The semester is almost over. It's a little sad and a little joyous. I am happy to have made it through with no real breakdowns or issues. I only missed 1 day of class, which I think is great.
Last night at class was the group presentation. We did well I think, but it was not without issues. One of my teammates decided he needed a shower in the bathroom at school before our presentation. He was about 15 minutes late to class, had me panicking since we were the first group to present, and came in in sweats. I didn't care at that point. He arrived. That in and of itself made me happy. After that little stressful bit our presentation went off without a hitch. We all did great I think. Even Nick, who really did not know what were on his slides in the presentation. I realized the night before that Nick's slides were not in the presentation. Not sure how that happened, but it did. So I went through what he had previously sent me and chose the main points and made slides for him. Luckily his information was no different from what he had sent me. So as he was reading from his notes, the slides were right in line with what he was saying.
My final for my online class is being taken Monday. I wanted to take it before class yesterday, but I had lots of computer issues over the weekend which made me unable to study. Friday night I went to study and my computer screen freaked out and went black with little white lines. So I had a glass of wine and went to bed. Saturday the computer was fixed and working, but the internet at my house was not allowing the video to play fully through. It would rebuffer every few seconds. It took me 1.5 hours to watch 10 minutes of video. Again, after almost crying, I had a glass of wine and went to bed. Sunday, after visiting my sister, bro-in-law, mom, nephew, and aunt, who was flown in from Arizona, I took my happily working computer to the library, only to find out that the library closes at 5pm on Sundays. Then I went to Starbucks in downtown Mountain View, where I was able to sign into free Wi-Fi because I have a registered Starbucks card. At last! I was able to watch 2 episodes of my class! A few minutes into the third episode my computer screen went black. I could still hear her, but there was no visuals to help me out. I tried everything get my teacher back onto the screen but it didn't work. Since I was 1 hour away from the Amazing Race Finale, I shut down my picture-less computer and went home. And for those of you who watch Amazing Race, I really want to belay down Mandalay Bay! That looked like soo much fun! I watched 2 more episodes of my class on Monday night and will continue to study this weekend. I figured that I would rather study more and get a better grade than rush into the final.
Please think happy thoughts on Monday, December 14th at around 7:30am. That is when I will be at school taking my final. Then I am done with this semester!!
Until next time...
