Keane - We might as well be strangers
I don't know your face no more
Or feel the touch that I adore
I don't know your face no more
It's just a place, I'm looking for
We might as well be strangers in another town
We might as well be living in a different world
We might as well...(3x)
I don't know your thoughts these days
We're strangers in an empty space
I don't understand your heart
It's easier, to be apart
We might as well be strangers in another town
We might as well be living in another time
We might as well...(2x)
We might as well be strangers! Be strangers...
For all I know of you now.....(3x)
For all I know
31.8.08
Lyric Post Sunday
25.8.08
Stop this Train
As with my personal blog, I suppose I figured I'd ended up posting a lyric post. When my words can't match the mood. I'm trying hard to get used to things here in Macon, but aside from the people at my job I'm always feeling like I'm being attacked just for being who I am. For being different, for rising above the stereotype, for just being me. The ghetto people give me looks and talk junk at me b/c I don't like rap, play golf, and refuse to put up with their foolishness. And some (more than I'm used to though) of the white people keep treating me like I'm going to still something. Seriously? is it 1968? not 2008 did I miss the "whites only" sign when I came in the door? Believe you me, I hate the thugs, wannabes, no goods not working and getting my tax money via food stamps and welfare, the rap music, the foul mouths, etc just as much as you do. For the first time in long time I'm really homesick.
Stop this train by John Mayer
From the Continuum LP
Stop this train by John Mayer
From the Continuum LP
O, I'm not colorblind
I know the world is black and white
I try to keep an open mind
But I just can't sleep on this tonight
Stop this train
I want to get off
And go home again
I can't take the speed it's moving in
I know I can't
But honestly, won't someone stop this train?
Don't know how else to say it
I don't want to see my parents go
One generation's length away
From fighting life out on my own
Stop this train
I want to get off
And go home again
I can't take the speed it's moving in
I know I can't
But honestly, won't someone stop this train?
So scared of getting older
I'm only good at being young
So I play the numbers game
To find a way to say that life has just begun
Had a talk with my old man
Said "help me understand"
He said "turn sixty-eight
You renegotiate"
"Don't stop this train
Don't for a minute change the place you're in
Don't think I couldn't ever understand
I tried my handJohnJazz, honestly we'll never stop this train"
Once in awhile, when it's good
It'll feel like it should
And they're all still around
And you're still safe and sound
And you don't miss a thing
Till you cry when you're driving away in the dark
Singing
Stop this train
I want to get off
And go home again
I can't take the speed it's moving in
I know I can't
Cause now I see I will never stop this train
21.8.08
Golf and pastries
When I'm not dreaming of being a big smart engineer, I dream of being a chef. I love to cook, always have. Bought my first cookbook when I was 6. My dad (aka 46) taught me how to cook, my mom's not a big cooking person. But my 46? He loves to cook, bake and whatnot, he might be the reason I'm chubby today, but then again I didn't have to eat 3 servings of everything growing up.
Since my start date with Georgia Power is up in the air, I've been looking for some part time work. Full time for now and then part time, until I get settled into myself. I finally got a job at a country club near my house, Healy Point Country Club. Yet somehow I always think of Major Healy from "I dream of Jeannie". I'm going to be working in the kitchen and it seems like it's going to be a real challenge. They make all sorts of different foods from grilled foods and snacks to fancy plated dinners and steakhouse dinners. Frank, the head of the kitchen is hoping I have the knack for pastry making, so I can focus on helping him on the days the other pastry chef cannot work, including Sunday. I know my asian pastries, but western pastries are a different matter. Aside from pies and tarts I think that's it. Of course if you include things like cakes and muffins, and breads, sure I'm good. Pastries though, I always wanted to better those skills.
My boyfriend is very shocked I got the job, Macon can seem to be very black and white, especially if you're black. He's lived in nearby Warner Robins since middle school and it really does explain a whole about his perceptions. I told him the nite before the interview that I thought I was good person for the job and if they don't care about their organisation enough to look past a silly thing like race, then it's their waste. So I went in there yesterday, confident and ready for anything. I was myself, friendly, inquisitive yet knowledgeable, and determined. They offered me the job on the spot and I start tomorrow. -woot-
18.8.08
Why Technically Blonde?
I'm going to answer the easy question first.
Why technischblondine.blogger?
Technically blonde was taken, and this means the same in german. I studied that in middle and highschool, it sticks with you.
Why technically blonde?
Started off as a joke really. It was one of the random line thrown my way when I first started the engineering program, when I was horribly shy and inadequate about my math skills and refused to talk. Therefore people tended to think I didn't know anything. Which was a lie! That last a year and a half, then I just stop caring. I came to school to learn, not because I already knew everything. And as for me liking the colour pink so much, oh well. I guess it just sort of shows that girly side of me that doesn't care, because I can back it up with facts. If I can't I'm willing to learn.
So you're a girly girl?
girly-ness is relative. In relation to the guys in my department, yes. In relation to most of the girls in my department, yes. In relation to the average girl my age, no. I do like the color pink, I have pink polos, golf clubs, tsquare, DMM, calculator cover, etc. However, I'm not much for shopping at malls, wearing heels, wearing makeup all the time, those girly things i do sparingly. Though I do constantly change my hair, which I'll have to tone down soon. I never watch mtv, sex and the city, BET, but that might be moreof my nerdy-ness than anything. So again it's all relative, and in the engineering coordinate system I suppose the answer's yes.
So the purpose of this blog?
I suppose to express my life starting out in this mad mad world. It's just my opinion of course, but being a girl in engineering has gotten a lot better. However, so far it seems to me that most people are willing to accept you being a woman engineer as long as you're doing certain jobs. There was a lot of concern when I started my internship with Hargrove and Associates, since I worked at a Paper Plant. But I loved it, I mostly stayed in the office filing away CAD drawings, but anytime I gotta chance to get out there. I did. When I got offered the position of a distribution engineer for a plant at Georgia Power, the idea that I'll at time be at the plant or in the beginning at the substation ( I have to rotate around all the departments the first few months) gave alot of people concern. My mother, as happy as she is for, still cannot picture me in a hard hat, steel toe shoes, safety glasses, calibrating magnets on amachine (which I've done before). Of course it also might just be a southern thing. Being a nice "genteel lady" with a nice desk engineer job. People keep asking why'd I want to do something that could be dangerous but my concern is to be safe. These people watch too many engineering disaster episodes of Modern Marvels. I know that there are somethings I'll have to change, like my hair to something hard hat friendly. Oh and office friendly since i've been known to have pink, lite blue or even red hair. lol.
Why technischblondine.blogger?
Technically blonde was taken, and this means the same in german. I studied that in middle and highschool, it sticks with you.
Why technically blonde?
Started off as a joke really. It was one of the random line thrown my way when I first started the engineering program, when I was horribly shy and inadequate about my math skills and refused to talk. Therefore people tended to think I didn't know anything. Which was a lie! That last a year and a half, then I just stop caring. I came to school to learn, not because I already knew everything. And as for me liking the colour pink so much, oh well. I guess it just sort of shows that girly side of me that doesn't care, because I can back it up with facts. If I can't I'm willing to learn.
So you're a girly girl?
girly-ness is relative. In relation to the guys in my department, yes. In relation to most of the girls in my department, yes. In relation to the average girl my age, no. I do like the color pink, I have pink polos, golf clubs, tsquare, DMM, calculator cover, etc. However, I'm not much for shopping at malls, wearing heels, wearing makeup all the time, those girly things i do sparingly. Though I do constantly change my hair, which I'll have to tone down soon. I never watch mtv, sex and the city, BET, but that might be moreof my nerdy-ness than anything. So again it's all relative, and in the engineering coordinate system I suppose the answer's yes.
So the purpose of this blog?
I suppose to express my life starting out in this mad mad world. It's just my opinion of course, but being a girl in engineering has gotten a lot better. However, so far it seems to me that most people are willing to accept you being a woman engineer as long as you're doing certain jobs. There was a lot of concern when I started my internship with Hargrove and Associates, since I worked at a Paper Plant. But I loved it, I mostly stayed in the office filing away CAD drawings, but anytime I gotta chance to get out there. I did. When I got offered the position of a distribution engineer for a plant at Georgia Power, the idea that I'll at time be at the plant or in the beginning at the substation ( I have to rotate around all the departments the first few months) gave alot of people concern. My mother, as happy as she is for, still cannot picture me in a hard hat, steel toe shoes, safety glasses, calibrating magnets on amachine (which I've done before). Of course it also might just be a southern thing. Being a nice "genteel lady" with a nice desk engineer job. People keep asking why'd I want to do something that could be dangerous but my concern is to be safe. These people watch too many engineering disaster episodes of Modern Marvels. I know that there are somethings I'll have to change, like my hair to something hard hat friendly. Oh and office friendly since i've been known to have pink, lite blue or even red hair. lol.
15.8.08
Why engineering?
I figured I should start this thing with some more information about me. Well it's obvious, I'm a girl and I'm starting my career in engineering. Electrical Engineering to be exact. My degree's in electrical engineering technology which is like EE but with 2 less maths and twice as many labs. I'm not even kidding, I'm suprised they didn't give us a lab for Engineering Economy. Georgia Southern's engineering department, loves to focuse on real world, field engineering; not neccesarily theory and whatnot.
I know I just started and since when I entered GSU I was a computer engineering major hellbent on taking over microsoft and now an EET focusing on industry, I know that plans are always subject to change. However right now my main goal is to pass the EIT exam in April so I can eventually become a licensed professional engineer. I'm not sure where life will lead me, though I am partial to design engineering, always have been. I want to grad school, but I don't know if I want to go for pure engineering, an engineering science, or go a bit left field and get my masters in Industrial Design.
I've wanted to be an engineer since I was 6 or 7. My older sister, Dante' went to MIT for EE and that's where it started. It's very ironic now, since she's got an MBA now and is majorly a big high roller in the business world. She said she knew before she graduated she wasn't going into engineering. That's always been my issue to deal with because I was horrible at math, my whole life and people tended to think the only reason I wanted to be an engineer was beause she was. All the while I never really realised until I was in college that she never worked as an engineer and had moved on to bigger better things.
It is true that I have to try hard at math. I had to take Calc 2 three times. I thought I would never pass. But I did, finally. But that never stopped me, I've defied a lot of odds in life so I wasn't about to let calculus defeat me. Besides I did very well in physics and in most of my engineering classes, because that was interesting it was more than numbers. Though I admit my least favourite classes were Signal Processing and Communication Electronics. The teacher was boss, the topic just bored me to tears. My favourite classes were, electronics advanced and beginning, PLC's, Drafting, and rotating machinery classes. In fact I loved all my classes except for the communication ones.
Finally I answer a question that many people ask: "If you could do anything for a living what would it be?" I'd be a kitchen appliance design engineer. Or I'd design vending machines, must be the japanese in me.
I think that's enough for now.
I know I just started and since when I entered GSU I was a computer engineering major hellbent on taking over microsoft and now an EET focusing on industry, I know that plans are always subject to change. However right now my main goal is to pass the EIT exam in April so I can eventually become a licensed professional engineer. I'm not sure where life will lead me, though I am partial to design engineering, always have been. I want to grad school, but I don't know if I want to go for pure engineering, an engineering science, or go a bit left field and get my masters in Industrial Design.
I've wanted to be an engineer since I was 6 or 7. My older sister, Dante' went to MIT for EE and that's where it started. It's very ironic now, since she's got an MBA now and is majorly a big high roller in the business world. She said she knew before she graduated she wasn't going into engineering. That's always been my issue to deal with because I was horrible at math, my whole life and people tended to think the only reason I wanted to be an engineer was beause she was. All the while I never really realised until I was in college that she never worked as an engineer and had moved on to bigger better things.
It is true that I have to try hard at math. I had to take Calc 2 three times. I thought I would never pass. But I did, finally. But that never stopped me, I've defied a lot of odds in life so I wasn't about to let calculus defeat me. Besides I did very well in physics and in most of my engineering classes, because that was interesting it was more than numbers. Though I admit my least favourite classes were Signal Processing and Communication Electronics. The teacher was boss, the topic just bored me to tears. My favourite classes were, electronics advanced and beginning, PLC's, Drafting, and rotating machinery classes. In fact I loved all my classes except for the communication ones.
Finally I answer a question that many people ask: "If you could do anything for a living what would it be?" I'd be a kitchen appliance design engineer. Or I'd design vending machines, must be the japanese in me.
I think that's enough for now.