Breakfast - Yogurt Lunch - Sandwich and Baked Ruffles Dinner - Salt/Vinegar Chips and a Twix (How Awful, vending machine dinner!)
Not much time to post (not that there ever is!), but I wanted to get on here for a second between classes just to post most recent weight and events.
Test results were HPV and I need to make an appt for a biopsy to be sure I don't have cervical cancer. I suppose while I am there, I should have this lump checked out. I think it's an ingrown hair, but it's rather large (under the skin) and I can't seem to see the offending hair. I am probably just concerned due to recent news, but one can never be too safe, right?
Dinner last night with Marilyn and Stacy - fun, as always. Next Thursday, go to see "Without a Paddle" with Marilyn, as Stacy will be out of town.
School is going very well, though my schedule is a bit overwhelming. I have some things to add, and I think I will do that at work tonight or tomorrow, as well as write more here. I have to get going, as at 2PM I have a notation assignment due for Music Theory, and I messed up my original sheet and had to print off staff paper to do it all over again. More later...
I am at work. Was able to knock out some scheduling issues. The people I work for are so amazing and flexible!!
Tomorrow night, I am going to see
Camelot with
Forrest. Got a great dress that I am looking forward to wearing.
I have met some really great people at school. I love that they all think I am in my 20's. (22 has been the highest guess so far... but this is from 17 year olds, they probably think 30 is death.)
I was listening to NPR today and there is this man who started a business called
"Homeboy Industries." It's a T shirt company, but they employ and train former gang members. They have a facility that will remove gang tatoos and then they help them find jobs with other companies. It was so interesting to listen to the changes in the people who come to him for help. He is actually a priest (I think), but refuses to force religion on the people in the program. He says that being close to God is living the ideas expressed by Jesus (he's obviously Christian), not pointing out those ideas to others. He said there is a Zen expression about how pointing to the moon doesn't bring you to it. All in all, I was impressed and moved by this man's work. It was hard for me to leave the car to go back to class, rather to do an assignment that was due in class a few hours later. When I am feeling disconnected from my Higher Power, something like this happens. I need these reminders when I get all wrapped up and overwhelmed by my school and work schedule.
Best of luck to Darren in his unpalatable task this weekend... he knows what I am talking about.
I hope Marilyn enjoys the movies with her new best friend, Clingy Girl, on Saturday.
As soon as I finish my schedule update, I will try to post it on the main page of my website. However, who knows when that may be, as I am working all weekend in addition to going to see Camelot.
I saw this on another person's blog, I wonder if it really was written by him:
Jimmy Carter: A Man of Character and Grace Writes to Zell
The text of a letter former President Carter sent to Zell Miller over the weekend ...
You seem to have forgotten that loyal Democrats elected you as mayor and as state senator. Loyal Democrats, including members of my family and me, elected you as lieutenant governor and as governor. It was a loyal Democrat, Lester Maddox, who assigned you to high positions in the state government when you were out of office. It was a loyal Democrat, Roy Barnes, who appointed you as U.S. Senator when you were out of office. By your historically unprecedented disloyalty, you have betrayed our trust.Great Georgia Democrats who served in the past, including Walter George, Richard Russell, Herman Talmadge, and Sam Nunn disagreed strongly with the policies of Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and me, but they remained loyal to the party in which they gained their public office. Other Democrats, because of philosophical differences or the race issue, like Bo Callaway and Strom Thurmond, at least had the decency to become Republicans.Everyone knows that you were chosen to speak at the Republican Convention because of your being a “Democrat,” and it’s quite possible that your rabid and mean-spirited speech damaged our party and paid the Republicans some transient dividends.Perhaps more troublesome of all is seeing you adopt an established and very effective Republican campaign technique of destroying the character of opponents by wild and false allegations. The Bush campaign’s personal attacks on the character of John McCain in South Carolina in 2000 was a vivid example. The claim that war hero Max Cleland was a disloyal American and an ally of Osama bin Laden should have given you pause, but you have joined in this ploy by your bizarre claims that another war hero, John Kerry, would not defend the security of our nation except with spitballs. This
is the same man whom you described previously as “one of this nation's authentic
heroes, one of this party's best-known and greatest leaders -- and a good friend.")I, myself, never claimed to have been a war hero, but I served in the navy from 1942 to 1953, and, as president, greatly strengthened our military forces and protected our nation and its interests in every way. I don’t believe this warrants your referring to me as a pacificist.Zell, I have known you for forty-two years and have, in the past, respected you as a trustworthy political leader and a personal friend. But now, there are many of us loyal Democrats who feel uncomfortable in seeing that you have chosen the rich over the poor, unilateral preemptive war over a strong nation united with others for peace, lies and obfuscation over the truth, and the political technique of personal character assassination as a way to win elections or to garner a few moments of applause. These are not the characteristics of great Democrats whose legacy you and I have inherited.
Jimmy Carter