What a day!! I have just had the craziest experience ever. As you probable know by know, I work at a gas station. Two of the days that I work each week is Sat. and Sun. I work the early shift and go in at 4:00 am. This morning, as I was driving to work, my car started acting like it was going to quit. I was just about out of gas!! Thankfully, I made it to work because if my car was stopped in the middle of the road at 4:00 in the morning I would be scared to death!! I barely made it to the store that I work at. After I got to work, I went along with my day, doing all the things that I do every Sunday morning: cooking breakfast, cleaning, washing dishes, waiting on customers, etc. When the 2nd shift girl came in at 2:00 to relieve me, I told her all about my early morning fiasco. I jokingly told her that I hoped that I could get my car going long enough to get to the pumps. At least, I thought I was joking!! When I went out to leave, I couldn’t get my car started!! My car was completely dry of gas and it wasn’t going to go anywhere. How ironic!!! I work at a gas station and I spent my entire morning at one and couldn’t get home cause I was out of gas. We don’t have any gasoline jugs at work, so I had to walk back and forth through the parking lot with a 20oz. Aquafina bottle to get enough gas in my car for it to start!! Crazy, crazy, crazy. I didn’t let this silly little situation ruin my day. It was a tad bit embarrassing and it really shows my stupidity, but it is too crazy to get all aggravated. (It was even more embarrassing when my boyfriend’s dad pulled up to get gas as I was filling my water bottle up! He thinks I’m a total ditz!)

Other than my situation today, I have had a pretty good week. I didn’t do much of anything! I completed my CD requirements for the week, but that was it. I had intentions of continuing revising my genres, but I just didn’t get around to. I had two anatomy tests that took up most of my week. That class is so time consuming. I don’t think it would be that bad in the fall or spring semester, but I’m glad that I’m getting it over with now. I’ve dreaded it so badly that I put it off as long as I could, but since this is senior year, I thought I should go ahead and take it in the summer. I have one more busy week with the anatomy class, and then I’m finished. Thank god!! We have our finals on Tuesday and Wednesday. I was really hoping for an A in anatomy, but I’m not sure if I’m going to pull that off or not. Right now, I have a very high B, but we had a test on Thursday that I feel really good about, so I’m not sure what I have going into the finals. I either have a really high B or a low A. If I do well on the finals, I will pull an A, but I think it is going to be really hard. I’m afraid that the finals will pull be lower than the grade that I have now. That wouldn’t be good at all!! Enough about Anatomy!

This week I revised Lekei, Emily, and Mary’s latest genres and I created my Preface, Acknowledgements, and about the author section of my own genre. As far as time goes, this week was that bad at all. I spent way less time completing the assignments for this week than I did for any other week in this CD semester. I should have utilized the free time to revise genres, start wring reflections, or my pull together article, but I didn’t. Instead, I used my CD free time to study longer for my Anatomy class. I still have a lot of things that I need to do to improve my MRP. I know exactly what needs to be done; I just haven’t done any of it. I have another version of my newsletter genre finished, but I haven’t added it into my blog yet. All I have to do is put it up on the web, and I haven’t. That is what you call lazy! I have plans to do all my revisions by the end of the week. I really hope that I stick to this because if I don’t, I’m going to be really busy during the last week of class. I also have to complete my assignment to tie all the genres together. Again, I know exactly what I’m going to do; I just haven’t done it yet. For my pull together assignment, I am going to do a webliography from Megan’s, a fictional child with CAPD, point of view. I think that Megan’s webliography will be a really good way to tie everything together. I also need to look into my essential question situation. I am going to look at my assignments and see if I could change a genre to incorporate my question a little better. This is the major concern that I have had throughout this project. I have had major issues with the MRP. My issues involved my understanding of the MRP concept. I knew what the MRP was and how to do individual assignments, but I was confused about putting it all together. By the time that I figured it out, I had already completed most of my genres. Therefore, I am in serious need of fixing my entire MRP project. I don’t think that I will need a lot of changes, just a few minor ones. I really hope to be successful in completing this task!!

As I mentioned earlier, I revised some of my peers’ genres this week. I went to the class page and clicked on my group’s name and checked out the genres that were recently added to their blogs. After looking at their genres, I clicked on the add comment hyperlink and typed my ideas into the text box. Then, I saved my comments onto their blogs. It wasn’t so simple for the PowerPoint genres. Emily and Mary had PowerPoint projects that were posted to their blogs this week. All I had to do to view their PowerPoint genres was save their work to a disk, unhook and rehook wires to change computers, pull up their work off the disk, switch computers again, then place my comments onto their blog. As usual, viewing my groups’ genre assignments really help to generate my own ideas. I really love to see how everyone completes their genres. I also enjoy seeing their fictional characters come to life. Again, sometimes the reviews are difficult because you cannot give the information in a personal manner, but I don’t think that anyone has been offended due to review comments. I know that I haven’t been. I really look forward to see how everyone ends up pulling their stories together. I think that viewing everyone’s end product will be really interesting to see.

Another thing that I did for CD this week is my preface, acknowledgements, and about the author assignments for the MRP. The content of these assignments were very straightforward, so they were not that difficult to complete. All I had to do for each of these assignments was include some personal information in a narrative format. Some of the previous assignments in this class were helpful for completing this assignment. The web evaluation assignments were particularly helpful for understanding what each area of this assignment was for. All three of this week’s assignments, preface, acknowledgements, and about the author, are to inform the reader about the information that they are viewing. They are used so that the viewers will be able to evaluate the information contained in my site. The viewers of my blog and MRP need to be familiar with my background to see if I am qualified to assist them with questions that they might have. These assignments also provide the viewer with information about why the information is there and any assistance that was provided to the author of the MRP. All of these assignments help give the viewer a better understanding of the author and material that they are looking at. I was very brief and to the point in the content that I included in these assignments. (At least, I tried to be. Sometimes, I just go on and on without realizing it.) I thought it would be best to be brief so that the viewers could quickly review my information to decide if they are interesting in my MRP. I figured that if someone was trying to evaluate my MRP that they would want to briefly look at the information about the author and their creditenials and quickly move onto the more substantial material.

I am still learning about the Internet and myself as the semester comes to an end. I am constantly using methods that I learned in this class when I am just surfing the net for fun. I really look more deeply at the type of information included when I visit a new web page. For example, I was looking on the Internet for people who reupholster couches for my mom the other day. I kept evaluating the different sites that I found to attempt to make sure that I was on a site that belonged to a professional, rather than one that belonged to a crook. When it comes to giving money on the Internet, (Which we haven’t yet.), I don’t think that the Internet assessments are extremely effective, but it gives me a place to start (At least I can weed some people out.). I am really excited to see how much this class helps save me time for future assignments. One thing that I am recently learning about myself is something that I mentioned earlier. I have a tendency to ramble on and on when I am writing. This is an area that I really need to work on. I definitely haven’t stopped because I feel like I have rambled in this journal, but it is something that I am going to try to keep an eye on. I don’t know why and when I got into this habit, but I have done it for a really long time. I guess that my writing really reflects certain parts of my personality because I do the same thing when I talk. I think that my rambling is one reason that I was constantly amazed by Mary’s reflections last semester. They were always short and sweet…and to the point. I kept wondering how she could reflect the same thoughts and ideas that I was having, but without 2/3 of the words that were included in mine. I think that I get this rambling from the quantity over quality idea. I know that it is always better to have quality, but I seem to insist on the quantity. I am not going to write anymore because I am doing it again. See, I really need to work on condensing my thoughts into shorter sentences and paragraphs!!!

Oh yeah, in case you are wondering, I didn’t go to Kings Island last Monday. I decided that it would be best to stay home and study for Anatomy. Maybe, I will get to do something really fun sometime after next week, when Anatomy is over. Yeah!