I need this short week of school!!!!

I am really glad we only have two days of school this week. I so need the break! I am going to work in the success center Monday and Tuesday and HOPEFULLY will get to have 5 days where I can rest, relax, and enjoy a few days of leisure time. I would like to go Christmas shopping one day, but this will NOT be Black Friday!!! I have a brother-in-law home from Florida I would like to visit one day. There is a dance in New Athens Wednesday night I would like to go to. I have to work Sunday. So my time off is pretty well planned. My English paper is coming along okay. Like I said, I want to work on it today and tomorrow and will probably do a couple more interviews at the farm this weekend, but I need some time to do the things I want. Even though I will miss some of my classmates and instructors, I am ready for this semester to be over. My plans are then to start the LPN program at The Beck Center in July. Too many pre-reqs for this girl to take to become a RN!!! I won't graduate til I'm seventy years old at this rate!!!! Happy Thanksgiving to all who read this!!!!

It's all coming together

Even though I haven't started my paper yet, I have been rehearsing in my mind how I'm going to put it together. I have interviewed every one but one lady. This lady is about eighty years old and is the one who has worked on the geneology of this particular Nuernberger family. Julie (Nuernberger) Main, Vic's oldest sister, and her husband, John, gave me a lot of interesting stories, too. When I interviewed Vic's brother, Dan, his wife kept interrupting him telling him he was wrong (this was Dan's own memories here!!!) and I found out that when I interview I should do this one on one. It was really hard to decipher my recording with Ms. Mouth contradicting Dan all the time. But I did get some good stories from Dan, too. This story has become very important to me. I was asked by Julie and John last night if they could have a copy of my paper to hand down to their grandchildren. What an honor! And to you, Kira, I have some more ghost stories coming!!!!! To the rest of you, I was worried at first that I wouldn't be able to get your interest writing about a farm, but I have discovered that with this particular farm and family, I can assure you this will be one good paper! Good luck to the rest of you! Can't wait to read your papers!

Down in the Dumps

I will be writing two blogs this week. Last week I was so down in the dumps I couldn't think straight. This week I am still tired from feeling so bad last week. I am glad algebra is finally getting easier for me and I'm glad that our group project in my speech class is over. But this poor old body was so stressed out that it's just going to take a while to get back to feeling better. I am excited about putting this ethnology paper together and am getting things organized for that. I hope all my classmates have utilized the success center. Without the help from Hannah, Annette, and Lydia, I wouldn't be where I am today. Sometimes I'm in here until 7 p.m. When my mind goes blank from being tired, one of these three wonderful people will encourage me to keep on going. I would advise anyone who is struggling to get your buns in here for help. Last week I thought about giving up on this college thing. After all, I'm not twenty anymore. One thing that kept me going was the fact that I've never been a quitter. The other thing that kept me going was the support of Mr. Nadziejko and the staff here in the support center. Also, the Nuernberger family has talked to me so much about this farm paper, I just couldn't tell them that I gave up on everything. No, I may have been down in the dumps, but I'm back and going strong. Never give up!

Time to get it together!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am getting excited about putting this ethnology paper together. I don't know how much I will end up with, but I hope to keep it interesting to all who have to read this fifteen-plus page paper. There are so many things I have found that I would like to share with everyone! Last week I was shown a collection of antique auto license plates dating back to 1911!!! This week I was shown a collection of beer cans that I have never heard of and a couple were made even before I was born! That's less than 1/2 of a hundred years ago! Or whatever. I guess you wonder why I would even consider putting something like these two artifacts in with my paper on the farm, but these farmers have always had cars and/or trucks to drive and they do love their beer and have for quite some time, it seems. Yesterday a hog died on the farm, but Vic wouldn't let me see that. I guess he thought I'd run away screaming, but I told him that I HAVE ALREADY BEEN in the nursing field and I have seen some things that could probably make him pass out! I didn't see the hog, though. Why would I want to write about a dead hog anyway? So I am interviewing, researching, writing, and editing my paper. Wish I could just concentrate on this and not have to do algebra!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!