INTERESTING day!

I only have a few minutes to type this (as I have to go back to where I came... :-), but it's been a very-unique day!

I was up quite LATE, last night/this morning, and was afraid that it may turn into another one of those days (like happened this past weekend, and has unfortunately all-too-often been the case) in which I get little or no sleep, and then feel horrid the following day (which used to be no big deal; this is yet another sign that I'm getting old!).

Incidentally, I was up this morning (earlier than I expected), and I wasn't even feeling that bad. I got either 20 minutes, or 1 hour & 20 minutes (will have to check the TNT TV schedule for today, to see which it was; it's a moot point, at this point, though! ;-) of actual sleep, this afternoon!

I then did a little (wish it could've been more, but am still having those eyestrain, etc... problems) work for this course (which I know is quite overdue - See the prior entries here!).

I knew things were going to be tight today, because (and this is one reason why I stayed up so late - though, as usually ends up the case, in these situations, it ended up being a lose-lose, as I got no tasks completed [for either school, nor work], and could've been asleep, during that time!) there is the big County Convention today [in all 102 counties throughout our state, and for both major parties].

One point of relief that I found out yesterday afternoon (thanks to our friends Kurt Kojzarek and Joe Aiello, for their prompt and personal responses, to my inquiries!) is that I don't need to worry about voting, since only the elected Precinct Committeemen (from the 2010 primary, a month ago) get to vote.

Nonetheless, I thought it would be best to stop in, at the K.C. North hall (in the Devereux Heights subdivision, which is almost in Sherman!), at around 5 PM, then rush to my class (here, in Brookens Library, where I still am!), and then go back, to the Convention (where things will likely be over). I knew that this was going to be risky though, as this 'juggling' scenario (which occurs often, in my line of work!) can often be quite tricky!!

I wish I'd arrived at the K.C. North hall a little earlier (it was around 5:25 PM or so, by the time I got there - which was still before most, but I could've been there at 5PM, and gotten the things figured out, which needed doing), or perhaps left from there (for here - campus) a little sooner. (It was only about 5 till 6PM, when this class was to start, before I took off from there... I did though - as may be appropriate, for this course's theme! ;-) - Tweet the instructor, as I was taking off. And yes, I did pull over to the side of that northend Springfield road, in order to do so... No Tweeting-while-driving! :-)

Now, class has been over (which happened around 8:30 PM, about when things should be wrapping up, at the County Convention - at least the Sangamon GOP one... (though it should be interesting, for the GOPs in other counties [like Kane], and perhaps, for the Dem side as well).

I still thought it would be best to type this blog entry, before hitting the road again. After all, I've been way behind, in getting this weblog started, this semester (and of all people, one would think I would've been on top of this assignment! :-)... and it would be fitting, coming from the actual site of the course.

(I even took the time to insert some pertinent embedded hyperlinks; though more of that, and some revisions, will likely have to be done, later tonight - or maybe tomorrow, at the rate things have been going! ;-)

I also think I may need a new template; This one seems to be too bland. Well, plainness can be good sometimes, but in this case, the center column (where the entries' content goes) seems too narrow. It could just be these ultra-widescreen Macintosh computers however, that we use in this Brookens lab.

One more thing: I find it frustrating, with all these widgets (or "gadgets," as Blogger calls them now), and "Layout" and new Templates, etc... The thing is, I know that Blogger implemented this, to make things easier, for those without as many technical skills (I remember having to show someone, in Spring 2005, how to edit his Blogger template, so as to added sidebar links). I know that the option still exists, for those of us who want to edit the source code... But with all the fancy stuff now available, it's like I should feel bad, about not using those features; Then again, this is just a personal hang-up, on my end (I've got a lot of those ;-).

Well, off to the Northend!