In news and announcments from the world of college, I needed to write a paper on a short story in my HUGE book "The Norton introduction To Literature" and I chose to write on Cathedrial (mainly because I wrote on it last semester and I thought that I could do it again without too much work (change the date, the class, and the teacher's name keep everything else the same). Well... there was one problem. I couldn't find my copy of the paper. I was a little stressed becasue this is an important part of my grade in this class, and so I was frantically searching through all of my files on the BYU server, my jump drives and everywhere else that I knew that it could be hiding and finally decided that I could not find it.
I decided to take a bit of a break to get my nerves about me, but then mid-break I realized something.... I POSTED THIS ON FATKID!!
http://fatkidsquared.blogspot.com/2007/11/disabled-cathedral.html
BAM!
FATKIDSQURAED SAVES THE DAY!
Thank you fatkidsquared, without you I'd have to write a 10 page paper all over again.
Monday, February 18, 2008
Sunday, February 17, 2008
If this ever comes up again, here's a coppy.
I threw this together quickly so there might be a few flaws in it, but it will at least give you a nice review of what the other 2 times said about this.
This is assuming that I stay in Provo for Spring Semester of 2008 and also Spring Semester of 2009Money I currently have:
Wells Fargo Account: $793
Ensign Account: $1200 (this is how much money you say that I have, but considering that I just payed rent from this account recently, it might be $300 less than this)
Total : $1993
Money that I will be able to get due to my job… At $8 an hour, with 18 hours a week, between now and the end of Spring semesterThat's 16 weeks at $144 a week for a total of $2304
Once I get home I will hopefully get a job that is at LEAST $8 an hour which would be 40 hours a week for 11 weeks which would equal roughly, $3520.
That puts a grand total of money that I'll be able to earn up to Fall Semester of 2009 to, $7,817.
During the following semesters (fall 2008, winter 2009, spring 2009) I'll go back to work at Namifiers and work the job that I currently have at $8 an hour for those following semesters which will equal, 45 weeks of work for about 16 hours a day, earning me $5760. That will mean that at the end of the spring semester of 2009, if I save every penny that I ever earn or currently have, not taking a single day of vacation for Thanksgiving, Christmas, or any other holiday, I'll have roughly, $13,577.
However, if I add in tithing to everything that I'll be earning, that'll reduce everything by, $1,159.
Also, if we take the super conservative route and say that I'll only be spending $25 a week on food, that reduces the total by $25 a week for 72 weeks which equals out to $1,800.
As for actually trying to live on . That means that if I only pay for food and tithing after all is said and done by the end of Spring semester 2009, I'll have $10,618.Now considering that I plan to take a day off every now and again in the next year of work, we'll be gracious and subtract 15 business days for being sick, wanting to visit home, or just wanting a day off to catch up with school work. That's roughly 5 hours a day that I won't be working at $8, so that puts things at about $600 that I'll not gain, dropping me to 10,018.
Sooner or later I would like to buy clothes. I'm wearing the same things that I wore back in 2004 and most of my clothes are starting to get old, very old. Considering that one shirt at a cheep price can cost me $20, and then a cheep pair of pants is only $30, if I'm only going to get me enough clothes to wear for a week, that's going to be seven shirts, seven pants, which totals out to $350. If we add in a pair of shoes, because shoes don't usually last 2 years, and also a complete new set of underwear (I'm running off of stuff from 2005 and in 2009 I would like some new ones) plus some socks as well (also on the old side right now) we can jump to a nice number of about $500.
This takes the total down from $10,018 to $9,518
Let's not forget taxes. We'll take the original total of $13,577 and do my taxes. Acording to the Internal Revenue Service's individual tax page, if I make that much money, then I'll be paying $1,659 in taxes. That drops me from the $9,518 to $7,859.
If we stay with this much money, I then need to pay tuition. Tuition for Fall of 2008, winter 2009, and then spring of 2009 I will be paying, $6,120 ($2,040 a semester) which drops me down to a total of only $1,739 to do anything I want with. So that means that in one year I only have $1,739 to take people out on dates, buy things that I want, or even go above and beyond with any of these examples of costs that I gave. Many of these examples that I gave above are very bare bones, more bare than what I am currently doing. If I was to run this financial plan, I would only have about $22 a week from here until the end of Spring 2009 to spend on dates, random costs of life, or anything else that comes my way. This is not enough. I could, if I really needed to run this program, but considering that I plan to buy things more than just the bare bone basics in things like clothing and food, I'll have even less than the $22 a week, it'll be around $20 or even $15 a week for personal costs and if I can avoid that level, I will. If this was my only option I could figure out a way to do it, but if I don't have to live at the poverty level of life, I'm not going to. As much as I like rice, ramen and beans for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, I'm going to try to avoid it as long as I can.
Now for the plan of if I stayed for only Fall and Winter of this year, and picked up for Fall, Winter, and Spring of 2008-2009.
Starting amount stays the same from the bank accounts: $1993, working until the end of the semester will get me $1024 and then I'll move to Vegas and get a full time job from the beginning of May to the beginning of September which would be 18 weeks. 18 weeks at 40 hours a week at only $8 a week adds up to be, $5,760. Once I get back to school the math is the same as the previous example where I'd earn $5,760 (you'll notice that one summer of full time work equals the same as 3 semesters of part time work). This would mean that by the end of the spring semester of 2009, I would have $14,537. However there is one flaw with this, even if I went back to my 'old' job at Sunrise pool that was only a teenagers job according to too many people, I'd be starting out at $9 an hour. Which increases the pay difference between one example to the next. The higher that I go above $8 an hour, the bigger the difference between the two examples will be. For example, if I work at $9 during the summer, in the first example, I would earn, $3,960 however if we followed the second example I would earn $6,480. That's only a dollar difference in hourly wages, however it is $2,520 difference in pay scale. If we were lucky enough to find a job at $10 an hour the wages are $4,440 and $7,200.
Another factor that we have to pay attention to is my current standing. Assuming that I would work the same hours at the same rate as next year, I am supposedly meant to earn, $4,096 (16 hours a week, at 8 an hour for 32 weeks). If this was true. I should have $4,096 in my bank account right now. If you look back to the top of this page, I only have $793. That's a big difference. I've been living bare bones. I've gone on almost no dates, I rarely if ever eat out, and I haven't bought myself anything else besides a new hoodie so I could stay warm but not overheated in my coat while at work. Given $600 has gone towards the laptop, which I hopefully will not need to buy again next year, but that still only puts me at $1,393. There's a big difference between what I SHOULD have and what I ACTUALLY have. There's actually a %34 difference between the two. That's a third of my income that I should have, that I don't.
In review.
If I go Spring 2008, even if you pay for everything that I do, I will not be able to generate enough income to finance Fall 2008, Winter 2009, and Spring 2009. The only way that I will be able to do this is to confine myself to the library eating only rice, ramen and beans with the AC/heating turned off, only living in my apartment as short as possible so I do not use electricity or utilities.
If I do not go Spring 2008, I will be able to pay for Fall 2008, Winter 2009, and Spring 2009. I won't be living in luxury, but I will be able to afford simple entertainment and more than just rice for dinner. If I miss this Spring semester, I will be able to go next spring semester.
This is assuming that I stay in Provo for Spring Semester of 2008 and also Spring Semester of 2009Money I currently have:
Wells Fargo Account: $793
Ensign Account: $1200 (this is how much money you say that I have, but considering that I just payed rent from this account recently, it might be $300 less than this)
Total : $1993
Money that I will be able to get due to my job… At $8 an hour, with 18 hours a week, between now and the end of Spring semesterThat's 16 weeks at $144 a week for a total of $2304
Once I get home I will hopefully get a job that is at LEAST $8 an hour which would be 40 hours a week for 11 weeks which would equal roughly, $3520.
That puts a grand total of money that I'll be able to earn up to Fall Semester of 2009 to, $7,817.
During the following semesters (fall 2008, winter 2009, spring 2009) I'll go back to work at Namifiers and work the job that I currently have at $8 an hour for those following semesters which will equal, 45 weeks of work for about 16 hours a day, earning me $5760. That will mean that at the end of the spring semester of 2009, if I save every penny that I ever earn or currently have, not taking a single day of vacation for Thanksgiving, Christmas, or any other holiday, I'll have roughly, $13,577.
However, if I add in tithing to everything that I'll be earning, that'll reduce everything by, $1,159.
Also, if we take the super conservative route and say that I'll only be spending $25 a week on food, that reduces the total by $25 a week for 72 weeks which equals out to $1,800.
As for actually trying to live on . That means that if I only pay for food and tithing after all is said and done by the end of Spring semester 2009, I'll have $10,618.Now considering that I plan to take a day off every now and again in the next year of work, we'll be gracious and subtract 15 business days for being sick, wanting to visit home, or just wanting a day off to catch up with school work. That's roughly 5 hours a day that I won't be working at $8, so that puts things at about $600 that I'll not gain, dropping me to 10,018.
Sooner or later I would like to buy clothes. I'm wearing the same things that I wore back in 2004 and most of my clothes are starting to get old, very old. Considering that one shirt at a cheep price can cost me $20, and then a cheep pair of pants is only $30, if I'm only going to get me enough clothes to wear for a week, that's going to be seven shirts, seven pants, which totals out to $350. If we add in a pair of shoes, because shoes don't usually last 2 years, and also a complete new set of underwear (I'm running off of stuff from 2005 and in 2009 I would like some new ones) plus some socks as well (also on the old side right now) we can jump to a nice number of about $500.
This takes the total down from $10,018 to $9,518
Let's not forget taxes. We'll take the original total of $13,577 and do my taxes. Acording to the Internal Revenue Service's individual tax page, if I make that much money, then I'll be paying $1,659 in taxes. That drops me from the $9,518 to $7,859.
If we stay with this much money, I then need to pay tuition. Tuition for Fall of 2008, winter 2009, and then spring of 2009 I will be paying, $6,120 ($2,040 a semester) which drops me down to a total of only $1,739 to do anything I want with. So that means that in one year I only have $1,739 to take people out on dates, buy things that I want, or even go above and beyond with any of these examples of costs that I gave. Many of these examples that I gave above are very bare bones, more bare than what I am currently doing. If I was to run this financial plan, I would only have about $22 a week from here until the end of Spring 2009 to spend on dates, random costs of life, or anything else that comes my way. This is not enough. I could, if I really needed to run this program, but considering that I plan to buy things more than just the bare bone basics in things like clothing and food, I'll have even less than the $22 a week, it'll be around $20 or even $15 a week for personal costs and if I can avoid that level, I will. If this was my only option I could figure out a way to do it, but if I don't have to live at the poverty level of life, I'm not going to. As much as I like rice, ramen and beans for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, I'm going to try to avoid it as long as I can.
Now for the plan of if I stayed for only Fall and Winter of this year, and picked up for Fall, Winter, and Spring of 2008-2009.
Starting amount stays the same from the bank accounts: $1993, working until the end of the semester will get me $1024 and then I'll move to Vegas and get a full time job from the beginning of May to the beginning of September which would be 18 weeks. 18 weeks at 40 hours a week at only $8 a week adds up to be, $5,760. Once I get back to school the math is the same as the previous example where I'd earn $5,760 (you'll notice that one summer of full time work equals the same as 3 semesters of part time work). This would mean that by the end of the spring semester of 2009, I would have $14,537. However there is one flaw with this, even if I went back to my 'old' job at Sunrise pool that was only a teenagers job according to too many people, I'd be starting out at $9 an hour. Which increases the pay difference between one example to the next. The higher that I go above $8 an hour, the bigger the difference between the two examples will be. For example, if I work at $9 during the summer, in the first example, I would earn, $3,960 however if we followed the second example I would earn $6,480. That's only a dollar difference in hourly wages, however it is $2,520 difference in pay scale. If we were lucky enough to find a job at $10 an hour the wages are $4,440 and $7,200.
Another factor that we have to pay attention to is my current standing. Assuming that I would work the same hours at the same rate as next year, I am supposedly meant to earn, $4,096 (16 hours a week, at 8 an hour for 32 weeks). If this was true. I should have $4,096 in my bank account right now. If you look back to the top of this page, I only have $793. That's a big difference. I've been living bare bones. I've gone on almost no dates, I rarely if ever eat out, and I haven't bought myself anything else besides a new hoodie so I could stay warm but not overheated in my coat while at work. Given $600 has gone towards the laptop, which I hopefully will not need to buy again next year, but that still only puts me at $1,393. There's a big difference between what I SHOULD have and what I ACTUALLY have. There's actually a %34 difference between the two. That's a third of my income that I should have, that I don't.
In review.
If I go Spring 2008, even if you pay for everything that I do, I will not be able to generate enough income to finance Fall 2008, Winter 2009, and Spring 2009. The only way that I will be able to do this is to confine myself to the library eating only rice, ramen and beans with the AC/heating turned off, only living in my apartment as short as possible so I do not use electricity or utilities.
If I do not go Spring 2008, I will be able to pay for Fall 2008, Winter 2009, and Spring 2009. I won't be living in luxury, but I will be able to afford simple entertainment and more than just rice for dinner. If I miss this Spring semester, I will be able to go next spring semester.
And now for your viewing pleasure
KATAMARI DAMACY!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgrnIBlxZCk
That was the intro, here's the game play...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwhFH75OCDs&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgrnIBlxZCk
That was the intro, here's the game play...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwhFH75OCDs&feature=related
Friday, February 15, 2008
Untitled
In English today we were given one line to write a poem from, that one line is, "The dog went to dancing school" and then told to write a poem in 8 minutes. My first instinct was to write a poem about how after dancing school the dog was forced to write a poem and then became a psycho killer dog that could have been a good dog had he not been forced to write a poem in 8 minutes, but I decided otherwise. . .
Now for my poem. . .
The dog went to dancing school
with his blind master
who was intent on learning the waltz.
Dancing is much harder
when you have six feet
to step on.
Pretty much I just took the normal aproach to poems. Write prose and hit enter whenever you feel like it.
I used my google skillz and looked up the actuall poem that she stole the first line from.
The dog went to dancing school. The dog's owner sniffed vials of Viennese air. One day the two heard the new Master of the Universe pass their door with a heavy step. After that, the man exchanged clothes with his dog. It was a dog on two legs, wearing a tuxedo, that they led to the edge of the common grave. As for the man, blind and deaf as he came to be, he still wags his tail at the approach of a stranger.
This guy is so lazy that he can't even hit the enter button at random points in his prose writing. This is supposedly 'prose poetry'. Doesn't that sort of counteract the two words? It's like saying that you know a person named Spencer who's smart. Or a person named Robert that is normal.
Give it a shot, write your poem tittled, "Untitled" (that's actually what the poet tittled his poem and so I decided to steal his title as well)
Now for my poem. . .
The dog went to dancing school
with his blind master
who was intent on learning the waltz.
Dancing is much harder
when you have six feet
to step on.
Pretty much I just took the normal aproach to poems. Write prose and hit enter whenever you feel like it.
I used my google skillz and looked up the actuall poem that she stole the first line from.
The dog went to dancing school. The dog's owner sniffed vials of Viennese air. One day the two heard the new Master of the Universe pass their door with a heavy step. After that, the man exchanged clothes with his dog. It was a dog on two legs, wearing a tuxedo, that they led to the edge of the common grave. As for the man, blind and deaf as he came to be, he still wags his tail at the approach of a stranger.
This guy is so lazy that he can't even hit the enter button at random points in his prose writing. This is supposedly 'prose poetry'. Doesn't that sort of counteract the two words? It's like saying that you know a person named Spencer who's smart. Or a person named Robert that is normal.
Give it a shot, write your poem tittled, "Untitled" (that's actually what the poet tittled his poem and so I decided to steal his title as well)
Thursday, February 14, 2008
Crazy Stalker...my analysis
I am gonna have some fun with this :)
DariasClone13 (8:42:57 PM): this reminds me of DJ Sammy's Heaven...love that song
isnt she cute, she is trying to say she might actually know what the heck you like
DariasClone13 (9:21:42 PM): what is your stance on tomatoes? I find that a lot of my friends don't like them.
WHAT IS YOUR STANCE!?!?! we dont have stances on food, we eat food, we dont comtemplate their exsistence.
DariasClone13 (9:27:11 PM): before braces, I used to eat them like apples
DariasClone13 (9:28:20 PM): I can't wait to be able to do that again....once the braces are over with.
She is killing me with this! braces, i'm gonna die laughing over here, now she is going to remain this image of a 14 yr old in my brain for the rest of this conversation, then asks you about her retainer, oh emm gee
DariasClone13 (9:42:42 PM): you can also turn the markers to have them touch as if they were kissing
Did you throw up here, because i did
DariasClone13 (9:50:40 PM): I think I recall having the conversation about boredom with you in high school.....I recall telling you that I think being bored is the worst thing in the world
This is it!! This is the moment that she has been holding on to since high school!! This is where she started the stalking...
DariasClone13 (10:16:31 PM): hey, did you ever go to any football games in high school?
Why? Thats all i have to say, how long ago did we graduate, and why do we care about football?
DariasClone13 (10:30:19 PM): I used to think after my laptop, it was my graphing calculator....but when it went missing for like a day, I found that I didn't need it and I like to do the math out by hand or mentally anyway....so I don't use my calculator as much anymore
I knew a kid who carried around a graphing calculator in high school and got beat up...alot...why does she think that you would want to know about her obsession with her calculator, AHHH!
Adrillf (10:35:50 PM): Why would I want something that couldn't help me?
Get away from you??? I know that was what you were thinking
DariasClone13 (11:21:13 PM): the question before....I hope it wasn't worded in a way that might imply that I would be angry if you wanted to keep those reasons to yourself....I was just asking, matter-of-factly, not b/c it would make me angry
She is going to be stressed about this all day today, did i make him mad? i hope he isnt mad at me! all because she asked a stupid question, oh fun
oh that was fun! I automatically feel better today :)
as for your lovely other post, WHOA! its like the thesis just jumped out and smacked you in the face, and the fact that it comes from home is even better, now its kinda impossible to ignore, sorry, there will definatley be a phone call about this later
DariasClone13 (8:42:57 PM): this reminds me of DJ Sammy's Heaven...love that song
isnt she cute, she is trying to say she might actually know what the heck you like
DariasClone13 (9:21:42 PM): what is your stance on tomatoes? I find that a lot of my friends don't like them.
WHAT IS YOUR STANCE!?!?! we dont have stances on food, we eat food, we dont comtemplate their exsistence.
DariasClone13 (9:27:11 PM): before braces, I used to eat them like apples
DariasClone13 (9:28:20 PM): I can't wait to be able to do that again....once the braces are over with.
She is killing me with this! braces, i'm gonna die laughing over here, now she is going to remain this image of a 14 yr old in my brain for the rest of this conversation, then asks you about her retainer, oh emm gee
DariasClone13 (9:42:42 PM): you can also turn the markers to have them touch as if they were kissing
Did you throw up here, because i did
DariasClone13 (9:50:40 PM): I think I recall having the conversation about boredom with you in high school.....I recall telling you that I think being bored is the worst thing in the world
This is it!! This is the moment that she has been holding on to since high school!! This is where she started the stalking...
DariasClone13 (10:16:31 PM): hey, did you ever go to any football games in high school?
Why? Thats all i have to say, how long ago did we graduate, and why do we care about football?
DariasClone13 (10:30:19 PM): I used to think after my laptop, it was my graphing calculator....but when it went missing for like a day, I found that I didn't need it and I like to do the math out by hand or mentally anyway....so I don't use my calculator as much anymore
I knew a kid who carried around a graphing calculator in high school and got beat up...alot...why does she think that you would want to know about her obsession with her calculator, AHHH!
Adrillf (10:35:50 PM): Why would I want something that couldn't help me?
Get away from you??? I know that was what you were thinking
DariasClone13 (11:21:13 PM): the question before....I hope it wasn't worded in a way that might imply that I would be angry if you wanted to keep those reasons to yourself....I was just asking, matter-of-factly, not b/c it would make me angry
She is going to be stressed about this all day today, did i make him mad? i hope he isnt mad at me! all because she asked a stupid question, oh fun
oh that was fun! I automatically feel better today :)
as for your lovely other post, WHOA! its like the thesis just jumped out and smacked you in the face, and the fact that it comes from home is even better, now its kinda impossible to ignore, sorry, there will definatley be a phone call about this later
A Place to Hang Out and Work on The Thesis
Think about the thesis, and then think about this dedicatory prayer of a certain place. . .
http://www.ldschurchtemples.com/lasvegas/prayer/
http://www.ldschurchtemples.com/lasvegas/prayer/
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