I am doing fine. School has started back up, and my two classes promise to be fascinating and challenging. I'm taking Professional and Technical Writing and New Media Technologies, which is about how the internet is changing the world and learning how to do do amazing things on PowerPoint and other software. The first is about writing employee guidebooks, training manuals and other manuals. It is more interesting than it sounds, and a good source of income. Good to have in your back pocket. And one of the closest things they have here to science writing, which is my real passion. There is one true science writing course which I will take next semester.
I have yet to finish any incompletes, but I have finished the research and half of the actual writing for/of my Law paper, so I'm feeling good about that. Should be done soon. I look forward to writing the "Finished One Incomplete" entry. Having to tell you keeps me honest.
Happy Valentine's Day!
Friday, January 26, 2007
Wednesday, January 10, 2007
OK, so I was overly ambitious
I admit it, I didn't finish my classes before Christmas. I didn't finish even one class. So that's sad. The good news is that I did finish a law brief portfolio, which consisted of about 60 pages of work. I had to email it so I know it was over 500 MB, which is TONS of work. A good portion had been done before, but some I had to clean up and a lot I had to write from scratch. So it felt good to turn that in.
My new goal is to finish the Media Law class by the commencement of Spring Semester on January 24th. As the remainder consists of a 20 page paper (with 35 sources!! That's what's holding me up. All that reading!), I think it will be possible to get that done. I've made some good progress already.
In my History and Theory of Media class I also have a 35 source, 20 page paper, but I did some good work on that already so I think I could finish that in the first month of the semester, when the new classes should still be fairly quiet. Let's hope. Like I said I have a year but I don't want to take long. At least my new classes are electives and hopefully not as hard core. Besides the paper, it is a just a few 500 word essays, so that shouldn't take too long, hopefully. It always takes longer than you think.
On another note, Christmas was fun. I always enjoy getting together with the family for food, conversation and Christmas Carols. We didn't do presents this year as we are all old and have too much stuff already, but we did exchange cards. Mainly I just enjoyed hanging out with everyone, seeing some relatives I don't see often enough, and listening to Christmas albums, which I do all year but it feels special on Christmas. Happy Holidays everyone.
My new goal is to finish the Media Law class by the commencement of Spring Semester on January 24th. As the remainder consists of a 20 page paper (with 35 sources!! That's what's holding me up. All that reading!), I think it will be possible to get that done. I've made some good progress already.
In my History and Theory of Media class I also have a 35 source, 20 page paper, but I did some good work on that already so I think I could finish that in the first month of the semester, when the new classes should still be fairly quiet. Let's hope. Like I said I have a year but I don't want to take long. At least my new classes are electives and hopefully not as hard core. Besides the paper, it is a just a few 500 word essays, so that shouldn't take too long, hopefully. It always takes longer than you think.
On another note, Christmas was fun. I always enjoy getting together with the family for food, conversation and Christmas Carols. We didn't do presents this year as we are all old and have too much stuff already, but we did exchange cards. Mainly I just enjoyed hanging out with everyone, seeing some relatives I don't see often enough, and listening to Christmas albums, which I do all year but it feels special on Christmas. Happy Holidays everyone.
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