The Final Chapter

This picture could easily have been me since I use to sleep like that regularly when I was going to the college the first time around.  I can't do that any more, the books disturb my husbands sleeping although every now and then, as I was working on my two degrees at Athens State I would put a book under my pillow if I was having trouble with a concept.  It works for me.

A total of 13 sections/chapters made up this dragoon.  Emily was a great leader because she cares, me on the other hand, I just wanted the assignment finished.  To be honest if it wasn't for Emily I would have been much worse off.  She may not known how to create a wiki but she had a better skill, keeping me focused and informed and that's a big job.  This week I have practiced my piano one of the ten hours I'm suppose to do.  I have completed only two runs, a short 3 miler and a simple 6 miler (it was done on mainly level ground), very small up-hills.  Since I have a 13.1 mile run coming up 26 April and its mainly up and down hill with almost no flat ground, I'm in trouble right now.  My house looks like no one cares about it (oh wait it always does except when the house keeper comes), my dog keeps barking at me to take her out for at least two of the three walks/runs she's use to and my husband thinks the wiki has eaten my brain. I'd say this week has not been all that fulfilling.  Who would ever think something that seemed so simple as, "write something about each chapter in a book," could be such a destroyer of a brain.  Look, I can't even think of anything to blog about any more because of the wiki.  Because of this wiki I now know verbs of all the assignments I've ever had to do in the classes I had with my professors, how sad.  I must confess I don't think I ever thought much about the reasoning why she assigned us the things she did, except she wanted to make sure we were learning something.  Now I know she wanted me to: analyze, search and find, watch and listen,observing, reflecting, thinking critically, briefing, collaborating, connecting, dialoging, networking, sharing, writing, combining, designing, making, and planning. All that and that is only one of the classes I've had with her. No wonder my brain is so tired. 

The best part of this assignment has been working with Emily.  She is so far right of me, I'm amazed she didn't kill me.  When I asked her if I could write that my impression of this assignment was, it sucks, she reminded me that the statement wouldn't meet the requirement.  Believe me for all the requirements I didn't read, she read all of them at least 100 times to make sure we were checking all the blocks. We made a good team, I can do the tech stuff and help her, she can do the motivation stuff and together we made it. We have texting down to a science. I reminded her the saying/song states, "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger" well we must be the strongest people around because I was sure this wiki was going to kill me.
The assignment started out as a three woman team but somewhere close to the start line we lost someone. Emily kept trying to pull the other person along but I think the rope broke. How does the saying go, "you can lead a cow to the pasture but when the snow falls they'll run to the valley?" Okay, I may be a little off, blame it on my in-laws they're ranchers, but no matter what Emily did we couldn't seem to get the third person involved, at least she knew where the wiki button was in the Black Board.  See that's my problem, someone tells me I have to do something and one way or other I'll figure it out.  Creating the wiki in Black Board was so much easier, I didn't have to find a site, figure out how to use the site and wonder how I was going to share it with the people in the other group. I did figure out how to transfer the information from the first wiki to the one created by our missing member.

Okay enough running on, according to my clock in less than 5 minutes, it will be one additional hour more than it is right now instead of just 5 minutes.

I hope God will forgive me if I fall asleep in church today. With my luck I'll have a nightmare about wikis and wake up screaming during an awe inspiring talk about being more like Jesus.