Grrrrr

I finally have the time and access to a computer to catch up on all the emails I’ve been getting and once again the stupid telnet is down. BAH!!!!! I can get it throug hthis webmail things (like a knockoff of hotmial or something set up by UMBC) but I really prefer to do email through telnet. It’s just waht I’m used to. But i have a whole hour to kill now before my next class so I might just do it.

No go on the job right now. I called and gota machien buti haven’t gotten a local number yet so I didn’t want to leave my name and number with the Philly area code. I’ll try again later. We do indeed seem to have off on monday the 17th for Rosh hashannah, and two days off the follwoing week for Yom Kipur. I’m glad the timing worked out so well for my SF trip but at he same time I’m a litlte annoyed to be missing so much class because it’s $3,000 per class once a week for like 12 weeks. So every time we miss a class it’s like paying for 1/12 less of a product. I miss udnergrad where it was a flat tuition rate and you ocld take as many classes as you can handle. Here it’s $1,040 per credit and each class is three credits. Sigh. So basically you take as many classes as you can afford (or can get a loan for) . It said in the Graduate News Letter that we have off to “celebrate” Yom Kipur. I foudn that pretty amusin since YOm Kipur is actually the day of atonement for all the sins fo the past year in Judiasm. I’ll be sitting in shul from morning til sundwon fastnig, praying and repenting for my sins. Some celebration!

My first class got out early today but it went pretty well. The work itslef is standard intro survey course but the prof is really into working on making hte material more relevant for us. It’s intro to substance abuse counseling and we have to do a prsonal behavior change project as part of the course so we’ll have empathy for what it’s like for the substances abusers we’re tryign ot help change. It’s pretty neat. I thinkI’m gonna make my behavior change to lose weight. Thoug hI’m already doing that cause I’m wlakign everywhere now. But maybe doing it for class will motivate me more. I should prolly try to stop biting my nails cause i know it looks really immature and I’m just constatnly nibblign away, But whatever, I’d rather focus on losing weight 🙂

Anyhoo I’m gonan make one more attemp to telnet into my email and then if not I guess it’s webmail fro me. Sigh.

Steph