So this morning I woke up and read the DI online and there was this article about how T9 (the predicative text messaging software) doesn’t include any swear words, so it makes it much harder for people to swear in a text message. Really? This constitutes news? Why in the world would anyone write this? And who came up with this idea? It is really stupid.
Archive for April, 2008
So I have one more year left of school and part of the coursework is working a 700 hour advanced internship with an agency in the city where the school is. This is a very stressful thing because it is very much like finding out where a med student’s residency is. We have to interview at the agencies and then give our top three choices. They give their top three choices and there must be a match for the student to do their internship with the agency. It is getting down to the wire and I had my final interview on Monday with my DREAM agency that works with children and families doing play therapy and family therapy.
I found out this morning that all of my paperwork went through and I got the INTERNSHIP that I wanted!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am so excited and SO relieved!!! When I was interviewing the therapist who will be my adviser said that the last intern she had was hired at the agency so FINGERS CROSSED!!!
So we’re having problems with printer #3 at work. It sucks. It’s a piece of junk. It always jams and throws out weird error codes, and the ITC hasn’t replaced it with the printer that they took out that actually works!
Anyways, since it keeps jamming, we just shut the stupid thing off. So, for those of you who don’t know, when we print here, some people are randomly assigned to printer #1 and some to printer #3. Now, at this point, I don’t expect people to know not to print to #3. However, before a job will print, you have to go to a different computer and sign in with your HawkID to authorize it a final time to print. This special computer is called a “Print Release Station” and authorizing the job is known as “releasing” the print job. The selected printer is displayed when you log in.
Now, since printer #3 isn’t working, we put a hand-written sign that said “Do not release any print jobs to printer 3″. It is at this point where I would expect a reasonably intelligent college student to NOT release a job to printer #3. HOWEVER, this is not the case. A few dozen people so far today, in about three hours, have indeed released the job to printer #3. That is a problem.
Now what they have to do is go back to their computer and reprint the job, selecting printer #1. This has made many people very angry. Most people seem to think it is my fault. I am assuming this based on the fact that they are yelling at me.
So now I have made this sign. Perhaps it will be hard to read, but you will get the idea of what I have done. As you can see, I not only taped a sign to the desk in front of the keyboard, I also taped one directly to the monitor. The message reads “STOP!!! If you sent your job to Printer 3, DO NOT RELEASE IT! If the printer listed is itcprint\LM-ITC-Main-3 please cancel the job and reprint to Printer 1 from the computer.” I hope this will take care of the problem.
UPDATE: During the time it took me to type this, THREE MORE PEOPLE have come to me because their jobs “didn’t print”. Apparently I was wrong, it didn’t take care of the problem. And I was wrong to assume that just because they have been accepted to college that they are reasonably intelligent.
ANOTHER UPDATE: So since people were still hanging around #3 waiting for their jobs to come out, I put another sign up. This one reads “THIS PRINTER IS NOT WORKING. If you printed a job to Printer #3, please read the note posted near and on the PRINT RELEASE STATION”. We’ll see how long this works.
cierere practer and I was good. Then the man told us were the masoshers were and then we got mosoged .then we went back home and I said I want to do it 20 more times.
So as many of you know I work at the Iowa City domestic violence shelter. Yesterday I had a very funny experience and Becca has requested that I share it with my (many?) viewers. Sooo… here goes.
So, one of our directors made up these motivational posters of famous quotes and put them all over the shelter for both staff and clients to read and appreciate. As I was sitting in the office typing up the weekly newsletter, one of the quotes struck me and made me laugh right out loud. I directed the rest of the office to read the quote and see what they thought. This too was met with lots of laughter. Finally we called the director in question and asked her to come up to the front office, when she got up there we asked her where she got the quote and she admitted that she had gone to a conference where the speaker had posted motivational quotes and she liked them so she got copies to hang around the shelter.
What is the quote you ask???
“There is no such thing as try. You either do it; or you don’t.” Yoda
So we in the front office thought that it would be an enormously funny to take famous quotes and just paraphrase them. So last night Chris and I worked on just a few…. Enjoy!
Don’t ask your country questions, ask your country to ask you questions. (Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country)
Success is 10% having a good idea and 90% sweat. (Success is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration.)
Go to sleep before it gets too late and get up by dawn and you can be smart, skinny, and rich. (Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.)
Better to shut up and be thought stupid rather than talk and make it painfully obvious. (Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.)
If at first you mess it up do it again and then again at least one more time. (If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.)
Job finished. (Mission accomplished.)
I couldn’t not tell the truth if you paid me too. (I cannot tell a lie.)
So about a month ago my wife sent me a link to a video about some dude giving a lecture. I finally got a chance to watch it today and decided to post it here:
I don’t really have much to say about it. This version is only about 10 minutes long. Apparently the original full-length lecture is about 76 minutes long, and you can view it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo
Once me and Elise were playing outside wene we sol Vanessa .Elise went strait off playing with out me.Then we went back inside and have a little talc and watch H2o the End 
Tonight I had yogurt with bananas. I did not really want to eat the yogurt. My dad said he would install our Spongebob Squarepants typing instructor on our computer, but I would still not eat the yogurt. So my mom had to do the airplane and then I ate all of the yogurt with bananas. Good Night!
The recent tragedy surrounding the Sueppel family in Iowa City has brought domestic violence and homicide to the forefront of the news media in a devastating way. The World Health Organization found that nearly one in four women was found to have experienced physical assault by an intimate partner at some point in their life. By and large most victims of this crime tend to be women, accounting for 85% of all domestic violence victims. In the state of Iowa alone, over 7,000 cases of domestic violence were reported in the year 2005. This is a frightening number in its own rite, but we still must remember that those are only cases that are reported. It is impossible to know the true magnitude of how many families are experiencing domestic violence.
Why do women stay in a relationship that becomes dangerous and volatile? This is a wildly common question when domestic violence is addressed on a mainstream level. Forget about asking why a man would assault his partner or why there are not harsher punishments for these acts—our main concern seems to fall back on how the woman let this happen to herself. To really understand what a woman in an abusive relationship is dealing with it is important to remember that most abusers do not begin the relationship by acting violent or aggressive with their partner. In an article from the Mayo Clinic geared towards intimate partner violence it is explained that,”… abuse often starts subtly and gets worse over time. For example, abuse may begin with occasional hurtful comments, jealousy or controlling behavior. As it gets worse, the abuse may become more frequent, severe or violent”. It is also vitally important to realize that an abusive relationship is not characterized merely by the physical violence; rather the abusive behavior is rooted in seeking power and control over their partner. Often an abuser will use intimidation, isolation, threats, and emotional abuse in such a way that it is nearly impossible for their partner to leave. For women with children, the ramifications of leaving take on even more layers, as needing to be able to provide for their dependants entails having to find the resources and means to form their own household away from the abuser. For a woman who is in a relationship where she has no access to transportation, bank accounts, or even friends and family, starting a new life is daunting at best. For those women that do leave, the first month away from her abuser is notoriously the most dangerous according to the Iowa Domestic Abuse Death Review Team, who in their annual report of 2001 found that leaving a relationship was the leading predecessor of a domestic homicide. As Kristie Fortmann-Doser, executive director of the Domestic Violence Intervention Program in Johnson County, IA explains,
Our community tends to be hung up on statements like, “She must leave, and she must leave now.” Yet choosing to leave an abuser often is one of the most dangerous choices a victim will ever make. You want to make sure that you have the resources and support ready when they decide to make that choice. Statistics also show that an abuser will stalk their former intimate partners for an average of 21 months. That means someone leaving the relationship can expect to spend nearly two years trying to keep herself and her children safe from this individual
It is very easy to believe that violence in the home is an isolated event, only found among the poor and underprivileged. The real truth, however, is that domestic violence is a devastating and all too common problem in our society. It is vital and necessary that there are resources available for women who are in abusive relationships when they are ready and able to make the choice to leave.
