Kristie

La De Da

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 04:47:47 GMT

How convenient that I’ve find the inspiration to blog at 12:04am the night before my two writing assignments for Experiential Learning are due. But I figure if I don’t start now, I’ll never have this CP recorded. So here I am, sitting with my rubrics and writing about how I’m not writing about my volunteerism. Oh Kristie. Kristie, Kristie, Kristie

I’ve made a reservation for myself for tomorrow morning at 11 for Kona Café. I’m not yet sure whether I’ll be making or not.

So I just loaded my saved draft from lj, and noticed that I once intended to discuss Hernan. For a moment, I was drawing a blank, thinking, “Who‘s Hernan?!?” This is why you need to record your life, Kristie!

Jackibutson’s MK shift’s been extended till 3am. Just saying.

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 04:10:20 GMT

A man set a $5 tip is front of my today for making him a reservation!!! The first time I've ever been offered a tip... I wish I knew his name. When I wouldn't accept, he told me he'd buy me a lottery ticket and send any winnings to Shasta College, hahaha. <3

I'm not sure if I like stocking or I don't like stocking. People are weird.

Or being last guest or not being last guest.

At some point I need to discuss Hernan, LOL.

<3 pin trading

Giant Orange

Sun, 28 Dec 2008 08:05:18 GMT

Mom just said we'll likely go to the Giant Orange for breakfast. I've no clue what that is, but I'm told I've been there!

Naturally, I automatically pictured the Orange Stinger at DCA! :D

Mom says it's off I5, and I looked it up, and Joe's Giant Orange is in Lake Shasta. Anything named after an orange sounds good to me, but if it's not shaped like a giant orange, I'll be heartbroken. Really.

Hmm, or maybe it's like James and the Giant Peach!!

Sun, 21 Dec 2008 20:44:36 GMT

YEAR-2-THOUSAND-8, YEAR-2-0-0-8, WHICH?

This is gonna drive me crazy, haha. It's hard to do searches for years!

Also, it's raining! We're going to see Australia, so I'm really hoping it's good!

Roxy: sounds like a horrid movie
Roxy: based on what I know about it
Roxy: which is the title and 2 of the actors
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Update: Yay, I found something through searching for "year 2 thousand 8" on Lifeprint!

"When you sign numbers, you do them quite similar to the way you say them in English. For example: If you are signing "1997," you sign "19" then "97."... The jury is still out on years like 2000 and up. Most people seem to be doing the individual numbers while sliding the hand slightly to the right. For example showing a two-zero-zero-zero for the year 2000. So THAT is the way I recommend you sign the years 2000-2009. (BUT I have time and time again observed native Deaf ASL signers using the "thousand" sign as part of the sign for years 2000 and up.)"
http://www.lifeprint.com/asl101/pages-layout/numbersdiscussion.htm

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 05:45:33 GMT

I had fun last night at the social, and just thinking about is making me feel like I should be signing, haha. It's hard knowing I want be going to another social for several months!

Okay, back to studying, lol. Short bursts of LJ and FB will perhaps get me through studying. :D

ASL

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 07:39:36 GMT

Lab was a lot of fun tonight -- as it's meant to be!

We wore name tag necklaces backwards, so we each had the name of a famous person on our backs. We had to gesture to each other -- no signs! -- for 5 minutes to try and help each other guess our identities, and then we were allowed to sign.

I was Albert Einstein -- fitting, yeah? ;) Clearly, Yvette put lots of thought into the identity assignments. I guessed my identity with one gesture from Rox! She was Long John Silver -- again, lots of thought -- which was more difficult to get across. I was gesturing about eating chicken, and she later asked me if Long John Silver was a dog-eating pirate... but she did get it in the signing round! Yay for language.

Next, we got to make name tags ourselves and swap them with a classmate. I wrote Kermit the Frog on a name tag (&hearts) and when I was told to trade with Mike, I became Michael Jordan.

Cristy gestured to me about basketball, and I thought she was trying to guess her own! *facepalm* She was Fred Flinstone, so I thought she was misinterpreting what someone had told her about rocks. She immediately got her identity when I pretended to use a steering wheel and run. Before that idea, I'd no idea how to help her! Showing her that she was male like Kevin and wore a spotted dress with an uneven seam did not help the original confusion, haha.

Cheryl put her hands into paws and started hopping like a bunny to try to help Mike guess. Hmm.

Anyway, Rox got me to guess Michael Jordan when she pretended to play with a basketball and then pointed to her shoe, lol. Thanks Rox!

Roxy gave someone Walt Disney (and became John Wayne.) We are so predictable, at least to each other. We later overheard that they found that hard to communicate through gestures. Sounds fun to me, haha!

After class, my story group stayed late to practice Sleeping Beauty. It's still too long, but I think it's going to be great! Just got to work on my expression, I think.

I wish ASL class was like that more often! &hearts

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 22:33:22 GMT

Also, I have a roommate now! Her name's Jacki, and she's great!!! We've been talking online, and I'm super excited to meet her in person!

Wow, I cannot believe how close we are to moving in. It really doesn't feel like December! Well, it did seem to be much colder today!

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 22:23:22 GMT

Our group had to rehearse Sleeping Beauty in front of a Deaf woman the night before last. It went rather well, considering we hadn't practiced as a group yet. It's nice not having to perform a 5 minute story all alone. The woman says I could use just a little more expression, which is about the best feedback on my expression I can get, haha. We're really working on condensing our script now. We hit the 5 minute point at as we were about half-way through, and most of my lines are in the second half. How that happens when I should be sleeping, I'm not sure... I really need to look that script over before lab starts tonight.

ECE 2: Fairy Tales

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 05:17:55 GMT

Discussion Topic 2: What are the hidden messages in fairy tales? Pick a fairy tale (Cinderella, Hansel and Gretel, Little Red Riding Hood, Beauty and the Beast, etc.) and:

Analyze it for the portrayal of certain values - beauty, wealth, aggrressiveness, status
Analyze it for the portrayal of role - gender, ethnicity, age
Citing certain developmental abilities, discuss possible beneficial and/or harmful effects of fairy tales on children.

It's odd to go back and forth between this and the CP group. Luckily there's not too much Disney-bashing, and when there is, it's often aimed at fairy tales as a whole.

I'm writing about Beauty and the Beast. BatB isn't terribly harmful to children, right? :( Not in my post, it isn't!

This is going to be a very long post.

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 21:47:34 GMT

We went to a play at Riverfront tonight, and I was told I was too young for beer. I was trying to order a hot chocolate, and the woman was listing off my options: "soda, coffee, beer-- oh, well except for you, of course, as you're too young... er, you are too young, right?"

Ah, to be 20 again. Being underage prevented such discussions. :D But at least she hesitated!

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 22:07:43 GMT

It can be somewhat awkward to struggle to shut your gps system up as you ask OnStar for directions. I'm just saying.

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 01:40:40 GMT

I'm in! &hearts

Well, I found this out on Saturday the 8th, so it's not exactly news to me. Nonetheless, yay!!! It took exactly 30 days, yet I wasn't too bothered by the long wait. Hmm.

Isn't the acceptance packet thinner this year? When Dad handed it to me, I thought, 'it's not supposed to be this thin!' Last year, I'm pretty sure the folder was better, more like the $1-$2 ones you buy for school. This one's kinda flimsy. Not that I'm complaining ~~too much~~!

I got FSFB!!! I'm finding that getting 1st choice is an improvement over 4th choice, lol. Last year, I was all "...Wait, what? Attractions?!?" No regrets though; my job was brilliant. Hopefully this one will be too!