Last week was my first week not working. It was nice.
But today I started my Maymester class, but it's just online. It's already made me so angry that I seriously considered recreating a particular scene from Office Space. The class is called Special Education Programs and Practices. The first assignment was to download all this Java 1.4.2 crap and enable this and unblock that. What especially made me mad was that they required me to uninstall my google toolbar from explorer because it can "interfere" with WebCT, which is what online classes at UNT use. It took me one million hours and it has not a damn thing to do with teaching special ed., other than it made me feel like I have a severe learning disability when comprehending technology. I thought so many times today...I'm callin' MOE!! But, alas, I was a trooper and did it myself. I should be proud, but rather, I'm annoyed at the waste of my day.
I have a feeling that these next 3 weeks of online class are going to be dirty. Today was the first day I've not taken a shower in some time. And if I hadn't been out of all fruit and veggies and desperately needed to go to the store...I wouldn't have gotten out of my jammies. Maybe I should go shopping tomorrow for some new, cute, matching jammies at least...
Monday, May 16, 2005
Wednesday, May 11, 2005
I found this sticker on the MamaMeow.com site, just in case yall are wondering where to get such a fine item.
Friday, May 06, 2005
Thursday, May 05, 2005
Your Taste in Music: |
| 80's Pop: Highest Influence |
| 90's Hip Hop: Highest Influence |
| 80's Alternative: High Influence |
| 90's Pop: High Influence |
| Classic Rock: High Influence |
| Gangsta Rap: High Influence |
| Hair Bands: High Influence |
| Old School Hip Hop: High Influence |
| 80's R&B: Medium Influence |
| 80's Rock: Medium Influence |
| 90's Alternative: Medium Influence |
| 90's Rock: Medium Influence |
| Hip Hop: Medium Influence |
| Progressive Rock: Medium Influence |
| R&B: Medium Influence |
| 90's R&B: Low Influence |
| Adult Alternative: Low Influence |
Wednesday, May 04, 2005
Tuesday, May 03, 2005
I haven't really talked about this (The CDC is So Busted: Fat Stats Overblown 14x) because, well...I haven't really known what to say other than NO SHIT?!
I knew the "300,000 deaths due to being fat each year" stat was crap. I knew that the people in this country are terrified of being fat and many would rather be dead than fat. I knew that the weightloss industry is one of the most profitable industries in this country and someone has to keep scaring people to buy the diets. And that the diet industry almost always has a hand in the research that the media reports to encourage us to eat low-carb/low-fat/pills/surgeries/etc because that's big bucks. I also knew that something was going to have to break because one can only keep reporting a lie for so long...I mean, we all now know the world is round.
So today when Alexa Conomos reported the outdated statistic like 2 weeks after she reported the new statistic...I was miffed. So I wrote her this email:
Alexa,
Today you introduced the Accomplia story on the News at Midday and stated that it treats the "two" biggest killers in the US: obesity and smoking. That statement is wrong. Obesity is officially considered the #7 killer, behind car accidents and gun deaths. The CDC has recently recanted their exaggerated statistics due to them being completely false.
Here is a reference of this finding:
Excess Deaths Associated With Underweight, Overweight, and Obesity
Flegal et al. JAMA.2005; 293: 1861-1867.
There is also a lot of information gathered on the subject on the Big Fat Blog website:
http://www.bigfatblog.com/
Just thought that you would like to know so that you can report information more accurately!
____________
I know she probably won't write me back. But I just had to say something about her totally reporting something they know is wrong.
I knew the "300,000 deaths due to being fat each year" stat was crap. I knew that the people in this country are terrified of being fat and many would rather be dead than fat. I knew that the weightloss industry is one of the most profitable industries in this country and someone has to keep scaring people to buy the diets. And that the diet industry almost always has a hand in the research that the media reports to encourage us to eat low-carb/low-fat/pills/surgeries/etc because that's big bucks. I also knew that something was going to have to break because one can only keep reporting a lie for so long...I mean, we all now know the world is round.
So today when Alexa Conomos reported the outdated statistic like 2 weeks after she reported the new statistic...I was miffed. So I wrote her this email:
Alexa,
Today you introduced the Accomplia story on the News at Midday and stated that it treats the "two" biggest killers in the US: obesity and smoking. That statement is wrong. Obesity is officially considered the #7 killer, behind car accidents and gun deaths. The CDC has recently recanted their exaggerated statistics due to them being completely false.
Here is a reference of this finding:
Excess Deaths Associated With Underweight, Overweight, and Obesity
Flegal et al. JAMA.2005; 293: 1861-1867.
There is also a lot of information gathered on the subject on the Big Fat Blog website:
http://www.bigfatblog.com/
Just thought that you would like to know so that you can report information more accurately!
____________
I know she probably won't write me back. But I just had to say something about her totally reporting something they know is wrong.
Sunday, May 01, 2005
So while everyone is talking about if Jennifer Wilbanks should be charged or not...or why she did it....or if he will still marry her....I just wanta talk about the fact that I think she REALLY looks like Jennifer Beals, you know, from Flashdance and more recently The L Word. Striking.
