November 2003 Archives

One of my fellow students sent me these links, interesting if not accurate.

Fight Club!


What movie Do you Belong in?(many different outcomes!)
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Which Founding Father Are You?

Morpheus


?? Which Of The Greek Gods Are You ??
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You are Form 3, Unicorn: The Innocent.

"And The Unicorn knew she wasn't meant to
go into the Dark Wood. Disregarding the advice
given to her by the spirits, Unicorn went
inside and bled silver blood.. For her
misdeed, the world knew evil."

Some examples of the Unicorn Form are Eve
(Christian) and Pandora (Greek).
The Unicorn is associated with the concept of
innocence, the number 3, and the element of
water.
Her sign is the twilight sun.

As a member of Form 3, you are a curious
individual. You are drawn to new things and
become fascinated with ideas you've never come
in contact with before. Some people may say
you are too nosey, but it's only because you
like getting to the bottom of things and
solving them. Unicorns are the best friends to
have because they are inquisitive.


Which Mythological Form Are You?
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Damn I'm a crappy writer. I'm almost done writing a paper on a Human Information Behavior (HIB) model that I've created for my LIS 510 class and it has been worse than pulling teeth. Ever since I was a kid I have always experienced excessive anxiety about writing papers. It would seem, as this blog is testament to, I have no problem writing simple narrative or fiction. I just get all fuggered up when I have to write about something I've researched. When I asked Stuart (the professor for whom I work as a research assistant) if he had any advice he first looked at me with a look on his face as tho he wanted to say 'You had better get over that quick kid as you have about 2 years of writing ahead of you!", but he didn't. He actually gave me quite good advice, to write what you know and the way you know how to speak. Don't get all caught up in the jargon and language of the IS discipline. Melinda said similar things (she's quite a good writer herself) and has been very supportive and I guess that makes the most sense so far.

I've talked with a couple of other students and it seems that a lot of them are in the same boat so that makes me feel a little bit better. In fact, whenever I'm feeling a little bit of grad school anxiety all I have to do is poll my fellow students to find out that I'm exactly where I should be.

Which is usually just barely keeping my head above water.

Hey, I got a mench in a fellow student's blog!

http://www.erinhawk.com/blog/archives/2003_11.html#000059

In the section I'm talking and I can't shut up

I'm such a dork.

. . .is boring. I wish I had time to redesign it but I'm just too busy w/school.

Slowly but surely I'm settling to the academic groove. I have a couple of assignments and papers under my belt and I'm beginning to remember what it's like to learn again. Some of the readings in the early core classes is wicked boring but I'm finding a way to plod through. My mother in-law Claudia, gave me a handout she got from a seminar she attended on 'reading more faster'. I gave it a try but it seems that some of their recommended methods of reading (i.e.:skipping over some of the smaller words and reading in word blocks) changes the meaning of the subject. A and or an or can make a big difference in a theoretical model.

Anyway, I'm avoiding some really dense readings on Human Information Behavior (HIB) models by writing this post, so I should really get back to that.

Hello to the 2 people that read this one every other month.