Final Thoughts!!!

Good evening everyone,

I hope that everyone had a great week. I had an okay week. I was in the hospital for a few days for my gall bladder. I am home now and I do feel a little better.

I have really enjoyed the time that we have all spent together. I am sure that we will all meet again. This was a great experience for me. I went from being an okay writer to a great writer. I still need a lot of work, but I look forward to the challenge.

I wish you all the best of luck!!!

Have a great night everyone!!
LaConstance Waller

Almost done!!!!

With your paper done or almost done, how do you feel, do you feel nervous, accomplished, or just plain tired?

Hello everyone,

Well the end is almost near everyone. My paper is basically done, but I am still revising. As the end approaches and the time nears to turn in the final draft, I do feel a little bit nervous and at the same time accomplished. The nervousness is from the thought of knowing that it is almost grading time. I feel accomplished because, this was something that I completed and I did not give up on. I think that overall this was a great experience.

Good night to everyone,
LaConstance Waller

Blogging after CM229

Do you plan to continue your blog even after the course?

Hello everyone and Happy Tuesday!! I hope that you all had a great week!!

I have thought about this topic for quite a while now and honestly I am still somewhat undecided. I know that when I first started blogging, I only did it because it was part of a grade, but now I have come to enjoy it quite a bit. I honestly look forward to my once a week blog. I think that if I do continue my blog, I will re-do everything about it and turn it into more a shopping/savings/couponing type blog. I am not quite sure how that would work, since there are so many out there, so I would have to see how I could make mine stand out from the rest. So this is what I am leaning toward if I do decide to continue on with the blog.

Have a great night everyone and I will see you all in class!!

LaConstance Waller

Oh No, Not a Peer Review!!!!!

How do you feel about peer reviews? What have your experiences with them been like?

Hello everyone!!

I hope that you all have been having a great week.

I decided to write about peer reviews. I know that there are many who do not like peer reviews for various reasons. I believe that the main reason many do not like peer reviews is because they cannot take criticism very well. I personally enjoy peer reviews or criticism, because it gives me a chance to hear what others think about the job that I am doing. I was in the military for over 9 years and my job was an Air Traffic Controller. I have seen and heard my fair share of critiques and peer reviews. I have had some bad reviews, but it was nothing. I moved on and learned. I looked at that as a chance at improvement and growth. We can often see our own mistakes, but we never can catch them all, so it is always good to have that extra set of eyes to watch your back or review your work. In the world of Air Traffic Control, someone is always watching your work and reviewing you, even if you are not doing anything wrong. I look at it as a constant learning environment. So in closing, peer reviews are nothing to be afraid of or to dislike. A person should look at peer reviews as a chance to learn and see what others think.

Well that is all for now.
Good night to everyone and see you all Wednesday.

LaConstance Waller

Hello everyone!!

Share what you have personally been dealing with the last six weeks.......

The past few weeks have been great up until the last two almost three weeks. I do have a confession, I still haven't started my diet. I know, I keep telling myself that I will do it next month and it never happens, but I have changed my eating habits though. I have cut back on the fatty and greasy foods. I have been keeping up in all three of my classes for the most part. The past two to three weeks have been rough, because of the living situation. My family and I do have a roof over our heads, thankfully the new owner of the property (Wells Fargo Bank) gave us until May 30 to stay. We have found a few places that we are interested in that are affordable and nice, so hopefully we will be able to get into one of those. Everything is slowly getting back to normal and hopefully it stays that way until the end of the semester, but everything else has been fine.

Talk to you all later!!
LaConstance Waller

School and My Life

How is school influencing your life at or up to this point?

Hello everyone,

At this very moment, school and my life is clashing. This is my second week in a row turning my stuff in either late or almost late. I hate being late. My family and I have to move, so that is the main reason. We rent from a private owner and we just found out last week that he got foreclosed own. The private owner that we rent from did not tell us this, we only found out because we had to sign a certified letter from the post office. The big kicker is that he hasn't own this property since February 2, 2010 and yes, we had paid him rent for February and for this month and he still did not tell us. He finally admitted to this about four days ago. I am still upset about this because of the fact that he took our money and did not say anything. I am trying to remain positive and keep up with everything because I do not want to get too far behind in my work. I am going to try my hardest to stay focus and push forward.

Thanks for listening and have a great night everyone!!
LaConstance Waller

Hello everyone

What would you do if someone used something you created without giving you credit?

I hope that I will never have to encounter this situation seriously, but honestly I will probably be hysterical if this did happen to me for real. I know personally around my house for instance, my husband and I would talk about something, like what someone should do in order to get a problem resolve. I would give him my ideas or thoughts on the subject matter and he would tell the person, but he would just make it seem as though it was his idea. I know that he doesn’t mean too, so it really doesn’t bother me. Then another time, I was giving his cousin advice and the cousin was passing it off to another family member like it was his advice and it was coming straight from him and the bad part about it was that I was standing next to him. He did not say one time that I was giving the advice or tell the other person, that Constance said you should do this or that. So that got under my skin a little and I made it known to him. I already hate the fact that people lie, cheat, and steal, but not to give credit, where credit is due is really low and I have to say as well that I always give some good advice. So if someone took something that I created and use it without giving me credit, they would probably regret it. I would sue them and probably publicly humiliate them.

Well that is all for now!! See you all in class.

Constance