After the peer review session I had a mixed feeling of nervousness and accomplishment. I felt accomplished because of all the procrastinating I had done up until this point on the project. I really did not think I would ever start the project but I did and I was proud for that simple fact. Unfortunately, the feeling of nervousness overcame the accomplishment. Although I had done some good work, I still had a lot to do. I also realized that my Critical Literacy project, which I had neglected to start, was due on the same day. I was not happy about this but went on with my day and returned home to begin the work. Because the WikiTravel was fresh in my mind, I started working on that in a Word Document. I cleaned up the organization and changed a lot of the wording I had used. I also wrote an entire new section which was originally just a link to the North Kingstown page. Exhausted, I passed out forgetting about all my other work.
I awoke today and immediately started my work. I started with my Critical Literacy project and switched from that to WikiTravel. When I got into a rhythm working on one project, I got an idea for the other project and switched over to add it in. This is a new form of procrastination I have discovered.
As the night drew on, I was finally ready to post my Wiki page. I copied and pasted it and then pressed preview. To my surprise, half of the new text I had written was in a tiny font and surrounded by a broken-line border. I was not happy about this. I kept trying every method I knew to fix it but nothing seemed to work. I decided that my options were to either throw my computer out a window or look up the problem on Google. Although the computer option seemed like it was a long time coming and needed to happen, I chose the latter. I looked up the problem online and found a solution. When I did this I discovered that the solution was to save the file as an HTML file and then paste it. I did this but there was zero change. As my fists clenched, I left WikiTravel and started Critical Literacies again. I finished this project and was forced to return to the dreaded WikiTravel.
I took my time and realized that I was going to have to do a lot of editing inside the page. I started this and overcame my aggravation at each turn. I still do not understand why the bullets from Word did not translate well on the Wiki page. I decided to get rid of them and carefully made spaces between sentences. This did not look nearly as good as it did but I could not get myself to do anymore. I posted the page which looked much better than it did before but I was still not happy with it. I realized that it was still a good final product even though it did not look like I had wanted it to.
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