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[crazycanuck]

Squeeeeeeeeeee Always nice to receive a message stating a paper was good. Find out the mark tues.

Studying for Tues' exam going well and glad i could listen to the lectures again!

Crankin-have 2yrs left & yes there are heaps o planning positions round western australia etc. I'm keeping an eye on these things but struggling to get early experience.

My dear's an HV power design dude/manager & is pretty much useful round the world-we're happy to venture off again! Won't consider the US/Canada as he won't make as much $$$$$$ as he does here.

back to studying.

[Zen]

It's only an hour a week, but $20 is $20!

You're sure right about that.
I'll go you one further and say $1 is $1!
I got a filet o fish and a big Dr. Pepper today for a dollar (coupons)

[Owlie]

Brilliant. Part of my bathroom ceiling just collapsed.

[Catrin]

....have 2yrs left & yes there are heaps o planning positions round western australia etc. I'm keeping an eye on these things but struggling to get early experience...

Planning? What kind of planning? I am a transportation planner myself...

[Crankin]

I missed this thread.

[OakLeaf]

Aw, Owlie, what next?! Things have got to turn up for you...

[crazycanuck]

It's not missing, it's alive!

Anywho..

Catrin, i'm just a second year planning student atm and there are gazillions of ideas of what I could do when i finish...

[Owlie]

Hopefully something good will happen this week--fingers crossed for that interview!

On the ceiling front, the maintenance people are going to come out and look at it today. (We just got a call.) The good news is that the ceiling mostly consists of those horrible institutional ceiling tiles, and it was a relatively small area, so it shouldn't be too bad. (It also looks like the people upstairs flooded their bathroom or something...)

I'm trying to look on the bright side about the grad school thing. Program-wise, the school that's interviewing me is a better fit, I think. The program that hasn't said anything (but I can guess) is also largely Chinese students, which tends to be something of a red flag. (On top of that, the lab I did my senior project in was entirely Chinese except for the one Korean guy. The post-doc, the professor, and the undergrads were the only native English speakers in it. It was...interesting. I'm not sure I could take four years of that.) That guaranteed stipend and insurance would have been nice, though. :|

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

I missed this thread.

Yeah, I hear you.
Dear So and So is a nice thread...but it's no TD.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Ok thread drift.....

I've started playing a wonderful but very challenging new bowed instrument, a tagelharpa.
Checked my two beehives this week during a brief warm spell- one very strong strong and active, the other is sadly dead. A new colony was already ordered for Spring though, just in case something like this happened. So they'll get installed into the deadout hive in April.
Work is hanging in there, with more jobs coming in than we expected considering the recession. Lucky!
The three kitties we had two years ago are now all passed on and we have two new adopted shelter kitties over the past year, both relatively young...Suki and Sheba. Lots of wild rumpus action around here.
and...enjoying the break from gardening while the snows fly! Pretty soon I'll order new veggie seeds.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

...and then there are those of us who remember OT:A (R.I.P.)

[Catrin]

It's not missing, it's alive!

Anywho..

Catrin, i'm just a second year planning student atm and there are gazillions of ideas of what I could do when i finish...

I actually didn't plan to get into planning, it just worked out that way after completing my Masters in human/social Geography I am, however, one of the tech people behind the scenes which is just how I like it

[Blueberry]

...and then there are those of us who remember OT:A (R.I.P.)

*sigh* I miss that one

[Crankin]

I am not sure I remember that one. Was it before 2005?

I am sick of school. I have senioritis at age 57. About 12 weeks left and I feel like quitting! Of course, taking neuroscience my last semester is not helping. Even though we don't need to know all the stuff in the book, it is humbling. And the thing is, I am really interested in how the brain affects behavior and all of the mental illnesses I treat.
I keep thinking that I signed up for this when I could be doing nothing? I love what I am doing, but the whole thing is wearing me down. I am sick of traveling into the city for class, even just 2 days a week.
OK, my rant is over.

[NbyNW]

I am sick of school.

Crankin, I hear ya.

Lately I really want to throttle all the well-meaning people who suggest maybe I should go back to school, since I'm having so much trouble finding a job in my current location. Especially for a program that would require me to relocate ("Maybe you should get an architecture degree." Like I can just go to the store and buy one. There is no architecture department within hundreds of miles of me, even if I wanted to, which I don't.).

I've got enough school. The problem may be that I have too much school. No, the problem is that I'm in a place that's wrong for me.

Meh. Enough about me.

Hang in there, you're almost done! It will be worth it.