2-22-2011

Today was a pretty hectic day. My teammate Sonie and I had to come in at 3 this afternoon (45 minutes earlier than usual) to finish a sample slide show presentation for our project manager Ms. Meaderds who was going to come in at four and see what we've been working on. Since Sonie and I both felt we needed to do a little extra to be prepared I offered to pick her up from home today so we could come in early; we also had to be dressed in business attire since it was a business presentation. Yesterday Sonie gave me her address and cell number so when I was on my way I could let her know. Unfortunately I forgot to get actual directions--this is where the day took on a turn. I left my house at about 2:35 because I planned on getting Sonie at about 2:50 then arriving at WILL at approximately 3. I had heard in previous discussions that Sonie 'lived right across the school', and I had also thought I heard she went to Franklin Middle School. So armed with her address I headed out on Bradley and arrived at Franklin, searching for her street. When I couldn't find it I called her and she told me by directions that in short, I was way off from where she lived. I started to get anxious but I was still okay on time so I sped off [ under the speed limit of course ;) ] towards the new location. At the intersection of Mattis and Bradley I took the wrong turn and once again ended up in the wrong spot. When I called Sonie again I had to go the opposite direction but FINALLY got to her house, and realized she lives right across the street from CENTENNIAL high school and she goes to Jefferson. By that time it was a little after 3 and we still had to drive back through rush-hour into campustown. When we finally got to WILL it was basically 3:30 and the meeting started in half an hour or less. We still had 15 extra minutes though lol.
In this project Sonie has been working on the pictures for the slide show, and I was on the audio section. Once again something went wrong. First, since Sonie has to obtain copyright info from sites she gets pictures from, she had only gotten about 4 pictures compared to the 10 or so we probably need. I assumed everything was going to be fine with my audio but when we tried to convert it to MP3 format (twice) it wouldn't load!! Everything seemed to be going wrong and Ms. Meaderds was going to arrive in a few minutes so we quickly decided on a Plan B: we would take one of the laptops over to the table and play the audio and show the pictures from there.
Just as Ms. Meaderds buzzed the office we finished putting everything together at the table. But just as the rest of the day had gone, neither the audio nor pictures would play on the laptop! The meeting was just a rotation from the table to Henry's workspace back to the table to Kimberlie's workspace and back to the table. It could have run a lot smoother but luckily Ms. Meaderds is really nice and didn't care about the inconveniences.
The total presentation lasted about 45 minutes but the whole ordeals of this day made it seem like an ever-lasting event. I'm just glad this day is through.