Final Project

Today I have nothing but school on my list of things to do. I do not have to work at the hospital, for home care, or hospice. Yes, I do all three. The hospital full time, home care and hospice on a prn basis. But nobody called me this week to work, and I didn't go out of my way to call them. So, here I sit in the library working on my project.

I do have a paper due in my bible as literature class. I am writing a paper on Cain and Abel. This has turned out to be more difficult than I expected. I am not a procrastinator when it comes to homework, but this paper is due tomorrow and I do not have a final draft yet. But after I go home and have lunch with my husband I will finalize the draft I have and be done.

This morning I focused my time on my web project. It is coming along quite nicely. I was able to go in and change the code on my template so that it suited my needs. Very proud of myself for that. I have almost everything done and ready to upload to the internet. I mostly need to put in photos, and links. I have not started the brochure yet, but I did pick out a template. I am very happy with the progress I made today.

I made a point of taking the time today. We are running out of class time where I can ask questions. I am not sure I will be going to class on Friday because I am going to the premier show of Twilight-new moon with my oldest daughter. Her daughters (my granddaughters) are small yet (age 1 and 3) so we do not get out much together anymore. Well, out without the girls to do adult things. I may be too tired to drive an hour each way for an hour class. I think I can get more done dedicating three hours at home on my own computer.

Well life comes down to priorities and choices doesn't it?

Today I am just enjoying the relaxed nature of it, thriving in the progress I am making, and glad the semester is almost over.

Comming together....slowly

It has been a long weekend. Friday's class I left a little confused as to how I was suppose to put all of the things my instructor wanted together into one project. I let it whirl around in my head, went to bed when I got home and started my weekend of three 12hour night shifts at the hospital. They were, as usual, three long nights. I left work this am and headed to class for another go around.

My instructor gave me some one on one instruction/explanations and everything is coming together in my head. I have some ideas for my personal page, and the brochure. My instructor said be creative...I hope she is ready for that. lol

I am very proud of myself, and feeling a little excited to be creating something that just a couple months ago was a far fetched out of this world concept for me. It has come down to my realm of understanding. I thank my instructor immensely, there is no way to explain how this knowledge has helped me in life and will help me in my future employment. It brings me to even ground with my competitor. So many small things my instructor didn't even know I needed to be taught has come from this course. I didn't know how to open inside a document, or even save a document to various places on the computer, I didn't even know how to open a new tab before this class began. I now know two ways to open a new tab. I now complete my charting at work in half the time it use to take me. So again I thank my instructor. I also thank my classmate, and she knows who she is, for never losing patience with me when I ask the simple minded questions.

Maybe this crazy idea of going back to school at my age was not as crazy as it felt at first...maybe.

Stop and take a deep breath

It is approximately 30 minutes before my class starts today. I have not completed any web page yet, and today we are doing yet another. I came to the library to see if I could get caught up, but I am only becoming hopelessly confused. I have played with dreamweaver for over an hour now and I am unable to understand any of it. I cannot find a tutorial that does not speak above my head. I do understand the HTML project we worked on Friday. I just have not finished it yet. I will be back in the library after class. Right now I just want to sit down and cry.

When I started work last night at 1900 hours the night began to unravel. Before we could finish report there was a code. that patient was still alive when I left this am, but its minute by minute for her. Thinking without thought the team performs CPR/ACLS as if one thinking unit. A woman's life at stake, and to me its just another night at work. However, an hour and a half in this library and I am brought to tears...

...I need coffee and a moment before class, huh....

Beginning a web page

Mondays are really long for me. By the time I arrive home after class I have been up about 20hours. Therefore, when I get home I usually eat some much needed comfort food and get to bed. Yesterday was no exception. So, today I write an entry about class yesterday.

I watched the tutorial during class, and I left class with thoughts in my head about a web page. I drove down the road for my hour drive home in my old trusty truck. My son had borrowed my car for a trip to New Orleans and I was really starting to miss the car. I drove down the road with old school rock and roll blaring out of the blown speakers, and all I could think about was relevance.

Relevance of my emotionally void marriage, relevance of all these long hours I now keep, and the relevance of a web page. Not why I need to know how to make a web page, but what relevance would my web page have. What is relevant enough to be worthy of the world wide web. I still ponder this today, and I continue to be without relevance.

Bogged down with long hours today as well. Tuesdays I leave my home at 0700 and do not arrive home until 1900. I now do my piling up homework. I have medical things to attend to in the morning and will be missing class, but my brain is continuously working.

Tonight I attempted to follow the new directions to finish the photo editing from previous. However, I still am unable to make it work as it should. I am trudging along one step at a time. I will get there. And relevance will come.