Back in the saddle

I figured on the Feed2JS portion of the web assignment. Now I need to get my Grazr link to work and put in the 10 annotations for the Thoreau portion and I will be done. I wish my web page looked as neat as other student's web pages. I just want to follow directions and make sure I can do everything that is listed. Completion not perfection is what we were told and I guess that is what I should strive for :) I still need to read the books for the discussion question which is due in 6 days. No sweat, right?

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I've spent almost 4 hours on my web page design. I just want this term to be over! Check it out http://www.pitt.edu/~les85

On Campus!!

I am so glad I was able to meet all of my cohort members. I wasn't afraid of coming down to Pittsburgh but I was afraid of meeting everybody. I enjoyed the ice breaker Sue had us do in the beginning of the week to discover our similarities. It made speaking with other members of the cohort easier for the rest of the week. I am also glad suggestions were made about roommates, because if not for the suggestion, I do not believe I would not have had as an enjoyable time as I did. Having Michelle as my roommate was awesome and I am so glad I was able to have this wonderful experience. I did not feel as cohesive as I felt I should have until I met with everybody and, through talking with them, realized they were feeling the same way I was or experiencing the same thing I was experiencing. By the end of the week I truly felt as if I was a part of the group, which is a feeling I have never experienced with any other group. A big kudos and thanks to everyone who made it and I cannot wait until October!

On campus

Wow! The on campus experience has been intense. I am glad I have met everybody in my cohort and my roommate is awesome, letting me use her computer :) The first day I felt a little sick and had a headache at the end of the day from being a little stressed. But everything is good now. I felt a little sick today but I think that was from me not really eating. I just have so much to do that I don't have time to eat!

Just Breathe...

...because that is all I feel I can do right now to maintain my sanity. I need to finish packing for my trip to Pittsburgh, I still need to read those damned books, and make questions. I feel like screaming. I don't have a laptop so I will have to use the computer labs to finish reading the last two books for school. That makes me nervous about walking back to the hotel. Oh, yeah, and the hotel charges 13.50 per day for me to park my car there! Where else am I going to park my car? Freakin' rip off. I wish the university would have opened the dorms for us to stay in. It would have been a helluva lot cheaper. Ok, just checked the schedule. I have until thrusday to read those two books. I'm sure I can have them done by then if I spend most of my time in the computer labs.

Frustrated

Ya know, this web page takes forever to make. I have been sitting at my computer for almost two hours inserting the images and the links. I have three books to read for another class plus family and friends that I would like to interact with at some point during the summer.

TOO MUCH TO DO

I've been so busy and I don't feel as if I have accomplished much. I still need to read three books for LIS 2000 and answer questions for it. I need to get together with the group that is working on the presentation for LIS 2000 that I wanted to work on and see what I need to contribute to it. I also need to finish the Web page for LIS 2600 for this week, which I am sure will take forever since everything else has been taking forever. I can't contribute all of my time to programs that refuse to work for me and go through 168 threads dealing with the same issue, many of them only contributing statements of "I can't get this to work either" or "me, too" and only hitting a few gold nuggets of good information because then I have no time to work on my other classes. I can't keep checking blackboard every hour or even a few times a day because it is against work policy. This is irritating and frustrating beyond belief. I can't wait for break.

Home Sweet Home!

I hope everyone had a wonderful Independence Day. I know I had a wonderful day with the mini vacation from work. I am also excited because I will be going home this weekend! I love going home! I get a delicious excitement that builds up inside of me the closer the day comes that I am leaving and I love preparing for the trip. My sister and I usually trade books to read so I love going through my books to see which ones she would be interested in reading. Ok, I'm not writing anymore because I have to get ready for tomorrow, finish up some homework, and post a bulletin and send an email to my professors about no internet access cause I'll be in the sticks!

Happy Fourth of July!!

Happy Fourth of July to everybody!! I am celebrating this auspicious occasion by being sun burnt. This take care of me have red and white so now all I have to do is wear blue and I am officially decked out for this celebration.

That is right, dumby me, went to the beach on Sunday and received a nasty burn for being out in the sun for 3 1/2 hours. I swear, the longer I live the more of my brain cells die and affect my rational thinking process. So, please don't ask if I wore sunblock or anything like that. I have been laughed at by my roommate, my sister and been called dumb by my grandma.

School is getting easier as the term draws to a close. I have already finished Leonardo's Laptop and am beginning to read The Social Life of Information. I still need to answer some discussion questions and figure out what to do for this web page I created. I also need to find out what to do about Zoomclouds since it dislikes me so much.