Grrrrrrr

Okay. So I drive to ETSU on the one day I usually have reserved for housework, laundry, yada, yada so that I can scan all my documents into pdf files for another class. I do this so that I'm not one of thousands crowding around a few scanners at the last moment next week. Brilliant, huh???? Well......I wind up scanning my documents (all 27 pages) about four times!!!! Why??? Because the first scan I do in black & white and I can't read half of what I hand wrote -- in pencil. I begin to rewrite all my pages with a pen and say to myself, "self...this is gonna take forEVER to do...gotta be an easier way." So I decide to rescan one page using grayscale settings. Eureka!!! It'll work just fine. So I then put all my pages back into the scanner for rescanning, wait several minutes and I realize that I forgot to tell it to use grayscale! You see, it automatically chooses black & white. I have to tell it EVERY TIME if I want to make a change. Grrrrr......so I rescan yet again ALL 27 PAGES!!! This time I am successful. You can read everything! Yay me.

I then send the documents to my professor via email. Aren't I smart? I decide to go ahead and send my powerpoint as well. Only one portion left to send later. Gosh, I'm brilliant...I'm cookin' now. I then decide to check out a large article sent to me by another professor. After I take a gander at that, I decide I need to check my ETSU email one last time. Oh CRAP...my pdf files have been returned to me. The file is too large. Okay...where is Tami Baker? She's teaching a class, of course. So I ask the guy in the lab for assistance. We study, we work, we look for a solution to the problem so that I don't have to scan ALL 27 PAGES yet again. FINALLY this brilliant young man finds how we can reduce the size of my file! Yay. We reduce the file. I resend via email. I'm done. I'm great. I'm thrilled!

I wake up early this morning (after a late night) and realize...I wasn't supposed to send my pdf files nor my powerpoint to my professor via email. I was supposed to send them via the D2L dropbox!!! Good Lord...deliver me.

I get up, go find my flash drive (thank you Lord for giving me the good sense to save all these changes on my flash drive). I start up the ole laptop. Go to my ETSU email only to find some emails from said professor that basically tell me I've screwed up. Take a look at the syllabus. Why am I sending her things via email? OMG....I'm such a doofus. So I reply to her lovely emails that I had a brain fart yesterday after my scanning and sending difficulties and just realized what I had done and had planned to resend via the D2L dropbox.

Okay......so what do I have on tap for today? FINISH the math remediation plan...FINISH the assessment write up...get together all materials for Mondays first class...finish an article (a long, yet very interesting one) for my first class...review my knapsack paper...read, read, read............

So why am I typing on my blog instead of getting my rear in gear? Well, ya know...when I get frustrated, I HAVE to vent. Since I didn't have anything or anyone to hit, I decided to smack the keyboard around a bit and vent on here.

Well, off to the papers!