So Dan is sort of looking to change positions. He likes where he is now, but the salary is a bit lacking, especially for the job he is doing and the area we are in. So I found him a couple of listings on Craig’s list (and he found a couple more), he worked last week some on his resume and cover letter and sent them out Sunday evening for one of the listings. So last night (Monday afternoon) he got an email responce back asking him in for an interview. So it looks like they like his resume, this means we need to get his jacket dry cleaned and find his nice slacks so he has something to wear for the interview.

He is probably going to send out a few more resume’s to a couple of the other places we found, but it was nice to see him get an interview within a day. The place that he has the interview at is about 5 minutes from the house, it is in our town and in our zip code as well (our town has 3 zip codes) so it is really close, which is nice. Hopefully it will work out and he’ll get a nice raise. He won’t mind staying where he is now, but he isn’t getting paid anywhere near enough to make that a viable option at the moment, so hopefully we’ll find something for him that he’ll enjoy doing and he’ll get a nice raise out of it too.

On my job front, my job working for his company is going fine. I am also going to be tutoring my Math Student starting at the end of August, which will be nice since that normally brings in between $20 and 40 a week, sometimes as much as 60, plus I really enjoy tutoring my tutoree she is a great person to hang out with and teach math too.

I’m still looking for a decent online University program as well, though I’m not looking to hard I should probably pick up the pace a bit, but I’m not really motivated at the moment. I would like to get my Bachlor’s so I’ll probably start looking again in a few week since when I find something I’m not starting before January anyways.

Other then that not much else is going on here, we leave in under a month now for our trip to Disney for our 5th aniversery. That will be nice, going to see my cousin and her new husband probably as well as a friend who lives in the area, should definately be entertaining.

Since I know everyone loves hearing about me learning Latin, and even if they don’t well it is my blog so if you are going to read it you are going to hear about me learning Latin so deal, here is an update on what’s I’ve been learning. I am now in chapter 2. It is going pretty well, though I slacked a bit last week or I would be working on chapter 3 by now. However, since I am teaching myself I can slack all I want. Anyways my biggest problem at the moment is that I don’t have an answer key, so I can’t tell if I am translating correctly, since Dan took 4 years or so of Latin in High School he is able to help some, but still it would be nice sometimes to have the key. Especially when I have to translate from English back into Latin. The Latin to English isn’t normally to bad, it is the reserve that I keep wondering if I am doing right or not.

Oh well, I like the Latin text I am using and it explains things fairly well especialy with adding in the workbook and a grammar type book someone wrote to go along with it. So I think I am doing decently except for the whole wishing I had an answer key.

So a couple of months ago (almost a year now I guess) I bought some books to start learning Latin. With uni and all I never really did much with them. So I have restarted my Latin study again. I’m most of the way through the first chapter at this point in time. Just one more thing to translate in the book and then some of the workbook exercises to do. I’m enjoying it and since it is a dead language if my pronounciation is a bit off it won’t hurt anyone which is nice. Hopefully I’ll have a decent handle on Latin by next year and then I can start on my next project which is learning ancient Greek.

Found the following here.

58% of the US adult population never reads another book after high school.

42% of college graduates never read another book.

80% of US families did not buy or read a book last year.

70% of US adults have not been in a bookstore in the last five years.

Source

This scares me. We go to the bookstore 2 or 3 times a month normally, though occationally we go 2 or 3 months without visiting a bookstore if finances are tight. However, we buy between 50 and 200 new books a year so even with the couple of months off we are still buying a ton of books. I can’t even imagine not ever reading another book? What would I do instead? Of course I don’t watch TV so I may have more time then your average American. Though I would think my computer time would take up some of that.

I do have to say if I don’t read at least 1 book a night I feel deprieved and there are days when I read 5 or 6 books in day. Just the thought of not reading another books gives me shivers. I just can’t imagine not going to the bookstore and picking up some new books and authors to imense myself in their world.

Okay so I was looking in the mirror today not something I do compulsively mind you, but I do glance at my reflection when washing my hands and such, or when doing my hair to go out somewhere (other then basic places, ie out with friends). So what do I notice but a white hair. Okay not a huge deal I occationally get a white hair or two, no problem just pull it out and it is gone.

Well normally that is all there is to it, until I noticed another one, and another one, and wait is that another one? I counted at least 40 white hairs tonight (okay I pulled out at least 40 white hairs tonight, maybe I am a bit vain, but damn it I am 28 no white hair till I’m at least 35). Where the heck did they all come from? I swear they were not there on Saturday when I actually spent time fixing my hair up decently (since we were going over to a friends house and all). In fact I am almost willing to swear they weren’t there yesterday, so overnight I suddenly ended up with over 40 white hairs, what is up with that? Anyone else ever have spontaneous overnight white hairs?

All I’m hoping is it is a one time thing and I’m not really going white, because dang it I am only 28 and then I would have to find a real hairdresser so I can dye it, because I refuse to have white hair at 28.

US citizenship test at MSN. I Did fairly well only missed 3 of the 20 and one of them was me being stupid. One of them was why would I know what INS form is needed to become a citizen, never something I’ve had to worry about. So yes I could pass the test and become a US Citizen. Overall I’m happy with my score. How did you do?

So I got around to updating my blog, it is now no longer Winter Themed. It is now Disney Themed (okay more Winnie the Pooh and Tigger then anything, but who’s counting?). This is in honor of our upcoming trip to Disney for our 5th Aniversery, we’ll be heading there August 14th so the theme will be good till fall or atleast till we get back. Enjoy and let me know if there are any problems with it.

Yes I am still living, I just haven’t gotten around to blogging for awhile. I did warn everyone when I started this blog that that could happen. I am still around, breathing and in good health. I should be posting more frequently I believe, so let’s see if it really happens.

Well I am thinking about dropping my Bachlor’s degree at University of Maryland. I am just not motivated at all, and I don’t think the classroom settings they have are working well for me. I do better in a smaller school I think, or possibly online. I think I am likely to end up withdrawing and trying to find some sort of online program so I can get my degree. Since I am just getting my degree in case I ever need it, not because I need it for a job it isn’t extremely important that I get it from a certain school or that I even get it.

It just doesn’t seem to be working at Maryland though, I am really unmotivated to go to my classes and do the work and i keep wondering what the point of it is, plus since it is a big University you don’t really get to know your teachers and you can tell they mostly care more about their research then the students.

Well I got to the Dean’s office today to drop Hebrew. Actually I first tried to drop it off the online system last week, but you can’t drop more then 4 hours at a time and it is a 6 hour class, so no go. So today I went in to see my advisior, talked to him and he told me I had to go to the Dean’s office in AV Williams. So after classes I headed over. Got over, filled out some forms and paperwork and talked to the Dean that was there, he was great and dropped me from Hebrew. He even back-dated the drop so it has me dropping it on January 24th before classes started, which means I should get a refund on the drop as well which will be nice. So Hebrew has been officially dropped.

Now to work on studying for my stat test and doing my linear algebra homework, yay homework…