I made it through the week...

It is now 7:30 on Friday and I sit in my office at home wondering how I made it through the week. I am sitting here staring at my W430 book telling myself that I can do this...I only have one chapter and case to do tonight and if I don't, I will pay for it tomorrow; for tomorrow brings a whole lot more stuff that I have to get done. Here's a recap of what feels like a 9 day week...

Monday

4:30 AM: Get up to be at a distribution center at 6:30 AM for data collection for our P429 Green Belt project.

5:45 AM: Freaked out the Starbucks people when I walked in the door for a quad Mocha. I am a night dweller at Starbucks, not a day dweller.

6:45 AM: Standing in the middle of an inbound receiving dock, starting data collection.

8:45 AM: Wondering exactly how much concrete is used to poor those floors; still collecting data.

11:00 AM: Got French fries from the cafeteria (and sat down).

2:00 PM: Wondering why in the *&^!#  I wore these shoes. Standing on a concrete floor in one place all day will make feet angry.

3:30 PM: Done with the standing - heading home (glad that W430 was cancelled tonight).

5:00 PM: Apologizing to my feet...and legs. They are very angry for all the standing.

6:00 PM: Start reading the 200 pages that was assigned - quiz on the material on Thursday.

10:00 PM: Made a dent in the 200 pages - photocopied pages with really tiny type - I am now apologizing to my eyes.

10:30PM: Bed

Tuesday

9:00 AM: Try to register for Spring semester - can't until 3:30...glad that was the problem - for a minute I thought I forgot how to use OnCourse (almost called an academic advisor - that would have made me look smart).

10:00 AM: Back to the 200 page reading marathon...

1:00 PM: Leave for campus

3:00 PM: Classes

4:15 PM: Weird in between class time - not really enough time to study, but too much time to sit...it really is "lost time."

6:00 PM: Class - last X320 class...woo hoo

8:00 PM: Home from class; case study

11:30 PM: Just realized its 11:30...hurry and go to bed

Wednesday

Same as Monday - up at 4:30, DC at 6:30...standing on concrete floors all day for the Green Belt project. Except this time, I wore different shoes. Then I came home and had a case study to do...and back at the 200 pages of reading. I just realized, I haven't blogged...

Thursday

Up at 5:30 AM to meet Jake and Robert at the campus at 7:15 AM. One positive note about being at the campus at 7:15 AM...YOU CAN PARK.

8:00 AM: Seminar on Toyota Culture (uber cool seminar)

2:20 PM: At campus for 3:00 class

6:00 PM: Quiz on the 200 pages of reading...people asking me if I got it done...most of it; say a little prayer about the quiz...Got another 155 pages to read by next Thursday...really?

9:00 PM: Leaving campus - forgot where I parked. Had to find my car...

9:30 PM: Found my car (I NEVER park by the Campus Center)

10:15 PM: Home...

10:30 PM: Thought about blogging...

Friday

4:30 AM: Got up to be at DC by 6:30 for final day of Green Belt data collection - yeah.

11:00 AM: Data collection done - went to lunch with DC managers. You know, this was great. When the group gets away from what we "have to do" we get to know each other as people. In classes, we are fellow students - we know and understand each other on a "student" level. Away from that, we get the chance to get to know each other as people...things we do outside of school. I think that makes the "student" part better.

12:30 PM: Leaving DC, wrecked my mom's car...in the rain (not my fault; tickets were given, but not to me).

1:30 PM: Standing in the rain waiting for IMPD to show up

1:45 PM: Watched IMPD drive by...but not stop

2:30 PM: IMPD stops and asks if I was in an accident - no, I always stand in the rain next to my car that is propped up on the curb with car parts laying around...I'm good - keep going (didn't say it, but thought it).

6:00 PM: Staring at my W430 book - trying to pump myself up to crack it and do the case.

6:10 PM: Went to Starbucks - Quad mocha

7:00 PM: Realized I still have to blog...

7:35 PM: Clocked in and started blogging

So, that's where I'm at now...blogging with my W430 book open, highlighter on stand by, glad to have made it through the "9 day week."  I have now just realized that I suck at the short blogs - going to have to work on that.