Shifting Gears

Hello everyone and welcome back to the blog sphere. I hope everyone is enjoying the start to their spring semester here at Berkeley. So much has occurred this past week and next week will be very active as i am celebrating my one year wedding anniversary. Since me and my wife did not get to go on a honeymoon last year we are going to go to Connecticut and spend the weekend away. It is a much needed vacation as we prepare for a very busy May. Pictures and stories will be posted here so be ready. Anyway a lot has occurred this past week in all my classes. On Monday i gave my first speech in Oral Communications. I have given a lot of presentations and speech's but i was still nervous. I chose a baseball as my object and used the traits of teamwork, family and patience. Despite the nervousness i got an A on the speech and we got a glimpse of what to expect for the interview speech which will take place in two weeks.

In graphical business presentation we learned how to insert clips and pictures in to slides and also to insert transitions. We have an exam next week in the class which the professor will let me take when i return the following week. The professor was very understanding about the situation and even contemplated me taking it before next week but decided to just give it to me when i return. In Web Design we learned how to import images and pages into Dreamweaver as well as creating new pages. Next week we will get into adding stuff to those empty pages and creating navigation links.

In the mind and body we discussed Anger management. We saw some clips off of youtube.com about some office anger situations. We discussed some of the potential physical issues that may occur in people who are consistently angry. Some of those things are heart attacks, strokes and death from lack of oxygen. You wonder how that could happen but when you yell and get angry you constrict your veins and prevent oxygen from circulating through your body which could lead to death. So those of you who get angry very easily think about it, is it something to possibly die over? We also learned ways to calm ourselves down. A couple of them are walking away, staying quiet to collect your thoughts, singing etc. We also learned it is how you approach the situation that also makes a world of difference. Instead of attacking the person by saying you did this or you did that say I was hurt when you did that or that got me really upset. By saying that you avoid putting the other person in a defensive position.

Anyway it is time for Rebecca's corner. My little one seems to be a tooth making machine. She went from 4 teeth to 6 in less than a week. She will be eating steak before anyone knows it. She continues to try and walk on her own but not quite there. She has become more talkative which is to bad for my wife and mother-in-law. Anyway that wraps up this blog i will see you guys through out the week.