Okay, so here's a tale about complete irresponsibility and its serendipitous co-incidence with bad luck. I have this class, SPED 611... I have another class, SPED 613. For convenience's sake (both the instructors and the students), the classes were "combined," and we meet on an alternating weekly schedule; on one Wednesday, we meet for 611, and on the other, for 613... Assignments meanwhile are due online. So this week we were supposed to turn in three assignments. And as we meet on Wednesdays (again on an alternating schedule), and as all previous assignments had been due on Wednesdays, I assumed that this week's assignments were due this Wednesday (tomorrow)... But of course, bonehead that I am, I was unaware that the three assignments were due LAST NIGHT. And of course, guess what time I actually found out? At around 9:40 pm!!!
So I am driving home from ICAOM after teaching Acupoints 1, and I actually check my voice mail messages... It's then that I hear that our assignments are due that night at 11:55 pm!!! I'm in a sudden panic, racing to get back home to Mililani, to see how madly fast I can type out the bs. Of course, it didn't help that they restarted construction on the Mililani Mauka offramp; that little detour cost me an extra 20 minutes or so...
What's worse: one of the assignments required us to post a comment on a blog on RTI (response to intervention)... and after I posted it, it didn't show up!!! I assumed that there was some lag time between posting and publishing (a lot of blogs screen the commentarium to assure that things are sanitary)... but then when I checked again this morning, it still wasn't up. So I tried to post another comment, just as a test, and OF COURSE it worked...
I wrote email messages to my prof, explaining my sorry ass. Of course, no one else had the same problem, just the idiot who was out of the loop. I feel most sorry for my partner for one of the assignments. I managed to make my contribution and we turned in a solid assignment, but jeez I was cutting it close. It's okay if my ass is on the line, but I'm afraid that there just isn't enough room on it for two...
Well, that's life in the fast lane. Serves me right...
Getting things done in the 11th hour only works if you know for sure when the 12th hour is coming. Just FYI.
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