DebraDebra - LiveJournal.combig honor- December 8, 2006 Brad has volunteered for many years for a program called Project Grad. It is made up of volunteers from many careers and politicians whom speak to high school students in struggling communities with gangs and low graduation stats to encourage them to stay in school and go to college. Brad was just elected to the board this past year for all his prior work. Brad just called me as he was going back to work from a meeting with the board. They want to set up a central location to help create...http://dfiresto.livejournal.com/133849.html awwwww- December 5, 2006 My thesis partner just wrote me from work so we could arrange final dates for meeting to finish the completed final draft of the paper.After she gave me dates, she wrote she just wanted to let me know she thinks that her grandmother whom passed last March arranged for us to meet (we had never seen each other before on campus and hooked up through the department listserve to be partners for the project). She said she is so thrilled she met me and that she would like to be friends after the...http://dfiresto.livejournal.com/133509.html Book Whores' Dream- December 5, 2006 A co-student told me about a Web site last night - www.librarything.comFor book whores like myself, this is a dream. You enter the books from your personal collection and it keeps track for you. The site can download covers from Amazon. You can list themes for the book and write your own blurbs about it to help you remember key aspects. The one drawback is books are listed alphabetically by title, not author; however, there is a section called "book cloud". In book cloud, all of your...http://dfiresto.livejournal.com/133323.html Something only I could do- December 4, 2006 Won't go into many details, but had a dream where I and two friends were attacked last night. Perpetrator had his arm around my neck. In dream I wrenched my head below his arm and bit his hand intending to take a hunk of flesh out of it to shock him enough to give me and my friends time to escape. Woke up to pain because I was BITING MY OWN HAND!!!Yep I did. I had fallen asleep with my cheek pillowed on my hand. Somehow this made it into the dream sequence. Thank goodness I was wearing my.http://dfiresto.livejournal.com/132952.html |