New Leaves

Ah, Bless you, bless you.

Today was an experience in divine intervention. I was to give my 5-7 minute speech in class.

I learned and prepared power point, prepared a speech outline, speech proposal, bibliographic source paper, complete speech proposal (all of these were separate assignments but a bit overkill IMO for a speech that we were originally told to 'pick a topic that you know a lot about, and then prepare a 3-5 minute speech about it.' To then turn it into the above expletive fiasco has been the bane of my existence for the last 3 weeks)

I spent *several* hours to the point of tears at times as the work load eclipsed my other classes, and was as prepared as I possibly could be.... except I couldn't find a mini dvd+rw so they could record the spectacle for further ventures into academic torture. We went to at least four different places in the surrounding areas, there was no mini disk to be found. Apparently the speech students descend upon the local establishments at the same time and wipe everyone out of their stock.

Today, I went to class ready to tell the teacher, "No, I don't have my mini dvd. No, I didn't wait to the last minute. Yes, everyone was out. I am prepared to take the lump in points and give my speech."

There was no heat in the building, and the residing dean deemed it 'too cold' to hold class.

I then proceeded to the bookstore on a last desperate attempt to locate the mini dvd. And there they were...

Bless you Dr Dean Dude. Bless you.

Today, the Dow dipped below 7,000... interesting. very interesting.

btw, my Power point for my speech totally rocks.