Feelin' Bloggish

Lets see if I can get into the habit of writing more often again…

On Thanksgiving, I went to Long Island to eat at my relatives' house. Since I didn't get any sleep the previous day, I took a nice long nap there and lazed around in my grandma's room for most of the day.

But the day before Thanksgiving, I had two presentations and zero hours of sleep. I was pretty frantic, as you can probably tell by the random tweets I was sending from the wee hours of the morning until I left for school XD.

I bought myself a brand-new suit for this day. It's my first suit! It has a skirt! After borrowing ill-fitting "business casual attire" from my mom a few years ago, I've always wanted a suit of my own. I was pumped to find a nice fitting one for $80 at Filene's Basement. The cashier gave me a 20% off coupon; she was so sweet!

For the first presentation for COM, each person had to talk for ten minutes. I was the third in my group to go, and the two people before me were pretty articulate. I'm sure I came off as nervous and a bit shaky, and I was even more worried because after each person presented, the professor gave everyone feedback except for me. I didn't think mine was so bad that he couldn't bear to embarrass me in front of the class with criticism, so something had to be up!

I didn't want to be thinking on this for the rest of the Thanksgiving break, so I confronted him about it after class. Good thing I did! He said he was hanging on every word I said and that I basically did everything he told us to do, so he didn't have anything to comment on after I went. I have a hard time believing this, 'cause I tripped on my words a few times, but I'm glad I asked him!

After my second class of the day, I was still feeling pretty confident after the professor's reassurance from the first presentation. That one was ten minutes so the last one, which was only two minutes per person, would be a breeze for sure! But while I was texting my friend, I slipped and fell down the stairs… My back still hurts and I bloodied up my knee and tore my pantyhose. Oh, and people were staring. LOL FAIL.

Fortunately, I brought two extra pairs of pantyhose (and some tights to keep my privates from freezing to death on the way home), since I was sure something would go wrong that day, and sure enough it did. I changed in the bathroom and covered up my knee with a band-aid my friend got for me. All fixed!

After practicing with my group for about an hour, we went to the MKT class. We were the second of three groups to present that day. We did pretty good; I'm surprised at how well the words came out of my mouth without much thinking on my part. We had the cleanest PowerPoint by far; nowhere near as cluttered, wordy, and ugly as the others. Hehe, as a graphic communication major, that's something for me to be proud of.

I'm so glad I got all these presentations out of the way! Plus, for one of the classes, if all the presentations are good, the professor will give us a take-home exam!