Send Ken To College

Ooops, in hot water again.  I was working on my paper and didn’t mow the lawn when the Mrs. thought it needed it.  Oh well, this too will pass.

Remaining on my plate -

1. Use document for software project – DELAYED TO NETWORK ADMIN ISSUES
2. The final part of my software project – IN PROGRESS
3. 10-15 page research paper on Iowa in the Civil War – IN PROGRESS
4. 10-12 minute oral presentation of the research paper

Remaining on my plate -

1. Use document for software project – IN PROGRESS
2. The final part of my software project – IN PROGRESS
3. 10-15 page research paper on Iowa in the Civil War – IN PROGRESS
4. 10-12 minute oral presentation of the research paper

On the home front, the wife is still annoyed but now she is talking again.  My dog is not showing concern over her doggie biscuit and peanut butter status.  She sees me leave everyday so she assumes I am going to work.  She is no longer nagging me.  I think I am going to start counting down in hours real soon now. 

The count down has truly begun.  Remaining on my plate -

1. Use document for software project
2. the final part of my software project
3. 10-15 page research paper on Iowa in the Civil War
4. 10-12 minute oral presentation of the research paper

I am sure my wife will be very happy when this is all over.  I don’t think she has ever learned what the last two weeks of a semester are like and she ends up mad at me every time.  This time she wanted to express her frustration over the computer systems at work and I didn’t care to hear about it again, since part of the problem was how she was using them.  She was not too receptive to being told that she should stop doing what she was doing.  Her claim is that she always did it that way so she was doing nothing wrong.  She doesn’t get that things change and she didn’t like being told yet again that it was her fault things were messing up.

So right now she is not talking to me, which is not necessarily bad since this leave me to get the last of my education stuff wrapped for the semester.

One fifteen page research paper, one ten minute presentation and two papers to to re-write and then it is time grab my diploma and run.

I agreed to let the wife have a few people over the day after graduation for an impromptu graduation party.  I generally do not like crowds of people, and she has promised to keep the crowd small.  Apparently her acquaintances convinced her that graduation is a big thing and that she should have a party for me.

Right now I am torn between making a a concerted effort to maximize my grade or to just settle and be happy with B’s.  I’ll keep you apprised as to how it turns out.

Good golly, it was pointed out to me that I had not posted in sometime.  I am either lazy or busy, I am not really sure what.

As of the writing of this post I have 19 days and 23 hours left until graduation. I seems like it has only been 5 years or so ago since I decided to go get unignorant….ok, so maybe it has really been about 6 years.  I am finally graduating – doing what I should have done 20+ years ago.  Some people say that I did a good thing by going back to school and they tell me how they are not sure they could do it.  To me it wasn’t could I do it, it was do it because I was sick of working in restaurants and in retail outlets.

I currently work for Nordstrom and because of tough economic times they first reduced scheduled hours and finally laid off employees.  I could not survive on the 80% schedule (later dropped to 60%) because I was part time to start with.  From 20 hours to 12 a week did not exactly give my dog confidence that her peanut butter and doggie biscuits would continue rolling in.

Therefore I got off my lazy butt and finally found an internship in my field.  Now during the week I work for a cereal manufacturer who specializes in store brand cereal and oatmeal.  I am an intern programmer and I am currently ramping up so that I can stay and be full time over the summer.  I also would not be upset if this turned into a gig that supported my eating habits when I get to UNI in the fall.

Baring any last minute screw-up I am on track to graduate magna cum laude even though I have been battling a bad case of senioritis this semester.