This week has flew by. It only seems like 12 hours ago I was sitting at home doing about what I am now, only in the comfort of my own home and not at work! Yes, I am at work typing my journal because we are short staffed this week and they needed someone to cover shifts. Thats what I like about this job, the flexibility! I had 3 goals this week. One was to keep myself busy and get up early each day. Accomplished. Second was to do this weeks assignments. Almost there. Finally was to play golf before I work today. Didnt get there!

This weeks assignments have really motivated me to take a deeper look at my genres in hopes of refining them and evetually tying them together. However, I think after reading through them, that the same unifying theme is found in each genre. The assignment on the mailing lists this week was my hardest because of the situation on my mailing list. I joined a healthcare reform list in hopes of finding a lead on my topic. However, what I found were two men who took different stands on the same topic and decided to use the mailing list to express their differences. Therefore, I had to sort of express my differences with the mailing list in the assignment this week. You would think that a mailing list as easy to find that deals with national healthcare reform would be beneficial in a research project such as this one, but it wasn't.

I found myself in a state of panic earlier today with the final genre I am working on. Since I am pulling an all weekend shift, I have to do my work when I can. Well I found out today that in order to post my brochure genre to the internet I have to print it off, take it to the library, scan it into a pdf file, save it adn then post it. Well Sunday is the only day I can do it and I am just hoping that the scanning center is open tomorrow.

I am beginning to feel proud of all the work we have accomplished this summer. Its almost like you look at all this stuff online and you're like "did I do all of this?" Where did all the time go? Well we are probably looking at about 90% of our time here. Thats what makes this class worthwhile to me. You put the time in and it pays off. Some classes you cannot say that about.

There are two pieces of my project that I like the most. My powerpoint presentation and my acrostic poem. Probably if I had to pick, I couldnt because I like both of them equally. I have a hard time with letters and such, but something that challenges my creativity is what I seem to do the best with.

If you look at the title of this weeks journal, you might think that I have accomplished some great feat. Well I have. I was quite scared about completing these genres. In fact terrified. I have never done a project of this style or magnitude. Yet, now they have came, I saw and I feel I have conquered, in some weird, academic way!

Well, I guess this is all for now. Ill see you all next week either here or on the MOO!