Am I using what I've learned?

Things continue to be hectic and crazy right now.  It's been a long week that has felt like a year and it's only Thursday.  But it's almost done and soon we can say we made it through another week.  My measurement of a successful day has changed right now and it's all about finding the positive, finding something, anything that you can say you survived and made it through.  And when you adjust what "normal" is and adapt to the new normal, count it as a success.  Now on to school stuff.  The current module for economics is due Monday - I've not even started on it so I have so a long weekend ahead and hopefully I can pull out a half way decent test score and just make sure I do the assignment and quiz enough times to get a high grade to balance out the test.  For drama, we are watching The Godfather this week.  I know I've seen bits and pieces but I'm not sure I have ever sat down and watched the entire movie so we will see what my thoughts are next week.  I watched The Graduate this past weekend for the first time.  It was good and I'm glad that love won in the end.

For Technical Writing, the prompt for this post is what have I learned in this class that I have used in my professional or collegiate area.  I know the importance of page layout and design, editing, revising and proofreading a document and the benefit of adding visual impact.  Although I am using those things a lot more right now, they are skills and techniques that I have always used.  I am more aware of properly citing references, but after I finish school, that won't be something I will use so I would have to research and relearn again.  I will continue to proofread and edit my documents.  I will continue to get peer review and input when needed.  Although my PowerPoint skills have improved some because I am using it more often, in the last 18 years of my career I have never done a PowerPoint so again that will be a skill that, without practice and use, will fade.  I have learned to create a blog, but again I'm not sure how frequent my posts will be when it's no longer a requirement.  Some of the skills of page layout, formatting, and even editing and revising may be learned and used more for someone that hasn't been in the professional arena for over 20 years.  The class is more practice of the skills and process I already use and that's okay.  

I need to start a new list to get ready for vacation soon.  I need to find the list of what needs to be done at school and work this week to see what might get checked off tomorrow and what will be pushed off until next week.  It's crazy and busy with to do lists about everything.  The lists are growing and multiplying, time is still zipping by and not enough is getting completed.  But I will just keep plugging on and working through everything, because as always, there is too much to do.