child's Sunday hat, too small for me, with tag

Well, I have gotten behind on my blog/diary due to a paper being due yesterday and getting an early start this morning. Actually, I found out from a classmate that the deadline for the paper was extended, but I had already submitted it. A pretty strange experience, writing a paper in the electronic age. The references are all websites, and I had to figure out how to cite them appropriately. I had to turn it in before I went to work yesterday, even though it wasn't due until midnight. I had a conference call with my group about the project due next Monday at 5 and a board meeting at the Fellowship at 7. Leaving the paper until after the board meeting seemed like a not very good idea. I was not really pleased with my efforts, but submitted it in the proper electronic format at 9 am (as soon as I got it up to the required 1000 words!).

The conference call was a little depressing. Everyone else seems to have lots of experience and have already taken some IT classes, so they know a lot more than me! And they seem to be doing better about reading the assignments, etc. I feel pretty useless as a group member, but also kind of frustrated because any thoughts I put out there are generally dismissed as being too simplistic... or that's how it feels. Now I have to prepare my part of the power point presentation on the Elaborate part of an IT model we are creating... not sure how to start, but maybe doing the readings will help!

There was a little tension at the board meeting, but a couple members weren't there, so we were able to get through things pretty quickly and I got home a little after 9. Ray was correcting papers. He continued doing that, but in bed to keep me company. Unfortunately, although I fell right to sleep, I woke up again while he was still working and had the light on, and then couldn't fall back to sleep for a while.

We got back on track this morning, Ray beating me at two games of racquetball before I headed to work. I scored 5 1/2 packets of essays (about 70) and worked about 6 hours.