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Thursday, June 7, 2007

VERY FRUSTRATED

I am having one of those days. I am frustrated by the lack of time I have to things well. I am frustrated by ongoing technological issues at both school and work that make things that should be simple, difficult.

To start:
I can't establish an EndNoteWeb account, and by Sunday, I need to establish an account, make 50 bibliographical references, transfer 25 references from my Connotea account and submit. I can't even get started until I establish an account. When I follow the instructions for establishing an account, I get through to the very last step, and then I get this error:

"Cannot read from the server wf2la6.webfeat.org. The server may be temporarily unavailable. If the problem persists, contact your system administrator."

The Pitt Helpdesk couldn't help, I've emailed our TA and the professor, and posted a request for help in the Technical Q&A discussion board, and received no response. I don't know what to do and I feel totally helpless.

Meanwhile, I am still trying to get through the 2nd of 3 books that need to be read and analyzed so that I can write a 1500 word book report for Monday.

Also on the agenda a response to the "Professional Publications" hot topic.

And I have yet to finalize finding 50 unique items for my Zotero account. I don't understand why "50" was chosen. I feel like I could get the same learning experience by finding 25 or 30 unique items, and finding 50 of each for 4 different accounts is just eating into my ability to focus on other assignments that seem more inherently valuable to my career.

PLUS WORK IS MAKING ME CRAZY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have to remember that this program is going to help get me out of corporate America, which seriously is like stepping into a Dilbert cartoon.

I literally can feel my blood pressure skyrocketing today and I feel like I am not making any progress towards alleviating it.

Must repeat: "This too will pass. This too will pass...."

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