Loved your slides! And I have a present I picked up for you (on Richard’s prodding, truth be told) if I can only get off my rear and get it in the mail.

How’s Kurt? I need to talk to him about a picture he left in cataloging and see if he wants it mailed.

I’m kind of mixed at the moment. I’m pretty much trying to accept things as they are (the better to get through them) but I am also feeling like a failure for not being able to get my program to work. And I know better than to compare myself to my fellow students but, damn, some of them are doing some pretty complex stuff.

So I’m still “looking forward” to turning in a broken assignment later this afternoon. Have to work most of the day so not much time to work on it, not that that’d help anyway.

I’ve tried everything I can think of but perhaps not in the right combination. I did reach out to one person and she suggested that that was the right tack. Well, that’s fine, but at this point it doesn’t help me much. Even if I was to somehow luck onto the right combination it would teach me absolutely nothing. I would still have no idea why that in fact was what I had needed to do all along.

And while “success” is nice, the learning is far more important. At the moment I have neither.

I actually woke up feeling pretty good about things until I remembered that I am still failing at a simple task.

I know it doesn’t sound that way, but I’m OK. At least as OK as someone can be who knows they failed at something that ought to be simple.