Monopoly money
Dear Monopoly money,
I wish you were real and all I had to do to afford a new mp3 player and a digital SLR camera was to hop over to Target, spend $10 and purchase the game. I’d roll the dice a few times to land and purchase Boardwalk and Park Place, plop down a few hotels and collect from whoever lands on them.
If you were real, I would not ever worry about my remaining college loan debt and other bills.
I know that you have had mindless letters like this one sent to you before, but consider my noble quest to afford art school in Italy.
Sincerely,
Tamara
permalink | Comment | aspirations | 05/20/2008
Refresh
I’ve never been more eager than to move on with my life than I have today. With the plethora of downfalls I have experienced starting from this morning to right now, I aspire to turn my life around and start anew.
Starting over is the way to go. Starting where is not as obvious. That’s the plan for this weekend. I’m going to RDU this Thursday in hopes of figuring out what to do and where to begin. This message is encryptic for a reason. But there are some clues that I will drop that has led me to this thesis.
After taking the third practices sets of the GRE this morning, I have plateaued in the verbal section while my quantitative score continues to sink. That’s really bad when I was a mathematics minor in college. My problem lies in probability. It’s the easiest math out there, but I only studied two weeks of it. I never truly enrolled in a prob class; the closest to it would be statistical methods, but that class involved more theory and less practice. So now, I’m studying something that many GRE practice study guides lack and I have to figure it out before test day on Nov. 11.
But I don’t look at this as a burden. This is more of a mean to improve my current situation and a way to prevent me from attacking people. Take that ETS!
permalink | Comment | aspirations | 10/11/2005
Improvement
I was studying the Verbal portion of the GRE today, and I thought that I would be in line for disappointment as I saw that I really didn’t know a lot of the words that were popping up in the analogies. As I traveled over to the Kaplan test site, I excepted to see my score be lower than the one I took two weeks ago. But it was 8 percentage points HIGHER! Gosh, I need to keep up the good work.
permalink | Comment [1] | aspirations | 09/23/2005
Smarts
Yesterday I started a tough regime of studying for the GRE. I am trying to commit myself into taking it so that I can applying to Georgia Tech for its information design graduate program next year in addition to the five other programs on my list.
I spent almost three hours at Books-A-Million (unfortunately, it’s the only bookstore here) finding the right study guide and software and configured a list of things to do in the meantime. I settled on one book for now so that I can get a grip on what my weaknesses are. Additions to this regime include signing up for the Webster’s Word of the Day (to expand my vocabulary) and returning to read books.
After taking a job that requires four hours of reading a day, I have abandoned my love of reading for pleasure. Yesterday, I finished half of Waiting for the Barbarians, one of at least five books that I will read before I take the test in November.
But according to the Diagnostic Quiz by Kaplan, I really, really, really need a lot of studying. I can’t help that I haven’t dealt with mathematics that involved actual numbers and geometry since 10th grade. I feel terrible that my minor in math was such a waste.
permalink | Comment | aspirations | 08/15/2005
Lepton
I wish to be more organized. The only thing in my life that has some sort of order was once my CD collection. but now two of them are missing. One I know I have seen within the last two months; the other hasn’t been seen in three years. It’s today that I realize that these are missing.
Disorganization is a disease. It’s not purely sloth or forgetfullness. I have never voluntarily clean my bedroom for decades. Given the fact that I’m only 25, it’s safe to say that it means never. While infected, I lost a roll of wrapping paper needed for a co-worker’s birthday present, my timecard, my grip with reality, pens, loose change and a CD cover.
If you know the cure for my disease, feel free to write a prescription because I’m pretty sure my insurance will cover it.
permalink | Comment [1] | aspirations | 07/17/2005
Shift
Some stuff that has happened over the past two weeks have made me shift my goals. I made the critical mistake of ignoring my usual warning signs that I am under a significant amount of stress, and while I have dealt with that, I have asked for help for months. My last cry amounted to everything escalating out of control and has set another round of problems that are unsolvable. I’ve been through much more difficult times than these and would only soak in them for a short time and maybe cry a lot. But now it’s ongoing over something that is so trivial in scale compared to what has happened in the past.
At this time, I think that I should shift my focuses in a new direction and work from there.
permalink | Comment | aspirations | 04/19/2005
'Tis the season
Merry Christmas, everyone! I give you all my holiday message a day early since I have to go to work tomorrow. It’s actually more fun than it sounds.
So, for Christmas, I wish for the following:
1) The men and women who are defended democracy, no matter what country they serve or where they are, are under the protection of God.
2) A Christmas Story will gain more fans this year.
3) Not so many snow days this winter (I don’t like to drive through snow).
4) More e-mails from people I haven’t heard from in YEARS.
5) More role reversals (this is on the family front).
6) Photo storage.
permalink | Comment | aspirations | 12/24/2004