Sheep Guarding Llama

Today is Sunday and my last day for my finals.  I slept in a lot this morning because I was up so late working last night.  Once I was awake it was straight back to working on stuff for school.  Another very long day for me.  I had to work the entire day, morning (what was left of it), noon and night.  I worked until quite late.  Very little news from today other than I got a ton of work done and am in pretty decent shape going into my final week.  My final exam proper has been completed and submitted.  Some of my projects are well underway.  I am feeling pretty good, overall, as I prepre to wrap up.

For Mother’s Day Dominica decided that instead of doing the expensive, crowded and mostly formal Mother’s Day Brunch at Brookhaven Country Club that we would do the half price, very casual and more fun Princess Breakfast with a Real Princess also at Brookhaven.  She thought that the girls would like this a lot more.  So I took the morning “off” from school and we slept in just a little and got the girls dressed up like princesses and went to Brookhaven.

There wasn’t much of a turnout at Brookhaven today, we were expecting far more people.  We just used a small corner of the main clubhouse.  They had Cinderella set up in a side room.  The girls had a really good time.  Breakfast was pretty basic but was good.  The girls had a lot of fun playing with Cinderella, getting balloon animals, getting their faces painted and then doing a princess training thing where they learned how to behave like princesses.  Liesl was about the perfect age for it.

After brunch we came back home and I spent the rest of the day working on my stuff for school.  I have a final to write this weekend and it is a “take home” final so instead of the three hours that I had to spend on my last exam, this one they are expecting more like eight hours of actually writing the exam.  Not a trivial amount of work for a test.

Friday.  Officially the final class day of my Masters degree.  It doesn’t mean much as finals and projects are still due and class discussion will continue informally but it is a sort of milestone for me.

For lunch today we took are Polish friend out to Redneck so that he could try actual American Buffalo hot wings.  Redneck actually uses a pretty much authentic Buffalo style recipe (I know it from their Buffalo sauce on their shrimp) so he wanted to try that and that’s where we knew that they were good.

Got home at a decent time this evening, not too bad at all.  Spent the evening working on my classwork.  I’m now into the final week.  One week from tonight absolutely everything must be done, no ifs, ands or buts.  Some stuff ended tonight and there will be something due every few days now.  No more class work proper though.  My first final begins tomorrow.

Today is Thursday.  Got to the office and Dan was running late to the office so I called him and told him just to head directly to Redneck instead.  So we go there and just did lunch.

Got home and worked on homework all evening.  Making good progress.  Not too worried.  Lots of work to do, though.  No rest for me.

In the office today.  Worked through lunch.  Came home and worked on homework.  My one class ends this weekend so I’ve really only got tonight and tomorrow night to get everything done before the class closes for the week.  So practically this is the end for me.  The over the weekend I have my final to do for that class and the final project for that class is due on Wednesday night, except I am traveling out of town Tuesday evening into Thursday so in practical terms Monday night is my last free night to be working on my stuff for this one class and then another couple days for my other class.  No matter what, it is a tight week.