This week has not gone my way at all! I felt as if I was going to die. I couldn’t shake the unorganized feeling. The homework has begun to get worse. The only trouble that I had with CD 315 was trying to figure out how to do the webliography. I also decided that I wanted to change my topic for my research. At first, I wanted to learn more about phonological disorders (which is still an interest) but then I decided to do research on dysphagia. I have too many interests to just focus on one. There is so much to learn.

The reason why I decided to do dysphagia for my research was because it was the first things that come to my mind when I began to think about the multigenre research project. I was talking to a lady in church on Sunday and we got into an in-depth discussion on dysphagia. She was telling me a story about someone that she knew that had a swallowing disorder. We were talking about how it was interesting that there were different diets and techniques that people with dysphagia could use to make swallowing more efficient.

As far as the webliography, I had a little trouble thinking about what links that I want to put on it. I haven’t browsed the web out of curiosity for a long time. As I started to think about it, I had no idea what was out there anymore. One of my favorite sites to go to was Disney.com so I decided to use that because I still love Disney. Another problem that I had was getting all of my URL links to work correctly. I couldn’t get some of them to turn blue. I figured I was doing something wrong. I looked over the instructions on how to make hyperlinks but I couldn’t find what I had done wrong, if anything. When I first began to look at the assignment and click on some of the other student’s examples, I thought that I was going to have to make my own web page. Which I may still have to but I have no idea how to do that yet. I’m taking it that we will get some type of instruction. As far as finding web sites, I just decided that I had to go searching.

The week got better when Thursday evening rolled around. Too bad it was already the end of the week. I decided that there were other people who were having a lot more trouble than me. I decided that I should be thankful for what I have and the opportunities that have been given to me. Hopefully, things will only get better.

Doing my assignments for CD 315 this week wasn’t too difficult. There was a ton of reading! I thought I was never going to get finished. I did learn a lot of nifty things for email. I liked the websites on urban legends and smileys. I did have a small problem with subscribing to a mailing list.

When I was reading the directions I thought that when they said “subscribe “ that I was supposed to think of my own list name and then email it to mail serve. I guess I was just having one of my moments. So I emailed “subscribe subscribe cd 315-test-list” and it came back to me with a message saying that it didn’t exist. So then I thought, “OK, maybe I will just email a message only saying subscribe cd 315-test-list. I emailed that one and it *still* didn’t work. So after I read the directions over again I noticed that there was not a space between cd and 315. I finally emailed the mailserv the correct list name. I thought that it was so funny how that smallest thing like an extra space can mess the whole thing up.

If I learned anything about this weeks assignments, it would be to look closely at every address, username, or list name that I have to type into the computer. I now know to watch out for those spaces! Getting through the assignments this week wasn’t as trying as last week. It seemed like I couldn’t get anything accomplished last week. The questions that we had to answer on the class homepage wasn’t bad. Writing about myself wasn’t difficult or very time consuming. When it comes to reading articles or books and then writing about them is when I have to do the most thinking and analyzing. That can be expected. I figure it’s coming soon. Answering those questions on the class homepage was almost like a little stress reliever.

This week I was bound and determined to get some work done, begin studying the Bible and work on my newfound faith. I hadn’t really thought about my work until last Thursday, so I decided that I had to continue thinking about what I had to do to get class rolling.

The first thing that I had to do this week was find out what I was doing wrong with my lovely Weblog here. When I was able to read my email on Monday, I found that no one had received my email that contained my Weblog URL. I thought, “Oh No! That means that Mrs. McComas hasn’t even had a chance to read my first Weblog. What do I do?!” I thought for sure that I was going to get into trouble. (I just freak out a lot!) I decided that I was going to talk to her about what was going on. However, unbeknownst to me, there was another problem. . .

I went to see Mrs. McComas before one of my classes on Tuesday to explain how my email was messing up on me. As we began to talk, I figured out that no one could get into my Weblog but me. Great! Now what?! Mrs. McComas told me to make sure that I had made it public and then save it. The only thing that I could figure was that I hadn’t clicked save on the preferences. I later went to the lovely library to change it and what does it say when I put in my username and password, Maximum Thread count reached. I then got scared and changed computers and it said the same thing. My mind was telling me to be patient. I think that it was God calming me down because before, I probably would’ve been massively freaking out. That evening I finally got a chance to get my Weblog changed. I think that I am finally set to go.

The work that I had to complete for CD 315 was one of my big worries this week and it all turned out fine. I thought for sure that my work was going to be erased or I wasn’t going to get credit but it’s still all here and as far as I’m aware, I still received credit. I had a few bumps at the beginning but I think everything will be better. However, that still doesn’t change my mind about how time consuming this class is going to be. I think it will get more difficult but I have decided that I’m going to be patient and go harass Mrs. McComas if I need help. I really believe that God will help me this semester and I’m going to trust Him and do what He wants me to do.