Living, Learning, Working

An update that hasn't happened yet for this New Year, get ready, I'm going to throw it at you fast!

New living situation with a wonderful girl named Jordan. We have pink and turquoise walls, pictures of flowers everywhere, and an almost permanent music of laughter. I'm enjoying it. For those that need my new address feel free to e-mail me and I'll get it to you quickly. I always apreciate snail-mail.

More on living, yes, I am "officially dating" now, you have to ask me about that one though because I enjoy talking about him.

New semester, taking 18 hours with some professors I think I'll enjoy.
On Monday/Wednesday/Fridays classes include:

• Financial Accounting
• Speech/Small Group Communication
• Political Science, Constituional Government
• and Business Calculus

And on Tuesday/Thursdays I take:

• English, Thinking and Writing Research
• and MicroEconomics

So far I believe I have good professors, my Calculus professor will be the most difficult but she seems willing to be helpful and I have many math-inclined friends that have taken the course before me so I'll be quite fine. My Accounting professor is basically famous and many of the ladies I know in Baylor Business Women encouraged me to take her, so I have high hopes. I do like the rest of my professors also, but those are the the two that stand out most right now though I'm certain you'll hear more futurely.

So, that encompasses some of the learning. I'm also a part of a group of students that are engaging various issues of our world effort to gain some perspective from each other in a holistic way. Essentially each individual has chosen either an area of personal interest or expertise and is expounding upon it to contemplate what sort of future are we headed into and/or what can we make of it. It's more about being active rather than reactive or passive about the life we are in because really each moment began as the future. There are many very brilliant thinkers and some very skilled writers and I have loved being able to chat with them. As for my topic...um...people? I'd like to find something business related as I spend so much of my time in the business school and obviously it's an interest as an Accounting major. I've posted some thoughts on this page that I would enjoy calling my "topic" but really I've yet to officially decide or be specific enough in any of my writing to declare a focus.  I must get on that. The hope is this group will have the opportunity to cultivate thought through the varying topics and the way they interweave. It's very interdisciplinary and just fun to be a part of, it's expanded my thinking for sure.

Now, working.
I've started training at H&R Block this week...and everytime I answer the phone I have to check myself not to say "thank you for calling TeamTax...". No, it's, "Thank you for calling H&R Block at (address) this is Allison how can I help you this afternoon?"
I have a lot to learn but it will be good for me to learn. There is the potential that someday I could work with them in an internship toward my major but I've not really gotten into the details of that yet or I'd share. It's just a hope I'm conscious of.

I think that is a sufficient summary of the recent start of the semester, so I'll try and keep posted as things move from here...I'll also try to write when it's not late at night, that way you get some more coherant and descriptive paragraphs ;)
Until next time, good night.