This has been a rather relaxing week for me. Having only three assignments this week was really nice, it gave me a chance to catch up and get things done before Saturday for once. I am actually writing this on Thursday night and I have just completed my power point presentation and posted it on my blog. I have had so many problems with this. First I couldn’t get my pictures scanned the way that I wanted, then once I finally did, I got the first three posted and on the forth picture, when I inserted it kept replacing the first three pictures, it made me want to scream, well, actually it did make me scream. I finally got the presentation posted but I am not happy with it yet. First, I cannot get the slides to fade out the way I want. Second I need some way to link people back to the topics or something when it is over so they don’t have to keep hitting back to get out of my presentation. I also feel like I want to add a little bit more but I really do not know what.
It has been really helpful to peer review others work. It gives me a chance to see where they are at and to find out if I am in the same place they are. Also it has kind of made me feel inadequate. The other three people in my peer review group write so well. They are so creative and have good techniques; it makes me wonder about my own skills, it lets me see that I have much improving to do in that area. I am always so hard on myself though.
I know need to begin thinking about my next genre because I have no idea what I am going to do. I was thinking about doing an interview but I really don’t know where I want to go with it. Maybe an interview between a famous interviewer and SLP (me of course) and it can be about compensatory strategies and how they work and how it completely depends on the individual. It depends on where the problem is at to know what to do about it????? I do not have any idea where this could go. Maybe a pamphlet would be good. I really cannot even begin to think where I might go with any of these ideas? I think my brain is freezing up.
I feel compelled to write about class today and how much it help to hear some others worries about grad school and also to hear what Mrs. McComas had to say about it all. I love to be told that I am being way too crazy and worrying way too much because I have a tendency to do that. I am not so worried about my grades this semester as I am that there will be some reason that I do not get in like I don’t know “I am just not cut out for it” or “I don’t present myself well” I don’t know why I worry about stupid things like that but I seem to be worrying about things that I cannot change or just making up things to worry about since I have already realized my GPA isn’t going to change much. This semester just causes so much anxiety. I am also worried about Luke finding a job, starting the job, liking the job, and most of all making enough money to support us while I am in grad school because I really do not think I can stand to waitress for too much longer, it definitely makes me realize I want a college degree and a job where my cash flow doesn’t revolve around drunk men. YUCK!! Well now that I have given myself therapy for anyone on the WWW to enjoy and laugh at I will be logging off and trying to enjoy the rest of my evening since I have a big weekend of shampooing the carpet ahead of me (I am also crazy about cleaning and convinced that I need to kill all the germ in the carpet, or at least pretend shampoo will do that).