Craziness!!

Okay, I have a story that's post-worthy. So I have this prof. that always tells us in GREAT DEAIL about our assignments... i mean, more that i would ever want to know... and we have to make a children's book for this class. I'm very proud of my book -- it's about a little boy who goes to the grocery store with his mom... and everything that she buys he says, "i don't like that" and she says "you will." finally when they get home, his mom sets chicken noodle soup in front of him, and he is overjoyed because he likes chicken noodle soup! i also wanted to translate it to spanih so it could be a bilingual book. Phil did the illustrations for me, and at my request he did them by cutting out pieces of construction paper and pasting them together to make each picture (there are 10 total pictures). well, two nights ago (thursday night) i, for some random reason, decided to look at the due date on that assignment... and realized that it was due the next day by 3:00!! it was 10:00 at night when i realized this... i had the story written, but not translated, we had some random pieces of cut-outs for the illustrations, but not nearly close to being done.

SOOO... we went into panic mode, phil and i cutting out paper like it was our job, until 11:00 when open hours were over and he had to leave. at that point i was ready to give up, but one of my roommates who is fluent in spanish said that she would translate it for me and get it checked by one of our spanish profs the next day, so then i felt that i had to continue. so i stayed up until 3:00am finishing the illustrations, then at 7 when i got up i tied up some loose ends on the written portion of the book and then went to the library to scan all of the illustrations into the computer (because we didn't make enough of each piece to have one for each page... for example, we used the same body for the boy on every page). then i had OPE, where i taught a lesson on how to write a DBQ introduction, from 11-2... that left me one hour (when i would normally have been in class) to finish up the book -- which meant printing these pictures on the special paper front and back, very specifically (pictures on the left, words on the right). i can't even articulate how difficult it was to do this, let me just say that it took us 2.5 hours... so i didn't get it in until 5:00, but my prof was still there so it was all good.

the crazy thing about this is that my prof, the one i was telling you about in the beginning who always tells us way too much about every assignment, never said a word about our picture books being due! i don't get that -- it's so out of her character to not remind us. granted, as college students we should be expected to remember our own assignments, but at roberts our profs spoil us with reminders.

anyways, the book turned out exactly as it would have if i had another week or two to finish it. it's a miracle, let me tell you. we put together this book in less than 24 hours, and it came out exactly as i imagined it! :)