Week 7 started calmly enough. Sunday night I moved into this cute little house with Emily where we will be residing for a month. She had already printed out the week's assignments for me! Isn't she a doll?! I guess that was her cue to me that we'd better get to work right away! Well, we did. The first couple of days this week included much fun, but we also completed a lot of our work including our Email Community and Peer Review assignments. Then all that was left was the big stuff, and our journal.

Once I started thinking about my last two genres, the panic set in. All this time everyone else has been talking about how they're going to tie everything together, and seeing it as a whole. Me, I just work from piece to piece and have failed to see the big picture clearly. Sure, I've thought about the project as a whole and how I should tie everything together, but thinking about it is as far as I've gotten. So, once I realized that my work so far is a jumbled mess in the whole scheme of things, I started to freak out! I realized that none of my genres actually answered my question, and maybe didn't even relate to each other! Should I change my question? Was it too late? Was I going to have to redo my genres? It seemed that Emily had figured out how she was going to put everything together, but my stuff was falling apart! So I emailed Mrs. McComas for advice (THANK YOU!!) and after her reply I feel a little better. I just need to sit down and think things through, and of course everything would need revised anyway. She suggested doing a web or map. What a concept!! Why didn't I think of that! Anyway, with any luck I'll have things ironed out soon. Of course at this point my project has more wrinkles than a Sharpei puppy! (Sharpei's are the dogs that look like they have too much skin, and it's all wrinkly!) Stay tuned for the continuing drama that is my education!

Ok, so things weren't all stress this week. Emily and I are having a blast living together! At the beginning of the week we went grocery shopping and spent $80, since then we've only made dinner twice! It's bad when you buy that many groceries, but don't know what you're going to eat the next day! We don't have cable, so we've been watching a lot of DVD's, and of course there's been an abundance of singing and dancing! Emily's big stereo can shake the house!! We also get our work done because we help each other out and keep each other on task. All in all, our first week has been great! Next week will hopefully be even better!! Until then...I'm out.

Six weeks behind us already! This week was pretty good in the work department. I actually got a lot done right off the bat, but of course there are always those couple assignments that linger until the last minute.

I wish I would have realized that we could use the same resource for all 5 articles on the Library Search this time. I had already finished it when someone emailed the list and got the response saying that all the articles could come from the same resource this time. Oh well, I can use the articles all from the same place for my project, even though I didn't include them in this assignment.

The peer responses are a good idea and can be very helpful! I appreciate all the comments and suggestions that have been posted about my work! I hope that my comments have been helpful too!

I haven't finished my two genres yet. I'm pretty sure of what they're going to be, but I just haven't sat down and written them yet. Hopefully when I sit down to write them the ideas will just come to me and pour out onto my paper.

In my Inquiry and Literacy assignment, I addressed how we make knowledge as we write. When I read that quote in the article, the first thought that popped into my head was when we did reading journals and sometimes after asking a question, I could come up with the answer by writing and writing and writing! It was always really interesting to me how that happened. Ok, well, I'm all talked out for this week. Until next time...

As I checked the new list of assignments at the beginning of this week, pure panic swept over me at seeing that they were all due at the end of the week. I hadn't even finished Week 4 yet!! So, I had one week to do a week and a half's work. It didn't matter at first that this week's assignments weren't extremely difficult or time consuming, I just saw those dates and freaked out! I knew I was going to have to get my butt in gear, sit down at my computer and JUST DO IT! Well by Wednesday I think I had finished Week 4, and I hadn't JUST DONE IT for Week 5 yet. I knew I had all of Thursday and Friday to do this week's assignments (I am going away for the weekend). Well I did a couple assignments Thursday and then it came down to today. Today, I found myself writing my poem in the waiting room of the Family Medicine part of Cabell Huntington Hospital. I hadn't been feeling good for the past few days so I decided I had better see a doc before the weekend. Amazingly enough I finished my poem before they called me back (that could have been due to the fact that I waited for over and hour), but the important thing was that I was finished with it and only had my journal left to do. So here I am. By the way, I found out at the doctor's office that I have strep throat (I guess it wasn't all that karaoke that made my throat sore)! This week's assignments were relatively easy and once I just sat down and did them, it was really a relief. Ok, so I'm no longer behind and hopefully I will stay that way for the remainder of this class. I need to prepare myself for the next 5 weeks because my mind will be stretched, my time will be spent, my patience will be tried as I continue to put together this project. With a little rest (now that my 8AM M-F Math class is over, more rest can be seen in my near future), and a lot of hard work I think I can whip this thing into shape! As Spongebob would say, "I'm ready, I'm ready!"