What's Up With College?

Color me baffled. I mean, honestly. I went to Keiser for two years and got my AS in website design. I'm three classes away from an AA to transfer into... well, god-knows-where, and I've been going to school for five years. Am I any closer to being a psychologist? Nope! The only way I'm closer is that I keep reading all of these case studies and buy textbooks from Barnes and Noble in an effort to try and stay ahead of the game.

Then, they rip you off (YES, I'm not afraid to say it: RIP YOU OFF) when you go to buy books. You pay through the damn nose for one stupid book that you're going to use for --at the MOST -- 12 weeks and then when you go to sell it back, you only get a little portion of what you paid for it... IF YOU'RE LUCKY... I have a pile that they won't buy back at all.

And these courses... damn! I love tossing my money in the garbage can. Yessiree! You have to take history or politics and a couple of math classes and three different english classes and health or a foreign language... blah, blah, blah.... WHY??? I'm never going to use American Literature, Intro to Politics, Algebra (three math courses, folks!), precalculus, or any of this other crap that is "necessary" for a transfer degree. It's nothing short of bull$hit.

So in my feeble effort to be the best damn psychologist I can possibly be, I keep reading case studies and textbooks NOT assigned to me so that when I finally DO get into the beef of my studies instead of this appetizer crap (you know, the bowl of dry, unbuttered bread they initially seat you with when you're starving for some REAL FOOD???), I'll already know most of what they're talking about and am familiar with it all. This way, I won't be struggling.

*Sigh*

So... yeah... that's that. I detest math.

On another note, very literally... I learned quite a bit about classical music today. My grandmother and I went to the 99-cent stuff store and I found a few CDs. I like classical music. Always have. Well, on this one Baby Professor CD, I learned that Alfred Hitchcock's theme is really Gounod's "Funeral March of a Marionette." Quite appropriate! I also learned, if you all have ever watched Looney Tunes, the dancing, singing frog (better known to today's crowd as the WB Network mascot) ... his song "Hello my baby, hello my honey, hello my ragtime girl" is actually Debussy's "Le Petit Negre."

So I learned something new while I'm stuck learning this torture everyone calls "precalculus."

Oh, in Couey trial news, they threw out his confession. Damn. But there's still more than enough evidence to nail his sleazy hide to the wall. I know I'll be watching Nancy Grace tonight. She'll have some words about this, I'm positive of that!

Justice For Jessie...and other such things...

I'm trying to get used to this format. I'm so used to my myspace format (http://www.myspace.com/forajandjessie) that this format is just... alien to me. I would like to thank Tim for unknowingly giving me lots of help with his 360 profile. He knows more than me and has been doing this yahoo thing for a lot longer than me, who just signed up here so I could post responses to his own blog. If you haven't had a chance to check his profile out, please do... his blog is great and SO honest. I love him to pieces!

Anyway, this is now the official blog for The Vixen's Lair. The one for my family and friends to know what all's going on in my life. I often don't have the time to respond to emails, especially right now while I'm on the job hunt and trying to get TVL launched. For whatever reason, I can't find the desire to work on much of anything. It's really getting on my last nerve here, because I have all of this downtime while I'm looking for work, I have all of this stuff to do... and none of it's getting done. Oh. Yeah. That's right... precalculus. The selfish SOB of a class that's taking all of my time. Nobody ever told me when I signed up for this class-from-hell that I would have to KNOW HOW TO USE A CALCULATOR THAT REQUIRED A DEGREE IN ROCKET SCIENCE. Stupid me! And then, my teacher and Mr. know-it-all classmate get on MY case. Well, whatever. I cannot wait until August for SOOO many reasons, and the END of this class from hell is one of them.

Aside from that, the John Evander Couey case is getting ready to start on July 10. In case you haven't heard of this sick FREAK (if you haven't, what cave have you been living in?), he stole a little girl by the name of Jessica Lunsford out of her home, sexually assaulted her, buried her alive and fled to Georgia. Meanwhile, three other people lived in this trailer with him (he failed to register as a sex offender), and they CLAIMED that they heard and saw nothing. PLEASE. Trailer walls are paper-thin. I can attest for that because I'm currently living in one. Not only that, but he CONFESSED. It's a big huge mess. I'm anxious to watch every minute of that trial just like I did the Carlie Brucia trial. I taped that one, and I'll tape this one too.

It's listening to and following cases like this that really get me wound up really bad.

Well, I guess that's all... I guess I'm going to head out and see what mischief I can get into... thanks for reading!

A Beginning

Just a quick "hi" and"What's up?" to anyone who might be looking!