New Choices in Employment

A lot has happened in the last week as far as my employment goes. I applied at Walmart out of the desire of an opitmal schedule and more pay. I’ve been hired, but have had problems with getting in for orientation. Orientation is an all day thing, which is only offered during the week days. With my hectic course schedule and finals around the corner, I am not going to skip and classes, which Walmart is telling me to do.
I may be moving to the shoe department at JCPenney’s, which would be nice. It all depends on how many hours that they are able to give me. I want to work a lot this summer, but not a lot in the school year. I think that I may stay at Penney’s, while picking up a shift or two more this summer somewhere else, whether it be waitressing or housekeeping. That way when the summer ends I could still work the same amount of hours at Penney’s.

Studio Presentations

The first round of presenters went today. Before I thought that we had to write up our presentations on our class wiki, using links from our projects to take our class through our sites. It turns out that this is not the case. If we prefer, we can simply take the class through our sites. I think that this is what I am going to do. Eb, one of the presenters, did this for her poetry blog, and I think that it worked very well. She was able to remain focused on each point she made without the use of links. I think that I may be able to do this to. For wiki presentations links are probably more desirable, but I think when presenting personal blogs it should be easy to navigate through sites with little or no confusion.

I present a week from today. Although I am not planning on using the course wiki to help me present my project, I am going to start writing my draft for my writeup somewhere in the next few days. Not only would it be good to get a good start on it, but also I think that after writing the first draft I will have more knowledge on what I should say in my presentation.

Winding Down

The semester is coming to a close and I have had so many assignments to do. I submitted my final portfolio for Poetry, containing over ten poems, as well as five prose pieces about the writing process. It also contained a cover letter essay, with my reflections on my poetry and prose, as well as my self discoveries through out the course.
I’ve about finished my short story for my fiction class. All I need to do is some editing and it should be complete. I wrote a story that takes place in the early 1900’s in a rural setting. In the story Addy, a widowed mother who has lost her home is trying to still maintain her prior ordinary life. The antagonist is Wayne Robert’s, the owner of her house, who is letting her and her family stay there. He kidnapped her 15 year old daughter in an attempt to marry her. After finding and killing Robert and accidently shooting her own daughter, Addy now forced into a life of hiding.
I am also in the process of completing my essay for my American Literature class, which is also due tommorow. I have it written up, but it could use a revision. I chose to compare and contrast “Babylon Revisted” and “The Sun Also Rises” focuses on the theme of dissinlusionment and how it affects the major characters. In there states of dissinlusionment the one primary difference between the characters in “The Sun Also Rises” and “Babylon Revisited” is the desire and motivation to change. Charlie partially succeeds in his attempt to change,and possesses the drive to do so. However, Jake and Brett do not change, and it possible that neither are capable of changing, Brett for her emotional conflicts due to Jake’s impotence, which is something that he can not fix.
All of this work and I still have two exams to look forward to in my Physical Science class. WOOT!