the latest

Just this past week, I have:

1. Turned in an essay
2. Completed a quiz, a news article, and two discussion postings
3. Survived a midterm (I think)
4. Had story time with 47 kids
5. Typed names of SRP participants into an Excel file. Unfortunately, I feel like an Ellis Island official trying to figure out these monikers.
6. Seen over 3000 kids sign up for SRP (that's the population of a 5A school)

It's been lots of fun. Wow, two more weeks and no more Telecommunications course, yea!

Love, Tequila, and Salt

Someone sent this forward to me recently. I had received this one before but I loved the very end. Please read - Jorie
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This should probably be taped to your bathroom mirror where one could read it every day. You may not realize it, but it's 100% true.

1. There are at least two people in this world that you would die for.
2. At least 15 people in this world love you in some way.
3. The only reason anyone would ever hate you is because they want to be just like you.
4. A smile from you can bring happiness to anyone, even if they don't like you.
5. Every night, SOMEONE thinks about you before they go to sleep.
6. You mean the world to someone.
7. You are special and unique.
8. Someone that you don't even know exists loves you.
9. When you make the biggest mistake ever, something good comes from it.
10. When you think the world has turned its back on you take another look.
11. Always remember the compliments you received. Forget about the rude remarks.

And always remember....when life hands you Lemons . . .
. . . ask for tequila and salt and call me over!

Life of Jorie . . .

Coal Mine - 9.5 hour work shifts four days a week, Summer Reading Program has signed up 2700+ kids, no books on the shelves, intermittant Internet connection

Education - In the midst of a 5 week summer course (Telecommunications), learning about electronic network and binary math from scratch, my head hurts

Life - comatose, for now

Listening to Millicent Min, Girl Genius on tape (on my way to multitasking, woohoo)

MyHeritage.com

I was playing with this relatively new site yesterday. It's MyHeritage.com. The site allows one to upload pictures for facial scans. It looks at the faces in the picture and tells which celebrities look most like the faces in the picture.

I tried many photos of me. Also, I saw the way friends and family resulted. I've come to the following conclusions:

1. Either my guy friends look feminine or Denise Richards has quite a masculine face. Almost all of the guys looked like her.
2. This is truly addictive.
3. I look at people in a different way now.

After numerous scans of scads of photos, I look most like Anne Hathaway, Rachel Bilson, Sofia Coppola, Sally Field, Elizabeth Taylor (the young version), Rose McGowan, and Charlotte Church. Yet, I also looked like Emma Watson, Ingrid Bergman, Isabella Rossalini, Sammi Cheung, Jennifer Connelly, Tata Young, Beyonce Knowles, Alicia Keys, Eva Mendes, Kirsten Dunst, Elijah Wood, Jet Li, and Michelle Wie. Isn't it amazing? I also found that my dad and I look more like the same celebrities than my mom and I do. By the way, she looks like Eva Longoria and Angelina Jolie. I certainly missed out on that kind of appeal, didn't I?

Well, when I consider that we're all related to Noah, it makes sense. Besides, it's just the way God packaged us, really.

Story Of My Life

Summer Classes

Say a prayer for me, I just started my first summer class. It's going to quite a five week ride and I already feel like barfing.

White-Bread

Earlier today, my friend and I were talking about white-bread. I Wondered (forgive the pun) what this really meant. We're not talking about PB&J sandwiches, here.

Rather, it's a term applied to melanin deficient people like me. Is this correct? Well, I looked to the Oxford English Dictionary. White-bread is " adjective N. Amer. informal bland and unchallenged in a way thought characteristic of the white middle classes." So, I went a little further, because I had looked at a WASPy source. So, I moved onto Wikipedia, where they had a great picture of actual white bread and then the following definition: "Whitebread is also a term, used as a mild pejorative. While the term itself can suggest racist overtones, its most common usage simply refers to blandness or plainness in a person. Its usage is similar to the usage of the term vanilla in this context. In the DC comic book, Justice League International, the sarcastic Green Lantern Guy Gardner would often refer to his innocent, pure-hearted teammate Captain Marvel as 'Captain Whitebread'."

How about a little seasoning? Can I have some garlic butter please?