When things don't count....

Obviously from my last post I have prided myself in getting good grades while at John Brown. I recently discovered that I received a 7 out of 10 on a progress report that was due last week on my senior project. The instructor stated that there was no evidence of my reflection paper turned in. I have responded to him and questioned his grade because the reflection paper was turned in and it was over half complete. This was more than many other students in my class. Please pray that he is willing to change my grade since I sent proof in my email that I did turn in the paper. I would hate to miss those points simply because he overlooked something in the dropbox or because the technology we are forced to use did not work properly.

On another note....I thought that tonight would be a great time to do a little early Christmas shopping since there are many Veteran's Day sales and Justin is the deer woods. Katelyn and I set out for Old Navy and Kohls. She always begs for a ball or toy from the little machines at Old Navy so that was the first thing we did when we got there. I really thought that this would occupy for awhile but she just was not in the mood to shop tonight. So if anyone sees any good deals please post a response to this posting and I will try to convince her to go again tomorrow. Many of my gifts this year will be homemade but I still need to pick up a few things since my mom and Hardy will be here this year.

The other thing that has been on my mind has been the election. I am by no means qualified to host a conversation about the recent election. This was the first time in probably more than half my life that I did not keep track of the daily news and really know the platforms of the candidates. I am even embarassed to say I voted to re-elect Mayor Coody simply because I didn't know who any of the other candidates were. But somehow I still came away from this election feeling as if my vote and the vote of many of the people in the nation did not count. I somewhat understand why the electoral college was created when the foundation of our nation was laid but I do not understand the purpose that it plays today. It is hard for me to feel as if my vote matters when the electoral college votes and the popular vote were so totally different.

It just hurts sometimes when it seems that things don't count....