for going to work (I'm sure I'll have to write a paper or something but still...woohoo!)

I also registered for Resources for Children and a course on Public Libraries.

This whole MLS thing is going much faster than I expected!

I am still here everyone! I know I've been pretty quiet this month. I'm trying to keep up with school work. I read my f-list every day though, so even if I don't comment, know I am reading about your exploits and such!

jimithingy and I celebrated the anniversary of our first official meeting/date on Saturday. According to our records, that means we've been together now for 7 years! Madness! He bought me some Tinkerbell earrings! Then we went out for sushi and came home and played Rock Band. Then we finished the day off with some Alton Brown-style hot wings and an episode of Battlestar Galactica (We're up to Epiphanies, and I've fallen in love with the show all over again).

Today, we saw 'Cloverfield' with Perri, Alan, Amy and Joe. I know I'm a little late to the party but DAMN what a MOVIE! I don't know if I could ever watch it again, it was so intense, but it was very well done. I am already leary of the "sequel" talk. I might post more thoughts on that at a later date.

I am now starting Week 5 of this quarter which means I'm halfway done. Yipes! Luckily, no real midterms, but the one discussion question for Systems Analysis looks ugly. I really hate that course and cannot wait for it to GO AWAY! And SCORE! they are offering the Young Adult Services course next quarter! I am SO signing up for that.

I'm so proud of myself - I actually have a bit of self restraint! Not a whole lot, mind you, but enough to come home, watch the hour and a half video of a lecture that was posted in the "readings" for 511, then reading the powerpoint lecturs for 503 AND responding to the discussion board for the above classes. Now all I have to for the rest of the week is the lecture/activity for 652 (web design) and respond to some posts on the discussion board. (okay, there was a 30 minute dinner break and an hour WoW break in there).

And sitting right in front of me? The brand new Buffy comic! At least when I read it now, I will feel like I've earned it! The new Radiohead CD arrived today too! Probably best to not listen to that while studying either.

I really have to get myself back into school mode. This week just caught me off guard. My posting might be a bit random for awhile.

In other non-me related news - the Dark Crystal sequel is going to be a direct-to-dvd release. Hmmm, worrisome. Thought they could surprise us!

*sigh* I should totally be working on my final projects for class right now.

but I'm not.

Just not feeling it at the moment. It was a long day at work, the boiler shut off again so we were freezing most of the morning. Then a very crazy afternoon, just very busy on top of trying to find the boiler repair people.

So, I'm going to work on my grant proposal and bibliography tomorrow. I promise.

jimithingy has a cold so he's already in bed, I've turned off a lot of the lights so they don't wake him up, so it feels much later than it is. I watched 'pushing daisies' and had a whopper w/ cheese for dinner. My tummy is harassing my about it now. A whopper is just too much food. :\ I should have gotten a jr but I was so hungry at the time, blinded my the smells of grease and fat. Ah well.

I think I'm going to play some Sims. Had one of my college graduates get married and have a kid on Wednesday (okay, first I accidentally killed his preggers wife, so I had to quit without saving so should could be not dead...second time's a charm!) so time to work on his class mates.

Turns out I should not do stats homework at 10:30 at night! Because my reading comprehension drops way down. I missed the whole sentence about how to make SPSS spit out percentages and gammas so a whole 3 charts of information were missing. So I'm less confused and more done with my homework now.

AND I managed to get rid of Sunday at the library, so I will be having a bonus Thanksgiving with jimithingy's family. Should be delicious.

Tomorrow: Edward II at the fancy new theatre. Last week, we saw 'Tamburlaine', which was 3 HOURS! I wouldn't have minded so much but it was an evening performance so I was sort of sleepy haha. Avery Brooks was very good, actually everyone was very good, but I'm not really a bit Histories person. 'Tamburlaine' never gets his comeuppance. He's a little bastard, who kills and betrays lots of people to become an even bigger jerkwad, ruling the world, and is finally challenged, which leads him to think that stabbing his own son is a good idea and before anyone can really get revenge, he has a heart attack and dies. Hm. 'Edward II' sounds a lot more nuanced and complex. (Reading the Wikipedia entry...I wonder if it is possible to find the production that Ian McKellan starred in....)

The new theatre is very snazzy. It's right across the street from the Verizon Center (was had to walk through a crowd of Springsteen fans to get there last week, who knows what will be going down on a Saturday afternoon). destertale asked me what was going to happen to the Lansburgh Theatre and as far as I know, they are going to keep it open! Right now they have 'Taming of the Shrew' extended through Nov 25th, something they couldn't do until now. And a couple more plays are scheduled there for the season too. They are also using the new theater to host all kinds of different events.

So, last week, I was freaking out because I couldn't figure out what courses to take next semester.

Today, I have too many! I was able to get the pre-req waived for two higher up courses, and now they just added the one course I really needed to take!

So, now (or, at least, before the semester starts) I must choose what to take. I'm going to take INFO 503 and INFO 511 - those are pre-reqs for every single course in the program, so I want to just get them out of the way! (Plus, I'm finishing up INFO 510 right now, which has the first part of a project that will be completed in INFO 511). But I have to choose one more course for this semester -- Cataloging and Classification OR Internet Info Resource Design.

I emailed the professor about the Internet course, since it said that a pre-req was "INFO 511 or equivalent HTML knowledge". I told him I knew most of the basic stuff, like creating links, posting images etc and he said that would already put me ahead of a lot of people so he would waive the pre-req. I think I'm leaning towards this course because Cataloging, while I'm interested, is going to be a lot of work...I can feel it.

Ah well, I have until January to figure it all out, right?