MIDTERMS

Last week was the beginning of midterm madness for me. Two essays and two tests on top of the regular work. It was hard to fit everything in. In fact, I ended up skipping the work in two classes in order to finish work in all the others. The class work I skipped can still be gone through and didn't have any work due, but I'm still behind in those classes. I hope I'll be able to make it up this week, but I've got another two tests and an essay due this week as well. Crazy stuff. I'm thinking next semester I'll take one class less to lighten the load a bit. It will still put me at full time status, but it won't be so hectic.

This week we're ordering new bicycles. The car troubles we've been having lately have thrown into sharp realization the need for alternative transportation should we need it, and our bikes are pretty much shot, being over 10 years old and rusting from the inside out. Eeewww....

My daughter learned to crawl on her hands and knees (instead of her famed commando crawl) and pulled herself up to a standing position for the first times this weekend. It was a proud parent moment for my husband and I. Kids grow so fast!

The Results Are In...

Well, we had 1 student show up for our activity this weekend; a real disappointment. At least that 1 student got rewarded for going to the activity by winning the half gallon of Aggie Ice Cream. Next month we'll try something new to test student activity theories. Maybe carving or painting pumpkins, or a childrens' trunk-or-treat. Anyone out there have ideas?? The big question now is, "how do we motivate our nontraditional students to go to these activities??"

Lots of homework, not much time. I'm still waiting for my abnormal psychology book to come in. The second book I ordered, that is. The first has been given up on.

Car troubles this week. Our alternator went out, and our bike tires were flat; we had to hoof it wherever we wanted to go, or get a ride from some understanding neighbors/coworkers. Not fun. The bicycle had rust water running out of it when we turned it over to replace the tire. This is the third tire this year. In one foul swoop, we realized we needed to replace a car alternator and a bicycle.

Gearing Up for Weekend Activities

I'm getting ready for a USU student activity this weekend. My husband and I are going to attend a community "frontier days" for a few hours during which students can come find us and win some Aggie Ice Cream. I hope we have a good number of people come so we can get students excited for the monthly activities I'll be planning. I'm having a hard time getting people to volunteer for committee positions. By the way, USU-Price has a website that makes it reallly easy to get information about programs and the campus. It's www.price.usu.edu. CHECK IT OUT!

My abnormal psychology textbook has been deemed a lost cause by the postal service. I've had to order a new book and waste another few weeks waiting and getting behind in class. I'm never ordering from ebay again.

My daughter has started crawling and sitting up lately. She's getting pretty good at it, but still has the occasional bumped head.

A New Perspective on Mississippi Mud

So my package finally came in -- ripped open without the textbook inside of it. Great! My textbook has been lost. It's now flying freely on vacation somewhere giggling happily to itself and chanting, "Haha! I threw them for a loop! I've escaped!" along with all the other miscellaneous lost items that never quite made it to the right post office. It must be in some other dimension, what with the ability anyone has had to be able to locate it. It was coming from Maine; maybe it saw the Mississippi River and decided to jump ship there, although all the accounts I've heard of the Mississippi paints a picture that's mostly mud-colored. It is an abnormal psychology book; maybe it likes that sort of thing in an abnormally psychological way.

My Ebay letdown

Week 2 in my online classes at USU-Price, and I already have a piece of advice for anyone starting out their college career... DON'T ORDER YOUR TEXTBOOKS USED FROM EBAY! The prices there are comparable to anywhere else, but their delivery timing stinks. I ordered my abnormal psychology textbook from them, and now, two weeks into the semester and three and a half weeks from the day I ordered it, I still have yet to see it on my doorstep. I ordered it with the belief that it would be here in time for the semester to start, but later received an email informing me that this was not the case, and to expect it between the 27th of August and the 9th of September. Way past the dates that I thought I had been given when I ordered it. Luckily, I was able to borrow the book of a fellow Aggie in my community, or I would be academically dead in my abnormal psychology class.

Lots of studying going on. I have just enough time in the day to be able to do my schoolwork and take care of myself and my family. I am quite blessed in that respect. Many days are faced with headaches, though. I'm sure that will change as I get used to the academic load. What a week!