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Productive weekend!
Dec. 5th, 2005 11:12 amAs a member of the internship program, I got to register early for my classes on December first. As I finished the registration online, it told me I had a week to pay my fees. Since Eric wasn't too happy with me paying for things on my credit card, I decided to wait until we had time over the weekend to see how he wanted me to pay it.
I was planning to go to my router lab on Thursday to try to finish one lab and start the last one, but a thunderstorm moved through and killed the power to the campus. Oh well!
Friday night (Dec. 2nd) I got an email from the college registration office saying I'd been dropped from my classes due to non-payment and would have to fill out a reinstatement form and get it signed by all my instructors before they'd allow me to re-register and pay. WTF?? Was that one week to pay in dog years??
I wondered if with the opportunity to register early there were special rules about having to pay right away and I'd missed reading that in the email from the internship office. Then I remembered the power outage. Maybe the person who brought the computers back up goofed on the current date entry? I called this morning. Yes, that was the problem. I'm now reinstated without forms and signatures. I made the lady laugh by quipping about dog years. lol
My lab partner and I agreed to meet at the lab early Saturday morning. He said 8:30AM or 9:00AM and I managed to get there at 8:45. I was sleepy and stumbling a bit, but I was there. He had set up for part of our design and I helped finish it. We managed to get the glitches worked out of the test setup by the time the lab officially opened. By then, all the procrastinators were showing up desperate for resources. The lab instructor found one hole in our logic and we quickly fixed that so he signed off on our design and we cleared out. My lab partner, Phil, said something to the Lab instructor, Phil, about me being incredibly smart as we were packing up after finishing our project. I was embarrassed and mumbled something about how my cousins were really bright but I didn't think I was. I have to work too hard to understand this stuff to think I'm really bright.
We decided to offer the documentation part to our sick lab partner if she wants it, though she doesn't have signatures on her paperwork for the project. We agreed to do the documentation ourselves in case she doesn't do it for whatever reason. I emailed the collected data to her with our offer then I wrote the "simple English for non-techies" narrative yesterday. Phil is doing the technical part of the documentation.
My router class instructor finally understood my problem with the stuck assessment on the Cisco website and reactivated it for me. He called me on the phone to apologize for not understanding that I'd started it and not finished it. Then he said he was impressed with my dedication and hard work! whoa... two great compliments in two days! Again, I was a bit embarrassed and mumbled something about this being my new career so I want to be good at it.
It made me feel really good to have him say that to me. I'm already feeling good about this quarter because things are going so well for me. I'm "getting" it. My mind is working in the old familiar way and I like it. I like it a LOT. I know just how close I am to feeling completely stupid as I was seven months ago and that helps to keep my head from getting swollen from the kind words. I'm just a little progesterone away from being a babbling idiot, or at least feeling like one.
Yesterday after I finished my first draft of the project narrative, I washed the window frames that needed sealing and Eric installed the weatherstripping. It helped keep our neighbor's smoke out, but a little is still getting in. We only sealed the windows facing our neighbor. I'll have to get more weather stripping to do the others along the front of the house. We may need to block off the fireplace, too. But it's better! I didn't have to wear my air filter mask last night! YAY! Then I took that last assessment.
OK, laundry is in the dryer and I'm going to take the practice final for the router class. Today we'll have a guest lecturer in the router class because our instructor is on a job in Chicago. When he called me yesterday, he said the wind chill there has it at -4 degrees. Brrrrr! Tonight I'll get the Windows Server Installation take-home final. Tomorrow night I'll get the Windows Server Active Directory take-home final. I'll have the in-class router final next Monday afternoon, go over the answers for the Windows Server finals Monday and Tuesday nights and I'll be DONE! Well, that's if I can get my last router labwork finished and take the lab practical final by then.
This is totally doable, without lost sleep.
I was planning to go to my router lab on Thursday to try to finish one lab and start the last one, but a thunderstorm moved through and killed the power to the campus. Oh well!
Friday night (Dec. 2nd) I got an email from the college registration office saying I'd been dropped from my classes due to non-payment and would have to fill out a reinstatement form and get it signed by all my instructors before they'd allow me to re-register and pay. WTF?? Was that one week to pay in dog years??
I wondered if with the opportunity to register early there were special rules about having to pay right away and I'd missed reading that in the email from the internship office. Then I remembered the power outage. Maybe the person who brought the computers back up goofed on the current date entry? I called this morning. Yes, that was the problem. I'm now reinstated without forms and signatures. I made the lady laugh by quipping about dog years. lol
My lab partner and I agreed to meet at the lab early Saturday morning. He said 8:30AM or 9:00AM and I managed to get there at 8:45. I was sleepy and stumbling a bit, but I was there. He had set up for part of our design and I helped finish it. We managed to get the glitches worked out of the test setup by the time the lab officially opened. By then, all the procrastinators were showing up desperate for resources. The lab instructor found one hole in our logic and we quickly fixed that so he signed off on our design and we cleared out. My lab partner, Phil, said something to the Lab instructor, Phil, about me being incredibly smart as we were packing up after finishing our project. I was embarrassed and mumbled something about how my cousins were really bright but I didn't think I was. I have to work too hard to understand this stuff to think I'm really bright.
We decided to offer the documentation part to our sick lab partner if she wants it, though she doesn't have signatures on her paperwork for the project. We agreed to do the documentation ourselves in case she doesn't do it for whatever reason. I emailed the collected data to her with our offer then I wrote the "simple English for non-techies" narrative yesterday. Phil is doing the technical part of the documentation.
My router class instructor finally understood my problem with the stuck assessment on the Cisco website and reactivated it for me. He called me on the phone to apologize for not understanding that I'd started it and not finished it. Then he said he was impressed with my dedication and hard work! whoa... two great compliments in two days! Again, I was a bit embarrassed and mumbled something about this being my new career so I want to be good at it.
It made me feel really good to have him say that to me. I'm already feeling good about this quarter because things are going so well for me. I'm "getting" it. My mind is working in the old familiar way and I like it. I like it a LOT. I know just how close I am to feeling completely stupid as I was seven months ago and that helps to keep my head from getting swollen from the kind words. I'm just a little progesterone away from being a babbling idiot, or at least feeling like one.
Yesterday after I finished my first draft of the project narrative, I washed the window frames that needed sealing and Eric installed the weatherstripping. It helped keep our neighbor's smoke out, but a little is still getting in. We only sealed the windows facing our neighbor. I'll have to get more weather stripping to do the others along the front of the house. We may need to block off the fireplace, too. But it's better! I didn't have to wear my air filter mask last night! YAY! Then I took that last assessment.
OK, laundry is in the dryer and I'm going to take the practice final for the router class. Today we'll have a guest lecturer in the router class because our instructor is on a job in Chicago. When he called me yesterday, he said the wind chill there has it at -4 degrees. Brrrrr! Tonight I'll get the Windows Server Installation take-home final. Tomorrow night I'll get the Windows Server Active Directory take-home final. I'll have the in-class router final next Monday afternoon, go over the answers for the Windows Server finals Monday and Tuesday nights and I'll be DONE! Well, that's if I can get my last router labwork finished and take the lab practical final by then.
This is totally doable, without lost sleep.
