Here’s an awesome article about weaning out your wardrobe – by the author of Three Black Skirts.
I feel strangely inspired to clean my closet and cosmetics area now. 
It is freakin’ 83 degrees today! Mother Nature is just going nuts. I bet the weather people didn’t believe it themselves. I have a feeling it won’t be around TOO long
Though it would be nice if there weren’t still ice on Lake George for my Scuba Certification test in a few weeks! (it’s enough there are ugly fish in there.. blech.. after I’m certified I’ll stay to the Carribean thank you!)
So many projects. I’m finally getting along in my Corporate Identity Graphic Standards Manual. It’s going to be so fancy; I think I’m going to have it printed and bound at Kinko’s. How glamorous!
It was warm today. No puffy coat for Carrie! Yahoo.
One of my professors said it was “ok” for your creativity to do drugs every once in awhile. This, of course, was extremely humorous – reminded me of my high school physics teacher who claimed he “didn’t remember much of college” (and yeah, he was an RPI Alum! haha).
I got my free GM week mug today. There was only one candidate for each of our class positions (alumni president, secretary, etc). Gee, those were some tough decisions… Our generation doesn’t seem to be into the whole politics thing in general.
I wrote an entry earlier, and my web server ate it or something. I don’t know WHAT happened. Anyhow, I’ve been racking my brain trying to find something to talk about without mentioning the following the snow on the ground or how much homework I have (I had to DO WORK on Saturday night! What’s up with that?).
We finally went on SCUBA on Sunday. Mildly exciting, though there’s not much to see in a pool except floating hairs and other disgusting particles I’d rather not think about. Breathing without a mask on isn’t nearly as scary as I thought it would be. Everyone goes on and on about how hard it is to take your mask off and put it back on under water, but nobody in our class had much trouble with it. I guess we just rock the hiz-ouse. We’re going to get done a week early, I think.
I’m not really anticipating our check-out dive in Lake George in early May, when it very well may be still SNOWING.. hopefully the lake will be un-frozen by then! Brr!! Maybe we can just take a quick trip to Florida for the check out. That would be hot (in more than one way!).
This week is GM week – election time at RPI. I forgot to vote in the primaries yesterday, so I don’t even get a free mug. Gosh darn it. Well, hopefully I’ll be able to go to the barbeque on Wednesday (I can catch the last 1/2 hour of it after work!). The rumor is that there is less work to do during GM week so you can participate in activities. The way professors get around this is that everything is due the week AFTER GM week. Isn’t that tricky?
I got 2 magazines over the weekend – Budget Living and Real Simple. I highly enjoy both of them. I seem to have grown out of my Cosmo period of life (Maxim, the male version of Cosmo is much more entertaining – gotta love when they talk about gadgets and beer! haha). Actually, I seem to have skipped it entirely – I never had a subscription to Cosmo, but rather Martha Stewart Living. I’m such a dork (I admit to being a Martha fan since age… 8 or 9.. quite sad really).
Martha was never really practical in her magazine though, and I find these two new ones are much more “real-life” (or at least, real life for 20s and 30s people that don’t have 3 houses in various areas of the country). So rock on. I’ll be getting subscriptions to those babies as soon as I have a permanent address of some sort. Yahoo!
We actually got scuba-ed up yesterday. The equipment is so heavy outside of the water… I had to carry my tank like a baby until Oak took it from me. I feel the whole suiting up process will go a bit easier when I don’t have a nasty black bleeding appendage. Haha
Things went much easier than I thought they would – for example, I thought breathing without a mask on was going to be really hard, but in reality – just don’t suck water into your nose and it’s all good.
It made me really tired! It didn’t seem that strenuous (except the hauling of equipment.. I even got out of that pretty easily! haha). I guess 4 hours of being in the water helped that, even if we weren’t swimming around the whole time.
When taking pictures of food, we have some lessons to learn. Ceramic animals defintely add a lot to a picture of a tasty meal, as well as other random props.
That site is hilarious, worth a laugh if not some food photography tips
The icicles I mentioned yesterday got really big overnight. Class today was cancelled. Yahooey! It’s very amusing watching the maintenance vehicles sliding around outside trying to salt our sidewalks.
….”Blokes can be crap at communicating at the best of times, and now you’re in a situation where you’re relying on him understanding hand signals that definitely aren’t in the manual. ”
This Guide has to be the funniest thing I’ve seen in awhile.
The lack of comments on here lately makes me begin to think I may have the second dullest weblog in the world. Sigh. Though that site is awesome.. go check it out.
Today, when walking to workstudy, I saw 2 different girls wearing pink sweatpants. At first I thought it was the same girl, then I realized that the bottoms of the first girl’s were all wet from the rain, and the second girl’s were not wet. College must be the only place where it is socially acceptable to wear sweatpants around in public. (Let alone the only place you could get away with sweatpants that said BOOTYLICIOUS across the butt, as one of them did)
I also saw cute little purple flowers poking out of the ground. Yet, there are still icicles on the lights outside my dorm room. We shall see whether spring is here to stay!
Today I spent my entire time at workstudy with course evaluation junk. I really question the usefullness of these fill-in-the-bubble evaulations for several reasons.
1. The questions on it are so NOT applicable. How many classes at RPI actually cause “increased appreciation of a fine art.” riiiighty-o.
2. The students that fill the course evaulations out are the ones that still come to class. In my experience, if a professor is that bad, usually most students just stop going, missing the opportunity to fill out a course evaluation.
3. There will always be students that fill out everything as “1s” no matter what.
You would not believe the processing that these dumb things go through. One would think “but those bubble things automate everything!” Not so much. Here’s the steps we have to take the evaluations through:
1. Create packets for professors with: the correct # of evaluations inside (counting 250 sheets of paper manually is no fun, let me tell you! why not be approximate?), a filled out faculty information sheet (I also filled out millions of bubbles with a pencil this morning), and an instruction sheet.
2. The easy part: students fill out the forms, which are returned to the department.
3. THEN! The fun part
4. Create labels and folders for each course. Sort evaluations from those with comments and those without.
5. Make 2 copies of evaluations with comments; place one copy with label inside folder.
6. The other copy is then analyzed as to who the comment pertains to, upon which the comments are then inserted in the appropriate employee’s file.
7. Then all the evaluations get filed in a locked cabinet, never to be looked at again.
So yeah.. RPI students, this is your fair warning that you’ll be getting course evaluations soon! yay.
