Bulletin Board of Bad Behavior

Mmm... I'll ask but I'm not sure she'd know. She specialises in Mariology - which is basically what I'm taking a class on.
On the Hill Collins it's okay - but if you wanted to leave an e-mail address I can e-mail you a copy of the essay. I'm sure that's breaking some copyright law but *shrugs*
Since I had to download it off the school library's e-reserves anyway it's on my laptop.

- anyway if you want just shoot me an e-mail at tragicpixie @ hotmail.com

oops, she! hahaha. all my religion professors were males! that's cool. mariology. i have this weird book i think that has stuff about female archetypes -- women who run with the wolves or something, this guy gave it to me -- mary's are definitely two of them, i'd bet that's interesting.

well, yes, it's weird that you'd say that about how specialized /limited your prof. is because my friend and i were just discussing a position she'd applied for and was told she wasn't qualified for because her masters is in ed. -- we were talking about how absolutely narrow a lot the focus of professors/college studies are. we don't like it, but we do team teaching/ multi-culture/ world lit/ world history/ world religion/ cross-curricular, etc. that kind of stuff.

i'll email ya later. i could tell you lots about breaking copyright laws -- i'm a teacher

it's not clear to me what you want here, pixie.

do you want help in thinking through your situation? or do you want what may be called "emotional support", i.e. the hand-holding and understanding you are getting from sarah/str?

if it is the latter then that is fine with me; as a feminine approach it may be foreign to me but then we are not talking about my situation.

if it is the former however then i must say i agree with tommy here. at the moment you are all about contradictions, which is fine for a young person but not so fine when one is opting into a long-term relationship.

the brilliant cary tennis wrote this yesterday. it was about somebody totally different but to me it sounded like you:

"I must also say that I am greatly moved by what seems to be a breakdown of logic in your description of the problem and your response to it. At first I did not know what to make of it. I thought, gee, this letter writer is a graduate student in philosophy, she will probably make a stone-cold, airtight case full of subtle reasoning. And instead beneath the syntax was the sound of someone struggling, frightened, confused and hurt. It is endearing that you seem to be as much at sea with this issue as anyone else would be. Perhaps that is because it is a more devastating problem than you would like to let on -- so troubling that it crushes or deranges your ability to think about it logically."

hey marty and mc
i will be in paris mar2 and then london mar6 and nyc mar9
anyone want to see me? i promise to not pull a no show!

but i have to do geneva march 1-3. can't go to london either sorry. some other time hopefully

have you ever considered growing weed for tuition? ha just kidding.
i have a sparkly thing from being married. i got married at 24 and what a fucking drag. it completely destroyed me during and after. i have never worked at something so hard. i thought even the 3 carat diamond would make me feel better, but when he made me mad i buried it in the garden. it chipped. now i am left with 2.5 carat sparkly, an ex husband.
point of my story? get the sparkly, break up with him and sell it for money for tuition. men suck and they make us suck so get it and go get a phd. sounds shallow, but it works! rosie

hehe ... growing weed for tution is a fine idea - but I kill most plants. I've heard actually that growing weed isn't particularly easy.
I kill catcuses. (catci? I dunno.)

yes! someone mentioned weed!

weed is very easy to grow -- no need for pesticides! it's good for the ground. it's also . . . i can send you a huge amount of information on the benefits of weed. not that it matters.

i'd rather have a ring of hemp, but that's just me. i lost my first sparkly one though and then i was like who cares about the second

but then the hubby sent me and my best two girls flowers today, and i'm thinking, who else does this? really is there another guy out there who not only sends the woman he loves roses but also sends roses to her two best friends after his woman has tried for a solid year to leave him. it's valentine's day, and i mean, some guys are keepers i think, no matter how hard you try to get rid of them eventually you're like, no he's a good one. amazing.

i won't be getting a hemp ring, but i'm getting the coolest recycled hiking boots made from hemp and other recycled stuff.

rosie, i was twenty-four too, and although i wish i hadn't gotten myself hitched i think it's absolutely not his fault ever that i wish this; i've narrowed the problem done to one thing, me, he got involved with me and i am a leaver not a keeper. so . . . sometimes i think the girl is an asshole, and sometimes, i'm like, i'm an asshole in comparison to him.

but good luck to lovers, and glad you're back pixie.

"hehe ... growing weed for tution is a fine idea"

pixie, here are some other fine ideas about how to pay for your tuition, care of msn. i noticed that there are several avenues especially for those involved in health care and thought of you:

http://moneycentral.msn.com/content/Col ... 142701.asp

You can reduce your college debt quickly by taking a job serving the poor or working for the government.

By Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine

New grads who want to change the world often find that fighting poverty begins at home, as they contemplate their first measly paycheck and Kilimanjaro-size student loans. One solution: With assistance programs that repay student loans in return for work in underserved areas, you can do good and still make a big dent in that debt.

Brian McDonald's first job out of college, with a bank in Rochester, N.Y., followed a traditional career path in corporate finance. But when he was laid off several months later, he made a radical switch and became an AmeriCorps volunteer in Albuquerque.

McDonald, 24, worked for a nonprofit organization that makes microloans to low-income entrepreneurs, primarily minorities and women. During his yearlong stint, he earned a stipend of less than $10,000. But thanks to AmeriCorps' loan-repayment education awards, he still managed to pay off 25% of his $19,000 in student loans. Afterward, he began a career in community-development finance with the federal government.

Less pay, more payback
Public-interest jobs in underserved areas generally pay lower salaries than comparable private work in more competitive locations. To recruit qualified workers, a number of programs -- mostly governmental -- offer loan-repayment assistance plans in return for a commitment of at least a year or two. Funding can change, so the number of awards fluctuates from year to year. To put your best foot forward, you'll need to send in your application early, be flexible about relocating and be committed. To qualify for full loan-repayment assistance, you must fulfill your entire service period.

The biggest and most diverse program is AmeriCorps, which offers more than 75,000 positions each year, including the highly competitive Teach for America program. As a corps member, you can defer your student loans and receive a taxable grant of $4,725 per year for up to two years toward repaying them.

The Peace Corps, AmeriCorps' international cousin, has more than 7,000 volunteers working around the world in fields such as business development, health, agriculture and education. In return for a two-year commitment, you can defer your federal student loans. Perkins loan borrowers may have 15% of their loans forgiven for each year of service.

Health care
Brian Petrovich, 34, is a psychologist in Aurora, Mo., where 80% of his patients receive Medicaid. He earns about $25,000 a year less than he could be making in a practice in Minneapolis, his hometown, where he would have fewer patients on public assistance. But over three years he has also earned $85,000 toward student-loan repayment through the National Health Service Corps.

Each year the NHSC pays 4,000 health-care professionals to work in underserved communities. Health-care professionals qualify for loan-repayment assistance of up to $50,000 for a two-year commitment. But as in Petrovich's case, the agency may encourage practitioners to stick around by continuing financial support even after the initial service period ends.

In return for a two-year stint in areas where there's a shortage of nurses, RNs can wipe out 60% of their student-loan balances with awards from the Nursing Education Loan Repayment Program. In addition, 38 states offer loan-repayment programs to retain primary-care personnel. And some private hospitals use loan repayment as a recruiting tool. For information on health-related programs, go to the Bureau of Health Professions.

The National Institutes of Health offers up to $35,000 per year in loan-repayment aid to researchers with doctoral-level degrees who study clinical, pediatric, infertility and health-disparities topics.

J and I both wanted to do the peacecorps thing as soon as we graduate. but he'll have to wait on a me a year so ... who knows what we'll do in that time. That being said he's much, much less in debt after being in school for going on six years than I am for being in for two!

that sucks. debt i mean.

the peacecorps is an awesome opportunity, but if you don't mind my asking if you've got experience as a nurse why don't you pursue the national health service corp here in the states?

"In return for a two-year stint in areas where there's a shortage of nurses, RNs can wipe out 60% of their student-loan balances with awards from the Nursing Education Loan Repayment Program. In addition, 38 states offer loan-repayment programs to retain primary-care personnel. And some private hospitals use loan repayment as a recruiting tool. For information on health-related programs, go to the Bureau of Health Professions."

Before she met me, Mrs Tommy spent a year in Kenya. In those days she thought she was going to be an archeologist. Sadly her skills with a whip and a revolver were not up to snuff. She was deeply unimpressed with the peace corps people she encountered.

I was at a christmas party a couple of months ago with a guy who did a spell in Africa. He told me that he was considered a success because he was only violently ill for four months of his stint. (I think the posting was for just under a year) The rest of his group were up there between six and eight months. It was an experience for him but a complete waste of time and money with regards to those he was supposed to be aiding. Americorps seems like a better way of making a difference.

And as luck would have it, here is a picture of me at the party. Marky, note that I have moved on from my Paul Weller circa 1982 look.

http://www.tracycambron.com/DSCN0963.JPG

I don't think I could handle Africa really - and maybe just because of the school I go to lately I am much more interested in Latin America. (SLU is very big on Latin American issues - mostly just because we're Catholic I think but some of it has kind of struck a cord with me)

And because to keep my RN status I need to keep taking an $80 test every year or so if I'm not practicing. It's going to be a financial drain and in the end the job was to emotionally draining for me anyway. I'm very glad I did it - but I also learned I'm far too empathetic to deal with that kind of work the rest of my life.

I could mangae another two year stint in South America though. Probably. I have really bad luck with health though which is what J keeps harping on (even though he wants to do it - he apparently doesn't want me to die... isn't that... sweet ... I am trying to hear what he's actually saying and not want to scream at him I am not a delicate girl. I am delicate - but that's because I was DUMB and anorexic ... not cause I'm a girl.)

I think I missed almost this whole thread until now. Good picture Tommy!

Also, this part was pretty funny:

"you think you're all that and a bag of chips - well I'm all that and a bag of skittles so taste my rainbow, bitch"