2009

Can you believe it is 2009?  I mean really.  We are almost a decade past all the y2k stuff.  I remember very well when everybody was worried about all that and now looking back it's hard to believe it's been nine years since all that junk.  Wow.   In other news.  My new years was spent sick and working...great combination.  It was my parent's 21st anniversary so I do believe they had a nice evening together.  

Lately I have been working a lot and trying to get ready for the spring semester.  I went and registered the local community college for the four classes I am going to take there.  I am taking:

Composition and Literature II

Principles of Nutrition and Lab

Entrepreneurial Science

and Music Composition which will be online.

I was also going to take a Personal Health/Fitness Class and a History Class but I dropped those so I could do the AF ROTC program at UM.  I'm not too upset about the Personal Fitness class, but I am kinda bummed about the history class.  Oh well.  But anyways to register for this AF ROTC program my mom and I drove down to the campus today.  Which by the way is about 45 minutes away.  That will be a fun drive every week.  But anyways we started in admission because I really had no idea where to go.  We didn't think it would be very hard because I only wanted to take one one credit hour class through the intercollege program that Maryland has.  Well, apparently I was wrong.  Very wrong.  So we go down to admissions at about 11:00.   Ask them where to go and how to proceed.  The lady at the front desk (nice enough but totally clueless) didn't really know what to do of course so she goes and talk to somebody and is informed that she needs to talk to a certain gentleman at the college.  Well, she tried calling him but of course he had just left for a meeting.  Go figure.  Well, she said we could start by filling out a transfer application.  And she told me I was going to need an official transcript from Dallas Baptist University.  Well I have an official transcript with me so I didn't think it was going to be a problem.  But when I showed it to her she saw that wasn't in a SEALED envelope and I thought she was going to throw a fit. I thought she had to be joking.  They were going to make me resend off for a new transcript in a sealed envelope so I could take one class and get one hour worth of credit.  Turned out we didn't even need the transcript after all.  But anyways I still had to fill out the transfer application.  Now this is not some short one page application.  This is a 6 page application.  And from the application I thought they were going to need my ACT scores and me to write a 500 word essay.  All for one credit hour.  What really blows is I was already accepted to the community college and so since this is an intercollege program you would think this whole having to do two application thing wouldn't be an issue but apparently it is.  So anyways...they didn't ask for the ACT score, the essay or the $55 application fee (I'm hoping I don't get a notice in the mail that I need to send them $55 dollars, but we'll have to see on that one.  I gave the lady at the front desk the application and then we had to wait while someone that could enter into the system came and got it and then we had to wait while she put it in the computer system.  They call me back up to the desk and tell me I am good to go register for my class.  By this time it is 1:00.  Did I mention that I was supposed to be at work at 3:00?  So we go upstairs to registration.  The lady at that desk looks me up in the system and was like have you taken the college orientation yet.  I was like ummm...no.   She explained well you can't register for classes until you have done the orientation unless you have special permission.  She gave me a phone number to call so that I could either set up a time to do orientation or get permission to skip it.  I call the number and ask if they could give me permission to skip the orientation and they inform me that each department of the college does their own orientation and so I would have to gain permission from the ROTC department before I could register for classes.  I couldn't go to orientation because it was on the 23rd of January and classes at the community college start on the 21st and I have a class at that tine. Well I didn't happen to have the ROTC number on me so we decided to walk to the ROTC office.  It was very windy and cold outside and UM is not a small campus.  Finally, we reached the office and SANITY.  They finally knew what they were talking about.  The lady at the office a Captain Carlsen gave me the name of a lady in the registration office that could help me register for that class.  Turns out that will be my professor as well so I'm thinking her class is going to be great because she seemed like a really nice lady.   But anyways.  It's like 1:30 or a little bit later by this time so we don't have time to walk over to the registration building again.  So we have to go back over there and register for classes.  But hopefully this time it will go a little bit smoother.   Oh, and all the parking at UM costs.  There is no like free visitor parking or anything.   I don't they should make prospective students pay to park at their school.  But that's just my opinion.  But other than that UM is a beautiful campus even in the winter and there are so many huge sport complexes it is insane.  But the whole hassle with nobody in admissions and registration not knowing what in the world they were talking about kinda diluted any aspirations I had of going there as a full-time student.  

We stopped and got Subway on the way home becuase lately I've been on a Subway kick.  By the way if you haven't had the prime rib sandwich from Subway it is amazing.  I recommend it on the Italian Herb and Cheese bread with provolone cheese and whatever vegetables you like.  It's delish!  Lol.

I did make it to work on time and that went well.  Even though it was about an 8-hour shift which usually gets long and boring.  It actually wasn't too bad.  We have about 6 new people that we've hired since I left and so far they all seem like they are pretty good.  The interesting part of work was during closing.  Two guys came to clean some of the parts in the kitchen and they took the parts and put them outside in the drive-thru lane to clean them.  Well, a customer that didn't know we were closed went thru the the drive-thru lane and ran over these long metal parts.  This bent them all up.  And the company that is cleaning them was saying they weren't going to pay for it even though they should have kept the parts in the store and cleaned them there to begin with.  So we had to call the operator and the operator had to talk to the guys.  I don't know what the final resolution was, but I do know that we have to have those parts in full operation before we can run the fryers tomorrow morning at 5:30. Hmmm.....I wonder what will happen.  So when I was walking out to my car I saw the parts still sitting in the drive-thru lane because the guys still hadn't bothered to move them.  And two of the parts were completely bent out of shape and the other one was severly damaged.  So yeah.  And then the guys took some more of the parts out of the kitchen and put them in the drive-thru as well.  It's like really...are you thinking this thru?  Those parts just go ran over and you are going to put more of the parts in the same place.   But anyways I've probably rambled enough for today.   It was a very interesting day to say the least...

Oh and one more thing-there might be a new blog address in the next week or two and I will be sure to post it so stay tuned for that.  

But back to the original post subject-

HAPPY 2009 EVERYBODY!!!!!