In other news, I officially entered e-portfolio hell today.
An e-portfolio is something library science students use to defend and demonstrate all the work they did in their degree. It can be used for future employers and it is done in place of a thesis.
I wanted to do a thesis, but with various family crises and my own health, I took all the time I would have needed for a thesis as time off from school, so now I am doing my e-port.
There is a lot that goes into an e-portfolio, but the problem that turns it into a true hell is trying to find all the projects you did in 14 classes. For me, this means finding things from 7 years ago. I did my best to hang onto every piece with fingernails and duct tape, through some 4 or 5 different "learning environments" (online systems where you'd put all your assignments and communicate with your professors, from which you had to scrape everything in a panic when they decided to upgrade to the next one).
And I am way behind starting this thing, because I've been so sick, so I just now finally worked through enough setup to get to that one assignment from 2008 that is somehow missing.
The hell?! I know it's on my hard drive somewhere. It has to be.
IT HAS TO BE, I TELL YOU.