10.13.10 Wednesday

As much as I was "with it" yesterday, I am not "with it" today.  My To Do list was long and assuming and I took one look at it and rolled over and pulled the covers tighter.  The raininess of the day did not help at all, nor did the state of affairs that has become the norm at our house.  The only person picking things up is me.  If I don't do it...it doesn't get done AND no one is concerned.  I see how hoarders' homes become out of control.  They must be surrounded by enabling or at least "do nothings".  I would truly appreciate help, but it has been made glaringly apparent that it will never happen.  Either I do it or become buried alive with it.  It's getting so that I don't want to leave the driveway and have on more than one occasion circled the neighborhood to stave off for a few minutes longer facing the inevitable. 

Learning....I learned that I can take a Blue Book Exam and fill the book completely.  I learned that it's been many, many years since I've handwritten anything.  I learned that I can confess to classmates that I did not understand a concept and that they not only forgave my lack of knowledge, jumped in to share what they thought the concept meant or else commiserated with me their misgivings. 

Have received two more "self-help" books.  Eat That Frog and another on Discipline.  Eat That Frog was a smaller, more visual book than I anticipated, however, it is has much depth and substance camouflaged as fun.  I haven't read all the way through it, but I anticipate it being a good read and better study.  I've learned that I don't want to compare stories with another student who is in a caregiver role.  At this time, I cannot give another ounce to another person.  The prof who tried to lash us together, as two souls adrift, failed to realize that tying two drowning people together doesn't make a raft....it merely ties the arms of two people trying to stay afloat, so in essence they will drown faster.  Perhaps that was the intent. 

I learned that I have no clue what digital storytelling is.  The more I read about it, the more confused I continue.  My hope is that I can focus on the storytelling aspects with digital applications.  I hope I am in the right department.  I learned that I have lived through another Wednesday and that it is week 8 of the semester.  Mid-term never felt so good!