This week was very similar to last week. I am basically doing the same thing. For this genre I intend to use the voice of the client’s family. I am considering using a poem of some other type (probably an “I am” poem. This is a very difficult voice for me to use. It is sometimes hard for me to put myself in the position of another. I have been thinking of ways to do this all week and I have decided on the “I am”. Earlier in the week when I was just waking up I thought of a really good idea but I could not remember what it was so I thought I would give it time because it would eventually come to me but I still do not remember so I have given up on whatever idea it was that I had.
I have also decide that my PowerPoint presentation is going to be my unifying genre so next week I am going to need to do a different genre and then do some work on my PowerPoint so it can be the unifier.
I really cannot think of anything else to write about in my journal this week, I am beginning to get so stressed and I am so tired that I cannot even think about what to write in this journal.

This week has been so hectic for me. I have not been able to work on this class until today. Fortunately I had everything planned out so it didn’t take me that long to do the work. I kept having problems with things disappearing after I had put them on there and then I realized I had just typed too much and they had been moved to the next page. Ha!Ha! I just make myself worry about things that aren’t even happening. Sometimes I just have to laugh at myself. I couldn’t get my pamphlet to upload onto my blog because it said that it was over my allowed size. I tried to put a Marshall logo on the back of it but once I took that off it worked. I have not idea what the problem was with that but I just simply took it off so I could get my pamphlet loaded up, I would still like to insert it onto the pamphlet but I really don’t know how to go about doing so. I feel like I am just saying the same thing on my pamphlet as I am on my PowerPoint presentation. I guess I am going to be adding to my PowerPoint so it really won’t be the same once it is edited.
I am starting to feel a little less stressed about this class since we really do not have so many little assignments anymore. That was so stressful to have a million different things to do. Hopefully I can tie all of my genres together in a way that is good and interesting.

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).