Week 11 is over. Wednesday night in the meeting with Dr. Chezik I learned we have around 20 more school days. Part of me says, “I don’t know how it went by so fast.” And the other part is getting “testy” and “grumpy.” I guess we all get like this towards the end of the semester as all the stress finally catches up. At least that’s how I feel. Cd 315 has been a challenging class and it’s kept me on my toes. You can’t slack in this class because if you do you’ll be overwhelmed in a hurry and over your head.

I just finished doing my reference list which didn’t take long because I kept all my references in a list and handy.

Finished my seventh genre at school Wednesday during my break between classes. I have asked Ms. McComas to review this one and my fifth genre. I asked her to review these because they took me the longest to complete and each time I look at them I want to change something else. Also, Ms. McComas’ a computer whiz and I definitely want her opinion on my PowerPoint presentation. She’s always got helpful ideas. I have never written a script before either so I’m not sure if I did it right. Need input here.

My seventh genre is really long and Cindy and Allison are probably going to kill me afterwards. But once I started typing I couldn’t stop and that’s why I had to go to the library and finish up on Wednesday. I worked really hard on this one and hope it’s acceptable. I really liked creating a script for a support group meeting. I feel so close to my fictional characters, I wonder if professional writers feel this way about characters in their books. It’s like I actually created people with thoughts and feelings. A definite first for me. Its not great, fabulous or anything like that but I did my very best.

Before doing my unifying genre I got so hung up in thinking about how my seventh genre was going to tie all my other genres together but I have seen the light at the end of the tunnel and am mighty glad to be there.

Aims/objectives: Start on Week 12 assignments. I feel like the “Little engine that could.” I’m going up hill, “I think I can, I think I can.” Hopefully in a couple of weeks “I’ll know I can, I’ll know I can.”

Geneva:)

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