Leaving for Georgia

I never really realized how much I hate to pack, until I'm almost done, each time. It probably doesn't make it any easier on me that I wait until the last minute to pack, but I didn't do too too bad this time. I'm just about done and only have one bag this time, unlike my two big duffels last year. I think the part I'm most excited for right now is being able to sleep for hours and hours on the bus: this week was pretty exhausting. Once we get down there and get settled it's going to be anything but a break. We're looking at at least two games a day, more often three than two though. However playing in Savannah Georgia is going to be a heck of a lot nicer than practicing in the field house till midnight, or taking fly balls on the football field in 40 degrees weather.

Web Page

This whole web page ordeal was extremely frustrating for me. Dr. Leight sure was right when she said this was time consuming. I thought that I gave myself enough time to do it, trying to span in out into three long days in the library, but even at that it was cutting it close with all the questions I had. I hated how when I inserted pictures I couldn't really move them around, and when I put bullets on my pages only the first type of the theme was applied. Infact the theme really didn't do much for me except give me background and font colors that didn't clash, as well as a neat table outline. But looking at the whole project, that's not very much. I wish I would've paid more attention in my high shcool computer class when we made a web page in word; I feel using word was a lot easier and that I could do niftier things with it.

Griffin iTrip Auto Smart Scan

I got a new yellow iPod for Christmas and decided I wanted to be able to listen to it in my car. Instead of going to Walmart or anywhere else, I just figured I'd order an itrip offline... bad idea. I ordered a certain model that charges and plays it for $99.99 off the apple website, and two days after it had come and I had started to use it, I saw one at Walmart for $44.88... the same EXACT brand and model. Mad was an understatement. I ended up sending the one from online back and buying the one at Walmart and saved $50. All in all works pretty well, except for when I'm driving throught a city or stopped at a big intersection. This is definitely beyond my knowledge, but it seems that the static signal gets messed up in certain areas. This doesn't bother me too much though... I like way back in the sticks of Mt. Pleasant where there's tons of farm land and no traffic lights.

2/17/09

I'm feeling rather under the weather right now, but thanks to Mr. Slautterback's 8:00 a.m. Movement Education class I'm fairly wide awake... all things considered. The first day in his class was close to my first day in Dance Fundamentals with Thom Cobb. Both classes required being comfotable moving in ways I'm not comfortable, in front of a class full of people I hardly know. However both professors are extremely laid back and show a lot of genuine concern for each of the their students. This made loosening up and participating in class to my fullest ability very easy, even on the first day of class. I'm glad I had those two professors for those classes. I feel that by taking theses classes I've gathered more knowledge and teaching tools for later in my career.