I'm getting a VideoPhone!  A D-Link i2eye, for a great price.  Might come by tomorrow!

Made it into the ITP! Just registered for classes, since the school finally fixed the system which kept giving everyone error messages. I'm taking Interpreting/Transliterating and Principles of Interpreting. Classes are Monday and Wednesday, 6:10pm-10pm. I excited, but nervous.

My friend, Spidey, got in (yay)! I only know of the results of a couple others - one didn't get in that should have, one got in that I was surprised about, and another got in that I expected.

I've got some issues about what's gonna happen. I'm going to be expected to get all of my internship hours, plus maintain a 2.5, at least, in my classes. And that's not easy. Last year's class started with 48 people...in 2 semesters they were down to 22...I would say, maybe 15-20 graduated. So........yeah.

Well, on a good note, this quiz I took had a good result considering all this!

Your Dominant Intelligence is Linguistic Intelligence

You are excellent with words and language. You explain yourself well. An elegant speaker, you can converse well with anyone on the fly. You are also good at remembering information and convincing someone of your point of view. A master of creative phrasing and unique words, you enjoy expanding your vocabulary. You would make a fantastic poet, journalist, writer, teacher, lawyer, politician, or translator.

1. What is your best friends Dads name?
Rob

2. What body part(s) do you hate?
Most of it

3. Have you ever been completely alone with a guy in his bedroom?
Alone? Um, well...usually not alone...^_~

4. Have you ever made out in a kitchen?
Yes

5. What body part do you wash first in the shower?
Hair

6. Do you have any piercings?
1 hole in each ear

7. Do you have any tattoos?
Turtle on leg coming soon!

8. Is your driveway steep?
Nope

9. Whats your favorite flavored Pringles?
Original

10. Have you ever been tied up?
No, but I like to tie people up

11. What was the worst thing you ever got grounded for?
My mom would try to say I was in trouble or grounded or w/e, but she'd never hold up to it - she'd forget and 10 mins later would be like, 'want to have a friend over?'

12. Have you ever had two dates in one night?
Depends on if you count going on a date more than one person at a time 2 dates or one...

13. How many times have you been cursed at?
Hah...like I can count that!

14. Which shoe do you put on first?
What ever shoe is closest at the time

15. Do you drink orange pop?
When I was little I loved it, now, not so much

16. Do you have a Facebook?
Yeah...I check that probably the most of them...and that's saying something

17. Have you ever had any friends with Benefits?
Heh.

18. If you have a Facebook, who wrote on your wall last?
Who knows...I haven't looked in way too long...*sheepish*

19. And the last wall you wrote on?
Again with the *sheepish*

20. Have you ever been cow-tipping or snipe-hunting?
Nature is bad...city is good...I don't date cousins

21. Who is the last person you usually think about before you fall asleep?
Um, usually characters from what ever story I've just read - typically male charas doing naughty things...

22. Have you ever had a song written about you?
My mom used to make up songs when I was a babe...does that count? Oh, but I do like the one with my name in it 'Jenny was a Lady;' it's a real oldie.

23. If you had to choose to not ever wash your bed sheets or your towel again, which would you pick?
Towel - at least you're clean each time you use it; but, frankly, I'd just buy a new cheap one, just like I do now when the towels are all dirty and I don't want to go to the laundromat

24. Have you ever found anything in your parents bedroom that was questionable?
I never had a typical household, but no, that wasn't something that happened to me

25. What was your childhood nickname?
Turtle, ladybug, anything else my mom used, and Zenn

26. When is the last time you played the air guitar?
Some time driving, I think

27. Have you ever peeked in the opposite sexs locker room?
Ha, I walked in once, but it was in middle school, so there was nothing to see...

28. What's the weirdest thing you have done while driving?
Hm...plenty of different things, but the most common is signing and fingerspelling

29. Paper or Plastic?
Plastic - I'm eco-unfriendly

30. How do you normally eat your Oreo cookies?
I try to avoid them, or I'll eat way way too many

31. Favorite piece of jewelry?
My gram's wedding set, that I keep in my jewelry box; but I like to wear other rings all the time

32. How many drinks does it take before you get drunk?
Apparently 1 Liquid Cocaine shot and 1 Long Island Iced Tea within 20 mins, without anything else in my stomach...

34. What was the best year of your life?
Best? That's a lot harder to think of than the worst...

35. Any strange phobias?
Wasps...germs...burning...foolishness

36. Have you ever stuck a foreign object up your nose?
Not that I remember...

37. Whens the last time you threw up?
Last year when I was given an antibiotic for a cold that turned into an infection, and the drug made me 10x worse - had to get another med to counter that one...pretty bad

38. Have you ever called your love interest by another girl/guys name?
Hah...only mine...hehe - if you don't get that, don't ask

39. Have you ever gotten caught sleeping while on a date?
Caught? No...

40. Have you ever played naked Twister?
Is that what they're calling it these days?

41. Have you ever been drunk at work/school?
Nope - only time I've been drunk was that one time at City Club...and that was more than enough for me...

First actual admission of a gay chara in HP.  Didn't expect it to be Albus.  LOL.

Anyway, I saw this funny thing online - people were supposed to send in their explanations of the first 5 books in 100 words or less.  This was my fav:

3) Emma Pearson, Nottingham
BOOK ONE:
Harry: :D
BOOK TWO:
Harry: :)
BOOK THREE:
Harry: :|
BOOK FOUR:
Harry: :/
BOOK FIVE:
Harry: :(
BOOK SIX:
Harry: :'

I get a kick out of that.  So, I decided to do my own version.  Here it is.

HP1    <(^).(^)>

HP2    <(o).(o)>

HP3    <(O).(O)>

HP4    <(#).(#)>;

HP5    <(\).(/)>;;

HP6    <(*).(*)>

HP7    <(^)_(^)>

XD.  I love HP.

Agh.

"Gravitation," the manga, is the weirdest story ever.

Giant panda robots.

Enough said.

Well now.  Damn drunk ducks.  <{*_*}>

Yeah.  I'm talking about fowl.  Mom and I went to Denny's for a really late/early snack.  Afterwards, we decided to drive for a bit, the fog was cool and we didn't want to head right home.  Keep in mind this is 5 in the morning.

We're driving down a dark highway, one of the old 55 mph ones, the old way to get to Flint before they put in the regular freeway.  We're just passing an old, abandoned theatre, that used to be a drive in when I was very young.  It's foggy, there are few lights, and I'm switching between bright and regular lights because of it.  Suddenly, I come around a curve, and I see something partly white in front of me.  I just have time to realize that it's a goose, standing up tall, neck raised high, WALKING down in the middle of my lane, all like, 'ooh, I'm gonna walk towards the light', before I veer to the left, barely missing the damn thing, the wind rushing by.  Mom grabs on to the handhold over in the passenger seat, and I, in disbelief, yell, "It's a goose!  A fucking goose, walking in the middle of the road!" as I try to put the car to rights, braking and sliding back into my lane.

5am.  Foggy.  Dark highway.  A walking goose.  Er, there's something weird about that, ain't there?  And, nope, there's no water around there, and besides, it's not nesting season.  So what the hell was it doing sauntering down the road, walking straight towards us?!  Argh!

I only have the weirdest stuff happen to me, I tell you.  Think about it, if you hear of someone barely missing hitting a goose, hell, any bird, with a car, don't you assume that it was flying?  Kinda the point of its wings, and all that.  You don't usually think that the damn beast was waddling, at 5am in the fog down a freeway.

<_<;

Guess what.  I received a call yesterday, well, Monday, from a Mrs. Clark from LCC's ITP program.  I called her back Tuesday.  I had no idea why I'd get a call from her, so I was obviously confused.

Well, when I got her, I found out that Mr. Greene, my professor for both classes I took over the summer, had gone to bat for me and asked that I be given the option to go into the program, even though my Sign to Voice grade was .5 lower than necessary.  Apparently, I would have probably made a 2.0 if I hadn't missed a few quizzes because of going to Wicked that Wednesday, and I had passed the screening.  So, Mr. Greene actually put me up for consideration, which they decided on, and I was offered the chance.  I now have to choose what to do.

What would happen if I choose to go into the program, is that I'd have to take the 2 classes that make up full time for the Fall semester, (those are mandatory and harder than past classes), then another semester retake Beginning Sign to Voice with a passing grade.  Overall, I'd have to take the program classes, which will be harder than before, as I mentioned, and I'd need to pass them with 2.5's at least.  I would also need to find time to take other classes including Intro to Deaf Culture (an entry level class, but needed for the program, that I didn't before have time for before), retake Sign to Voice, and a couple others as well.  But, I'd be in the program, and if I can pass the classes, then I'd be further on my way.  I'd have to work really, really hard on receptive things.  Receptive Fingerspelling is what has messed me up this far.  I'm fine with everything else, possibly above average even, but that has hindered me greatly.

My other option is to postpone going into the program for another year, like I mentioned I going to have to do before this happened.  I'd take Intro to Deaf Culture, retake Beginning Sign to Voice, and retake Fingerspelling for extra help, (which I don't absolutely need to do because I got .5 more than needed grade-wise, but it could only improve my worst receptive skill).  While talking to Mrs. Clark, she told me I could also take a Linguistics class, which is usually taken during the program, but if taken now, would keep my skill level moving up and be as though part of the program.  It is required in the program.  Then in the Spring, I'd take Sign 4, Advanced Fingerspelling, and another class similar to Linguistics.  Summer, I'd take Expressive Communication and Receptive Communication, (which are only offered in the summer).  I would then need to retake the Screening test, (which I'd definitely pass), and go into the program next Fall, concentrating only on the few main program classes.  The Linguistics stuff, which is usually done in the program, she said I could do even if she had to override the prerequisite requirement.  It'd be like I was in part of the program, even if I chose to wait.  Therefore, once in the program, I'd be further than most of the other students and have an easier time of it.

Both options have pros and cons.  Obviously Mr. Greene and the other Screen graders feel I deserve the chance to try the program and that I might be able to do it.  That makes me feel quite proud that they'd offer me something so rare, (they almost never make compromises like this, and there's no one else they'd consider this time for sure, and besides, they'd need a professor to push for it).  On the other hand, I know that I could use more work on my skills, and that any more time doing it would only greatly increase my skill, making me a very good interpreter.  If I go with the latter, I'd also not have to suffer a semester worrying constantly that I'd fail, nor risk the chance that I would.

I think I'm going to choose to remain out of the main program this year.  I will still be able to take the Linguistics.  And I already have it all planned out, (of course, without taking the Linguistics into account), because of assuming that'd be what I had to do.  Therefore, I would get another year of practice, meaning that next year I'll be one of the top students and will ace both the Screening and the program.  I just think this is the best plan, partly for my own frame of mind.  And sanity.

I'm still incredibly happy, though.  Now, I'm able to say, "I was offered the chance to be in the program, but I felt it was in my best interests to put it off."  Hell, I was offered something very rare and important.  Taking another year to get into the program is now my decision, instead of being forced to do it.  To someone like me, that makes all the difference.

I'm definitely gonna thank everyone involved.

This all is like something out of a made-for-TV drama.  My life could be a bestseller.  ^_^

Zenn