it's been a while

it's been a while....and i have heard from a few people that it's been a while....i know, what can i say, i have been busy....but let me fill you in a little.

i am actually supposed to be writing a paper for my org devo class....i have a little over a page written....but i hate the book i have to write it on and i can't give my personal opinion in the paper, so it's been difficult to stay focused....

this past week we didn't have class because of the jewish holidays....my group for org devo decided we needed to meet this past week anyway, because we have to teach class at the end of the month....so a meeting would help....we also had to pull together an annotated bibliography for our group....we decide to meet at 7:30 in the science library....i have to leave by 5 from work to get there on time....

i get to albany and realize i have NO idea where the science library is....and i didn't look it up before i left....i drive around campus until i see a sign that says, "science library" and have an arrow pointing at a parking lot....i pull in and park....then i start walking....i keep walking and walking and walking....i soon realize that while it has become winter in bingo, it is not winter in albany and i am dressed very warmly....i finally find the science library and it's CLOSED....remember it is break, makes sense.....then the panic starts and the frustration and the anger....why hasn't anyone from my group called or contacted me or anything! what the hell am i supposed to do now?- walk over to the regular libray....i learned where that was during orientation....

i walk in there and i am immediately told, we close at 8pm....it's 7:40. i look around in all the group rooms and tables and everything, no group....i keep thinking, why haven't i heard from my group! i leave the library slightly paniced and decide i am probably going to just drive home....but first i will get something to eat...at this point i had eaten a bag of chips and some gummy worms for dinner....into the campus center i go....i am walking through one of the 800 eatery areas and sitting at a table all together was my group! it was a miracle....but i was completely annoyed....they didn't seemed phase that i might have found them or that i was now 1/2 an hour late.

we have our meeting....the group member, who i wrote about earlier, did not show- big surprise...her phone is probably still stolen....(ok, that was not nice). we decide that we will send our top six references to one person who will pull together and send to our professor our work...done. then we start to discuss the class we have to teach...we have an outline along with the readings for our teaching due on the 13th....what will we talk about? and how funny is it going to be when our group, five people, is listening to the other group, 12 people, teaching....we decided that maybe throughout the other group's lesson we will all get up and go to the bathroom.....then there will be no one left in the class for them to teach.

we go on to start talking about our stupid books, the one i am writing the paper for....and i am the only one who had finished my book....the others had not....they gave me a hard time....i told them i wanted to be able to have fun this weekend and not spend it reading and writing....anyway, i told them my book was stupid and come to find out out of the five of us, four are reading my book....one other person had started our book and she agreed with it's stupidness....thank goodness.

we then decided on a next group meeting, which i will attend virtually....the group agreed they didn't want me driving so much....nice people...they really are. then we went our ways, i drove back to the place where it is winter and left the place where it is not....