Iria Vasquez-Paez
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I have a B.A. in creative writing from San Francisco State. Can people please donate? I'm very low-income. I need to start an escape the Ferengi plan.
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Why I Want Advanced Degrees
I have a bachelor’s in creative writing from San Francisco State University, and two A.A. degrees from Foothill College, one in creative writing and one in anthropology with honors. I had a scholarship for my B.A. and my parents helped with my A.A.s, but now nobody is helping me with school, I have to somehow make the money on my own. So yeah, I appreciate the donations I can get on here. I have to take junior college classes that both repeat the bad grades I got and add new things to my academic record. I want to start off with a law degree/joint MBA degree from a Catholic school out here. My plan to get there is to take psychology online from Foothill, and then maintain my units. I also want to take online business classes as well as on campus business classes.
By Iria Vasquez-Paez6 years ago in Education
My Alcoholism Prevented Me From Getting Advanced Degrees
When I was busy drinking on half-baked meds and wasting my time in other ways, I didn’t think about how this would impact my desire to get advanced degrees. I knew in my twenties that I wanted to become a lawyer and get a psychology Ph.D. But in my thirties, my desire to study medicine came out with help from a friend of mine who pointed out I wanted to become a prescribing psychiatrist in addition. This desire got tacked on to my other desires. I have no idea how the psychiatrist thing popped into my head but it did. Then I discovered I just plain wanted to help people with my disability. I would like a joint MBA with my law degree and also, I want a Masters in psychology, an M.S. specifically.
By Iria Vasquez-Paez6 years ago in Proof
The Time of a Disabled Person Is Not Yours to Waste
Despite the many disabilities there are out there because of this polluted, godforsaken, hell-hole, and wretched planet of a world that sits on the Orion Arm in the Milky Way Galaxy, disabled people’s time is not yours to waste. Sometimes we have bad days. Those of us with chronic illness intimately know that we have bad days and goodness knows that happens. Just sleeping through the night for me is a huge accomplishment. I don’t think I know what that’s like, period. I had symptoms of pediatric schizophrenia since I was a one-year-old.
By Iria Vasquez-Paez6 years ago in Longevity
How to Lose Weight
It is essential to losing weight slowly, not quickly. To lose weight too fast can signal impending diabetes, often called pre-diabetes, or having a blood sugar of 100-120. Most normal humans have blood sugars from 70-90, give or take a threshold. For diabetics, it is recommended for them to maintain a non-diabetic average. Eating breakfast and eating, in general, is conducive to weight loss. Being overweight causes many problems from blood sugar to aesthetics. Oatmeal can help weight loss because it isn’t as refined as, say, Kellogg’s Cornflakes. I’m trying to cut cereal from my diet right now because I need to get back to at least 110 lbs. I’m 119.
By Iria Vasquez-Paez6 years ago in Longevity
How to Find Your Motivation
Motivation is defined as the desire to do things other than lay in bed all day. Motivation means you are doing something to better your existence. If you write down your goals, there is no truth that you will attain what you write down. Sometimes, some goals fall through. Sometimes you are not always successful. But motivation propels you to at least try. Not having any motivation can be painful. This is what marijuana can do to some people when used to excess without being used properly in a medicinal way. Written goals spell out what needs to be accomplished. It can be set monthly, for example, to have written goals out for every month.
By Iria Vasquez-Paez6 years ago in Motivation
Eliminating the Two-Party System
The two party system is deeply flawed. It pits people against each other. If we truly want to judge a candidate by their character and not their affiliation, then we are doing the work that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. wanted us to do. On the heels of campaign finance reform, we need to redefine our politics and ourselves, since Republicans are all about being pro-life and Democrats are about equal pay for equal work. Some of us moderates are left out within the two party systems since the system forces us to lean to the right or to the left, but never in the middle.
By Iria Vasquez-Paez6 years ago in The Swamp
Reigning in Bad Bipolar Spending Habits
Bad spending habits can be stopped if you just sit on your money, and have whole days where you don’t spend a dime. As a low-income person, I have to save money every which way I can. It almost takes crazy money saving habits to new heights. I mean I can go to the store and spend minimum $15-20. I have spaghetti and meatballs I need to cook, along with crepes, because I have flour for those. I made myself a potato soup, which turned out well. My next soup excursion will happen after my Internet bill clears, and I have time to go to the store.
By Iria Vasquez-Paez6 years ago in Lifehack
The True Minimum Wage in California
The minimum wage, such a hotly contested situation, is now $10.50 an hour in the State of California. The politicians bicker constantly about what minimum wage should be. Is $10.50 an hour livable for most people? People wonder if this income bracket can get one off disability. Sometimes the system needs to be reminded just how low-income individuals can get while on the system. You get dinged for saving money after all, or making money for that matter. There is this thing called a PASS Plan. The plan is your method to make money. It is handwritten and your social worker reads it.
By Iria Vasquez-Paez6 years ago in The Swamp
How to Keep Track of Your Own Deadlines, To Do Lists, and Productivity Logs
Keeping track of your own deadlines happens when you make a deadline list as I’m about to do for myself. To Do Lists constitute a brain dump of everything you need to get done while then breaking it down into smaller lists. To do lists only work if you have a schedule on an Excel file that tells you what you are doing with each two-hour block you give yourself, whether it is two hours or fifteen minutes. I give myself two hours. Time management is really easy and doesn’t involve looking at the clock every ten minutes. Time management is about using the greatest resource anybody has to your advantage. This huge resource is time.
By Iria Vasquez-Paez6 years ago in Motivation
How to Write Fiction
When I write fiction, I make sure to thoroughly imagine the scene before me. This imaginative rendering happens in my head, first. Now, as a trance medium, I have applications that can allow me to use the faculty in order to produce good writing. I channel my work from my imagination to my fingers as my fingers write the prose. I used to do character outlines for my fan fiction. I am contemplating writing short stories again to get them published. Some have survived from my college days where I earned an A.A. in creative writing at Foothill College. Writing fiction is all about showing what is in your head and putting it on paper or computer files.
By Iria Vasquez-Paez6 years ago in Journal
Business Ideas That Have Failed
I started off as attempting to be an internet search consultant in 2001. I went so far as to get myself a business plan with the City of Mountain View. I thought I could market doing internet searches for other people, but I didn’t advertise since I had no budget for advertising and the whole thing fell apart. I mean, I didn’t really try, nor did I put my profile up at Referral Key, for example, like I did with IriatheIrrepressible.com. When I started up Tough B, Inc., I managed to change my name on Referral Key, a networking website that I’m also hardly using right now in February 2018.
By Iria Vasquez-Paez6 years ago in Journal
Single Payer Health Care: How We Can Achieve It, a Call to Action
Republicans don’t want single-payer because they really would prefer we pay for everything, from healthcare, to education. Forget about conceding to party lines. Think about who needs health care and why they need it. The CDC figures that as of 2012, 117 million people have chronic illnesses. We Americans are not as healthy as we would like to imagine. Our entire system is in decay, with extreme bills making people unable to keep up their payments when treating a chronic health condition. This is frustrating to many of us average folk who see billionaires getting immense tax breaks. The money just piles on, since the majority of Americans are far from being the 1%.
By Iria Vasquez-Paez6 years ago in The Swamp