Ok, so I've been in SL before and I'm a bunny with wings! I got the wings at a freebie store the last time I was here. I chose the bunny because she was the only non-human avatar available at the time. I like the fluffy tail, but I think I'd've chosen a different color if I had the choice. Perhaps I'll be able to figure out how to do that this time around! This requires a lot of remembering knowledge I thought I'd never need again...

back to school

My name is Carrie and I missed the first day of class because I had to work. I picked up this class just at the last minute and couldn't get my shift covered in time. I work at Papa Duke's Bar and Grill in Anderson.
I thought I had about two years left but found out on Tuesday that it's possible to graduate in May if I work really hard so I'm gonna go for it! Now I just need an internship...
I've taken Dr. Holmevik's classes on both video gaming and digital communications, so I'm sorta familiar with Second Life. I didn't enjoy SL at all. But last time, about a year ago, I got lost and an angel avatar saved me and took me back to wherever it was I was supposed to be. I'm currently just outside Cooper Library on the virtual campus where the fountains still spurt water. And there was something that looked like fire floating around the fountain last night, too.
I have a lot of pets: three dogs, three cats and three rodents (a miniature Russian hamster and two guinea pigs). T. S. Eliot is one of my favorites (I can recite from memory most of J. ALfred Prufrock's love song), but I must admit I've never picked up an appreciation for Virginia Woolf.
I mostly read fantasy and sci-fi when I'm reading for fun but last year I read Cold Zero by Christopher Whitcomb, a sniper for the FBI's hostage rescue team. It was rather outside my genre but well worth the foray: I loved it! I'm a WPS, with the intention of writing grants when I graduate. Why grants? Because as a single parent, I've gotten a lot of assistance to be a student and improve my financial standing. I wouldn't be in college at all without Anderson Interfaith Ministries who so generously help cover the daunting cost of child care for parents returning to school. I know there are many moms and even dads who don't know that there is help out there to achieve their goals and I want everyone to have the opportunities to succeed even if they did things backwards (like I did) because it's well worth the struggle to be able to say "I did it!"
I guess I got a lot out of my technical writing class first because I was a Food Science major at that time. I was lost, struggling with my chemistry classes and scared to death of physics looming on the horizon, and I took my first English class since arriving at Clemson (I'm a transfer from TC) . I love Star Wars so I was fortunate to have Prof. Swords for the class and we wrote Star Wars Lego instruction manuals for our group project. I enjoyed it so much that I decided to heck with FS, who cared if I couldn't eat my homework anymore and there was too much science and not enough food anyway, so I switched to WPS and haven't looked back. Except that I made the Clemson Ice Cream and sometimes I miss that!
I am fairly computer literate. I took the video gaming class because I don't play games. Never have found the time to enjoy them, but my son LOVES video games. I had to play World of Warcraft and suddenly I understood what was enjoyable about video games. I got to play with friends I haven't seen in person in years. I know that Second Life is more about socializing and WoW is more about playing, but I found the social aspect in WoW more to my liking than SL (perhaps because I just enjoy fantasy realms anyway). So the video gaming class helped me connect with my son: now I know what he's talking about when he reaches a new goal or surpasses a new level. And reading his quest log helped him excel in reading. He's in second grade now and he types fairly accurately, too.