resurrecting lj day #8 crash and burn
After not posting yesterday's entry, which was largely about doing what's right, I crashed and burned by a.) developing some kind of minor yet distressing intestinal disturbance, b.) falling asleep on the sofa for a prolonged period, and c.) forgetting that it was Friday and I had four projects due in programming class.
I managed to finish two of them and was working on the fourth when Visual Studio's design view disappeared and refused to come back. Google was no hope. Resetting and restarting was no hope. Windows refused to even let me delete the original solution so I had to start from scratch in a new save location.
This was for an online class. It was due at 11:45pm. I finished at 1:30am.
I always tell my kids, and whatever halflet will listen that it's better to earn an F than take a Zero, and I just wracked up two Zeros.
I feel like a screw-up pooball.
Also my feet are swelled up like a politician's ego. :P
I may be able to turn these projects in on a Correct and Resubmit opportunity (Sort of a Screwup Amnesty Day). That bothers me though, because a.) I half don't believe in them and feel like if you screw up you should take your lumps, and b.) I didn't use the last Amnesty Day because I was only missing two correctable points and it didn't seem worth it.
Today I have a test, and a shopping list to make, and all the shopping to do. The house is a pit (and my desk is the pit epicenter) and there are a couple of other assignments I can't even remember right now.
This semester is nowhere near as crazy as the last two, nor even as crazy as the first year in the Graphic Design Program, but it is crazy enough, and I kind of feel like my family members could be a smidge more supportive as far as a.) not interrupting when my eyes are rolling wildly and I am yanking my hair out in big clumps, and b.) maybe helping with the animals a little while I am doing school work.
I realize they are mostly my animals, but still.
I'm feeling pretty dang sorry for myself today, ugh.
I managed to finish two of them and was working on the fourth when Visual Studio's design view disappeared and refused to come back. Google was no hope. Resetting and restarting was no hope. Windows refused to even let me delete the original solution so I had to start from scratch in a new save location.
This was for an online class. It was due at 11:45pm. I finished at 1:30am.
I always tell my kids, and whatever halflet will listen that it's better to earn an F than take a Zero, and I just wracked up two Zeros.
I feel like a screw-up pooball.
Also my feet are swelled up like a politician's ego. :P
I may be able to turn these projects in on a Correct and Resubmit opportunity (Sort of a Screwup Amnesty Day). That bothers me though, because a.) I half don't believe in them and feel like if you screw up you should take your lumps, and b.) I didn't use the last Amnesty Day because I was only missing two correctable points and it didn't seem worth it.
Today I have a test, and a shopping list to make, and all the shopping to do. The house is a pit (and my desk is the pit epicenter) and there are a couple of other assignments I can't even remember right now.
This semester is nowhere near as crazy as the last two, nor even as crazy as the first year in the Graphic Design Program, but it is crazy enough, and I kind of feel like my family members could be a smidge more supportive as far as a.) not interrupting when my eyes are rolling wildly and I am yanking my hair out in big clumps, and b.) maybe helping with the animals a little while I am doing school work.
I realize they are mostly my animals, but still.
I'm feeling pretty dang sorry for myself today, ugh.