Group Projects... grrrrr

I happen to REALLY dislike group projects in which the teacher chooses your group members. Mostly because I've never ever been in a group where someone besides me does any of the work! This time is no different. For nutrition we're doing a research project on different issues according to what group you're in. My group is doing Weight Issues/Energy Metabolism with vitamin B somewhere in there. It wouldn't be so hard except that we must get all of our research materials from scientific journals (which are next to impossible to understand), and they have to be studies of large numbers of people. Why doesn't Sarah just shoot me now and end my misery? I don't mind group projects when you can pick your group. That way you know if your group members are going to actually do any work so if they don't you dig your own grave. Unfortunately teachers have never seen it that way. They have extreme tunnel vision because all they see is that you'll meet/interact with classmates you otherwise wouldn't. But as a precaution they tell you that you get to grade your group members at the end. How 'bout in the mean time when I'm doing all the work?! Bet they never thought of that! It's like they blocked out their own group project experiences. (I refuse to believe that they all had great experiences because it's Murphy's Law that that'll never happen.) To top it off we have to write abstracts & summaries on the studies we find and then present it infront of the class. . . I HATE talking infront of groups of people!

ordinary as usual

Not a lot has happened since the beginning of the quarter, but then my life is pretty boring like that:)
On the 6th at work 4 yr old Mark told me that I can't do anthing right 'cause I'm just a woman. From the mouths of babes. . .
In math we gets points for easy things. . . like sending Mr. Jenck our email address and going to the bank and getting info on their different loan options:)
I babysat for an 18 month old this past Wednesday. He slept most of the time so I read.
Yesterday I filled out a paper and paid money so I can graduate after summer quarter.
I have my first big project in nutrition due on Thursday so I've been working on that a lot.
Tomorrow we're having a party for our minister of worship who's moving to Colorado at the end of the month:( In case people don't know my church is falling apart over the issue of divorce. I'm abandoning ship once college is over.

Back to School. . .

Today was the first day of school. . . sadness. It seemed like Christmas Break was just going to keep going on, but alas it didn't. Mr. Jenck for Math 102 is funny and interesting. He reminds me of Mr. Walker:) Mrs. Harrelson for Chicana/o art & culture should be teaching high school 'cause that's her teaching style. On the upside we get to read interesting books:) I read three chapters of one of the books already 'cause it was a real good read:) Too bad we have to write a paper on it later. . . oh well. Sarah in Nutrition is really nice:) Both Chicana/o & Nutrition are going to be a lot of work reading, nightly homework, papers, projects and weekly quizes/tests. (Definitely different from last quarter.)
It's snowing as I write this and my car's gas gauge is broken, the steering wheel is tight and it doesn't excellerate smoothly. . . so a trip to an auto shop will hopefully be in the near future. I gotta talk to my Daddy tonight. Oh and do a significant amount of homework:(