7-23-09 Class Reading

I held my lit salon today. It wasn't as painful as I thought it would be. Being the same type of procrastinator as many people, I waited until yesterday to put together my material. It took me much longer than I had anticipated. I would estimate that I sat at my kitchen table working on the flyer and power point for about 11 hours. This was my first experience using power point, so at first I wasn't sure what to do. It's not difficult, I quickly caught on. About half way through I decided that I wanted to add some background music to the slides, so I downloaded a cd of big band sound from Walmart.com. What a mistake that was. Three phone calls to them later, I had my music. When I tried to load a song to a slide it didn't work, so then I thought I would just burn the cd off onto disk and bring it in and play it in the background while I talked. That would have worked, except for some reason my burner didn't do it's job and lied to me about burning the songs. Oh well. I thought the presentation went off ok without it. In retrospect, I should have made note cards with highlights of what I wanted to say. Yesterday, I thought I would remember all of the important things about my authors. In reality, I remembered quite a bit more than I would normally give myself credit for. I'm obsessive in the way that I want to do my best. I am not afraid of failure as long as it isn't because I have slacked off on my duties.