Free hour!!!

Wow! This is unusual ... I have an extra 10 minutes. I can’t believe I have neglected my journal for the last 11 days. Whoo. Bad me! However, scheduling has been grueling. Oh good my dictionary didn’t complain about that last word.

I am actually still on a very tight schedule. But, the school’s server seems to be down. The message said, try again in 10 minutes. YAYYYYYY!

So, how are we in general? LOL starting to think papers are more important than people! Cuz all people want is papers! I am either going to become very proficient, or I am going to die trying. There that’s a strong sentence!

Well, let’s see for start ... I heard from one of my sons, the oldest last week. It was my birthday and he and his family took us out for lunch. Very nice! He seems to be toughing it out. I don’t remember if I told you but baby #2 is on its way. I hope it is a boy, because the father wants one so badly, he painted the room blue. Hmm, what a chore "Fatherhood!" His work is going well and finally, they think they may close on their condo last week of the month. YAYYYY! During dinner, we were able to ask our grandmotherly questions to happy Mom. HEHEHE What A life I lead. Babyraising is up to someone else! YAYYYYYY! Oh no, I suppose I should tell you there was just a maniacal laugh. I think children challenge every fiber in one’s body. BUT, they are so darn cute!

Other sons ... pretty much avoiding me. *sigh* Least I’m still in there batting!

As to Friend ... He’s going on about as usual. Though, I saw signs this morning while he was here that he is considering slowing down. I’ve heard this ploy before ... On the side, I think he knows it will get him a better back rub if he takes care of himself better. AHA!

My birthday has come and gone. It was fine. A few special people made me feel very special. And I don’t think between that and granddaughters, it gets any better!

Work is toughening me up. We are dueling for every moment I’ve got. Couple of late nights this week trying to meet deadlines. But, we got past the week, primarily, because we it ended up being Friday and I took the day off. YAYYYYY!! I felt very lucky to have needy brakes and air conditioner on my car, even if it was a $500 day. Ahhh.... Feel better, cuz it’s done.

Dang! I checked the site again. It’s worse than it was before. The whole damn campus is missing!!! Thief! Thief!! She cried. The screen they have put up just says students click here and teachers click here for access to rooms. Then the next screen says Hi Ann Garvey you have either not paid your bill or we are doing maintenance on the system. Wow! That could really trip up a person like me who has a Friday midnight deadline! Ok, let’s not panic. I noticed they were crumbling at 6:15. At 6:30 They were staggering. This sounds as good an alibi for not handing in a paper as I have ever seen! YAYYYY! I wish I had been one more step advanced. I had just completed reading the required two chapters and was going to see if there was anything else to do or read, before checking what the paper should have been about. I know if all else fails, I will continue reading the couple chapters in the other course I was saving for tomorrow midnight deadline. I refuse to give up up an entire 5 ½ hours just because my school up and disappeared! YAYYYYY TEAM!!! We will set a timer for 15 minute intervals just in case.

We have had a little trouble with this specific course anyway. V said what I did was get in a cat fight. They used to call them Hissy fits. Does that still apply? Hmmm.

No sense dramatizing the whole event. At this stage one week later ... I only know I wrote an answer saying I didn’t like author, then the teacher wrote questions, I answered them, she wrote more questions, I answered them, and then she wrote a defensive statement to the whole class of four stating she was the teacher with 20 years experience under her belt. YIKES!! This could be an indication of trouble up ahead. We’ll have to play it out.

I do know since then, she sent back my first major paper and said it was "Decent." That’s not the excellent I got from either of the other teachers, but I’m preparing myself for not surpassing decent for the next 2 ½ months. Steel yourself girls! There is one girl sucking up to her so bad the teacher has imported a third nipple.

The other three of us are confused, because she said the assignment was due on Friday, then she was sarcastic for the majority of us for not turning in our papers. She set down a new order saying they were due on Wednesday. Fortunately, after I pointed this out, the one lone male said also, I thought the assignment was due on Friday. Sucker up girl did her assignment four days early, just not to get confused. Then she told the teacher I am learning so much and I wish you taught all of my classes. Shoot, that sure wasn’t my thoughts! And actually I’m a little more frustrated, because it was very apparent that this teacher has assigned us to be reading a freshman in college level book. I am dead serious. It says this book is for Freshman in undergraduate school. So, likewise it reads pretty darn ignorantly and all the examples are for 18 year olds just getting out of high school. MAN!

Ok, ok. I’ve vented. I’m fine. Cat’s are hiding ... no one to kick. Darn! My best laugh on this is ... Suckup girl is taking a freshman undergraduate class and she’s already a doctorate student hehehehehe! Great!

Hey, we have watermelon in the house! Maybe we should go check that out! Ahh watermelon, Frank Sinatra, and the timer got set another 15 min. I’m on time with medicine too!

So what else ... umm, we’ve gotten into the other course work pretty well, the lifespan course. Not that I especially like or dislike the teacher or not, and I’m really not happy about being in a course of 24 people. It’s hard to read all the posts and it seems like I don’t know anyone. But, the textbook is better. It is kind of funny though, because this instructor really enjoys when the students use extra resources. I kind of see what he means. I’ve already gone through periods where I think I cannot hear that same sentence cited once more! Anyway the good part is that the book gives us a good foundation and then you can research any part of it that interests you. The first week we talked about the general field and a couple of important theorists, and genetics and then the second week we had some time on how the brain develops and is affected by growth in the from the first two cells meeting through the first 2 years, at that point, we verged off to how it was affected by abuse, trauma and neglect. Then this last week we were talking about. Then this last assignment was about the theorist Piaget who everyone knows and about theorists who have expanded on structuralism. Pretty cool. Looking forward to the assignment due tomorrow, reading ahead a little and I think they are going to talk about attachment theory and I’m like way into that already! Big concept!!!!

Whoops! Gotta go, took an hour, but my school came back with bag in hand. It turns out it wasn’t allowed to cross streets! YAYYYY School!