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I took my final today for the Access 2007 online class I was taking. I managed an 85! My mind blanked annoyingly on a few things so yeah. But considering I didn't managed to get all that much study time, and that it was the highest test score for the entire semester, I'm pleased with that.

Now to wait and see what I got for the entire semester. I was at a B before the last three chapters and the final.

And awesomely, some rain decided to make its appearance. The day went from 102 degrees to 86. Awesome :D

Ladies and gentlemen, we have rain!

Well actually we have the rain bands brought in by hurricane Alex. Hurricanes are fascinating weather events. Considering Ike was nearly two years ago, I'm glad this one went south of us. And she brought in a lot of tropical air so we're really rainy right now. My county's under a flood watch. Though I wonder if we'll clear up in time for the 4th. Though maybe it will stop the idiots from firing guns on my street to celebrate. Maybe.

Summer school continues apace. My first test was yesterday and while I studied more about the database structure than what was on the test, I did end up with a 82.5, so not bad at all.

Woo! Just found out my grade for my senior project management class: a solid B. Awesome.

So, one grade left to find out from the other finished class and one final to take. Yay!

Aw it figures.

Issue 11 for City of Heroes is live. It went live yesterday, the busiest day of the semester for me. But that's okay. After today's final, I'll be home and taking on the Envoy of Shadows again.

I'll just let the inevitable download for the extra patches to happen while I'm at the test. (Thank goodness the issue patch download finished earlier this week.)

Now to study for the test this afternoon.

P.S. Feel so much damn better now that I have sleep. I'm glad I took today off of work to do that and study.

Whew. Well, that paper's done. Not the greatest paper really. It kinda sucked. But something was better than nothing. Took up some mp3s and headphones and used the tech computer lab to work on the rest of the paper. Really couldn't concentrate yesterday. But its turned in now.

So, work tomorrow, project meeting tomorrow, get paid tomorrow. Thanksgiving on Thursday. Renfest on Friday (wooooo!). Probably project meeting on Saturday. Project, project, project. Presentation on Wednesday. (Better make at least a C in this class.) Final for one class on Thursday.

Then December. Final on December 11th. Graduation on the 14th.

Whew. Almost there.

Yay, gave the big presentation for this one class that the paper of doom was from. Paper was finished today around 1:40pm. Inkjet of course ran out of ink in the middle of printing my paper for everybody in the class at 3pm. So the mad rush to school to get there on time, and I ran off during the next presentation after mine to finish printing it all out. Even had a few people come up to me at end of class while I was hanging around and said it was a good topic.

So, phew. Finished with that. Test in that class next week, project management plan due Wednesday, but I'm not really working on that one, test upcoming in another class... But nothing is imperative for the next two days, so I'm going to play. Definitely City of Heroes since I've been not playing it this month cause of that paper.

yay.

ETA: I've played City of Heroes for two years this month! Woo!

Wooo!

My paper topic has been approved! Now to finalize my sources and write!

For the last two days, our propane tank's been empty. Yesterday's shower? Not so bad, a bit on the cold side. I took it just at sundown so I'm assuming I got to use the day's accumulated warm water from the well. Today's shower? Fucking COLD!!! Brrrr. I hope the tank got filled today and it's just the water heater that needs to be re-lit. Because I'm running out of clothes and the dryer's a propane one.

So today, I had the one class I had been dreading. It's the required project management class that everybody has to take near graduation. And it is as I feared. This class is going to make me a nervous wreck by the end of the semester. Well, maybe not this class alone. But all three together just might. The last of my new classes is tomorrow, along with the one class that is two days a week. I really, really hope that new one is a bit light. I'm going to need it.

(Although, this particular class' prerequisite was consent of the instructor. That doesn't bode well for a light class.)

Though I'm envious a bit at the classes I have already taken. Our professor tonight told us how they're beefing up the earlier database classes. The department changed a junior level, required by all to even start senior level classes, Access class to SQL programming. A senior level class that was teaching SQL was turned into a continuation of the earlier SQL class then halfway through the semester it shifts into Oracle. The Tech college even managed to get a database administrator to teach this class. *envious* I was supposed to take the old Oracle class before they started changing everything. I just couldn't take it in time as I was taking the two classes before that one. *Sigh*

Now that I have confused everybody.... Guess I'll find out tomorrow about how this other class will contribute to the semester that is going to eat me alive.

Figures this is how my last semester is going to be. And dammit, my minor is still listed in the records. I got permission to drop that already. Now I have to go get that fixed before I will apply for graduation.

Waha! I have found out my grade for my speech class!

An A-. Excellent. Especially since the final was on Wednesday and given on WebCT, but we had to take it in the testing center on campus. The especially part was that the test was written for the normal WebCT testing and not for the Respondus Lockdown Browser. So skipping any questions meant that you couldn't go back to them. The professor and helpers tried to get it fixed while people were still taking the test. Some finished and was allowed to try again, and there was lots of noise while they tried to figure it out. I just skipped one, so I went ahead and finished it up and left.

And, I went to an appointment with my counselor about what class I can try to take this semester. It's my last one and I couldn't figure out. It was a fruitful meeting and I just now have to register the last class and pick a semester of parking.

I got until September 14th to apply for graduation but I was told that I can do it online too. Isn't that neat? Once I get my last class registered, I'm going to apply for graduation. Yaaaay.

Gave my second speech today and I survived! This morning was a bunch of annoyances rolled into one. I was going to print the 30 chapter summaries at home but then I ran out of paper. I got a later start than I wanted so I couldn't swing by work to print them out. Then I realized halfway through the drive up that I accidentally left my flash drive at home. I was very annoyed at that one. Luckily, I had an earlier draft printed out so I used that instead at the copy shop. I think I did okay on my speech. It was accompanied by powerpoint slides. My grade for the last speech was a 90. So yay!

Erg. So tired because while I ate breakfast, lunch wasn't a possibility until 4pm. And I stayed up late again. No diet coke around here either. Since it's raining I don't quite want to walk to Starbucks while in a white shirt. Oh well. Caffeine will happen sometime soon.