Sunday Chit Chat: I Wish Today Was Monday

            Well after sleeping away half the weekend I am closer to Monday though still wish it was here already. I’m anxious to be out and about and take care of some errands as well. I want to be out and about doing errands and having fun with my mom. I enjoy spending time with my mom I am not afraid to admit it. It’s going to be a while before I can get a 3DS since I have a few things to get before it. But I am still going to get it.

            In the meantime, I have plenty to keep me busy. And I can still make time for gaming to get ready for its arrival as well. I still have magazines and books to catch up on before it gets here so that is something to take care of in the meantime. I’ve also got a deadline fast approaching as well. I think the deadline for publishing can be met with no difficulty. But the school work deadline is what I am worried about. Especially, since my thesis got chewed up and spit out by my professor, so I have to redo my outline completely now.

            But on the brighter side of things I think I have the memo that I have to write well in hand. Plus, I have plenty of caffeine so should be able to stay up a good 20 hours or so and then sleep soundly into Monday morning. Just going to be a day or working for me, and I don’t mind that one bit. Though I will be sneaking in some reading here and there. Along with a few other things. Though not the movie I had hoped to go see today, but there will be other days to see movies this week. I refuse to lose the A I have going for me in LIT-201.

            Or the solid B I have going for me in Business Communications. I’ve started strong in my classes and I mean to keep going strong in them. Though my Lit Professor just sent out an email that makes me question how I am doing my outline. Just when I had gotten unconfused she confuses me all over again. I feel like she gives us one set of rules to start out with then changes the rules mid milestone lately. It’s aggravating.

            It makes it hard to feel like you have a strong foothold on the final project in that class at all. Although she gave me a better idea for my thesis she messed up how I have my outline laid out with how she showed she wanted it laid out now. So now I am unsure if to use the rubric sample I was using or go with the one she provided in the notice. It’s all very frustrating. I’m used to my professors being more consistent with how they run their class. Sorry just needed to vent.

            I know the right course of action is to email my professor and get an answer on this, hopefully. But I am just used to a more stable environment than what I am working with in this lit class right now. And yes I know in the working world it is not always stable, but with the jobs I am looking for it should be fairly stable. Well to a point anyways. Yes, I can think on my feet, but sometimes it helps to have clarification, because no one wants to give the boss a chicken sandwich when he wanted a cheeseburger.

            After all not everyone is as forgiving as me and would eat it anyways. But for now feel free to leave your questions and comments below. And if you want my columns to show up in your email enter your email address in the box below where it says to follow by email. As for me I am off to email my professor. *Tips his hat and walks out the door heading back towards the study. *

           

Rambling Friday: The Week Is Ending On A Better Foot Than It Started

            Well the week started off after having a bad week so it was starting out on a low note, but it is finishing on a high note. Most everyone who was in crisis at the beginning of the week is doing better now. Plus, I found out some financial news that I good for me. And it looks like I will meet my deadlines on time without a problem. I also have a friend coming over  this morning that I haven’t seen in a while, so there might be a long pause in me writing this column. But it will still get out in a timely manner today.

            I’m looking forward to Monday and having lunch with my mother as well. I plan to try and make it something healthy instead of fast food. Maybe a seafood place, I’m still not sure yet. But I’m also thinking of getting a Nintendo 3DS for when I want to play video games on the road and don’t want to use up my phone battery. I miss playing games like Pokemon, Castlevania, and Zelda to name a few. But I refuse to let it interfere with my studies.

            Or my reading goals, which just got upped since I fell behind in my magazine reading. But I will catch up it is only a matter of time. Just means I have to start reading one of the newer magazines and then going back and reading an older one each month. Besides I am kind of curious as to what National Geographic Magazine has become under Rupert Murdoch. I’m so far behind I haven’t gotten to read any of the issues since he took over the magazine.

            I’m hoping it is still worth reading, but I am prepared for the worst. Though the cover of the latest magazine had me interest in the article inside. Of course it also made me hungry too. I’ve got to get my butt into gear though and stop slacking off on my reading goals and start reading more than I have been. I admit I have been slacking off on my reading lately. I do a lot of it in class and I’ve been listening to audio books at night but that is no excuse. Time to get back in the game.

            And I mean to start tonight, well this morning. But you know what I mean. Going to get my reading in order and start on it as well as get my sleeping pattern as in order as I can. I’m already updating my library on my phone and will be on my Kindle later. I’m getting things in order as I write this column. It will take a couple of days to get the ball rolling fully maybe. But I am going to do my best to get it started today as best as I can.

            I know my supports are doing their best to help me. But when it comes right down to it when all the cards are on the table the only one who can do this is me. And I have to figure out a strategy to make it all come together. As well as get up off the mat where life has had me for a while now and start hitting back. I’ve managed to do it with school. Now it is time to start doing it in other areas as well. Time to crack the neck and get my head on straight once more.

            I may take a few steps back here and there but it is time to keep moving forward. Feel free to leave questions and comments below. And if you want my columns to appear in your inbox enter your email address in the box below where it says follow by email. As for me I am off to do some reading in a bit after doing a little file shuffling. *Tips his hat and walks out the door heading towards the library. *

Throwback Thursday: Amistad

            The week is finally starting to come into focus. Thanks in part to a lot of caffeine. And people being patient with me as well as working with me. Along with talking me through things. I can be difficult to work with when my focus is off I know. And I appreciate everyone’s patients with me. I’m enjoying this term immensely and finding new ways every day to be more productive in it. And I thank everyone involved for their help with that.

            But today I wanted to take a look back at my sanctuary for so many years known as Amistad. It was so much different when I walked in through the doors 16 years ago than it is today. And yes I know I am dating myself with that number. My friend Mark knew I was in a slump so he came by early one morning around 8 and dragged my butt out of the house. He took me to what I now know as Amistad and had me help out cleaning that morning.

            Since back then it was a privilege to be allowed in early, none of this you earned a lunch ticket stuff for helping clean like now. He got me signed up as a member since back then you had to be a member to be there and you had to have a mental illness to be a member. He took me around introducing me to the staff and various older members before leaving me to my own devices. I first went to the computer room and logged in time there. First checking email and various sites I had been a member of before being introduced to chat rooms by another member.

            I was off and running with that meeting people from all over. It was on one site for chat that a friend recommended that I met my soon to be ex-wife. But I found that was my place there mainly in the early days. Though I eventually fell into playing Magic: The Gathering with a few people there. And Mark would normally drag me off with him in the afternoon as well. But it was fairly peaceful there most days.

            And the food was great back then. It has since gone downhill since the best cook we had left. But even back then the food was decent still and more variety in my opinion. Plus, you had coffee for longer hours. There were always activities and it took me a long time to get involved in them. Though I think I would have gotten involved in the activities eventually anyways. But I did get involved in the running of the club fairly early on in my membership.

            I was part of the Peer Review Committee for a while. It is a disciplinary committee for when someone breaks the rules. Though it has become a shell of its former self. I think if I ever got the money together I would restart Amistad the way it was intended to be and make sure they always had enough money. Though it would take a lot of money now to do that. We had just started to bring in younger members when the state ordered us to let in the homeless with no requirement for having a mental illness at all.

            But I already ranted about that last week and won’t get into that again here today. So for now feel free to leave your questions and comments below. And if you want my posts to appear in your inbox enter your email address in the box below where it says follow by email. As for me I am off to do more school work. *Tips his hat and walks out the door heading back to the study. *