Spring is in the Air
At least, spring was in the air before that dang snow. Now it’s freezing again! I blame Iowa Western. Why? Because I can. Everyone else seems to blame Iowa Western for stuff, why not me?
Lol, anyway, I couldn’t be much bored-er since we didn’t have school today, but it gave me a chance to sleep in, get some homework done and, of course, write a blog. Although, I do rather miss my two Thursday classes, Microbiology and Weight Training. I’m telling ya, the guys in my weight class are really fantastic. I’m the only girl in my class (the other one dropped or something) and am anything except a work-out junkie. I haven’t ever really used workout stuff before! EVER!!! But the other day a friend of mine was showing me some pointers on how to use stuff, and the other guys were talking an joking with me and it was really fun. They are really nice to me. So yeah, just thought I’d mention it.
Now, pardon my french here, but I wanted to grump a little bit about something I call Half-as-sing-it syndrome. H-AI for short. Unfortunately, I have fallen victim to this horrible disease. I didn’t necessarily do it on purpose, and thank heavens I didn’t do it because I was slacking off (completely…), but I have officially felt the sting of H-AI. I didn’t much like it.
Now, it’s not that I got bad grades because of it, well, not horrible grades at least, but it’s more a feeling, deep down, that I have done something morally wrong. like stealing a tootsie roll out of a bin, or walking off with your friend’s soda, then trying to say you forgot you had it when they come after you.
For starters I turned in an outline for a very important paper in Micro. Now, I did work on it, and I worked hard. Hours of labor went into making that outline. But, by the end of it, my case of H-AI was setting in and I just kinda jotted some stuff down and didn’t really work on that half…. which my teacher pointed out. The wonderful soul though, Miss Sharon Eden is, she still has faith I’ll do it right and, my gosh, I will. She still only gave me 80% though 
Well, I had another outline that was actually due the Friday before for another of Miss Eden’s classes, but, since we were a week behind, I begged, on behalf of the entire classs, to push this due date back a week (H-AI speaking…). And she did. Funny thing, no one else had finished it, so the whole class had H-AI!!! How horrible!
Well, then I didn’t completely finish an art project, which my teacher gave back for finishing when I turned it in ‘finished’ and I also H-Aed a speech in Public Speaking because I ran out of time because of my art project, so I was feeling horrible about myself. I couldn’t believe the symptoms of H-AI that were showing up!
I suppose this is getting rather long so I’ll finish up. I realized, that, yes, I had come down with a bad case of H-AI. But, at least I recognized it. There are too many people who don’t realize that they are H-AI all the time! Not to say that I’m great or anything, but I do give myself points for striving at least. And I suppose sometimes H-AI is necessary. The world doesn’t stop if someone you know dies, or you get really sick, or just any of those crazy things life throws at you happens. You, however, do stop for a bit. So being able to H-A a few assignments here and there is necessary. However, you have to get out of that pattern again which I don’t see a ton of people doing!
So here’s the scoop guys, if I can beat my H-AI disease, so can you! You deserve it, your grades deserve it, and the poor teachers who try so hard deserve it. Just try it for a bit, actually caring about what you’re doing and I think you’ll like the differences it’ll make. Anyway, have a great day and enjoy whatever weather we get chucked at us next. Farewell!
Sarah
P.S. according to the wonderful calendar provided to me by Brownielocks and the Three Bears (aways use caution browsing outside sites) at http://www.brownielocks.com/b3bcalendar.html today is chocolate mint day! So here is a wonderful Chocolate Mint Torte. Mm……
Or just a divine picture of one 
http://www.sweetdietdelights.com/WhiteChocolateMintTruffle.jpg <– the website the pic is from. Always use caution, I cannot control websites outside of my own.