Finals Week

Here it is, Finals Week, the week we all love to hate because that means we're that much closer to graduating. This semester I'm not feeling the same pressure I recall feeling in the first three years of my college education. I'm only taking a couple classes--literally, only two. This has relieved me of some pressure. Less projects, less to worry about, you would think. However, I have been taking on outside assignments for the Communications Department. In the next few weeks, I will have to have three recruitment videos created. This has involved a lot of time and effort on my part, including contacting individuals to be in the video, as well as shooting and editing each video for the department. I have also been working a lot; as my course load becomes less and less, I have been taking more hours at each of my jobs, which has been both good and bad for me. Good because I'm making money...Bad because...well, I'm working more. It can be a drag, on top of cutting into my schoolwork.

In preparation for Finals Week, I attended Finals Breakfast in between my homework sessions today. I've been working on my Final Portfolio in this class, to be presented on Wednesday. I have also been wrapping up loose ends in my online COMM 315 class. eFolio has been giving us all a run for our money these last couple weeks, but I've used it once before in my Interpersonal Communications class last semester, so...so far, so good.

I feel like this semester has gone by even faster than some in the past and I'm starting to feel the pressure of my impending graduation the most this year's Finals Week. Though I'm not outta the woods just yet, I think I can maybe possibly sort of see a light way out there somewhere. Tonight, as I continue my Sunday Homework Marathon, I wish us all a Happy Finals Week...may the odds ever be in your favor.

"Snow Storm"

It actually wasn't even the snow that was so awful to endure this week in North Dakota. It wasn't near as much as they predicted. It was the sub-zero temperatures and so-cold-it-burns wind chills we battled all week. If you didn't have your warm gloves and boots out yet, you have them out now and they probably aren't good enough. After a great deal of snow in the beginning of the week, the unbearable temps. came and knocked the wind right out of us.

I found myself staring at the thermometers around me in disbelief...

"Could it really be THIS cold in December???" I thought. I even had to help a friend jump start her car. That's a January and February kind of task. Ugh.

And I think maybe the worst part is...this is literally just the beginning...there is so much more to come. Ugh (again).

This weekend I took great advantage of my break...I...

...ate A LOT of leftovers...

...and did a puzzle with my friends.

I also had two Thanksgiving dinners and brought my boyfriend to his first-ever full family function. He endured both sides of the family, one day right after the other. I went to Catching Fire and got my fangirl on. I was so enthralled in the movie that I forgot to eat my popcorn. Don't worry, I made up for the popcorn...I had a third Thanksgiving (today) with my roommates and applied for graduation on the very last day of the deadline. I also got to see one of my oldest and best friends, as she was in town for the holiday. Looking back, I probably fell into about a dozen unintentional food comas over the course of the weekend due to the fact that I couldn't help but continually eat my own weight in hors d'oeuvres (I just woke up from one of these said comas now to write this post, actually). I also discovered puzzles aren't very effective in warding off these food comas...in fact, they definitely make it worse.

Hope you had a happy Thanksgiving; mine was pretty decent.