Ever have drama with homework?

A word to the wise about assignments, make sure they are in ahead of time because when you are doing all you can to stay afloat.....the WebCT, Internet or something will go wrong! This story is sort of funny now that it is over but it has helped me to be much more understanding of people and understand that I may have no idea what is going on in their lives. I had to go out of town this week again for school, I learn a lot and make valuable connections with other teachers at seminars like these but in exchange must plan for a sub, find a sitter for my two year old, and pack myself up and go. I take my laptop and look at the event as a wonderful opportunity to get some much needed R & R and get some of the MAT work done. I thought for once my assignment would be done early without all the stress so I could enjoy the weekend with my family upon returning home. I get to Mt. Magazine State Park early, settle into the lodge and get my laptop open to begin work. The Internet will not come up! I realize that with the altitude my computer wireless will not work or maybe due to the rain storm but either way NO SERVICE! Ugghhh! So, no worries I crack open a book and begin to read my lessons. I discover I need to be down in the ballroom at 5 to do more meetings so I head down there shortly after, I return to my room at 9:30pm. I try to read more but the no noise factor causes me to fall asleep reading in bed, this happens to me often. I return home to submit my work FINALLY....as I attempt to do that, Web CT shuts down in the middle of my quiz and submission! I copy the test and fully plan to send it as an attachment to my professor as I beg her to accept it and WebCT comes back up BUT the funniest thing of all is that even though it shut down for 40 minutes it continued the timer!!! So, I have 5 minutes to input all of my answers. As I sit here now reading all of this back, I can't help but laugh and think Wow, this seems so unlikely and yet it really happened. I will attempt to submit it earlier next time to avoid all of the additional stress in my life. This statement is funny as well because if I shuffle things it only means that something else will be getting the last minute attention next time. So, I guess moral of the story is try to juggle things and make a balance as to your timeline, if you go to Mt. Magazine plan to REST and not do work, and all the planning in the world can't fix a computer problem! Always try to be understanding of your students because you never really know if one of those dog ate the homework stories that seems so far fetched just might be true! : )