G’s Place

Brianna is an official college graduate. I have the pictures to prove it!

Today is pretty nice, hopefully at least for the first part of the day tomorrow it will be nice. Brianna is being very aspie about the change - but she’s aware of it, and we’re aware of it, so we’re all trying to deal.

It’s the first time my mom has really seen how it is, so we had to explain to her that it will be ok.

Today we are going shopping. Oh joy.

We are not going anyplace exotic — I mean I personally don’t consider Albany NY exotic. But I’m off for a week and a half, we’re going to see Brianna graduate. It should be nice.

And donated to locks of love. She ended up cutting 14 inches of hair!

Here’s a before…

Here’s a during….

Go to flickr to see the after - WP keeps smooshing her face!

Didn’t it come out so cute???

This semester is over in two weeks, so I have two huge papers looming. I think I can write on close to the same subject, so hopefully that will help.

My big pre-GA project at work is almost over - my last deliverables are next week. Then the fun of turning it into steady-state training happens. Since I have been managing the project from the start, I have tried to make the learning objects as reusable as I could. It’s a little difficult since the pre-GA training is only differences training, and of course some things in pre-GA may get resolved. I think the assets I created for each learning module (there are 2) are pretty reusable…so hopefully the development effort won’t be too painful. Also, there may be a trip to ATL which means I’ll get to see my bigmama.

This summer I am taking a class called “Designing Content for Online Collaborative Learning”. I am really excited for that !! In the fall I am taking the last of my core classes: “Intro to  Distance Learning” and “Intro to Systematic Instructional Design”. I actually think I have  one more intro class - an Inquiry and Measurement course. At any rate, I need 12 classes, and after this semester I will have 3 done. Turtle’s pace, but I’m getting there!

Brianna got a letter that she’s graduating with honors in May. YES!!! Now she needs to find a job. If you are in Boston and looking for a quiet, smart, hardworking research assistant, I have a great candidate for you.

Kenny is in a frat. Still not sure what I think about that. But he has to keep a 3.0 to stay in, and they make him perform community service. I like that. The two guys I met that are his “brothers” seemed very nice. It’s just weird to me.

We had our first Parents of teens and young adults with Asperger’s Syndrome meeting - didn’t get a huge turnout but we’ll keep trying.

I read a good post about how to blog, and that post recommended asking questions. So here goes - is anyone else out there in a very demanding job and in grad school at the same time? Do you feel like you are insane at the end of the semester? Do you just break down and clean because you have to let things go in order to get your work and school work done?

Brianna says he did so profusely, but I think she only said that because she wanted me to stop calling him names.

And her magical story was really really good. She is planning on going to work after college. I think she should go to grad school for writing. She is VERY good. really good. Isn’t there a writing commune or something she could join?