Sorry I've been so neglecting of the blog lately. One day I'll be all settled in and will start posting more. We moved this weekend. I have decided we own way too much crap. We're on the second floor and every muscle I have just aches from all the lifting.
Unfortunately the DSL won't be connected until like the 17th so any home interneting is out. I might do some from work, probably so. They frown on internet while at work except on breaks, which I get none but a lunch. I am unsure if they still have break computers to use. If not we can forget about it because if I tried to use my desk during lunch I'd get bothered with work stuff. But I can probably squeeze some time in somewhere to say hello.
I know I've asked for prayers for Amy's studies before but this time is for real. She didn't take her exams twice last year and this time she absolutely must take them. They are in early September and they are killer. Five tests over three days at about 3 hours a pop. They give her a broad subject like phonetics and make her study everything possible concerning that subject. If she fails any subject she will get one more chance at it. If she fails that the last several years are all for naught.
Amy is procrastinator queen so please beg God that she will get down on it. She has plenty of distractions with an apartment that needs to be unpacked too so she needs extra pushing.
I start work Tuesday, joy of joys.
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We have been, are, and will pray for Amy Beth. Glad y'all got into the apartment. I HATE moving, so I feel your pain. I had the same sort of tests when I was finishing my Master's. All she can do is study, study, study. I'm not sure what the format will be, but mine were all essay. I had to study every speck of material from 20 different topic areas and then answer 3, randomly picked questions from all that! Tell her to pray, too. That helped me to calm my mind and focus before sitting down to study and before sitting down for my exams, too. We will do the same!
I'll throw some her way you too for that matter. Take things easy for a while because you've got to wrangle her into a routine so that the past several years of her life aren't quickly tunred into memeories with out expectations. Be the firm husband we all hate but must be sometimes.
Love you guys.
i will send some up for the both of you as well. i know how i would be...amy and i procrastinate on about the same level...and it drives my hubby crazy...so i can only say to push her..but push her gently!
Brew, do you know what format her exams will be? Just curious. If they are multiple choice or true/false, she'll probably have an easier time with them since it's all based on recognition. But, if it is all short answer and essay, that's a horse of a different color. Anyway, I agree with the Mullins...gently nudge her in the right direction. Help her in ANY way you can, too. Whe Rachel was coming up on deadlines and her exit show, I built her display and helped her warp looms and dye fabric. I also cooked, cleaned, did laundry, and did everything else I could to make sure she had the time she needed to just focus. You'll probably only need to do the latter. Just make her as comfortable and give her all the stress-free time she can get to accomplish this goal. When it's all past, then y'all can relax and maybe have the ocassional nightmare about it.
our wives have much in common. However, if she is like my wife, she will put it off to the last minute and do very very well... Larissa was "one of those" kids in high school.
I always took the line of thinking that if you take good notes and listen in class, study time will be minimal. But, Amy Beth has been out of the studying/classroom thing for over year. She hasn't had the opportunity to take notes, have class, or anything like that. But, perhaps she'll have plenty of upkeep of knowledge from teaching and the immersion she no doubt underwent in France. In any case, hope she studies and does very well.
Brew might add this but in his absence I will. They told us that in France they never spoke French. Amy taught English and spoke it all day in the English dept. Brew took French lessons but got home and spoke to his English speaking wife in English. Brew it's up to you, hold out sexual favors until she relents. Um by the way Jules I mopped the bathroom floor...
Oh, man. I didn't think of that. Yeah, she's gonna need to put on the French thinking cap...
yes hunny i saw that you mopped the floor....but i think you were fully repaid for that..
Is it just me, or does "Mopping the bathroom floor" sound like a dirty euphamism. Sorta like "scrubbing the kitchen sink" or "dusting the bookshelves". Yeah, it's just me...
The great George Kostanza once said in the episode titled "The Red Dot" in reference to his office cleaning lady:
"So we started drinking, and I'll tell you I don't know if it was the alcohol or the ammonia, but the next think I knew she was mopping the floor with me."
Good ole George...I thought I'd heard that euphamism somewhere before.
Lets end this thread here...
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MUHAHHAHAAHA!
Curse you BRALYYYYYYYYY!!!!!
It will be essays and problem solving. One of the things she will have to do is read a long piece of old French and then go about dating it and placing within a region of France. This is much more difficult than it sounds because the clues come in very small forms with the spellings and use of the schwa and what not.
There will be other problems I couldn't begin to explain but that will take hours and fill up pages.
Who wants to have sex on the kitchen floor when there is a nice bed in the next room?
OH, and I will be doing plenty of cooking, cleaning, unpacking while she studies.I keep telling her not to worry about it and to study. So far it is working.
Good man, Brew. Just remove the pressure and let her do what she needs to do. I believe she'll do well. She's smart and knows her stuff. Once she gets that brain warmed-up, she'll be dating prose and spewing forth pages of intelligent analysis!
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