Rain, Rain, go away…

I know I should not complain about the rain. It is warm outside and the snow has almost all disappeared. I am not able to go out and enjoy the weather anyway and so perhaps I should say Hurrah for the rain! Except that it has been a dreary and grey day. I much prefer sunshine, even if I can only look at it through my condo windows.

I have been working pretty steadily all day studying for my exam. Except I had a relatively low productivity morning. I was having a hard time focusing and kept finding other things which needed attention -- like twittering and reading some stuff from The Onion (more on that tomorrow). However the opposite was true this afternoon and I pretty much worked steadily going through the stuff and I did finish today the sections I had earmarked on my study plan – the Chapter on Project Scope Management and Project Time Management.

Ok, so that is the good news. The bad news is that when I did the review of the material studied last week I was not happy with how much I had retained and decided I have to put more time into the boring task of memorization. So I am going to work just a little longer tonight and work 8 instead of 6 hours on this stuff tomorrow.

Not fun – but what can I say. I am finding that it takes me longer to learn stuff than it did --I hate to say how many -- years ago when I was a full time student. Maybe it is the fact that I have been having brain draining work weeks or maybe it is just harder to apply myself, not sure. I could complain that it is because I am not having enough fun -- I always agreed with the principal of "Work Hard - Play Hard" and maybe I have not played hard enough this week. LOL

A bit of a news update on Laura, she did not get her cast on this morning due to a misunderstanding on her part regarding the time she should arrive, so she has to get there at 7:30 a.m. tomorrow. She had arrived at 10 ish thinking she could go at any time after 7:30 – which was not the case. She is still in pain and taking Tylenol #3s. The real heart break of it is that it seems she will certainly need a week off and maybe more – can she waitress with a cast on? Will her employer want to pay a gimpy waitress? I don’t know. She was very unhappy when I talked to her this evening. Even before this happened she was having a great deal of difficulty paying bills. I am suspecting my 2nd bedroom will not be vacant for long.

I must confess at this point that I have no brain cells left to blog further. I have planned to spend another 45 minutes memorizing some of the key points from todays review and must get back at it. After that – I am going to treat myself with a listen to a few new TED talks – I have a bunch bookmarked for listening and look forward to sitting back with a glass of wine and listening to some interesting ideas. There are a few funny ones – I also intend on getting a few chuckles in!

Have a great Saturday night all!