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August 30, 2005
i'll see your 17 credits and raise you to 19.
If there is any lesson to be learned from this blog, it should be the fact that with every Zonino there is an Oninoz.
Someone suggested that I change my major to Liberal Arts from Childhood Education in order to be able to graduate this semester. Here are the steps that followed:
Aug 29th - 3:20pm: Education Class - Academic Advisement. 20 minutes
Asked permission to go to the Academic Advisement Office to obtain a Liberal Arts Graduation checklist. I realize that I can indeed graduate this semester.
Aug 30th - 1:35pm: Academic Advisement Office - 7th floor. 1hr.
I asked them how I would go about changing my major, what, if any consequences they anticipate from this decision. They carefully went over my transcript and sent me to the computers to make sure my credits would transfer over well. I do, and the credits look good. My next move is to fill out a change of major form and to go to Hunter College to meet with an advisor and see if I meet thei requirements if I come in with an AA from BMCC.
August 30th - 3:00pm: Hunter College - 68th street, 1st floor. 5 minutes
me: "excuse me, where is academic advisement?"
cop: "11th floor - East building"
I wait in line for 10 minutes to find out this is only for enrolled students. I have to go to the 1st floor, North for pre-enrollment advisement.
August 30th - 3:15pm: Hunter College - North Building - Welcome Center. 30 minutes.
I explain to Aaron what my situation is, and he carefully goes over everything with me. Turns out that since I fucked up my GPA in New Paltz and HUnter so badly, I will prolly have to take 12 credits before I can apply for the Education Program. However, everything else looks good.
August 30th - 3:50pm: BMCC - Registration Office South Building, 3rd Floor. 25 minutes
I'm standing on line thinking of ways I could do what I need to do without standing on this *monstrous* line. I call registration. They tell me I need to speak to Dean Wong to sign an ovverride so I can take 19 credits. Dean Wong is on the Seventh Floor of the South Building.
August 30th - 4:20: BMCC - Dean Won's Place - 7th floor, South. 20 minutes
There is a girl in fron of me explaining to Mr. Wong how her whole family was in a car accident and she was the primary care giver and how some bastard professor just slammed a door in her face. I'm next on line listening to her explain to the Dean how he MUST help her - the Dean gives her some ideas, but does not help her. I am nervous. The lady behind the desk checkes to make sure my GPA and total credits allow me to take 19 credits - they do. Dean Wong signs off.
August 30th - 4:50: BMCC - South Building - 7th Floor. - Academic Advisement. 10 minutes.
I go to hand in my change of major form and am advised I need to find "a counselor" to sign off on it even tho the department head already did.
August 30th - 4:45: BMCC - 3rd floor - counselors office.
I find a counselor - he signs.
August 30th - 5:00: BMCC - Theatre 1 - South Building, 1st Floor. - Registration
I hand the guy my advisement sheet - he tells me I need to register by a computer near the eating area - I point to Dean Wongs signature - the guy lets me in. The line has about 10 people in front of me. Finally, I get all the classes I need to graduate this semester.
Zonino!
Posted by lysa at 5:51 PM | Comments (3)
August 18, 2005
Concened Citizens...
My friends are so cute..
(14:08:35) sprinkles: your blog has appeared to have gone down
(14:19:56) nawgah: why is your blog down?
(14:11:54) genie: yeah, both of our sites are down
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August 17, 2005
Thanks, honeybee...
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August 15, 2005
Every once in a while..
Somehow when the ones you love pay you a compliment, you shy away and self-depreciate. But when you are not involved in the conversation at all, and someone says something nice about you to a common friend who then mentions it to you, you believe it. Since this just occured to me right at this moment, I created the "Ego Boosts" category. I hope I use it more than once.
And today's ego boost is *drum roll*
re: me.
(10:21:32) f r i e n d o f d y g: that chick totally rocks
(10:22:49) f r i e n d o f d y g: seriously, before her i have never met a chick that could handle unix that didn't look like a mutant.
If you are curious as to what inpsired this compliment, the AIM convo is below. Beware, geek heavy.
(09:39:54) dugup: how goes?
(09:52:00) me: good. me and nagios are having our weekly meeting.
(09:57:32) dugup: lol
(10:06:43) me: it tells me its grievances, and i try to explain that it worked just fine before.. and we come to an understanding that just because it's the same version as it's brother, it needs individual attention. and then I make changes, and we meet in the middle.
(10:07:59) dugup: lol
(10:08:09) dugup: it would receive no such mercy from me
(10:09:20) me: i accept this as a fact of life. I appreciate the fact that it communicates with me, as opposed to other software, which stubbornly holds information in places where I cannot access it.
(10:10:12) dugup: fair enough
(10:10:24) dugup: i don't like software that talks back, though
(10:11:21) me: but then we have to make it talk, and that just get messy. Echo's everywhere, strace stacks, recompiles sometimes - it's madness.
(10:11:34) dugup: true
(10:11:39) dugup: it could just log
(10:11:45) dugup: give me the option to make it verbose
(10:11:48) me: and then you find out that some dumb-fuck redirected stdout and stderr to /dev/null in the start script.
(10:11:48) dugup: and shut up the rest of the time
(10:11:57) dugup: lol
(10:12:23) me: yea, keep laughing - i'm here till the end of August :)
(10:13:09) dugup: beat it with a stick
(10:13:13) me: glol.
(10:13:18) me: when all else fails.
(10:13:21) dugup: *nod*
(10:13:28) dugup: cartman's approaches have proven to be true on all accounts
(10:13:56) me: ahh, yes.
RESPECT_MY_AUTHORITY was set to no in rc.conf.
Posted by lysa at 10:28 AM | Comments (4)
August 14, 2005
A Summer Summery (courtesy of CNN)
So, I am cleaning out the V1ag.ra CIalIss emails from my Inbox and noticed I haven't been deleting my CNN updates..
Here is our summer, so far:
-- One of three young suspects detained in Aruba confesses to killing Alabama teenager, senior police official says. :(
-- Michael Jackson found innocent on all 10 counts in his child molestation trial. ;|
-- Former Klansman Edgar Ray Killen found guilty of three counts of manslaughter in 1964 slayings of three civil rights workers. :)
-- U.S. agriculture officials say tests on cow in the United States have come back positive for mad cow disease. :(
-- Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, first woman on U.S. Supreme Court, is retiring. :(
-- Judge orders New York Times reporter Judith Miller jailed for refusing to divulge source who revealed CIA operative. :( Shame on you, judge!
-- Police say a fuel tanker hit by a car bomber exploded, killing at least 58 people south of Baghdad. :(
-- President Bush will nominate U.S. Circuit Judge John Roberts Jr. to fill the Supreme Court vacancy, CNN has learned.
-- Scotland Yard responding to reports of "incidents" at three London Underground subway stations.
-- Fatal shooting in subway station linked to ongoing anti-terror probe, London police say. Images released of four men wanted in connection with failed bombings.
-- Space shuttle Discovery lifts off, marking first shuttle flight since Columbia disaster in February 2003.
-- Saudi Arabia's King Fahd has died at age 82.
-- President Bush today to name John Bolton to be nation's U.N. ambassador through recess appointment, senior Bush administration official says.
-- All passengers survive after an Air France jet overruns a Toronto, Canada, runway and bursts into flames, officials said. :)
-- Italian media: Passenger jet carrying 35 people goes down off Sicily. :(
-- Russian sub trapped in deep waters is raised and all crew members are alive, says spokesman for U.S. Pacific Fleet. :)
-- Peter Jennings, the longtime anchor of ABC's "World News Tonight," died Sunday, the news network reports. He was 67. :(
-- Tennessee officials: Escaped prisoner George Hyatte and his wife captured at Columbus, Ohio, hotel. Jennifer Hyatte was injured. :|
-- U.N. nuclear watchdog agency adopts resolution calling on Iran to halt nuclear fuel development. (here we go, again)
-- British Airways cancels all flights in and out of London's Heathrow Airport until 1 p.m. ET (1700 GMT) Friday. <-- this was due to a strike, not a terrorist attack, so :)
Posted by lysa at 8:24 PM | Comments (1)
August 11, 2005
Top Ten Lesser Known Uses for Boyfriends
- They stretch out the shirts that have shrunk in the dryer.
- They retrieve food.
- They, when asked, suck the too sweet almond coating off your good humor toasted almond bar.
- Twice the wardrobe including fun, non-binding outfits.
- All around thermal heater.
- Full Sized Body Pillow.
- They're unsuspectingly entertaining.
- They distract telemarketers (courtesy of the bee)
- Someone is finally around to feed those darn cats.
- Excellent for filling the home with other people's garbage.
Posted by lysa at 5:29 PM | Comments (4)
August 9, 2005
Another Batch
Ngoh geh: I think i shall never see, a poem as lovely as my booboorefillingmywaterbottleinthemorningsoidontdehydrateonmywaytofuckingnew
jerseywhichihatesomuchkylebutihavetobutmybooboomakesitatleastokaybecauseihave
mybottle"
Not-Oh-Kayim not being down on myself, im being realistic.
Me: yeah, but it's like, a 3 hour commute.
The Mominator: I certainly understand that, since I've always had first a 1 minute commute, and now it's 10 minutes
DefNotOK: i cant make it past page 3 without losing control of my bladder
NakedBabyButt: how's jersey?
me: full of fucking jersey folk.
NakedBabyButt:nah, all the jersey folk leave during the day to work in manhattan. it's all the pennsylvania people that work in jersey. :)
poptart(12:09:58) yer blog server is being anti-social
"Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /xx/xx.cgi on this server."
ProllyMadAtMe: how are both your screen names on
me: magic.
ProllyMadAtMe: always a stupid answer
me: always a stupid question :)
Posted by lysa at 10:32 AM | Comments (4)
August 8, 2005
Flow
you do not offer kindness in retrospect,
or in silent, rose colored wishes,
but in water bottles kept cool in the kitchen.
It would be easily overlooked by some, i suppose,
if not for my smile which alerts me to good deeds.
You make sure I have what I need,
from water in the morning to immeasurable support.
Each morning I love you more.
Posted by lysa at 12:36 PM | Comments (2)
August 3, 2005
Finally, a breakthrough!
For those of you who read this blog, or those of you who get to hear my rants moments after my fury comes forth, you know that I have had some red-tape trouble regarding school. For a brief recap, I'll remind you that I have 3 more math classes to take, each have to be taken one semester at a time. I had a chance to take my next class over summer session, but some severe miscommunications between myself and the school made that impossible. I'm now destined for 3 more semesters at BMCC before I even transfer over to a 4 year school. The theory is, is that once I get there I'll have my associates, and will only have to take the classes required for my major. This schoool thing is going to take years.
So I try to register for this next math class, Trigonometry for Idiots, and the registration program says I can't. My fury starts to build. I call the school and they let me know I'll have to come down, today, and register in person with all the new kiddies. I start getting involved in an internal harranging. I start practicing using words like "civil servants", "Righteous indignation" and "instituion is here to serve the students". I get ready for a fight. I walk to school in a blooming frenzy and get there ready to speak to every single member of the staff.
I was so wrong. Zonino!!!
There was not 1,000 new applicants/registrants. I was helped immediately, and most importantly, I was actually helped! Turns out I wasn't able to register for the class because it would take me over the allowed 18 hours of class that BMCC allows. They asked me what my GPA was, and I boasted about my Dean's List accomplishment. The kind man helping me was unimpressed and asked for the corresponding number. 3.84, I beam! He walks away to see if he can overrride the block. I start getting ready again, holding 3 months of paperwork and a bad attitude. He comes back and clears the block. I am registered!
Sometimes, things work out. Not being accustomed to things going so well, I went and got my eyebrows waxed. Ouch.
Posted by lysa at 12:28 PM | Comments (7)
August 1, 2005
Ahhh, technology
Sometimes, I really wonder what developers were thinking. I'm new to FreeBSD, mainly I go RedHat. I've been using them for so long it's just easier. But I got this new job for the summer and they have a bizarre configuration. Seems the previous sysadmin couldn't figure out what he liked, so out of 6 databases, 5 are freebsd (3 one version, 2 another) and 1 is RedHat.
Trying to send mail and sendmail won't start. No logs, no hints, nothing. So i ask my local guru and he informes me of a ENABLE_SENDMAIL setting in /etc/rc.conf. Why the ability to enable sendmail is there is beyond me, but hey, at least i know what the issue is.
You have 3 choices in this file:
NONE, NO, and YES.
To quote guru:
"yes, all you need to do is set the variable to NO, and it'll handle local mail" :)"
I give up.
Posted by lysa at 3:58 PM | Comments (1)