First Week of School

I started school already, sortah. The first day of class, which was Tuesday, wasn’t a real productive one. What kind of crap do they teach on the first day of any class anyway? Not a damn thing. Contrary to popular belief, I actually did go to class. So nah-nah. Ahem…but don’t ask me how it went.

On Wednesday, I don’t have any classes, so I was basically up there just fooling around and attempting to get other background tasks done while I was on campus. That went alright, but yah know, I was there for a very-very long time -longer than I would’ve previously preferred.

Thursday I had my Business and Technical writing class. The professor said he didn’t give a shit if we took pictures in class, so I’ll probably end up doing that sometime in the near future if I can find my damn computer link that’s hiding underneath thin air -where the heck is that thing; I mean, I had like at least two of them!

Anyways, the business tech. prof. is pretty darn cool. From the looks of his syllabus, he’s probably one of the most lenient profs I’ve ever had. And, the cool part is, most of our assignments - wait, ALL of our assignments are online. Our job is to read the book, complete the assignment, and upload it to this webpage, before or after the due date [hehe]. This is probably going to be my jerk around class.

charging arena

Now that school is back in session, I’ll be able to update my blog more frequently. The library at our school purchased some spiffy new computers and matching flatscreen thingers with our tuition money, so I’ll definitely be putting these to use. The cool thing about them is that they’re a lot faster, and logging in doesn’t take five hours anymore. I could do without them altogether since I do have my own laptop (except it’s very old and crappy) but I can’t let that tuition money go to waiste. Plus, printing is included in the cost of tuition. It’s twenty five bucks for that, so I’m definitely going to make use of that.

Moving right along. To get myself all psyched up and ready to do lots of homework, I’ve decided to make myself a “charging arena” - I stole that phrase from Kris, incase you were wondering. For me, a charging arena, in relation to school, is a place in my mind. This place in my mind takes shape when I read motivational articles, look at where I still have to go in my degree plan, and look at my grade history and other things along that line. But, I need to have access to this place wherever I go, because I never know when the thought of procrastination is going to show it’s ugly head again.

I read an article (do it now) on Steve Pavlina’s blog that re-motivating oneself is crucial/important/beneficial in a lot of situations. I guess the “i’m motivated” side of your brain needs to be re-fuled on a regular basis just like a car. This idea appeals to me, because it sounds beneficial and it definitely wouldn’t hurt to try. So I tried it, liked it, and will continue to do it. For my charging arena, I’ve got bunches of motivational articles that I printed out [thanks to the library and my tuition money] for easy access, and there’s my degree plan, and my grade history, and a whole bunch of other things. And for easy access, most of these things will remain in a folder or bag pocket so that I can have it with me all the time -I take my bags everywhere almost.

Performancing

Right now I’m blogging from the Performancing extension. It’s pretty nifty, and now I don’t have to think about using that flock browser (until they do something fantastic) for awhile.

Performancing for Firefox | Performancing.com

Performancing for Firefox is a full featured blog editor that sits right within Firefox. Just hit F8 or click the little pencil icon at the bottom right to bring up the blog editor and easily post your WordPress, MovableType or Blogger blogs.

Did you read that? It works with wordpress.com. That’s good news for me. However, there’s still another thing that stops me from blogging on a regular basis and that’s the fact that we don’t yet have a high speed connection at my house. Yeah, we party like it’s 1999, unfortunately. But occasionaly there are times when I’ll be in the middle of an extended stay somewhere where there’s some delicious high speediness floating around.

Oh yeah, the performancing thing has this little feature that lets me add technorati tags too. Fun.

Technorati Tags: performancing, blogging, wordpress.com