After tonight's chat session I decided to work on the Koha assignment. Earlier in the day I had watched the demo of it which really helped. It was actually easy to do, but it took a LONG time. Luckily I had 12 books from school that got me started off. Going back and forth from Amazon getting ISBN numbers was so time consuming and my laptop was unusually slow tonight which wasn't helping matters. I figured with the holiday coming up this weekend, I just wanted to be done with it. Now, if I could just read the books and write the essay for my other class, I'd be really happy.

Finally, I completed something ahead of time. Now the tricky part is staying ahead of the game. I completely ignored my family for one night and locked myself in my room. Kids weren't too happy about it, but at least I can enjoy some summer nights with them. Of course they have a swim meet tonight that I'll have to run home from to be back in time for the chat session. This just never seems to end. As soon as one thing is finished, it is off to start the next. Got to go and listen to the mid term review.

I wanted to get going on my eprints assignment today. When I looked at the tutorial it wasn't much help. I wonder if I'm doing something wrong. There aren't many explanations and the pictures are so small, I can barely tell what is on the screen. This could be a long week....On a happier note, I finished the Challenge. It took us a little over 6 hours. Lots of sore muscles.

I've been spending all of my free time reading. I went to the Carnegie Library in Oakland to get the Access Principle so I could read while waiting at the orthodontist appts, swim team practice.... Today I'm doing the Rachel Carson Challenge. It is the half challenge which is a 17 mile walk on the trail. With all the rain we've had, I'm sure the trail is muddy. Hopefully the weather will be good today. It should take us about 6 hours to complete and weather.com has cloudy skies until 4:00 and then rain. If we hike a bit faster, we may be able to finish and stay dry.

I think I'm in panic mode. Still haven't finished Glut, (2000) haven't started the others either. I missed last night's chat session because I didn't see the email about the time change. Started looking ahead at the next assignment for this class and feel completely lost. There was only one spot left on the hot topic list for lis 2000 so I had to take it. I hate to complain....but I think that is all I have been doing. It's a good thing I have nice friends and a good husband who puts up with me. Got to go read....

I went into school today for a meeting and decided while I was there I'd print out all of the required readings for week 4 and 5. I have no idea how I'm going to get all of it read. I took Glut to the pool the other day and of course never opened it. Oh well, I'll try again tomorrow! I thought once school was out, I'd have more time for this, but it hasn't worked out as well as I had hoped. Life is way too busy!! (which is why I'm doing this at midnight) Big game tomorrow night...must get work done in the morning.

When I first looked at this assignment, I started cursing myself for ever thinking that going back to school at this stage of my life was a good idea. After playing around with it for a while, it actually wasn't bad. I thought for sure I'd need help from my teenage daughter, but I did it all by myself. I guess you really can teach an old dog new tricks! You see the full screen in the preview. When I looked at the published post, you can't see the whole screen. I'm not sure why. I tried to change it, but no luck.

Well, so much for following a schedule. Everytime I try to read that book I fall asleep. So the next time I begin to read, I have to go back and reread. I think I got the point in the first 36 pages. That is about it for tonight. The Penguins are winning, tomorrow is the last day of school, my class awards are printing, and I have to go read!