Book Learnin'

Hello all,



I'm all dressed up with so many places to go...I am traveling to a big community meeting tonight that one of our key partners is holding to assess community needs in that community. Basically all the things we will b trying to conduct in the upcoming months. It doesn't start until 7 and is about an hour and 15 minutes away. Starting the week off with a bang I'd say. I'm wearing a pretty blue dress and my pink heels. I told the ladies at work it's sloppy seconds to the hot little Easter dress I tried on at our garage sale last weekend ;)

I haven't put the pictures on my computer from the wonderful visit from my mom, the real blog worthy topic of the day, but that is soon to follow. I wish I had some of her wonderful photos to start this blog off right. It would add a splash of much needed color on my long work day and this overcast weather. Mom, would you like to be a published photographer? Send some of those bugs and flowers my way and you can have the first artist spotlight on the famous Ashley Wolter blog..viewed by millions daily ;)

So as many of you family members and facebook creepers may already know I have been accepted as a provisional student into the Counseling Psychology Program at UT Tyler. wooo hooo! Yes, it still has that damn provisional in front of it but initially I was going to have to take the GRE before they would even grant me that. Now, once I take my test and hopefully have the scores they wan I'll be the real deal. This allows me to plan classes for the summer session though which is great news. I'm still planning on taking my GRE mid April (a few weeks, yikes!)and I have an academic advising meeting tomorrow night with the head of the department (booya) Hopefully this will get me well on way. I'm intimidated by this whole thing but it feels good to have this kind of challenge in front of me, like rechanneled competitiveness. Thank god that's finally going to good use, right? Pheeww.

So in honor of all the book learnin' I'm about to embark on I thought I'd leave all of your with some quotes to ponder.


"The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. "~Alvin Toffler

"Conservatives say teaching sex education in the public schools will promote promiscuity. With our education system? If we promote promiscuity the same way we promote math or science, they've got nothing to worry about."~Beverly Mickens

...get it, because Americans suck at Math and Science....

"It has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about education so little stress is laid on the pleasure of becoming an educated person, the enormous interest it adds to life. To be able to be caught up into the world of thought -- that is to be educated."~Edith Hamilton

"Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it."~Marian Wright Edelman

A couple photos I enjoyed. Check out their work if these photos tickle your fancy like they did mine.


This photograph was done by Catherine Hall. It was taken in Florida. Listen here little boy, Iowa is John Deere country..



This photograph is done by Doug Barber aka Q-ball. He seems like a renegade and a tad grumpy but he's worth checking out.

Have a wonderful day everyone!