RHD Candidate FAIL

Day 6

3 out of 5 RHD Candidate interviews. He was good, could have been more professional but I think he was more genuine and authentic then candidate number 2. But sad news my number one choice dropped out of the running/withdrew his name for consideration for the position. It was sad news considering he was very personable and I thought was authentic. Well I guess that's life you never know what it'll through at you.

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Take Back The Night

Day 5

Today was a good day. Went to my advance statistics class and paid attention. It was still boring but I made sure to do my best to pay attention. Went to PHAT office hours and worked on BACCHUS conference material. Then went to work where I found out that my book final arrived! "The Secrets of Happiness: Three Thousand Years of Searching for the Good Life" the one book I was still missing for my senior seminar class for Psychology.

Today was Take Back The Night. Take Back the Night is designed to bring awareness and empowerment to individuals and to inspire action that will bring an end to violence against women. It was a very small turnout but a good one neither less.

This event is hard for me to take in at times because I feel so helpless. I think I am too emphatic at times and just try too much to relate to people and put myself in their shoes that I wish I could just take their pain away or take some of their burden. But then I have to realize that them telling their stories is empowering for them and that just me being there to support and listen to them is enough. That me not being there would be more harmful then being here.

To all those who are survivors of sexual assault there is hope and their is support. Your friends and family are there for you. Someone will be there for you.

Topsy-Turvy Tuesday

Day 4....not so much temptation today.

That could be due to the fact that I didn't get up till around 10:30 or so. Which was really good but that means that I didn't go to my Psychology Senior Seminar or my Chinese class. But given that I don't have the books for them and I would look stupid if I went. It makes sense to me but that could just be my lame ass way or trying to justify my choices. (I pray to God that my books come in tomorrow, please, please, please.)

But the day quickly picked up after that I had to go to a Residence Hall Director (RHD) Candidate interview. This was my second so far and there are 5 candidate, thus 3 are left. I will be making it to the third and fourth candidate interviews but unfortunately will not be able to make it to the fifth candidate interview. The first one I was really impressed with but this second candidate didn't really leave a mark on me. Her answers to the questions were very generic to what the university states as their mission. In addition, I felt she was giving us answer we wanted to here not what she really thought the answers would be.

After the interview, which only lasted an hour, I went to work where I had the 3-6pm shift. This wouldn't be bad but I had to train a new DA. For one part it's nice to have a new DA so I don't have to have desk horus and just have office horus but at the same time it takes time, effort and a lot of patience to train a new desk assistant. But my new worker seems very eager to work and seems to be learning fast.

Computer Labs: Temptation's Playground

Day 3 and temptation was there and she's a cruel mistress.

Monday's are a downer to begin with but I try to make them as happy as they can be consider they set the mood/tone for the rest of the week. Which I think is a very impressive feat for today was not a nice Monday. First trouble to going to sleep the night before and when I finally did I swear it felt like I slept for a couple minutes before my alarm went off at 7:45. Damn 8AM work meetings. At least I got a free breakfast out of the deal.

Well then I had to go class at 10AM. That's when temptation reared her ugly head. My 10AM class is in a computer class and you can probably see why this is a problem. Given that most of the class so far is just review my attention span was very short. Thus, I was surfing the web and checking my email. But one can only check one's email for so long. I went on Twitter but it's not the same as facebook in terms of photos, status changes, links and the list goes on. But that is one of the reasons I choose to get rid of my facebook.

I find it so troubling how easily it is engrained in me to just automatically go to facebook as my default seetting when I am online or bored on my computer. I think there could be other, more productive things that I can be doing when I am bored or when I need a break from studying. So the experiment continues......Day 3 down.....

Day 2: Jesus Died for Me So I Should Suck It Up

The temptation today was not as great as I anticipated. Even if the temptation is great I should remember that this day was the day the Jesus was resurrected. I mean if Jesus could go through a betrayal, trial, sentencing and consequently death I can resist the temptation for facebook......right??

Well I am human after all so if I get tempted it's okay I just can't act on it. DAMN easier said then done!

Day 2 and going strong. (I give myself Day 4 before I get the itchies for facebook).

Merry Easter

First, let me start with MERRY EASTER everyone. I hope today is a joyous day for Catholics and Protestants alike and for everyone else (Jews, Muslims, Atheists and Agnostics) that this day serves as a day of tolerance and understanding on behave of fellow brothers and sisters of Christ.

I maybe very spiritual in my believes but it doesn't mean I have to be intolerant of people of different religions then I but with that said....

It may be due to my lack of facebook but today I was a little peeved in the beginning of Mass, I tried to go early to get a seat considering it's Easter and it's always filled to capacity. Thus, I made my way to the Chapel around 10:30. Thinking that I would be half an hour early today I was assured a seat. WRONG. It was already filled and many of the wall spaces were already taken as well.

Got to love CEO Catholics. CEO=Christmas, Easter and Other holiday Catholics. A term I was just introduced to by my friend Kat. I know I am suppose to be loving and caring to my fellow man and all given that this is the day Christ was resurrected; but given that people who only go to Mass at most 2 times a year get to have a seat over someone who goes to Mass every Sunday is just a little irritating.

But I move on. Now to do homework. Ha, what irony celebrate the resurrection of the Lord but don't forget your obligations to our very materialistic and humanly world O.O

Facebook Addict!

So I am thinking I should approach my deactivating as sort of a rehab program. I think I facebook too much and at times get to the point that I stalk people. Oh, don't give me that look we've all "facebook stalked" before. I can see you all having a conversation with your friends about a cute guy you both knew or your friend dating someone new and both of you stare at each other and say, "Facebook it!" or "Facebook that shit" or some other variation of the phrase.

I think it gets harder for me to resist the urge to facebook stalk especially when I really likea guy then every friend request is a potential rival. I must see who this person is, where they go to school at, what's their major and/or job. Are they cuter than me? How do I compare to him? How did they meet? Does the guy I like secretly like him?

I think as our society slowly shifts to a age of more impersonal means of communication we slowly start to communicating with people face-to-face. We text message our feelings, facebook our thoughts, tweet our rants and at the end of the day we hang out with our friends and just assume they know what we share to the whole world. So if that notionis true them, we just go abou our lives thinking people should know and if they don't they're bad friends.

Let's be real though, that's not the case. Why should social networking media by the forms of means of communication that we base our whole information on? Why do I need to go on facebook to know what my roommate's favorite color is? To know what my friend Kiara's favorite book is? That Emma is working done at South Lake Union? If I have to look at facebook to remember things that clearly I am not investing much time into my friendships.

So goals of this little rehabiliation. 1) Find other outlets to keep in touch with friends, preferrable more personal types i.e. coffee dates, phone calls, etc., 2) Find security within myself so that I do not have to be a faceook stalker to maintain friendships/relationships, 3)When I do get back on facebook it'll be that I use it as an enhancement to keep in touch with friends and not a tool to channel my insecuriites through.

With that said Day 1 begins.....

I'm BACK!

I really do suck at this blogging thing at times but whatever. I am back. I think It'll be easier to blog this time around (though I saw that ALL the time). Recently I deactivated my facebook.

Yes, it does feel weird and I am tempted to get on it right now. Especially, considering that I am at work, I have finished catching up with Grey's Anatomy, have little time before I get off work to start watching a new episode of anything else, mail is done and I am fastly falling asleep.....(just as I was typing this I was interrupted by a resident asking for a package.)....so here I am bloggers back to the fray of things.

We'll see how long this last but maybe just maybe this time we'll be differnt.

I will post pictures of adventures and my thoughts of the day that goes on in my life. Why? Because I have no facebook to do that with, HA.