time for an update.

Well, over the last couple of days I have been getting a cold. I don't feel so terrible, like I usually do when I have a cold (yet), so that's definately a good sign, considering EVERYONE at work has been getting sick, taking time off, AND I deal with tons of money every day at work. It's mostly just a snuffly feeling with my ears needing to pop every time I blow my nose.

My partner and I for the presentation that has to be done in my Human Relations class got together tonight to work on our project. We're doing grieving for children, what happens and how to deal with a child in the classroom who has gone through some kind of loss. It's a sad subject, but definitely something that needs to be approached. We got a lot of stuff worked out tonight, and are going to get together again on Sunday to work on it some more.

She is also in my other group for another class where we have to come up with objectives and lesson plans for an interdisciplinary unit, or a unit/topic that uses Language Arts, Science, Social Studies, and Math. We're doing Astronomy and Space, and I got the Science end, so I think it's going to be really fun and interesting to work on. That's also a project we have to present in front of the class. I found out last night that I have almost an "A" in that class, as well! She reprimanded me a little for making my paper 15 pages long, instead of 5-7 pages long...I explained to her that I didn't want to miss anything when I was writing it, and that I couldn't do that in 5-7 pages, so I just had to have a big paper. She said she just focused on the elements of it I missed, instead of docking me for making it too long, so I got a 90% on it.

My computer class is still a topic of annoyance for me. She sets deadlines for assignments, but doesn't dock points if it's turned in late. What's the point? That assignments are very simple and quite dull, really, and are only hard to accomplish because I find myself rolling my eyes or giving exasperated sighs every time she assigns us something that I've known how to do for years.

Other school work seems to be coming along well. I don't think I'm going to have time to complete the optional 15-page paper on the grieving presentation, but that's alright.

One of my dad's employees is going to Iraq for the Guard, and they wanted to get him a going away gift, and were thinking of an MP3 player. Dad had done some research and found that an iPod was probably the best choice, due to ease of use, which is great for a first time MP3 player owner. Unfortunately, they needed something that was going to withstand the desert, and the only iPod that is pretty sturdy is the iPod mini, like mine, which is made of steel, and Apple doesn't make those anymore since the invention of the nano. Now all the iPods are made of plastic and their cases and screens are easily scratched. I have dropped my mini on the cement, and only the smallest sliver of steel chipped off it, and it still works great.

I was able to find one at the Radio Shack in town thanks to Aaron who was just there the other day. You can't find them in stores any more because they are no long being produced, and to find them online means waiting for shipping and delivery and whatnot, so the easiest solution was for me to buy one here in Spearfish, and either take it home or have Dad come and pick it up. We're still deciding what to do, but I might go home on Friday because it's Veteran's day.

Anywho, that's my long-winded update for now. I'll try to post more often with smaller quantities of words, but sometimes I don't get the chance to for a while. That, and my life has been kinda boring lately.