I have a lot of stuff due this week. I guess I can complain about the instructor here. The complaining cook part of me is still here. We have two labs due on the syllabus though he hasn't talked about them yet. Our dietary lab is definitely due this week and then the test is on Thursday. The test had been pushed back from Tuesday but it wouldn't be wise to find out too late when he wants the labs turned in. Not the best sentence I know but you get the idea. The application to the program is due on the 28th. I still have to read chapter 24. Have fun kids.

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What a nice day. We were heading back to the shop at the end of the day.

From This Modern World, where I found it linked, and from AMERICAblog, from whence it was written, it seems that the White House allowed a gay hooker with little journalistic background to ask softball questions of the President and allowed him access to restricted information concerning a clandestine CIA operative. Tom is right, "yikes."

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The big excitement this morning is the snow.

Dad

I don't think that I have written about Dad. He was born in 1917 and lived 82 years until February 14th of '99. He married Mom in '38 or so, way before I was thought about. I am number 9 of 10 kids. I like this picture because it shows his calmness/groundedness I think. Two years after he left, Mom followed. This will be six years coming up. It seems longer to me because when Dad passed away I was still a cook in Florida and I hadn't returned home to Massachusetts yet. Now I'm trying to retool my self here in the Northwest and those other two periods in my life seem so distant now. If I have the stomach for it maybe I'll smoke one of your cigars tomorrow.

Are you an elitist?

Not that I have looked into the Seattle social scene myself, but in this Sunday's paper there is a story about "the infamous Seattle Freeze. It's the flip side of Seattle Nice. Welcome to Seattle . . . Now please go away." Being a Yankee is easy here because we tend to keep to ourselves. If you live here this article will ring true to a certain degree and it may make you smile because you have been there.

Hey internet, should I work as Bob's second, which means that I no longer have my own truck and route and less headaches, or continue doing what I am now? Boss-man is thinking beyond when I leave (a vote of confidence in my approval to the school program, right?) and he is trying to find someone to work with Bob. I wouldn't lose seniority (what there is there) and my pay would not suffer (I'm suffering with my pay now). I think I'll need the weekend to mull this one over. Boss-man was Jeckyll today and not Hyde, even after the water pump went out in the truck and he and the mechanic had to swap the truck out for another one. We never know.

"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."

Captain and Sylvester were bored with the super bowl. I get to get another hat.

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I went to the advising meeting (advisory meeting?) today and I hope I didn't pester them too much. I am glad to learn that I won't have to test out of math as I had planned. They'll accept my calculus from years ago. I don't have the specific multicultural sociology that they want but my political science degree and all the classes that went into it will help me out. When I drop off the application I'll give them my UMass transcript and they'll make the final decision then. What I need to do next is make appointments with two hospitals to do visits. They want me to see the job being done before I (try to) take the plunge.

I tried to treat this meeting as a pre-interview in order to make a good impression. I hope my questions and ramblings didn't put them off too much (or at all). The good thing I heard is that according to my grades I'll make it to the interview portion of the process. I confessed that I don't feel I interview well (part of my rambling) so Sally said that this is where the feedback from the hospital visits might come into play. I'll see how this works out.