Ok....I have got to chill out! I have freaked myself so totally out about this report that it's like coming full circle and looking at it from the other direction. It cannot possibly be as hard as I'm making it. Other people write this kind of stuff all the time. So with that in mind, I donned my stack of multicolored post it notes and did what I do best and that is to make a whole out of little bits. I took all of the coded words and sentences and put them on coded colored post it and put them into their appropriate holding area on a large piece of paper on the table in the dining room. At first that was just what they were, colored papers stuck onto a bigger piece of paper, but when I looked back at it again, I started to see patterns forming and it was starting to look like a 9 patch quilt. So I lined the post it up a little more carefully and got the tape to permanently adhere them to the backing and waaalaa! I could see the most important points of this paper by the biggest or most colorful blocks. (more colors meant that a particular comment was applicable in one than one area.) I could proceed with the writing now knowing what to write about. Man I am such a visual learner...it's ridiculous!
So I don't think my presentation tonight will be stellar, but at least I'll have an artifact to view and some direction of what topic to feature. This is just a tad too close to the last minute. I think I'm going to invent an adrenaline girdle that you can put on and apply external stress (though artificial) to stimulate the feeling of the adrenaline rush that I now must have to get work completed and completed well. I do enjoy the feeling when the adrenaline is evaporating because that means that the task has been completed.
The presentations tonight were really really good. Many of my co-learners had chosen very interesting and stimulating topics to research and they did a great job of reporting. The instructor actually had to cut us off when the time was running out. Surprisingly my sloppy paper qualitative quilt was well received and several people gave me suggestions to where to present it and what to do from here. Interesting.....again, I would have thought that this too simple or non-rigorous, but that was not the case. I need to just trust my instincts.
The video interview that I recorded with Austin Hostetter about Quilted Memoirs is viewable at
http://vimeo.com/17647752 It's pretty painful to watch because we did this in one take so there about a billion um's, but my idea is recorded with a date and I also sent myself the outline through the mail so I need to see about getting the idea for eQuilts or eQuiltedMemoirs copyrighted or patented or something. I don't want to let Ronco or As Seen On TV grab this idea before I get it to the market!!!
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