Timely Tuesday

Oh ho. I had a couple of asinine assignments to do for an on-line class.

1. Evaluate 50 complaints for Southwest Airlines and make a report, flow-chart, graph, and power-point presentation to tell about it.

2. Write an article for a magazine or journal about dishwashers, preferably with flow charts, bar graphs, reports, analysis, a power-point presentation, and maybe some donuts or bagels thrown in for good measure.

I really don’t care about Southwest Airlines’ complaints and all I care about dishwashers is how to keep that smell away. These reports were meant as busy work and would never be utilized.

I began to add up my points in the class. My pride could have taken the hit of a zero, but the next two assignments due are based upon these reports so three zeros looks rather suspicious, flippant, and lazy. I just want to finish the class, a “complete” written on my transcript. Lazy doesn’t earn complete.

In desperation I decided to take a newsletter/blog post, add a new introductory sentence about crop yields, and say it was written for the Farm Journal. I figured my instructor could not give me a zero for the page would be filled with words.  I sent it off hoping for 30% but crossing my fingers to get a 40%.

You got to the end of this story before I did: I got my grade back today. 100% with a FANTASTIC written in capital letters. The instructor encouraged me to get it published. Oh ho. No sir. Not gonna happen. I know how many letters you have to write to get published. I’ve still got two more assignments to do.