Yes, it’s been a month…

Yes, this semester is harder than it looks….

Yes, I’m posting this for my own self-reference because I have the memory of a bowl of jello.

Second Annual Haunted Stables Theatre!

(as if that place wasn’t creepy enough…eugh)

ODU’s Departmental Theatre Organization, The Starving Artist’s will bring you campus’s scariest activity for another Halloween season! To those who came last year, bring friends, and don’t tell them how many days it took you to recover! Watch out this year for a completely different experience with just as many thrills and chills to get you in the Halloween mood. Have carnivals and circuses ever given you a creepy feeling? Then STEP RIGHT UP!
This event is not recommended for anyone 13 years of age or younger.

This year we’ll have 2 full weekends, Thursday through Sunday night!
Thursday, October 23rd through Sunday, October 26th - 8:00pm to 10:30pm
Thursday, October 30th through Friday October 31st - 8:00pm to 10:30pm
Saturday, November 1st from 8:00pm to 9:30pm
Sunday November 2nd from 8:00 to 10:30pm

Please note: prices are $3.00 for students with valid ID and $5.00 for general admission.

Come see us at the Stables Theatre, campus’s oldest and most haunted building, on Monarch Way between 46th and 47th street…. if you dare!

Flu Vaccine Clinic!
(yaaaaayyyy~!)

Student Health Services is offering its annual Flu Vaccine Clinics on Tuesday, October 21st and Thursday, November 6th from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. The location of the Vaccine Clinic is in the Student Health Center, 1007 South Webb Center (behind the Food Court).

The cost: $18/students, $25 faculty/staff.

Payment can be made by check for faculty/staff. For students, payments can be billed to student accounts or Monarch Plus card.

You may fill out the attached consent form and bring it with you for even faster service!

Please visit our website for further information.

Please click here to print out the Flu Vaccine Information Sheet.

New on-line tutorial for Praxis I writing assessment on ODU.edu
(..cause professors don’t hound you enough about utilizing WTS……)

Attention ODU future educators - there is now a free on-line tutorial for the Praxis I writing exam. If you are planning on entering an “approved initial licensure teacher education program” at ODU and need assistance with the writing portion of the Praxis I exam, this tutorial is for you.

For more information contact Dr. Leigh L. Butler or Ms. Arminda Israel at 683-3348

Please go to www.odu.edu/tes. On the right hand side of the webpage you will see a box that says “announcements”…the 2nd item is the Praxis I Writing Tutorial Online - please click this item. You will be directed to the tutorial. Good luck! The other Praxis I titles will be available in the near future.

Annnnd….pay attention to student announcements for more info that I’ve left out due to being obliterated with assignments a procrastinator a student.

Three personal announcements…

1. I moved! I am no longer living in the swampartment. I’m high and dry down the street now, and there’s open wireless internet networks a-plenty! Not that I’m into that kind of thing… Anyway, there’s plenty of room for Mac to run wild with an oven mitt in his mouth. Good times.

2. GO TO BORJO AND BUY THE MOST HUMONGOUS HOT APPLE CIDER YOUR PENNIES CAN AFFORD RIGHT NOW! Being an October baby (I recently turned a quarter of a century old, go me), I am a downright connoisseur of autumnal yummies. Since it’s still early in the season for buying fresh apple cider (although Farm Fresh Market has $5 bags of variously-spiced mulling spices), and the Starbucks on campus…whats the word… oh, SUCK, I popped into Borjo and got a yum-yum hot apple cider on one of those crappy rainy days a couple weeks back. LET ME EXPLAIN TO YOU IN CAPS HOW DELICIOUS IT IS. There is an entire stick (bold and italicized for emphasis, here) of cinnamon RIGHT IN THE CUP! I don’t know what your heaven looks like, but I’m damn certain mine is a honey-brown and smells like fall came right up and kicked you in the mouth. AMAZING!

3. Finally, the second best part of this fall has definitely been catching new episodes of House MD on Tuesday nights at 9 on FOX HD. I watched the other four seasons in SD or on my laptop, and OHHHHH YEAHHHH Hugh Laurie is about 900% more handsome in high-def. Shiza. Definitely more win than watching the debates of not-as-handsome-by-any-comparison politicians that you can just catch on YouTube in the same gross quality.
(Man I miss being able to watch british parliament in session on TV as a kid. Definitely superior in content AND humour.)

One more note on being a House-keteer with a recent upgrade in age… I went to New York City. Here’s some pics, but HERE’S the one you WANT to see. Recognize that building? You know it. I’m also really glad I don’t have to walk around Princeton’s campus…holy confusing hotdog lampshades. New York, eh, caught up with an old friend, AND, spent a lot of cash on gifts for my fellow Japanese sufferers students and other cool stuff for myself.

That about wraps up my been-up-all-night-got-something-to-say post. Don’t expect any more 6 AM postings. I hope…

Student Announcements Text:

If you aren’t familiar with Post Secret, well, where have you been?! The original blog is a gallery of anonymously mailed postcards that reveal a secret. I’ve loved this idea for years, even sent in a few myself. Anonymous art and mail art are just fascinating to me, and if you’re at all interested in things like this, definitely check out the lecture on Thursday night. I’ll be there, you can sit next to me

Cheers,
Jini

(P.S. New York in 9 days! Wooo!)

According to Ishibashi-sensei on Monday, the first meeting for the fall semester of Nichi-Bei Club will be held in room 3070 (end of the hall) in BAL on Friday, September 11, 2008 at 2:00 pm.

This will be my first semester during which I have time to participate in Nichi-Bei, and from what I understand there are lots of interested Japanese exchange students and first year Japanese language students. Lets have a good year, and study Japanese together! ????????????????????????

…from HARD CORE STUDYING! WOOOOOO! Yeah, right…

(Actually if you’re looking for a good way to clean your MacBook, take a white staedtler, “Magic Rub”, or any brand vinyl eraser to it, and just rub away. Works really well all over the MacBook, even on the trackpad!)

Here’s a shot of Webb from today. Have you joined any clubs yet?

Today in ceramics we started our first wheel-thrown project. It’s kinda fun, since I’ve never done it before. My piece slid right off after I got it into a very nice cylinder, and I had to re-center it and basically form it all over again. That was kind of a pain, but the wheel is neat because it acts like a vertical lathe like you would use for wood carving. Gets pretty messy and slimy though, luckily this cat is an APRONCAT! Hah, inside joke there.

Here’s a small rant that most of you will disagree with:

I hate when class gets let out early! Arrrrg! Especially when it’s a studio class and you end up with two hours to burn. I popped into my digital art class at 11, and we were let out by 11:30! My next class isn’t even until 3pm! And even then I’m out at 4:15, and the National Art Educators Association meeting isn’t until 7:30! Maybe I’ll head to the Pottery Art Studio store on Kellam and buy some glazes and some less-rough clay…

I could pay for my parking pass, but my tags are expired and I plan to replace them, so I don’t want to have to go back to the parking office to change what my license plates are. Besides, the ladies that work in that office are, sorry, totally anal cranky whiny bitches. Now, some of you may call this a “pot and kettle” situation, but honestly…every single time I’ve gone into that office, I’ve come out pissed. It’s like Wal-Mart; you go in, knowing what you need, estimate about how long it will take to walk to that section, get it, and pay for it, but you end up wasting much longer than you anticipated and come out all frazzled because everyone in there treats you like dirt, from the kid ramming a cart into your knee to the cashier who’s too busy on her cellphone to ring up your bananas.</endrant>

(To all of my former English teachers, I’m very sorry for that run-on sentence.)

Well I feel stuffed for not bringing my DS today, so I guess I’m going to go find something to occupy my time. I also hear Ishibashi-sensei in her office and I should scram before she finds me and talks to me without my Japanese brain loaded. If you see me wandering around, feel free to point me in the direction of something cool.

Cheers,
Jini

Ok, so what if the announcement has been up for a week already, I just saw it! Check it out:

Old Dominion University: Built for the Modern Mind

That’s me in the pink tank and glasses at 1:01, 1:05 and 1:38.

Loldramaticprairiedogsmilewhoops.

I’ll post a review of my professors for the fall here after my next class. In the mean time I need to gather a portfolio! Oh crap!