Informative Speech Day

Well, should I start with how my speech went? or all the other nonsense from today?

How about even earlier - first steps in any day for success, Breakfast. I had half a cup of coffee (leftover from yesterday) and a big handful of Fritos. Yeah. Breakfast of Champions I know.

I had made arrangments with Chris that I would bring Lila to him at 8:55, and then I would cruise on up to Nashville. Traffic was good to me, I was able to do 80 just about the entire way up there - and I wasn't the fastest person on the road! Ha! I love it when I can speed like that.

I got to my class with a bit of time to spare, the instructor wasn't around that I could ask her about leaving early, and when she came in she jumped right into what she does... she was barely done with her spiel, and I got up to do mine first. I had to set up the computer, so I did that while she got herself ready.

I was **close* to completely forgetting my introduction, and in fact I was able to start right in with the first 3 sentences or so and then I did go blank - totally blank - I was stopped obviously, but I even looked at my "audience" and grinned like "how is this happening? I have no idea what to say?"... argh!!!!!! but I recovered and dove right into my speech.

After that slighly rough start, everything went well. I saw the green card for the 5 minutes mark (the minimum) kept talking... then I saw the card for 8 minutes! Ack! point penalities for going over 8:30.... I was close enough to the end of the main body of my speech, so I wrapped that up quickly and went right into a slightly abbreviated conclusion.

It wasn't perfect, but it wasn't too bad either. I expect I'll get a B grade on this.

When I got home, in the afternoon actually - I put a movie on for Lila so I could have uninterupted study time (I was aiming for Econ ch. 9) I read maybe a page and a half and I realized how slow I was reading and how little I was actually comprehending... argh! It was bad. Then I realized the only coffee I had had so far was that half a cup from the morning... so? Did I get up and get some coffee? No. I pulled out the knitting loom that I wanted to learn how to use so I could teach Lila. And I did that for an hour.

Great use of time, I know. And now, after the kids have gone to bed, I'm too tired, I'm physically tired... and now I've really goofed off for an hour online. Chapter 9 Econ will have to wait until tomorrow.