I’m taking a morning class way across town. It is for four days, and tomorrow is the last day. Today I rode down a busier street than I usually care for. More traffic, but it’s a nice straight line. But more traffic means more waiting at lights. So there I am, southbound, waiting for a light to turn green. I’m very far back though — far enough back that by the time I get near the light it has been yellow for quite a while. The guy in front of me wasn’t that far into the intersection when it turned red, and I didn’t even bother. It’s a very large intersection at Speedway and Campbell. I don’t know what the heck the guy behind me was thinking, but it didn’t include stopping. He must’ve floored it at some point, because when he stopped you probably couldn’t get a piece of paper between our bumpers. On the plus side, there was a cop on a motorcycle right next to him, so there was really no reason for him to assume I’d run a light that was dead red and that we’d had no chance to gear up for going through the intersection anyway. Still, it was scary.
I sent an email to the superintendent of schools today. She talks about transparency and being open and full of information, etc. But she cut off the school emails of all the RIF’d people. (They didn’t do that last year.) So the people who are getting all that information are not the people who are most desperately interested in the budget. So I sent her an email asking her how we’re supposed to be informed about this vital information.
I hate my database class and I’m glad it’s the last week. I’ve learned not to turn in my class evaluation until the last minute because something usually happens after it’s too late. What usually happens is that the lack of information gets caught up. Each team was supposed to have to separate diagrams of use case and something else. Like I understand any of this? Did she say that this was two separate diagrams? So Octavio did the work while I tried to get more information and I thought we had it all. I was going to do the narrative until I found out there was none. The rest of the group — Jack, Akeem, and Corey did nothing. At all. Jack has only contributed once I think. Nothing for weeks four and five. Akeem and Corey didn’t post in our private forum at all this week. So the two of us were responsible for the entire project, Octavio is mad at me, and I can’t wait until this class ends Monday and I can move on to the next one!
