Interesting News Report

So some of you may recall my stint on the news when Fox came to visit the research lab I was a part of last year. It was in Dr. Drews' driving simulator and the news came when he released results of the texing while driving study. Well today, he released some more results and my old childhood friend, Shara Parker (now Park) was the reporter who covered the story. It's kind of funny because I'm sort of related to the whole thing since I was part of the lab for 2 semesters. Here's the link to the story - including Dr. Drews. (BTW, I'll be meeting with him on the 12th to discuss him writing a letter of recommendation for me to grad school)

Video Courtesy of KSL.com

Done - ish

So it is now 5:50 pm and I have a very rough draft of 10 pages written. I think I'm done for a little while now. I'll print it out and hand edit all of it to make it more concise and clear. I'll take a break for 1-2 hours and come back to it again by 8 pm I think. Then I need to work on the Greek paper. I don't think I'll spend more than an hour on that since it's only 4 pages long and needs only a small amount of revision before I turn it in.

Need...to...do........homework

I've already had two days off from work/school so far thanks to Thanksgiving. So my plan for Saturday (today) was to clean the house and buckle down and write my 10-page Ethics paper. The cleaning part is done and has been done for about an hour now. I vacuumed the whole upstairs and mopped the kitchen floor and even cleaned the bathroom. I also have laundry going right now. I've been sitting at the computer for about a half hour now...just trying to get the motivation to write my paper. I've got the bulk of it outlined on my notepad paper. I just gotta do this. I'm gonna start now and see if I can finish it up in 4 hours and be done somewhere around 6 pm. We'll see...then I have to re-write my Ancient Greek Philosophy paper. That should take less time, I hope. So I'll post again at the time I've finished my Ethics paper. GO JENN GO!!

Walk It Out!

It's been a while since I've seen this video, but after hearing this song on the radio last night I was totally reminded! When I first saw this video I couldn't believe how perfect the song matched the dancing - you'll see. I don't care if you don't like rap music, it's worth watching cause these ladies are total divas and would totally fit in with today's hip hoppers :P

Car Ad of the Year

So true and so funny :P

Grad School Anyone?

I've settled on it.

*IF* I can get in, I will go to grad school for Instructional Design and Educational Technology at the U. It is offered as part of the Educational Psychology department.

Here are the facts:

- The program is only 2 years long.
- It's only 30 credit hours.
- In Jenn terms, I can finish it in 1 or a 1.5 years.
- The tuition is the same as what I pay now.
- Because it's a technological program, I can get eBay to pay for it.
- The classes are held from 5-8 pm.
- This means I can work like a normal person, during the day.
- When I'm done, I'll have a Masters of Education degree.
- With this, I can either continue on at eBay (we'll see) or I can most likely get a job at a school or school district designing educational programs (this seems more fitting)

If you want the full story of this program - visit here.

This is how I figure. I can either do this and get all of my schooling out of the way before I'm 30...I've be done by 2011. OR, Ramin and I can get married right after I graduate and pop a few kids out. Then I'd have to wait till their in high school or something before I go back to school.

It's fairly obvious what the logical choice is here.

All I need to do is:

- Take the GRE
- Get 3 letters of recommendation (2 teachers, 1 employer)
- Do all the applications and pay the fee

That doesn't sound like much, but it is. This program doesn't have any deadlines like all the other grad programs do - thank goodness. So I can take some time and prepare. Hopefully though, if I plan it all out right, I can start the grad program next Fall of 2009!

So....what do you think?

Please help me with my project - EVERYONE WELCOME

So I've sent emails about this and posted it on my Facebook - now I'm posting it here. This goes to anyone who stumbles across this page - if you can take 5 minutes of your time I would greatly appreciate it! Please follow the link below and answer 2 simple questions relating to morality and psychology.

Thanks!!

Click Here to take survey

Had a great birthday!!!

I wanted to say thanks for everyone who sent me birthday wishes!! I felt kinda crappy with my eye infection and it was nice to have everyone wish me a good day! It was a very good birthday and I want everyone to know that I appreciate everything you do for me!!!

(I threw in the LOL cat cause it's just funny :P)

Love Jenn

Troop Care Packages

My friend Lisa and her little girl Monique have started a new initiative - sending care packages to the troops.

Here blog can be found here - I've also added it under my blog links on the side of my blog.

Take some time to read it - it's a good idea!

Birthday Dacryocystitis

Beginning on Wednesday my right eye started watering for no apparent reason. I did not feel sick, I was only experiencing this weird watery eye. Thursday it got worse so I stayed home from work and school. Friday I made it to work but it was still watering and I carried around a tissue with me everywhere I was. Saturday was still bad but I still did errands and even met with my partner from school at the library for a while. She suggested that maybe I had a sinus infection and it was coming out of my eye. It sounded logical so I bought some Mucinex D and took it Saturday night. That night was awful...I woke up in the middle of the night with major pain on the right side of my face. It felt like my head was going to explode - I wanted to poke it with a needle to relieve the pressure. I moved to the couch to get more comfortable and I finally fell asleep.

Mom called around 10 am and I told her the problem and she suggested I go to InstaCare...I knew I should've gone earlier probably but I was hoping my eye would get better on its own. So Ramin took me to InstaCare and we waited for an hour...the doctor finally saw me and was adamant that it was not a sinus infection. Instead he suggested that I had dacryocystitis. Here is the official definition of it:

Dacryocystitis is an infection of the nasolacrimal sac. It causes pain, redness and swelling over the inner aspect of the lower eyelid and epiphora. It is often caused by nasolacrimal obstruction.

Clinical features

• pain, swelling, redness over the lacrimal sac at medial canthus.
• tearing, crusting, fever
• digital pressure over the lacrimal sac may extrude pus through the punctum
• In chronic cases, tearing may be the only symptom

I pretty much have all of those symptoms, including the pus, along with a constant headache...which I can relieve somewhat with IBuprofen. So far it's been 5 days with my eye constantly watering. It's kind of irritating. I'm going to take Monday off of work (my birthday) and see if it gets any better. We'll see where we're at on Tuesday. The anti-biotics I was given are to be taken twice a day for 10 days. I really hope they help and that this is my actual problem because if I have to live with my right eye always watering constantly, I'm going to be seriously pissed off. It's weird...I'll keep this updated with any progress.