Shiny Girl is Productive

Today was a good day. Dropped off the family I nanny for at the airport far too early, then I took off running on the chores I needed to get done. With some help from the cleaning service, who will take some getting used to, (I left, and came back to everything I hadn’t dealt with piled very neatly in weird places), things are neat enough for me to be able to concentrate.

Classes start tomorrow. I have a certain amount of day-before-school nerves, which is typical for me. I put them to use grocery shopping, packing a lunch, and starting to write thank you cards for Graduation gifts.

I have finally learned my lesson, that you cannot prepare all of your school supplies before you know what the professor wants or expects. So I have 1 reusable folder and a matching colored notebook for each class. Add in my pencil case of writing goodness and my highlighter set, and we’re ready to go.

I am thinking positive, so this will go well.

Damnit.

The New Adventures of Shiny-Girl

I moved most of my stuff out of my dorm and into the room I’ll be living in for the next year and a bit today. It was, of course, chaos. I have all these high aspirations of everything being organized and having a place to be. But I won’t get my dresser for another few weeks or so, so all the clothes had to be dealt with temporarily, and I don’t have containers for the desk yet, and it has no drawers of its own. We’ll call it a work in progress.

Which, of course, drives me up a wall. I’m babysitting somewhere else tonight, so I don’t have to look at the mess until tomorrow, which helps.

How do you cope with moving?

Note-Taking

Note-taking is a touchy subject for people with learning disabilities. If you are documented with your school, talk to disability services to see what sort of help they offer when it comes to notes. There is a chance that you can get outlines from professors, help from classmates, permission to tape lessons, etc.

For those of us who are undocumented, for whatever reason (a post for another day), I have, over the years, and with the help of some books, advice of friends, and lots of trial and error, come up with a system, and some tips: