On the way back from the airport Brendan and I went by Harry’s Whole Foods and got some yummy guacamole and blue corn chips that are really good. Oh ya, and cereal. OMG, this cereal is so good. I don’t remember the name but I’ll take a look at it later.

Now that I’m officially withdrawn from university I have more time for WoW. My priest is up 65 (Cumbersome) that I leveled mainly for the guild, since I already have a 70 priest on horde side. Found out today one of our officers who has a shadow priest and told me they didn’t want to do anything other than shadow (thus the reason for me making a holy priest) just respec’d holy in my absence (since my Mother was here). Ahhhh. Such a nice backstab. Feels fucking great. Lots of guilds need priests, so at least I have that in my favor. Moving on.

I’m getting daily use out of my kindle. I didn’t think I’d be using it as much as I have been. It’s become as close to me as my MacBook Pro. Speaking of mac, I’ve been working on some cocoa programming using xcode. I somehow feel completely free now that I’m not in school. It feels great, my doctor was right. That was too much stress for right now.

I’m bombarded with make up assignments in school after missing the last few assignments in my Java class and with my nose to the grind I’m trying to get those completed both tonight and tomorrow before I have another class that begins. Ugh. I’m also on call for work somewhere this week. I also haven’t made an appointment for my treatment day. Ugh. So much to do, so little resources.

Now to get started hoping that there isn’t an emergency at work …

I haven’t gotten a chance to catch up with my RSS feeds yet. I can usually keep up daily with them but with the amount of school work I’ve been up against I haven’t even played WoW. I don’t usually during the quarter but when I have a little bit of time I at least log on. Not this quarter, however, and I fear it’s going to reflect the rest of my degree program. Onward and upward, someday I’ll be happy I did it. Right?

I truly do love education and I love learning. In fact I would probably go to school the rest of my life if I didn’t have any other responsibilities or family to provide for. Things being how they are, I’m looking forward to that time I can actually have to sit down for a while after coming home from work. It only makes me stronger I suppose, and I’m learning those time management skills I always wanted to know. I didn’t exactly want to be forced into learning those however, lol.

I don’t have to work this weekend so I have the next 48 hours to do with as I please, in a very responsible manner. I was fully expecting to be working this weekend so it was a nice surprise. I have two movies from Netflix to watch … which I might do as I’m looking up information for my System Administration class.

Might as well get started.

With all the mess from the medical stuff I’m far behind and I want to catch up. I’m finding my time becomes less and less lately and it’s stressing me out in such a bad way that my health is failing. There really isn’t much I can do about it at this point in time, so I have to carry on and try my best.

Both projects that are due are pretty huge. I have to be semi-coherent for both which I am right now, I just don’t know which to choose. Sleep is something I haven’t been getting enough of obviously, but I don’t want to feel like I’ve not gotten anything done. I’ve been on call this week for work and tonight has been a busy work night for me too, which again pushed school off to the side. Sigh. I think I’ll start my paper …

Other than that, it was a great day at work. I’m getting a lot done, and I have some huge projects on my plate for the week which feels great. I also got a raise, and I happen to be one of the two in my department that aren’t … :: cough :: … leaving the company not by their choice soon (if you know what I mean).

So what does that mean? That means I get more money, and they think I’m a smart valuable cookie. That makes me feel good

Got Brendan a new phone today too since he put his through the wash. It’s an LG Shine (black). It’s amazing how phones really haven’t come super far, of course when they aren’t iPhones.

Finals going on today and tomorrow. I haven’t been playing WoW because of this, and because I have to pull off at least a B in these classes. I miss WoW

I’m trying to make my life easier, I really am.

Speaking of Mac products, I got a mighty mouse for my MBP and after a few weeks it would stop scrolling down. I was within my 30 days of purchase so I simply took it back to Bestbuy and got a new one. Then this new one did the same thing. I should have googled it the first time, but it’s a simple fix. The little roller-ball gets dirty see, so to make it clean I did this:

1. Turned mouse off so it didn’t cause havoc all over my screen.
2. Got a new blank piece of printer paper and laid it flat on my desk.
3. Turned the mighty mouse upside down and went up and down the sheet of paper with the roller ball.
4. I’m horrible at explanation, here watch this video.

Thanks little man. I just might subscribe to you.

I got an email today from one of my classmates. He said he reviewed my recentdiscussion board posting and Java program.

Hi Jenny,
I see that you did an awesome job on the last db. Seems like you are an experienced program writer. I’m writing you because I would like some direction on that IP that was due yesterday. I still cannot send mine, because there was no db and I’m sooooooooooo new to this. Can you please send me something that will help me through the whole thing with minimal explanation, because I don’t understand what’s asked to be done. I wrote the teacher and he’s not responded yet, so please help anyway you can.
Thank you in advance.

So, is he really asking me to send him my code? I mean, that’s what it seems like to me. The last assignment wasn’t easy for me either, it took me nearly 48 straight hours to complete (and understand). To be perfectly honest I haven’t done the assignment that was due Friday because our Professor hasn’t had access to the internet so we haven’t even had lecture about it yet so I don’t think it will be due until he gets internet access back. I think I’ll just write him back and tell him we’ll just wait for the Professor. Heh.

To the sound of $250 later (they had to give him anesthesia to re-cast) a very groggy Pepper came home. The vet said that Pepper needs to remain confined in a kennel and have as little movement as possible. So he’s in Jonah’s dog crate right now with the cone collar (so he doesn’t chew on the cast) crying his head off. Each time he cries my heart breaks because I want to scoop him up and cuddle him but I know this is best for him. My heart and logic don’t always speak the same language.

Between the constant crying, having less than 5 hours to get my 10 page report done for class, and trying to hold it together my stress level is skyrocketing. I think if I get one more punch in the gut or anything of the like I’m liable to exploded into a million tiny pieces.

I have Systems Administration and Java. I’m Java challenged right now. I started taking these classes in January but due to illness and my arm injury I dropped both of these classes to try and mend myself. I’ve always had this love/hate relationship with Java. I love when it works, I hate when it doesn’t. My determination to make it work is out-weighing my procrastination to say “screw it” because the fact is, I WANT to “get it” and learn it and manipulate it like clay. So I’m currently going through one of my Java books I had at home to give me a jump start. I’m doing both the Self-Test Questions of every chapter as well as the Programming Exercises. Doing it this way I’m actually learning more of the basic’s then I learned in class last quarter.

This is what I have learned about school. I need to find what works for me, and do it my way. Everyone has a way of learning that works best for them, and I’m just starting on that path of realizing what works best for me.

Time seems to be against me, however. Never enough time.

I’m very excited for this next quarter. I’ll be taking:

IT170 – Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming
IT382 – Systems Administration

The Systems Administration class is going to be more of a refresher course for me I think, but I’m hoping to learn new things. I’m nearly giddy about my Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming class however, because it’s the first core class that follows my degree concentration (Software Engineering). I don’t know what programming language it will be in, but I’m fairly certain it will be Java. Time to break out those java beans!