Happy New Year!

Do you make New Years Resolutions? I haven't made any in a long time because I never keep them. But I made one this year. Usually I stay up until 1:30 in the morning playing facebook games, but I really can't keep doing that because I have to get up at 6:30 am. So my New Year Resolution is to be in bed by 11:30 pm. That will be harder than it sounds because I am a night owl and I just get stuck playing games and it's hard to stop. So, we'll just see how well I do at keeping this resolution. I'll keep you posted.

Merry Christmas!

Presents around our Christmas tree (hey, don't laugh; it was free!).

Merry Christmas everyone! I hope you have a great Christmas! And if you don't have much, I hope that you can make the best of what you have.

Vacation Is Over

Ever since I completed the First Competency Final that I took on June 23, I have been working on increasing my laziness percentage. On Facebook, I took the 'How Lazy Are You' quiz and my result was 32% lazy. Although I have been working part-time in the mornings, I have spent my afternoons and weekends just reading novels and listening to music. Last night I'm sure I increased my laziness percentage considerably when I was thirsty and chose to get an unopened water bottle from my backpack which was 6 feet away from where I was sitting reading, instead of walking 25 feet into the kitchen to get a glass and fill it with water.

However, my time for relaxation is over. Tomorrow, I start working a second part-time job, so I will be working a full 40 hours a week. I will be getting internship credits for both of my part-time jobs. I also have to start studying for the rest of my finals. I will be taking 3 finals during the fall semester and I have to pass them. The financial aid office approved for me to receive aid only for the summer and fall semesters and that's it. I can't afford to be in school without financial aid. So, the pressure is on. I have to pass the finals and I have to graduate in December. I will start studying this afternoon and will study every night after work.

Nine Reasons to Celebrate America

In honor of America's Independence Day, BBC News has posted an article on nine inventions unique to America. They are as follows:

1. Air conditioning

2. Ice cubes

3. Valet parking

4. Aviation

5. Chewing gum

6. Cracker Jack

7. American cheese

8. Metal detector

9. Space pen

To read more go to BBC News Nine Reasons to Celebrate America.

About Joyce

Ten Top Trivia Tips about Joyce!

1. You share your birthday with Joyce.
2. If you toss Joyce 10000 times, she will not land heads 5000 times, but more like 4950, because her head weighs more and thus ends up on the bottom!
3. The first domain name ever registered was Joyce.com.
4. If every star in the Milky Way was a grain of salt they would fill Joyce!
5. Joyce can't sweat.
6. Over 46,000 pieces of Joyce float on every square mile of ocean!
7. Finding Joyce on Christmas morning is believed to bring good luck.
8. Fish travel in schools, but whales travel in Joyce!
9. It takes a lobster approximately 7 years to grow to be Joyce!
10. The deepest part of Joyce is over 35,000 feet deep.

Just having some fun. If you want to try it go to the Mechanical Contrivium.

Joyce's Aliases

I have allowed myself to be tagged by Sciencewomen. I've practically shot my anonymity to hell by playing this game, but I had fun doing it. Consider yourself tagged.


1. YOUR REAL NAME:
Joyce

2. WITNESS PROTECTION NAME: (mother and fathers middle name)
Lira Lane

3. NASCAR NAME: (first name of your mother's dad, father's dad)
Efren Miles

4. STAR WARS NAME: (the first 3 letters of your last name, first 2 letters of your first name)
Merjo

5. DETECTIVE NAME: (favorite color, favorite animal)
Blue tortoise

6. SOAP OPERA NAME: (middle name, town where you were born)
Lee Glendale

7. SUPERHERO NAME: (2nd fav color, fav drink, add "THE" to the beginning)
The Green Mocha

8. FLY NAME: (first 2 letters of 1st name, last 2 letters of your last name)
Jott

9. STREET NAME: (fav ice cream flavor, fav cookie)
French Vanilla Chocolate Chip

10. PORN NAME: (1st pet's name, street you grew up on)
Sweety Chapman

11. YOUR GANGSTA NAME: (first 3 letters of last name plus izzle)
Merizzle

13. YOUR GOTH NAME: (black, and the name of one of your pets)
Black Brock


Life is great when you can play a game for fun.

Wordled My Thesis

Instead of studying for finals, I have been playing with my M.S. Thesis. Thanks to Sciencewomen, I went to Wordle a site where you can enter something that you have written and get back a graphical representation of the text. Its great fun! This is my result. Click on the image to view the larger image on Wordle.