Yanti & Salty Mad Manatees PART 3: FULL POD (Page 30)

kgore - 2012-07-11 8:45 PM I got on the old trainer that Clint found recently at a garage sale--it works, albeit loudly! In any case, I did that, then, while fooling around on the net that I apparently have taken too many units of classes in my LONG college career (mainly at a JC--not with financial aid)and that they college doesn't want to give me my financial aid as a result---mind you my 'financial aid' is only a federal loan--already approved! So I don't know what will happen--I can appeal it, but I can't do that until next Thursday, when the FA office has drop-in counseling available. If the appeal doesn't work, then I get to drop out of college and start paying back nearly 30 grand of a school loan that led to nothing! I am so angry/upset about this---I took a lot of classes back in the day, not knowing what I wanted to do, now with a total of 8 classes left total it might be for nothing! AAAAGHHHH! I don't know whether to cry or yell.

DRINK!

Kidding - that would be super frustrating.  One step at a time - appeal, appeal, appeal - anyone with a brain would understand your situation and help to fix it.  Good luck - positive thoughts to you!

OK - I did another drive by reading - you guys are SO sososo effing funny!!  Very entertaining last couple pages!  Thanks for that!

But one thing Salt said (something about Yanti living in a pink house with a red door and the resulting explosion of Salt's head and her asking if Yanti knew what kind of work she was in...) got me thinking.  I wonder what all of our pod members do to make bacon?  Can we share that with each other?  I know some of you know each other from way back - but as a young manatee, i don't know

I'll share - I'm a druggist.  (i love telling old people that - they think it's so cute)  (aka clinical pharmacist in a small hospital)

Hope all is well crew - I'm looking forward to getting to know you all better!!

Veterinary Technician--worked in Veterinary hospitals for 10 years, now teach Veterinary Technology at a local College.  Still work in hospital at least 1 day a month. 

I use a good old fashioned cast iron skillet, wish I had a gas stove, oh, you mean what we do for a living!

I work for a pump manufacturer, I manage a group of pump applications engineers.  I also do a good share of technical training.

reecealan - 2012-07-11 9:49 PM Thanks for all the kind words with regards to my race last weekend.  I wish I had the time to keep up with this Manatee Madness.  If I win the lottery I'm flying you all to a common location (Bali?) so we can have a two week long party of something.  Then we'd get to know each other

ALRIGHT!!!!!

In the UK making bacon is a whole different thing - plenty of ways to do it according to Fifty Shades of Grey!

BUT - I am a Merchandise Planner (in the UK I'd be a Merchandiser) - basically I work for a Menwear Wholesale import company and look after sales and stock/budgets etc.  More interesting than it sounds and I have fun every day.

kgore - 2012-07-11 8:45 PM I got on the old trainer that Clint found recently at a garage sale--it works, albeit loudly! In any case, I did that, then, while fooling around on the net that I apparently have taken too many units of classes in my LONG college career (mainly at a JC--not with financial aid)and that they college doesn't want to give me my financial aid as a result---mind you my 'financial aid' is only a federal loan--already approved! So I don't know what will happen--I can appeal it, but I can't do that until next Thursday, when the FA office has drop-in counseling available. If the appeal doesn't work, then I get to drop out of college and start paying back nearly 30 grand of a school loan that led to nothing! I am so angry/upset about this---I took a lot of classes back in the day, not knowing what I wanted to do, now with a total of 8 classes left total it might be for nothing! AAAAGHHHH! I don't know whether to cry or yell.

Bureaucracy sucks.  Big time.

I had a cat when I lived in an apartment in Athens, Greece called Stavros.  He was a brute of a tomcat and was grey and white and looked like Tom from Tom and Jerry and was just as dumb.

One day I decided to use some of those wax strips to do my legs - but no Stavros wanted some of that and got one sticky mess wrapped around his tail and leg - funniest sight ever he was tearing around the apartment screeching!  And he had to have a bath to get it off or be waxed to hairless.

kgore - 2012-07-11 8:45 PMI got on the old trainer that Clint found recently at a garage sale--it works, albeit loudly! In any case, I did that, then, while fooling around on the net that I apparently have taken too many units of classes in my LONG college career (mainly at a JC--not with financial aid)and that they college doesn't want to give me my financial aid as a result---mind you my 'financial aid' is only a federal loan--already approved! So I don't know what will happen--I can appeal it, but I can't do that until next Thursday, when the FA office has drop-in counseling available. If the appeal doesn't work, then I get to drop out of college and start paying back nearly 30 grand of a school loan that led to nothing! I am so angry/upset about this---I took a lot of classes back in the day, not knowing what I wanted to do, now with a total of 8 classes left total it might be for nothing! AAAAGHHHH! I don't know whether to cry or yell.

That sucks Kate good luck with the counselor.

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TriRx - 2012-07-11 10:21 PM

kgore - 2012-07-11 8:45 PM I got on the old trainer that Clint found recently at a garage sale--it works, albeit loudly! In any case, I did that, then, while fooling around on the net that I apparently have taken too many units of classes in my LONG college career (mainly at a JC--not with financial aid)and that they college doesn't want to give me my financial aid as a result---mind you my 'financial aid' is only a federal loan--already approved! So I don't know what will happen--I can appeal it, but I can't do that until next Thursday, when the FA office has drop-in counseling available. If the appeal doesn't work, then I get to drop out of college and start paying back nearly 30 grand of a school loan that led to nothing! I am so angry/upset about this---I took a lot of classes back in the day, not knowing what I wanted to do, now with a total of 8 classes left total it might be for nothing! AAAAGHHHH! I don't know whether to cry or yell.

DRINK!

Kidding - that would be super frustrating.  One step at a time - appeal, appeal, appeal - anyone with a brain would understand your situation and help to fix it.  Good luck - positive thoughts to you!

Definitely appeal.  Your school wants this to work out too.  They will find a way to make it happen.

I do computer support for NC State University.  I have done support for Water Quality, Poultry Science, the College of Ag and Life Sciences (the dean, etc.) and now for North Carolina Cooperative Extension.  I have done everything to the crawling under a desk to get stuff plugged in type of support to server installation and support (Windows, Linux, Mac OS X) to delivering and installing computers to all 100 counties in North Carolina to teaching people now to add news to the redesigned website.  My next project is implementing Cvent for Extension.

I've lived in North Carolina since 1990 when I graduated from college and decided that living with my parents while looking for work was a good plan.  I've lived in Milwaukee; Poughkeepsie (well, actually Wappinger Falls, NY); Newfounland, Canada; Waterloo, IA; Ramsey, NJ and now the Raleigh, NC area.  I went to college in Shippensburg, PA where I was a journalism major.  (My parents moved from NJ to NC while I was in college.) That clearly explains why I do computer stuff!

It sounds fun!  Have a blast