RA training schedule

Monday August 21st

Work style strengths, welcoming activities etc. ice breakers

Tuesday, August 22nd

Student Development Theory, Getting to Know You, Roles of the RA, Intro to the office of res life, programming for you floor, panel: how to make it through training.

Wednesday, August 23rd

Hall staff time (work on bulletin boards, name tags), seminar: being professional, developing relationships between RA and student government, Resident Director's Runway Show.

Thursday, August 24th

Beyond Boundaries, Diversity @ Simmons, Lesbian, Gay, Bi, Transexual, Queer discussion, social justice, issues of class and last but not least eating disorders.

Friday August 25th

Active Listening, Peer Counseling Issues, Mediation, Depression and Suicide Counseling, Sexual Assault

Free weekend

Monday August 28th

Resource Fair, Drug and Alcohol Abuse, Time Management and Organizational Skills.

Tuesday August 29th

Outward Bound Trip--outdoors training at Thompson Island.

Wednesday August 30th

Hall Staff time (getting ready for the arrivals), Confrontation skills, Incident Reports and the Judicial Process, Ethical Decission Making, Panel: Being a Role Model

Thursday August 31st

Hall opening procedures, facebook and other hazards of the internet, intro to RAD (self defense). Public safety.

Friday September 1st

Work groups (don't know what those are yet)

Saturday

free

sunday

hall meetings and opening procedures.

At work

move in on sunday. don't know how I feel. trying to design training activity for the fall.

wish me luck on everything.

Hedley Lamarr: Go do that voodoo that you do so well!
Hedley Lamarr: Repeat after me: I...
Men: I...
Hedley Lamarr: ...your name...
Men: ...your name...
Hedley Lamarr: [to himself] Shmucks.
[aloud]
Hedley Lamarr: ... do pledge allegiance...
Men: ...do pledge allegiance...
Hedley Lamarr: ...to Hedley Lamarr...
Men: ...to Hedy Lamarr...
Hedley Lamarr: That's *Hedley*.
Men: That's Hedley.

Bart: Are we awake?
Jim: We're not sure. Are we black?
Bart: Yes, we are.
Jim: Then we're awake, but very puzzled.

[Bart, disguised as a Klansman, describes his qualifications as a villain]
Bart: Stampeding cattle.
Hedley Lamarr: That's not much of a crime.
Bart: Through the Vatican?
Hedley Lamarr: [smiling] Kinky. Sign here.

edley Lamarr: Meeting adjourned. Oh, I am sorry sir I didn't mean to overstep my bounds, you say that.
Governor William J. Le Petomane: What?
Hedley Lamarr: Meeting is adjourned.
Governor William J. Le Petomane: It is?
Hedley Lamarr: No, you say that governor.
Governor William J. Le Petomane: What?
Hedley Lamarr: Meeting is adjourned.
Governor William J. Le Petomane: It is?
Hedley Lamarr: Here sir, play with this.
[Hands the governor a rubber ball and paddle set]

Hedley Lamarr: My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives.
Taggart: God darnit Mr. Lamarr, you use your tongue prettier than a twenty dollar whore.

[to two members of the KKK]
Jim: Oh boys, lookee what I got heyuh.
Bart: Hey, where the white women at.

edley Lamarr: My mind is aglow with whirling, transient nodes of thought careening thru a cosmic vapor of invention.
Taggart: Ditto.
Hedley Lamarr: "Ditto"? "Ditto," you provincial putz?

ggart: What do you want me to do sir?
Hedley Lamarr: I want you to round up ever vicious criminal and gun slinger in the west. Take this down.
[Taggart looks for a pen and paper while Hedley talks]
Hedley Lamarr: I want rustlers, cut throats, murderers, bounty hunters, desperados, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, halfwits, dimwits, vipers, snipers, con men, Indian agents, Mexican bandits, muggers, buggerers, bushwhackers, hornswogglers, horse thieves, bull dykes, train robbers, bank robbers, ass-kickers, shit-kickers and Methodists.
Taggart: [finding pen and paper] Could you repeat that, sir?

Buddy's Singers: Throw out your hands. / Stick out your tush. / Hands on your hips, give 'em a push. / You'll be surprised you're doing the French mistake. / Voila.

my summer is full of quirks

"so, reading OOTP on the phone at 1AM in funny voices, making fudge sound like a drunk pervert, dumbledore like a stud and kingsley like a rastafarian, is just proof that a book, even if it's been read a thousand times, can still be exciting.

dumbledore: i am afraid i am not going to come quietly at all, cornelius. I AM GOING TO COME WITH RAGING GUSTO!

cornelius: enough of this rubbish! dawlish! shacklebolt! TAKE ME!

kingsley: ...ah don't kno."


oooh yeah.

needing school

I need the freedom. I need the productivity. I need need need school. Staying at home is lame.