make what you want of it

sooooooooooo here's the deal. i couldn't go to class this past week. why? well, i had other places to be. namely, Grace Episcopal Church in Sheffield, Alabama. tuesday was the choral fall showcase, and i, being in the collegiate singers, was required to be at the church at 6:00 for pre-concert rehearsal. therefore, unhappily, i missed class. so i kinda just lookd up our speaker, and read other's blogs, and here's my impression of her.

Ms. Libby Watts Jordan, Director of Cultural Tourism; UNA Board of Trustees; and Florence-Lauderdale Tourism Bureau. sounds pretty important.

In June 2011, she voted no when the board proposed moving UNA to Division One in athletics. The school is in fact moving slower in making the transition into the higher division as a result of the rejection by the Ohio Valley Conference; however, Jordan views this rejection as an opportunity to build strength in the school's Division Two athletics through fundraising and other such strategies. According to Jordan, this opportunity will end up a good strategy, because "when other conferences come to us with an invitation, we'll be ready." [florala.net, Lucy Berry]

So, important lady, important decisions. and her term on the board expires in 2019 so she's got lots of time to make happen what she wants to happen. because i think she can do it.

help you, yoda can

Dr. Wesley Deselle, surgeon at Helen Keller Hospital. he deals with mundane and general stuff, like gallbladders and hernias. i guess that's fun, if you like icky things. you can tell i'm not meant to be a doctor/surgeon/nurse/whatever. i hate shots; for my flu vaccination this year, i managed to get a mist where they just spritzed it up my nose it was so cool.
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he gave us pros and cons about medicine, and some good advice: it's not like tv shows where it's all glamorous; you need to think about the reality of it when making the choice of whether or not to enter the medical field. so pros and cons...

PROS

• satisfying work
• contribute to community
• monetary reimbursement

CONS

• time
• initial debt
• sacrifice of relationships
• kinda like SSA hotchner on "criminal minds", he and his wife divorced because he was always having to deal with work stuff. she ended up dying, it was really sad.

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one can prepare for medical work in many ways: go to college, do volunteer work, internships, and residency.
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one has to keep in mind human values; the ones dr. deselle mentioned can be applied to learning/practicing medicine, as well any profession.

• mentorship
• YODA!! (the doc's idea, not mine)
• perserverance
• trust

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all in all, it was fun.

-aly<3

farm meet aly, aly meet farm. ok now go yak yak a while.

yay farming. we need it, some people have fun with it. without commercial farmers, all those less endowed with the ability to farm would most likely die, unless they like somehow developed a way to live without eating. that would be some messed up sh!t right there. if anyone knows something bout this, please share, i'm all ears. unless i'm not all ears, in which case you've still got 2 to talk to. there's a lot of "to"s in that sentence. wow i'm weird.

anyways. farming. so much fun. speaker this week, you guessed it, was a commercial farmer by the name of billy bob jones. haha i'm just kidding, that isn't his real name. it'd be spooky though if it was, right? so this farmer, William Lee (hey Billy is short for William, coincidence? most probably so. moving on.) on his area, he grows 4 different crops: cotton, wheat, soybeans, and corn.

cotton used to be high priced so they planted a lot. now it's not so high priced. what are they going to do? how should i know i'm not a farmer.

wheat and soybeans, didn't talk bout that much.

corn. aha here we go. corn is used for a lot, and now it's priced high because of it being put in gas and such, so they planted a lot of it and are now in for some major $$ <money>. but only about 10% of the corn actually goes to corn, the rest goes to like farms animals to eat. coolio for them. i like corn on the cob the best, it just doesn't taste as good when it's all "yay i'm free falling, gonna fall off your fork now" and you're all "hey get back on that fork so i can devour you!" and they're all "no way man!" so yea. ummmmm corn is evil. screws up your engine. great lesson kiddos, see ya next week.

-aly<3

apply yourself, you might get somewhere

Ross Barry, CEO of Shoals Hospital. I must say, he is a very good and inspirational speaker. he spoke a lot about decision-making, and how even though we can still have a good time in college, we must also figure out where we want to get in life and work towards that goal. for example, do we want to be bossed or be the boss? planning is a big part of life, and so many people these days just don't think about the future in that kind of mindset. they're like, oh i'll get to it later, i just wanna have fun right now. well that won't really get them anywhere now will it?

i personally have a problem with getting my homework done because i have to be in the mood. half the time i'd much rather be playing solitaire (call me an old lady all you want, that game is the shiznit). but i do manage to get everything in time, so i guess i fit into the category of being a normal teenager/college kid but not letting it get to extremes. i'm just lazy. not to proud to admit it. nobody should be, it's healthy to have a lazy time every now and then. just don't let that time be 24/7.

barry makes all his top level executives do required reading, which i think is kind cool. i like to read though, so that wouldn't be much of a problem for me. anyway. one of the books he has them is called "212 degrees". basically, water boils at 212 degrees; you can get it almost to boiling point at 211 degrees, but that don't quite cut it because it's not boiling. same thing with your life. you can't just get almost there, you have to do the whole shindig.

vera verum va vera causea: do the right thing the right way for the right reason.

-aly<3