For some reason, I woke up this morning convinced that I had to put bricks in the oven for my Minecraft cathedral.  Once I finished my morning routine, I put the cobblestones in seven ovens to turn them into stone bricks… and then I thought, well, I’ll just clear out a few more rows of the crypt, and maybe fill it with dirt.  Towards the end of this short diversion before doing my take home final, I started to get hungry and shaky.  Hmm, must be time to eat a snack.  Nope, it was one o’clock.  I stopped Minecraft, ate lunch, and wrote out my final in about three hours.

During lunch, I watched the devastation of “Super Storm Sandy” on the news while talking to my mom (Sandy) who lives in New York.  She was telling me some of the stuff that was happening locally; I was telling her about what I was seeing nationally.  This morning, I had heard from my sister who lives in West Virginia.  The winds were fierce there, yet her neighbor was using a leaf blower to try and gather leaves (really?).  While watching the national news and talking to my mom, I saw a news reporter standing knee deep in water warning cars not to go down a particular street in New Jersey because of downed power lines.  It was the street she was standing in.  This was not a bright move on her part, and she could easily have become a Darwin award winner.  Fortunately, the police came along, told her that she was an idiot and that she should get out of the road.

Tonight was my last presentation in my Inclusion class.  This was a group presentation.  Each of us had agreed on 2 minutes of talking each, followed by a 2 minute video for a total of 10 minutes.  We talked for 23 minutes.  All of us went just a little long.  The thing is, our classmates seemed to like the presentation, and they asked many questions afterwards – about 10 minutes worth.  We, and one other person (half an hour on her “10 minute” presentation!), talked so long that one of the presentations had to be moved to Thursday.