I’m ready for my close-up

After a nice weekend of studying for my praxis exam (which is next Saturday), I realized that I needed to get started on my Jing assignment. I did not go into this assignment thinking I would get it done quickly. So today after I finished doing some other work, I set aside a few hours to work on this assignment. Lucky, I did, because I had several problems!
First things first, I had to hook my microphone and headset up to the computer. So I moved my computer desk out and went looking for the corresponding colored holes. After a few seconds of searching I found both and was able to hook it up to my computer. After I finally got everything back in its place, I realized that I could have easily plugged my headset into the front of my computer. This made me very upset, since I had taken time to move things in order to hook up the microphone! So when was all said and done I ended up moving the microphone connection to the front of my computer. I figured it would be the easiest way to unhook it when I was done.
One problem fixed several more to go! Now it was time to practice using Jing with the microphone. I quickly recorded something, just to see if it would work and of course it didn’t. So I went back and realized that I had left the microphone on mute, so it didn’t record. After fixing this problem I started my recording for this assignment. And 20 times later, I was still messing up the first few sentences. And if I got through those, I messed up in the end. I was feeling really bad about this assignment, and pretty angry that I just couldn’t complete it quickly. Each time I did the assignment, I had to uninstall Zotero again and again. Well, that must have made both Firefox and Jing upset, because they both shut down and refused to load again. Both desktop icons disappeared as well. Now I was really angry and pretty much sat and threatened to destroy my computer by taking a baseball bat to it. Of course, this did nothing. So I restarted the computer only to have it freeze. I had to restart it twice more and wait at least 10 minutes between them before it would work. By this point I was ready to just give up and quit for the day, but I couldn’t. I have to study for the praxis all week, so I have been trying to get all of my homework done today. I continued on, upset and dejected.
This time through, it only took me two takes before I completed the assignment. I was thrilled!!! I quickly saved and uploaded it to screencast. When I logged onto screencast, I was not too happy to learn that it did not save. To make a long story short (too late) I ended up embedding it as a screencast URL onto my blog. I really hope this works! Onto the next assignment…yeah!