Last week, I bought the book “1001 Ways to Money” by Trent Hamm. I said that after school had let out I was going to be focusing on making money. As I was reading Trent’s book, I just had to buy it. There were some great ideas that could actually work and I could start immediately.

Idea # 754 suggested being a  Husband for hire. Well, I thought this was good enough to run with. Just a few minutes ago, I placed an ad on Craigslist offering my labor services. We see what happens.

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Yesterday wasn’t a very well executed day. I was able to unpack, stick to my morning change of diet and then go to work. However, when I got off work, that is where things fell apart. I did have a salad when I got home, but it was 7:00 p.m when I finally settled in to start again. I didn’t know what to do about how to promote my home business. I didn’t have a plan for reading any books.

Now that I’m up, I think that mornings are going to be the ideal time for reading. My plan for the week should be done on the weekends, and evaluated on the weekends.

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Where is it?

twenty-one miles from here.

no on will see us?

be quite darling

A fire argues?

She was hot wasn’t she?

Stop it

Hot house 21 up ahead

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Today marks a new chapter in my life. Over the weekend, I moved into a place.  I just found out that my internet is working. So after checking my email, this blog is the second thing that I did on my internet connection. More to come later.

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I have so much to write about and so little time now that school is out. This weekend I have to move. I’ve been packing since yesterday evening. It’s odd to see all of your life possessions in boxes. It’s even more odd to see all of the things you’ve accumulated that you hardly ever use.

Fighting for a B

I must write about this. My social science professor at Harold Washington College put my final grade on Blackboard Thursday afternoon. She gave me a D. I emailed her back asking her why she hadn’t put my two, one-minute writings and my final test. She claimed to have had a test paper with no name on it. I would have to go to school and give her a writing sample to prove that it was my test.

 

Here is the email she sent me.

“Eric,
I have one test with no name on it.  You will need to prove through a writing sample that it is yours.  Your only time to accomplish this in Friday morning.  What is your schedule?”

“Bring proof of your missing one-min. papers, too.”

I arrived at her office on Friday, at 10:00 a.m. sharp. When I entered her office, she asked me what I was doing here. I told her she told me to come in. She seemed to not even know it was me that she was emailing.

I gave her a sample of my writing and then she said that it wasn’t my paper. This is when I knew that we had a problem. She looked into her folder and found my test paper with my name on it. I asked her what happened, and she said that she tried to enter it into Blackboard, and she thinks because the entire Chicago Public School system is using Blackboard that it got bogged down and didn’t register it. Then she asked if I brought my one-minute writing papers in. I told her that I didn’t because I was moving. She then looked into her folder again and found both of my one-minute papers. She then calculated my score and said I had went from a D to a B. And then she unsuccessfully tried to add her humor to the situation by telling me how lucky I was for coming in.

First, I was never at a D to begin with. Secondly, why should I feel lucky? I really studied for that exam. This social science class was one of the most challenging classes I’ve taken at Harold Washington College. This really bothered me, but I guess I will take the advice of the treasurer of s.g.a gave me, teachers make mistakes too. Whatever.

Feeling no fear

I was listening to Prince’s music while I was packing. It dawned on how much fear holds us back. As an artist, you have to be fearless. I believe religion plays a major role in creating fear with individuals. Prince was one of the first black artist to really stretch the envelope with sexuality and music. He expressed through his music what he was feeling or wanted to say without any fear or judgement. I must be the same way as an artist. I can’t worry about what people may think of me when I blog. These are my thoughts that I willing share with the world. I certainly can’t worry about any repercussions of what I publish either. That is what make America so great.

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i am alive

to tell my story about love

and what it is not

my man as I once called him

tried to kill me

how can the man who gave me

kisses that made me feel so sweet

in a moments notice

want me dead?

the words “I love you” seem so

so foreign now

like hearing Danish for the first time

i wonder if their young lovers react

like we do

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It took less than a hour for the retail sales report being released at 8:30 a.m. E.S.T. for the EUR/USD to drop 100 pips. In the month of November, sales gained 1.3 %. By the end of the day, it droped 165 pips.

All this time, I was thinking that reports were C.S.T. and I’ve been waiting until 8:30 a.m. for things to develop. No wonder the always made major moves when I was ready to leave for work.

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Today I was away from the market with an open position. Had I placed a stop limit, I could have made 50 pips. The market did drop another 30 pips for me to capture when I returned home from the last day of school.

I’m going to start keeping track of my efforts. This graph below represents the number of pips I was gained today.

12-9-09 = 30.4 Pips

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I’m dead tired right now. I just spent an hour dropping card on Entrecard. I started with in the catagory Making Money Online. My goal was to find on thing I could do to make money online and blog about it. In my opinion, most of the sites in this catagory are useless in terms of information about making money online. I did see maybe two online programs, but earning $10.00 after three months of clicking on ads, isn’t how I want to spend my time.

This proves that your time is valuable. Why waste you time on things that can’t make you any real money? I’m going to try some other site but Entrecard has just lost my support.

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I just finished my African-American final exam. It turned out that we didn’t have any essay questions after all, just multiple choice. I was quite ashamed that I didn’t know as much as I thought I did. I just didn’t have time to study. Next time, until I’m self-sufficient, I’m going to a part-time student.

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