Thursday, August 27, 2009

I Know a Song that Gets on Everybody's Nerves

Hello everybody (everybody meaning the 8:30 Essential Computer Skills class at Trinity University on Tuesdays and Thursdays)! My name is Noelle Parsons, and I am from Austin, Texas. I do go by the name Noelle because I think it is a lovely name, if I do say so myself. I went to St. Michael's Catholic Academy for high school, where currently my mother is Head of the Science Department and my sisters, Anna and Kira, are juniors. So yes, you guessed it: St. Michael's was a very family-oriented place for me. I actually had my mom as my Biology teacher both freshman and senior years of high school, and I really enjoyed it. My dad, alas, does not work at St. Michael's, but he is an Ethics and Compliance Officer for Freescale. Whew. Long title.
If you haven't caught on already, I am very close with my family. It was difficult to leave home to come here, but I am glad that I did. I do talk to my family every night, and here's a word of warning: do not talk on the phone on your balcony for too long or else you will have so many mosquito bites on you that you continuously find new ones. Not fun.
The reason I titled this post with the most annoying song title ever is because I love music. No, I am not a prodigy who can play multiple instruments: I don't play any. And I do not want to become a music major or minor; I just love music. I am always singing or humming or thinking about a song I heard recently or not-so-recently. As a result of this, I am sometimes unware of when I am humming too much, so stop me if I get annoying (which I do get annoying). More things that I love and hope to continue while here at Trinity include drama, learning new things (sounds cheesy, but I legitly like school...), talking to anyone who wants to talk to me (I talk WAY TOO MUCH), checking the mail (I am always checking my mailbox here haha), watching funny movies, going to church and participating in youth group, and so on and so forth. I am so excited to be at a new school and to have the opportunity to take these unique electives.
So on the sticky note I decided to admit something slightly embarrassing about myself: I used to be afraid of the ending credits of movies. Nowadays I just get a little apprehensive when it comes to the movie ending and the credits playing with no exciting videos on the side to distract me, but when I was little, I remember running out of the room if someone didn't turn off the movie soon enough. The Little Mermaid 2 is pure evil. I'm just saying.
I am not a computer genius. In fact, I am surprised that I get by on what I know. My sister Anna is a genius at this stuff--I don't know where that came from, but I did not get that part of the gene pool. I have never taken a computer class, and I never formally learned how to touch type. I'm not too shabby though. I am really excited about this class. I'm not sure if I need to put my e-mail in this or not, but I will just in case: nparsons@trinity.edu. And thank you to everybody who managed to read this whole post because I know it is LONG. :)

My family