Friday, March 12, 2010
WK 2 Blog Entry 4 - Random Musings
My world seems built on the concept of feast of famine this year. Either I have a few projects to complete with long deadlines and plenty of time or everything bombards me at once and all needs to be accomplished at the same time - usually in different places.
This month is a "feast" month: more like a binge. Work, school, and family commitments have all merged into one heady time-management nightmare! Makes me ever more thankful for my support network - how would I get through all this without it.
I know we are all under the same deadlines, but still, I have to ask; whose bright idea was it to have the thesis, media project and presentation all due at the same time?? I know that come midnight March 22nd I will collapse with relief in a hotel somewhere in Georgia, and hopefully will have had enough time to prepare the materials for the photographers I'll be training at 7 am on the 23rd. I take that back, on the 22nd I'm in North Carolina. Hmm. I see yet another late night road trip heading my way. I'm glad I love my work!
Note to self: Must remember Rule #6! :)
This month is a "feast" month: more like a binge. Work, school, and family commitments have all merged into one heady time-management nightmare! Makes me ever more thankful for my support network - how would I get through all this without it.
I know we are all under the same deadlines, but still, I have to ask; whose bright idea was it to have the thesis, media project and presentation all due at the same time?? I know that come midnight March 22nd I will collapse with relief in a hotel somewhere in Georgia, and hopefully will have had enough time to prepare the materials for the photographers I'll be training at 7 am on the 23rd. I take that back, on the 22nd I'm in North Carolina. Hmm. I see yet another late night road trip heading my way. I'm glad I love my work!
Note to self: Must remember Rule #6! :)
2 comments:
jbb said...
- Presentation is due in month 12, don't try to cheat because you don't know the specific requirements for that assignment and adding that to the mix only adds a component that you don't have enough information to succeed. Please.
Cindi Jobe said...
- I know you may not feel my support all the way out here in Montana, but I am here for you. A few short weeks from now we will be basking in the sun in Winter Park, telling funny stories directly to each other, in person, not digitally and loving every minute of it. We will say...remember when? And then we will laugh. Just share your media project with us on Monday like we were old friends - which we are, and we will be supportive, and give great suggestions, and the world will all seem sunnier on Tuesday morning - I promise! You have been an outstanding classmate and student in this program. You have shared so many helpful tips with me and others over the months. I truly appreciate all the professionalism, organization, and support you have displayed over our time learning together. Memories like our SL ski trip will forever be burned into my brain and no EMDT program would ever be complete without a first tour of Second Life with a bunch of hapless grad students who haven't a clue how to fly (figuratively, or as an avatar)! Thanks for the memories. WE can see the light at the end of the tunnel now, so stay the course!
- March 19, 2010 12:32 PM
Original Blog entry "Week 2 Bog entry 4 - Random Musings", by Donna Tracy http://dtracy2009.blogspot.com/ retrieved on March, 19, 2010
Thanks Cindi I needed that.
ReplyDeleteIt will be a joy to meet classmates in person at graduation and we really must try to do something together. I had the opportunity to meet several of our instructors and a classmate when I visited the campus in February and it did add another level to my entire Full Sail experience. Yet I already felt that I knew those I met - technically for the first time - so well. For some of us, virtual communications are no longer a hindrance to developing working relationships and friendships across the miles and time zones.
I do find a certain irony in your words when you say "... a bunch of hapless grad students who haven't a clue how to fly" considering the Full Sail logo is a aircraft in flight. Of course, since then we HAVE learnt to fly on many levels. We have learnt not only how to fly, but also how to ski, swim, and even dance virtually-not to mention fall on our faces :) - and to soar educationally.
We've done it together and we will not know what to do with ourselves on May 1st when 11:59 pm is no longer a flashing alarm begging for our attention.