Thoughts on the Journey

Now that I've made it through a slightly fuller week of classes and work, I think this is going to be a good semester. Both my group projects are shaping up to be interesting and neither of them requires long driving, which is always a plus. They're both small groups too, three and four people, so compared to the class I took first semester where my group had five people and we had so much to do that felt at times really artificial, these don't.

In another nice thing, the two classes I had this week went quickly, when all your classes are three hours, this is really key. I didn't have my Monday classes due to the holiday but I'm hoping things will continue in a good direction.

I'm pretty sure the Professional Practice one will be good since that prof is just one of my favorites and she seems to have changed some of her teaching styles in ways that actually help me. Her courses have been the ones where there was some project that tripped me up horribly like the powerpoint that had to be in a certain format that I didn't plan for or figuring out how to do a podcast. This semester she's created a lot of smaller projects, I think to help someone like me who gets the work of a class but gets hung up on one thing.

The question mark is my InfoCulture one that I"m looking forward to, but the first week was intro and in a seminar course, its hard to tell until that first week of discussion. I'm thinking for that one that I might finally try and write a paper about the online world that I share with a lot of you that I wanted to write for my online communities course. Since in the reading I've done, the woman gamer who enjoys fandom and maybe does some tabletop and some video games isn't really seen. Though I've discovered some fantastic blogs about not just women gamers but all sorts of gamers, now to help get that discussion into the more academic arena. I'll keep everyone posted on how that shapes up.

My database course reminded me this week that I actually retained a good bit from my programming course last semester since as the prof was going over PHP, I was realizing that thanks to Python, a lot of it made sense. This makes me so happy and I think is going to make that course go quicker.

Work yesterday also went well, I had a hard time sleeping on Wednesday night due to my late shift that night and then general worries, but the woman who hired me was there and I talked to them both. We've figured out a plan for cataloging and the rest of the semester and I was reminded why I like that job, I can see the effect I'm having. Also the two women in charge are around my age and really like what they're doing. I think there were some other stresses going on and things just bled into each other in tricky ways. I've already made a difference for the tutors and when everything's done, I'm going to leave something behind that will make things work better for them. I'm becoming aware that I need to start looking for jobs, which is scary but I think being able to talk about this job and my reference job are going to help a lot.

Today is currently far too cold, not a lot of snow fell last night so the sidewalks were passable but I'm still glad I wore my boots. Its just really cold, there's wind and the kind of cold that bites into you. Thankfully I was able to pick up my morning tea from the cafe in the library so I'm warmer and return my books from my Homer paper for last semester.

Tomorrow the holiday cards will be sent. I can't believe how long the time is from when I printed them to when I send them is and I'm sorry about that. Time just got away from me this holiday season.

Okay, I'm going to end with another meme, because I like having things to think about and work on and this one is fascinating and taken from austen.

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