Day 7 - Check

Three days left!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I slept in until 7am this morning. Then I got up and did my Bible study. After that around 8am I took my lovely shower. I had forgotten how much I hate taking showers with shoes on! :( Then I headed over to the GSLIS building to finish up the movie with Sarah. I caught up on our Moodle posts and designed the powerpoint slides for our group and did as much of the movie as I could until Sarah could come and record. I had about 20 minutes to kill so I called Aunt Janet in Canada. We talked for quite awhile and she caught me up on all of the latest stories.

One of the stories was about all the birds that came to eat the oat seeds she had planted on the hill. She said there were 15 mallards, 6 Canada geese, 1 Heron, and 1 loon. Hannah and I were discussing whether to believe her last night before church b/c neither of us had seen a Canada goose in Canada. Then Janet said the same thing. She said she had never seen a Canada goose in Canada either!

Sarah came in and we worked on the movie. We had it completed shortly after noon and around 1pm I headed back to the room. I talked to Mom and she said Grandma's phone should be in so I called Grandma and talked to her for a few minutes. I had about an hour to kill so I pulled out an article that I really needed to study and popped my only bag of popcorn as a special treat. I was going to hop in bed and rest and read and enjoy my popcorn. Well things didn't go as I had planned. First, the popcorn didn't pop hardly any of the corn. I figured it was good for my diet so shrugged it. Then I opened the steaming bag and poured it into a ziplock bag I had brought. Instantly the hot seeds burned through the bag exploding all over the floor, in the bed, and an especially hot one landed on my foot. It was a mess. I had to go find a broom and then used my Clorox wipes to scrub the floor -- I won't even go there except to say I will not step barefoot in this room EVER! My article was ruined and the whole room smelled like the popcorn that I was unable to eat. By then it was almost 2pm and I had to meet my group so I packed up my bag and headed back to GSLIS building.

Aunt Jane called me to invite me Saturday to see Rodney - I only mention this Bridget to make sure someone told you too. Call Jane if they didn't. I talked to her on my way over. Then my group did a dry run of our presentation and agreed that we would work tonight until it was all over. I sat through 1.5 hour lecture by the prof and then we hadn 1.5 hours of discussion group. Immediately after that my group ordered Pizza Hut and began to finalize our presentation. I ran the movie and finished the powerpoint. We got the presentation down to the required 7 minutes and decided to call it quits around 8pm. As I was leaving, Skyla from the other group told me that I where the best colors and always look nice. Then some else in my group said I always dress nice and look good. So as we were walking out I told Sarah that my niece helped me pick out a lot of the stuff I had been wearing. (new blue shirt - Lou) Then she said that what she noticed was that my jewelry always looked so cool and matched my clothes perfectly. :) I then told her it was b/c my niece and I made our own jewelry. (black long necklace w/ black earrings). It was really nice.

So I came back to the room and Megan showed up to get the laundry detergent that I brought from home. Then I put my PJ's on and started typing my paper due Friday am. Jillian knocked on my door looking for the detergent - I guess I should have brought an entire bottle rather than a small jar. :) Then Scott called and I knew church was out so I called to tell Hannah the bird story but ended up talking to Bridget for 57 minutes. It was a really nice break to talk to someone with divine viewpoint and a real life! Thanks!! Unfortunately I didn't get to talk to Lou but I do want her to know that I love her!

Tomorrow is a full day - 2 full meetings, a discussion session and then our group presentations. Kyle and I are going to have lunch at noon and study until 3pm for the Saturday final. Please pray that we will study the right materials.
Night

Day 6 - Check

Day 6 was weird b/c our class got pushed back to 2:30pm. So if you were done with your paper you had all morning. I did my Bible study, worked on group work and around 10am decided to go to iHop for breakfast. As I was finishing my hair one of my "suite mates" said she would go with me. It was pouring down rain so I wore my old tennis shoes and took my umbrella. We were getting pretty wet still but it was only a couple of blocks down the road. We had a very nice breakfast and then decided to go to the Granger Engineering Library. When we walked out the rain was still going full blast and it started to thunder. We walked 7-10 blocks to get to the library and were pretty soaked by the time we got there. We went to the front desk and introduced ourselves and asked if someone could point us toward some things to look at. At that moment, Barbara walked up and decided to give us a tour. She is one of the main staff members there. She took us back to the administrative offices and gave us handouts and took us on an hour and a half tour of the library. While we were in there the sun came back out but so did the humidity. By the time we left the library we were both late for group meetings so we headed straight back.

When I got to the room I noticed that I had an email for Hannah so I tried to type back but half of my keyboard was not working! I went to the IT Help Desk and of course they said they couldn't do anything so I called the ONU Help Desk and asked for Gary or Richard. Richard gave me a couple of ideas to try. The first one did not work. The second one was to attach another keyboard to the computer. So I checked out an extra keyboard and started backing up some of the files - especially the group project I am almost done with. Then I called my office and had Andrew and Tania get another laptop and an extra keyboard packed so that Scott could pick them up for me. I went to a counseling session in the middle of all of this and needless to say, I did not get much out of it. I don't think it's a big deal because I will probably sign up for the other required course 501.

After our lecture session I hopped in my Jimmy and headed home. I was home at 5:30pm where I started a wash, made a quesadilla for dinner, shaved my legs, took off my nail polish and packed a few items that were needed (like a buzzer for our presentation). Then an hour later I went to church and then by 8:30pm I was back on the road again to Champaign. I arrived at 10pm and resettled in. I watched a TV episode at went to bed around 11:30pm.

Day 5 - Check

This morning was so long ago I barely remember it. I know that I took a shower and did my Bible study but was running out the door so I wouldn't be late for class. When we all got there the TA's announced that Professor Estabrook was sick and class was postponed until 11AM. So for two hours I worked on adding to my Tracking Paper assignment about Open Source Software. Then twenty minutes before class started. Megan and I walked to Expresso and got some lunch. I got some chicken salad in a cup and a cup of fruit which is still in my refrigerator b/c I never ate it. I don't know why but I'm just not very hungry, I didn't eat breakfast either.

Part of the lecture today was about a book, Pernkopf Anatomy by Eduard Pernkopf who was a self proclaimed Nazi. He worked at the University of Vienna and fired all of the Jews that worked for him. His book is one of a kind and there has been nothing to match it in the last forty years. This has not been proven but there is strong evidence that it was holocaust victims that were used for the drawings. The University of Vienna conducted an investigation in 1995 and found that 1377 bodies of murdered victims had been taken into the Anatomy Institute. These bodies had included children. Even though there is no evidence there are details that point to it - like a crudely shaven head on one man that obviously had a wasted body and another drawing appeared that the man had been circumcised. Article about whether it should be used or not: http://www.nytimes.com/1996/11/26/science/doctors-question-use-of-nazi-s-medical-atlas.html?pagewanted=all

The prof cut the session short b/c she was really feeling sick so Kyle and I went to Subway and compared notes on the class meeting and our Tracking Papers. After that I went back to the room and called mom to help me edit my paper. Then I went back to the GSLIS building where our group met. I showed them what I had done for the group project and we came up with a game show theme for our presentation. Then we went to Meeting 6 at 4pm where she again let us out about 15 minutes early and changed our Meeting 7 time for tomorrow (which was supposed to be during our break) to 2:30pm.

After that we had another hour to kill and I wanted to review some of the articles we had already discussed so Sarah, Chris, Lori and I ordered a large pizza from Pizza Hut and had them deliver it. Our discussion groups are one of my favorite sessions and will be the most helpful in preparing us for the final so that time went pretty quickly. At 8pm I headed back to my room and proof read my assignment one more time. Then I officially submitted it! I hope it is what they wanted. I have basically been done with it for two days so I really need to submit it so that I wouldn't keep changing it.

Now we don't have class until 2:3opm tomorrow and no one wants to meet for group b/c they all are working on their papers. Kyle and I might do a late breakfast. He's going to let me know in the morning if he finishes his paper. I will probably try to study some articles and start an outline for my next paper and maybe work on group project a little bit. Tonight I go to bed and maybe watch a movie or TV show. Night!

Day 4 - Check

I went to bed around 11pm and got up at 7pm. I took my shower, did my Bible study, and ate a breakfast burrito.

We had tech training at 9:30 and learned to use our I Drives and Sea Monkey. Then I worked on the Camtasia movie for my group project for an hour. At noon we had another meeting with our prof and then met w/ our group.

After that I took my things back to the room, I went to Walgreens and bought an ice pack. Then I went to Panera Bread and bought a strawberry, poppy seed, chicken salad with a French baguette and came back to the room.

I read Moodle entries to help prepare for Saturday's final and worked on my part of the group project. Our group discussion was from 5-6:30pm. Jeff gave us back our "Mills" paper. I was pretty happy I got a B+ on it. Then Monica, Jim, Dana, Beth, Sarah, Rebecca, and I went to Za's. It was a fast, food Italian place. I got fettuccine alfredo and a smoothy. We had a very relaxing time getting to know one another. I got back to the room around 8pm. Now I plan to work on group work, review my paper, ice my ankle, and read the discussion Moodle.

Day 3 - Check

Good day. Got into a good group. I didn't really care which topic I was in. I would just do the best that I could on any of them so when she said go everyone rushed to their sign and I stayed and packed my bag. Once I got it packed I headed toward the end of the row where there was a group standing when I reached the group the instructor asked if everyone had a group. I quickly counted the group and there were only 7 in the group and 8 are allowed. The topic was RFID. I had no idea what that was but I just joined with them anyway. I could not have picked a better group! One of the group members worked for ALA and had already researched the topic. She gave us a great overview and lesson on it. We threw up an outline and timeline and assign a section to each member. Sarah and I are doing the examples and definition. We hope to put together a 1 minute movie with it.

Then I went to the help session with the librarian to make sure I was on track w/ my tracking paper. Not only was I on track but I had used 3 out of the 4 sites she recommended so by God's grace I am almost done with the paper. My goal is to finish it tonight or in the morning so that I can move on to my group assignment.

From 6:30pm-8pm, we had our first discussion group. It went really well. I enjoyed discussing the articles and hearing what everyone else pulled from them. We are answering questions which evidentally practice for our final exam. :(

My ankle is the size of a softball so one of my group members was going out to get some yogurt so she said she would pick me up some ice. My plan is to come home for church Tuesday night and turn around and go back. Our first session is not until Wednesday at 1pm so I can sleep in on Wednesday am. Night!

I got a good nights sleep last night and a good solid start on my assignment. I only woke up at 11:40pm and 5:00am. Otherwise I slept from 10:30-7pm. I took talked to my mom, took my shower and did my Bible study this morning. Now I am working on breakfast and getting organized. Nothing sounded good for breakfast b/c my allergies are bothering me so I'm having V8 Splash and chicken noodle soup. Today is a late start so it will be a rough day.

Thought: God is not a God of confusion - Absolutes!

Day 2 - Almost Check

I survived Day 2 - almost! I have one more session left (half hour video at 8:30pm). Then tomorrow we our first session is not until 10:45am. I hope to sleep in and work on my assignment.
Today we had a two tech sessions, two library sessions and our first meeting with instructor. It was fun but exhausting. For lunch, I collapsed on a couch in the hallway of GSLIS and ate a protein bar. I made some fun connections today with Carrie, Eti, Kathleen, and Beth. After the meeting with our TAs, Kyle and I went to dinner at Noodles, Co. We met up with Kathleen there and had a nice discussion. Then Kathleen and I went to Cocomero for some yogurt. I was pretty full so I put most of it in my freezer. It will be a nice midnight snack while I'm working on my assignment!