Just a quick update before I jet off to work
So, things are relatively calm at the moment, as it's the very last two weeks of the quarter, for which I could not be more grateful. However, there are enough stress-inducing items within my life that I feel the need to write it down.
Firstly, I've been working on a large group collaborative project on creating a memorial for something we feel ought to be remembered. This means that for the last nine weeks, we've been getting together the history of our subject, the materials for a 2-D and 3-D model, writing one 8 page history paper on it, 2 5-page papers on WHY we chose this subject, and why our memorial looks like it does to reflect said subject, as well as things like, who would fund us, how much would this cost, where could we put it, how would it be received by the audience, who is the intended audience, and finally, how does it work within the larger context of Memory and History, as we've been studying it in class all quarter?
*deep inhale* Donc, this has been slowly eating away at my brain and my time, but we've finished it off, for the most part, and were ready to present next Thursday. Well, last night our professors dropped a bombshell on us and said we'd be presenting Monday. On one hand, it'll be great to get it over with, on the other hand, we don't have any presentation ready and it's going to be hell to get this group together and ready by Monday. Esp. since one of our members is chronically ill and often missing, one of them has a brother who died, so is missing, and one of which hasn't shown up to group OR class for six weeks. NOT that we can't do it, but it's going to be very hard work for the rest of us to pull this together in time. But also, I'm proud that we were called to go earliest, because that means that the professors know that we've been on-the-ball about this whole project from the start, and feel we're the only group capable of being ready so early. Which, for the most part is true, if any of the other groups we've dealt with in peer reviews are anything to go by. *shakes head*
I've also got a bunch of class reading and junk for this next week, which doesn't really bother me, and I've got to go to work. And during the week after next, I'm at work all day every day. I can't say I'm looking forward to this particularly, because work (Though I love it) has become very stressful as I've become more involved in it. In fact, the other day, a woman called me to tell me that I'd called her an Executive Director, when she was the Development Director, and proceeded to scream at me for the next thirty minutes. No joke. Thirty minutes of screaming at me for being irresponsible, not paying attention, being stupid, etc. etc. On the other end of the spectrum, we're at the height/end of the campaign season, and seeing people who help us and are ridiculously generous next to the people who won't do the minimal amount of help, when they are BEYOND perfectly capable of doing so, is wearing. As is seeing the people we help next to the people who either won't take our help, or we don't have the resources to help.
Side note that's completely unrelated to anything:
I donated to the USO earlier in November, and I just got an address to send a Christmas card to a recovering soldier. I know the differences between the governmental demands of the army and the army men themselves, but I never considered myself a soldier-lover, especially considering my views on war in general. However, I find it's been a pleasure finding ways to help out, even if they are small.
Gotta go to work now. *sigh* Fingers crossed no screaming at me today!
Firstly, I've been working on a large group collaborative project on creating a memorial for something we feel ought to be remembered. This means that for the last nine weeks, we've been getting together the history of our subject, the materials for a 2-D and 3-D model, writing one 8 page history paper on it, 2 5-page papers on WHY we chose this subject, and why our memorial looks like it does to reflect said subject, as well as things like, who would fund us, how much would this cost, where could we put it, how would it be received by the audience, who is the intended audience, and finally, how does it work within the larger context of Memory and History, as we've been studying it in class all quarter?
*deep inhale* Donc, this has been slowly eating away at my brain and my time, but we've finished it off, for the most part, and were ready to present next Thursday. Well, last night our professors dropped a bombshell on us and said we'd be presenting Monday. On one hand, it'll be great to get it over with, on the other hand, we don't have any presentation ready and it's going to be hell to get this group together and ready by Monday. Esp. since one of our members is chronically ill and often missing, one of them has a brother who died, so is missing, and one of which hasn't shown up to group OR class for six weeks. NOT that we can't do it, but it's going to be very hard work for the rest of us to pull this together in time. But also, I'm proud that we were called to go earliest, because that means that the professors know that we've been on-the-ball about this whole project from the start, and feel we're the only group capable of being ready so early. Which, for the most part is true, if any of the other groups we've dealt with in peer reviews are anything to go by. *shakes head*
I've also got a bunch of class reading and junk for this next week, which doesn't really bother me, and I've got to go to work. And during the week after next, I'm at work all day every day. I can't say I'm looking forward to this particularly, because work (Though I love it) has become very stressful as I've become more involved in it. In fact, the other day, a woman called me to tell me that I'd called her an Executive Director, when she was the Development Director, and proceeded to scream at me for the next thirty minutes. No joke. Thirty minutes of screaming at me for being irresponsible, not paying attention, being stupid, etc. etc. On the other end of the spectrum, we're at the height/end of the campaign season, and seeing people who help us and are ridiculously generous next to the people who won't do the minimal amount of help, when they are BEYOND perfectly capable of doing so, is wearing. As is seeing the people we help next to the people who either won't take our help, or we don't have the resources to help.
Side note that's completely unrelated to anything:
I donated to the USO earlier in November, and I just got an address to send a Christmas card to a recovering soldier. I know the differences between the governmental demands of the army and the army men themselves, but I never considered myself a soldier-lover, especially considering my views on war in general. However, I find it's been a pleasure finding ways to help out, even if they are small.
Gotta go to work now. *sigh* Fingers crossed no screaming at me today!