Everything and Anything

The last few weeks have been so crazy. I have no clue what I’m doing anymore. I didn’t think just 2 classes would be like this, It’s not horrible but with the 4 hour drive 2 days a week it just seems like I don’t have time to do everything.

I use to work well under stress, but I’m finding that the diabetes has a bad effect on that helpful ability. I can’t get stressed or my body starts hurting and my sugar drops. So I think today is going to be fun because I didn’t bring the project home like I was going to so I will be yelled at for it. I’m going to be working on just that today so hopefully I won’t get yelled at. I have to keep my stress level down and right now gas prices are enough to keep it up where I need to watch it, I don’t need added stress of a perfectionist.

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yesterday I had class, we are working on a group project and I thought it was going well. One of the girls in the group is getting upset because we are not done and she thinks that because we are not almost done that we are behind and it’s not going to be done or done well. I’m not worried about it, but I think that is because I am pretty much done with what I need to do. Now I’m working on our model that I had hoped would be done last week. It wasn’t and I don’t care anymore. I can’t change it so I’m not going to stress over it.

I think these problems are just the reason that schools do group work. Even on a college level. You have to learn how to work with people and get the job done. This girl is a nice person she just wants everything perfect. Eventually she will learn it will almost never happen that way. Something will go wrong. I know for her a big part of it is that she wants to keep her GPA up. I gave up on that after my dad died and I couldn’t get some of the work done for my classes in time for the end of the term 2 weeks later. Apparently Baker Collage doesn’t think that a parent dying is a good reason to give an incomplete. Anyway I think this is a good learning experience for everyone and I’m happy that they had a class like this.

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Tomorrow at school there is an expo where some projects will be shown to people who may hire someone. Unfortunately I have not had many projects since I started back so my only hope to be shown in the expo is to get our project done today and get it looking really good.

The problem comes with the rest of my group, well not all of them the other girl is worried about it to. I don’t blame the other two for not wanting to do anything, they are freshman and still have 4 years before they have to worry about finding a job. They will have many more projects to do that may look better anyway. While the other girl and I are graduating next year I believe and both will have to be out looking for work. She wants this done well and it will be, but I work amazing under pressure and it will look good and be done tonight.

After being out of school and looking for work for a year I know how hard it is to find a job, the architecture world that the guys will be in may not be as bad, I don’t know. I do know that the interior design profession is very competitive and hard to get a decent job in. Lets put it this way, before I started school I worked at walmart with 4 women who had gone to school for interior design. I knew before I started school this would be hard.

We will see what happens I guess. I leave here around 11 for the 2 hour drive and I won’t be back until 11pm or later. I’m starting to get tired of driving this drive and I love to drive. Oh well.

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As many of you know I’m big on the whole Green movement. I love finding new ways to use products that we would normally throw away. One product that I want to tell you about is Glass Cullet. What it is are pieces of glass that are sent to recycling or are pieces of glass that were defective for the product they were intended for.

Glass Cullet is great to use for any glass project because it melts at a lower heat and is not very expensive. I have used this type of product before for projects in my deign classes on my boards. I also know some who have bought this type of thing for craft projects. Either way recycling is a great thing and if your looking for glass you need to check into Glass Cullet

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