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exhilaration(2 Points) Do I have any pets?: I have a peace plant in my living room named Romana. I water her about once a week. She came from the supermarket. I bought her when I first moved here. Does that count?
(1 Point) Am I married?: No. No, and no. Of course not.
(3 Points) What is/was my field of study?: Well, let's see here... there have been many. When I went to community I took mostly general courses. Funny enough, I had a GED and only attended high school for... about one year, total, and when I took my placement tests I did not get placed in any "remedial" classes. In fact, I tested out of composition and I tested out of any language requirements - I did actually take a third level Spanish class, which I thought was very interesting and definitely improved my Spanish hugely, but when I took the language test I had placed out of it. Let's see... I also had to repeat my college algebra class, which is also kind of funny because I took algebra in 8th grade and then had to repeat it in 9th grade. Since I never finished 9th grade, technically I took it again in 10th grade, so I got the beginning of algebra twice. Er, plus the time I had already taken it in 8th grade. So really I took algebra five times before I passed it, since I didn't pass it the first time in community either.
I swear, I really am very, very smart... I don't know what my problem with algebra was... oh wait, I have an idea - I don't really have an interest in math. I'm not one of those people who says, "I can't do math," it's just, of all my classes, that was the one I was least likely to put any effort into, because it seemed so boring. So... if I drew or wrote stories all through class, yeah, that would explain why I didn't learn anything. If I never did any of the homework and barely even did the classwork, didn't even show up to take the tests... yeah that would do it. And my first semester of community I took four classes, because I had been out of school for about five months and had all this "I can do it! I can do anything!" motivation when I registered, but honestly, I was taking on a little too much. I was working at the drugstore then, and I was still going to PT three times a week, too. I loved being at community, and I did work hard on my classes, but again, math was always what got pushed aside. If anything was going to be left undone, it was math.
I passed it the fifth time though :P And in university I did take a geometry class, which I was really apprehensive about, but it turned out to be incredibly easy. I was like, that was it? That's all of geometry? There isn't any more to it? Apparently not. And I heard the same thing about trig, that there really isn't much to it and it doesn't take long to learn. I am pretty sure I never took a trig class - if I did, it was a class I never went to and never finished. There have been a lot of those. So I don't know trig. I don't know statistics and I don't know calculus. I haven't missed them. And I am pretty sure I could finish my degree (in God knows what) without ever learning any of that. The whole education system is kinda... weird, isn't it?
I took some other cool classes in community, I took two art history classes, it was like a part one and part two survey class, and I thought for a while I wanted to be an art history major. I took a life drawing class through an exchange with another school, and I really enjoyed that one. I took a music theory class, which I wanted to like but it was actually really boring because I already knew all of it and testing out was not an option. I never got a chance to take more.
I thought for a while I wanted to be a language major, and be a translator and travel the world, so I took some Chinese classes, which I also really loved, but that also kinda fell through for me, for various reasons. I was also at the same time still studying art history and got to take some contemporary art classes as well, and somewhere in the midst of this I took a semester off (it was supposed to be indefinite at the time) and went to Africa, and then bounced around for a bit and ended up in Italy, where I took two classes as part of another exchange. I got really lucky with being able to do that - it really kind of fell in my lap, because I certainly didn't set it up from here.
Then, towards the end of my attempts at school I declared my major as education, and took a bunch of really interesting classes like developmental psych, history of education, a few methods classes, another psych class and a soc class and... ah, I did a paid internship in a high school as well. I am... eight credits away from a BS in education, or something close to that.
But things happen and... I never finished. And even then, I didn't know that I really truly wanted to be a teacher. The classes were really interesting, because it was all stuff I had never thought to study before, and my internship was definitely an experience. But... I hated school so much, I would kind of have little anxiety attacks when I thought about working in a school year after year after year... and then I had so many other issues hitting me all at once that I took a leave of absence for a semester, and that was pretty much the end of that.
Uh, I also tried to learn Arabic from Rosetta Stone. I did learn a lot, does that count?
(3 Points) Name something I collect: Come on. You know the answer to this one. I collect refrigerators. In fact, I just received another one. Someone was getting a new one and was like, Lara, don't you collect these, or something weird like that? Do you want this one? Really I collect old and vintage-style fridges, but one modern one won't hurt... Right. So now I have three big ones and a small one. That aren't in use. There is a small one in my kitchen down here that is in use, and there is a big one upstairs that is also in use.
That's it for now.
(1 Point) Am I married?: No. No, and no. Of course not.
(3 Points) What is/was my field of study?: Well, let's see here... there have been many. When I went to community I took mostly general courses. Funny enough, I had a GED and only attended high school for... about one year, total, and when I took my placement tests I did not get placed in any "remedial" classes. In fact, I tested out of composition and I tested out of any language requirements - I did actually take a third level Spanish class, which I thought was very interesting and definitely improved my Spanish hugely, but when I took the language test I had placed out of it. Let's see... I also had to repeat my college algebra class, which is also kind of funny because I took algebra in 8th grade and then had to repeat it in 9th grade. Since I never finished 9th grade, technically I took it again in 10th grade, so I got the beginning of algebra twice. Er, plus the time I had already taken it in 8th grade. So really I took algebra five times before I passed it, since I didn't pass it the first time in community either.
I swear, I really am very, very smart... I don't know what my problem with algebra was... oh wait, I have an idea - I don't really have an interest in math. I'm not one of those people who says, "I can't do math," it's just, of all my classes, that was the one I was least likely to put any effort into, because it seemed so boring. So... if I drew or wrote stories all through class, yeah, that would explain why I didn't learn anything. If I never did any of the homework and barely even did the classwork, didn't even show up to take the tests... yeah that would do it. And my first semester of community I took four classes, because I had been out of school for about five months and had all this "I can do it! I can do anything!" motivation when I registered, but honestly, I was taking on a little too much. I was working at the drugstore then, and I was still going to PT three times a week, too. I loved being at community, and I did work hard on my classes, but again, math was always what got pushed aside. If anything was going to be left undone, it was math.
I passed it the fifth time though :P And in university I did take a geometry class, which I was really apprehensive about, but it turned out to be incredibly easy. I was like, that was it? That's all of geometry? There isn't any more to it? Apparently not. And I heard the same thing about trig, that there really isn't much to it and it doesn't take long to learn. I am pretty sure I never took a trig class - if I did, it was a class I never went to and never finished. There have been a lot of those. So I don't know trig. I don't know statistics and I don't know calculus. I haven't missed them. And I am pretty sure I could finish my degree (in God knows what) without ever learning any of that. The whole education system is kinda... weird, isn't it?
I took some other cool classes in community, I took two art history classes, it was like a part one and part two survey class, and I thought for a while I wanted to be an art history major. I took a life drawing class through an exchange with another school, and I really enjoyed that one. I took a music theory class, which I wanted to like but it was actually really boring because I already knew all of it and testing out was not an option. I never got a chance to take more.
I thought for a while I wanted to be a language major, and be a translator and travel the world, so I took some Chinese classes, which I also really loved, but that also kinda fell through for me, for various reasons. I was also at the same time still studying art history and got to take some contemporary art classes as well, and somewhere in the midst of this I took a semester off (it was supposed to be indefinite at the time) and went to Africa, and then bounced around for a bit and ended up in Italy, where I took two classes as part of another exchange. I got really lucky with being able to do that - it really kind of fell in my lap, because I certainly didn't set it up from here.
Then, towards the end of my attempts at school I declared my major as education, and took a bunch of really interesting classes like developmental psych, history of education, a few methods classes, another psych class and a soc class and... ah, I did a paid internship in a high school as well. I am... eight credits away from a BS in education, or something close to that.
But things happen and... I never finished. And even then, I didn't know that I really truly wanted to be a teacher. The classes were really interesting, because it was all stuff I had never thought to study before, and my internship was definitely an experience. But... I hated school so much, I would kind of have little anxiety attacks when I thought about working in a school year after year after year... and then I had so many other issues hitting me all at once that I took a leave of absence for a semester, and that was pretty much the end of that.
Uh, I also tried to learn Arabic from Rosetta Stone. I did learn a lot, does that count?
(3 Points) Name something I collect: Come on. You know the answer to this one. I collect refrigerators. In fact, I just received another one. Someone was getting a new one and was like, Lara, don't you collect these, or something weird like that? Do you want this one? Really I collect old and vintage-style fridges, but one modern one won't hurt... Right. So now I have three big ones and a small one. That aren't in use. There is a small one in my kitchen down here that is in use, and there is a big one upstairs that is also in use.
That's it for now.
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Date: 2008-09-25 02:50 am (UTC):)
... You collect fridges? How many do you have? =p
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Date: 2008-09-25 03:26 am (UTC)One in the kitchen upstairs. One in my kitchen downstairs. Two in my bedroom. One in my spare room. Wait, that only makes five.
Ok then. I have five :P
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Date: 2008-09-25 03:27 am (UTC)