Today our final essay for 2000 was due. I'm really glad that is over. The three books we read for this assignment were by far my favorite. I liked Lawrence Lessig the most. Remix was in my opinion the best of the 11 books we read. Although he takes things a bit to the extreme, I admire his passion for the issue. It also lead to a great conversaion with my son's guitar teacher who is an independent musician. I go back to work on Aug. 19th so I have 2 weeks with no stress to enjoy being with my family and then it is back into the swing of school. Everyone will be out of the house tomorrow, so I'm planning on going up to my classroom to see if any supplies have come in, and start to get things organized. This time next week we will be leaving for vacation. I can hardly wait!

It has been a busy week! This is birthday week in our house with 3 out of the 5 of us celebrating our day. On top of that, we are finishing up 2 swim teams with championships and end of year banquet and our club hosting a meet this week. We've been up at 5am to get to the pool by 6:30 and then back again at 6:00pm for finals. Trying to get laundry done, keep the house picked up, and oh yeah, get the yard back in order. We've had french drains put in during the last 2 weeks and they also regraded both our front yard, back yard, and lower yard. Tons of dirt has been moved this week. What a mess!! Still reading for 2000. Can't wait until that is over! Starting an outine for our html portfolio.

I worked on assignment 8 for several days and still don't think I've got it right. I've started reading for the last essay in 2000. I'll be very happy when that is done. Don't know where to begin on the portfolio project for assignment 9. I'm hoping we get a little more direction on what to include. I'm not sure if I missed the online chat this week. I tried on Sunday night, but there was nothing on Dimdim.

Today was the last day of the on-campus classes. It was really nice to meet everyone. Many interesting people with very different backgrounds. I enjoyed it a lot. Now it's time to get back to work on the 2nd html assignment. I tried to upload our powerpoint, but the site is down. Isn't technology great?!

I've been without the internet for 2 days. With the assignment for 2600 unfinished, I was a bit stressed to say the least. I think I got it done, but I'm not sure that I did it right. Tomorrow begins the on campus visit. It will be nice to put faces to the names I've been reading all these weeks. I'm glad I live close to campus so that I can come home each night. I've left a whole list of jobs for the kids to do while I'm away during the day. They weren't too happy to hear about that!

Like every other assingment, I've read the instructions and have no idea what to do. I'm going to try to get some quiet time tomorrow to sit down and get it started. Next week is the on campus visit. Looks like it should be an interesting week. My group for 2000 has started our presentation.

The books for LIS 2000 are going to be the end of me.....Okay, maybe not the complete end of me, but it's pretty close. It is taking me forever to finish them, and the whole time I'm reading, I'm trying to figure out how I'm going to relate them to the topic. Oh well, enough time spent of this. Back to Work!