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Hi and welcome. Flute is cool. I played percussion(xylo/mallets), but I haven't done it in years. Anyways. See you around. :)

Hi and welcome Diane. I don't bite, I just poke. :)

I like writing as well Lakumi--tho mine is primarily poetry. I've found that I stink at journaling, but if I put it in poem form, I can get it out. Maybe we could trade works at some time and look at the others' Just a thought.

I first learned this song during one of my tours of the local state hospital. Now it's on my youtube playlist

Sorry Gretchen. Okay, if I were to take one of the classes online I would have to do it either during the semester or during the winter interterm, because English 111 is required to take the communications class, and the general psych is requred before the developmental psych. To do it during the summer would set me a year back. I talked to my bishop tonight--he's a vet, and he said it was up to me, but he himself didn't do great in chemistry. I have one person to talk to tomorrow--or rather, later today, and then with that info, I'll go into my meeting on Monday with the ADON. Definitely still praying, i just don't feel like I'm getting a definite answer either way.

Martain--I hadn't thought about that. I'll definitely consider it. Gretchen-it's really hard to take a science class online because most of the time you need lab credits. That's what this one entails. Three hours lecture, three hours lab. I can't take it during the summer because at the end of each semester is when they decide, and that would be counter-productive. Not to mention, that the English/Psych courses--a few are needed before you can take the next level class. Roseslipper--Thanks. I'm excited. I've been trying to go back for six years now. I'm trying to remember that. I'll need to remember it more once they start and it's jumping right back in.

It's a little long to explain, but I'll try to keep it as brief as possible. I'm going back to college in less than a month(August 19th), I'm going to be competing to get into the nursing program. They select just forty students each year, 20 at the end of fall semester, and the other 20 at the end of spring semester. What determines if you get in the program is where you rank in the class. This ranking is determined by several factors, the primary one being your math/science grades(60%). Technically, I don't have to take chemistry, my credits from my last college(six years ago) transferred in. However, the grade that transferred was a "C". This grade will be averaged in, I asked yesterday. So now I have two choices. I can retake the course, and see(and hope) that I do better. Or I can hope and pray that my grades will be high enough to offset that grade in the average. Say I decide to retake the course. One, comes the question, which semester do I take it. If I take it fall, I'll be taking it with A&P, English, Psych, and Algebra/Trig--13 credits. If I take it second semester I'll be taking it with(expected) A&P II, Psych, Communications, and Microbiology--14 credits. So if I take this course-an additional four credits-- that'll jump me up to a completely full course load. Two--finances plays a part. Right now I'm not working, I haven't actually held a regular job since 2010, I'm on disability, but trying to get off. I put in an application about a week ago for a part time job at the hospital working nights. But there's no guarantee I'll get it. If I take this class, it's going to cost me(roughly) an additional $620. With the financial aid I'm getting, that'll leave me about $250 for my books, not even half of what I need. So that means taking out a second loan(I've already got my Pell Grant, and my Direct loans). If I take this additional course, there's really no feasible way I can get this job. I'm technically already employed for a Home Health company, which would work because I could study at nights(I'd work 3rd shift), but that started back in April, and I haven't actually worked a single shift. I don't know that I'm going to be able to get a second loan that would allow me to defer the payments till summer at least(the second loan would only need to be about 8-1500). So now, I don't know what to do. I've asked several of the people in my real life--couple friends, my mom, and a friend who is like a mom--and I'm getting mixed reactions. Some say I should retake it, one says wait and see how first semester goes, and another says don't worry about it. I'm praying, and trying to reason it out. My summer adviser recommend I contact the the Assistant Director of Nursing and ask her if I should retake it, or how much it might actually have an impact. I'm going to call her later today and set up a meeting, but I'd like to hear you all's advice(especially any of you who have taken specific science courses--how smart is it to carry that type of course load, trying to work and do school, etc...

You stole mine. Parts of that song apply to me, and it's one of my absolute favorites. and The first is one I grew up singing in my old church, the second is one of my movie favorites(I decided against any songs from Rent because of Pam. )

My mom's neighbors hate them, but, they hate pretty much anyone who has a job. Out of about eight families, my mom and her husband are the only ones who have jobs. She tells me stories about her neighbors, and she could live here,(and I live in the ghetto part of the city). She lives in a borough tho, it shouldn't be as bad there. The latest in their neighbors' drama, mom and her husband called the codes officer on one of their female neighbors because she has these brush piles that have been building up for two or three years and is calling all sorts of creatures(including poisonous snakes--bear in mind my folks have an 8 and an 11 year old girl at home) into their yards and calling it a garden. The codes officer sent an order for her to clean it up. She is now taking them to court saying that they're harassing her because they made the police write her up. So they go to court in about two weeks. Now the irony in all this is that my folks are friends with the cops, and everyone is getting a good laugh out of this.

Okay, I did a search, and there's a whole bunch of different threads on tithing, but I couldn't find any that answered my question for me, so I'm going to throw it out to all of you lovely peoples. I'm going back to school in less than a month(it's been a goal for the last six years now) and I'm excited. I got some federal aid, as well as a loan. The loan I got is for a bit more than I need, but it will cover the books and a portion of it will help me invest in a couple new items. I know I can take a portion of it for tithing tho, that's not my issue. My issue is the tithing on the financial aid. I'm not actually seeing the money, it's being applied to my bill automatically. But do I still have to pay tithing on it? I'm not sure about this, and I don't have the nerve to actually ask anyone in my ward about this--there's only two or three I actually know well enough to even think about asking, and I usually don't talk to anyone about my finances--that's a throwback from mom and dad, it's hard to even talk to the bishop about them when I'm struggling. Anyways, any help/insight you guys offer would be welcomed. Thanks.

Just finished watching The Help.

I have a couple. Both girls I brought from the drop-in center I attend. The first has come a couple of weeks now. She seems interested, until we start discussing different doctrine, Then she states that if she joins she won't be able to have any fun. I'm not sure what's going to happen with her. The other is a sweet girl just a couple years older than me. She goes to another church, but came with me last week and seemed to enjoy it. She isn't coming this week because the lady who brought her has an early morning meeting. She wants to come again next week. They both came to the Relief Society activity last week(even tho I didn't go) and they both said they enjoyed it. They're working out times to meet with the missionaries. So I'm hopeful.

*sigh* Once again, we've been left out. You're forgetting either the Institute leader or the YSA rep. We tend to not fit in in the other categories.

Okay, I'm not sure if this can go here, or if it needs to go in the Missionary Work subcategory, if I'm wrong, I apologize. So I have a friend who just ended up in the local jail. Having been in a situation where my conscious/subconscious thoughts/actions landed me in a place where I felt cut off from everyone and everything familiar, and spending quite a bit of time there, helps me see a glimpse of what it's like for her. Anyways, I want to start a Scripture study with her, because I know for me, it's been my faith that has helped me each time. Here's my question--the website the county has up says that the only books/magazines that can be received are ones that are ordered/subscribed to, and they have to come from a publisher. Would any of you know if the prison system recognizes the Church as a publisher, or if I'm going have to try and go thru one of the approved bookstores? The only issue with that is that only one of the two approved even carries a Book of Mormon(the other one is the local "Christian" bookstore that has all the books on why we're in a brainwashing cult and need to be recused, is that even tho it's in the same town and all, it's going to be about $17 just to get it to her. I don't know if they would allow the missionaries in to see her? I don't know how that would work, I know they go into the psych hospitals to visit people. Is anyone familiar with this system at all? I know I'll probably have to ask the staff there when I go to visit her(hopefully on Friday if she gets my name on the list) but I thought I'd ask you all first. Thanks.

Mighty Ducks I, II, and III.

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baking

puzzles

why?

telephone

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trip

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