After the Ending

I have always wanted to use a clever title like that because it is the last song on one of my favorite albums, The Empyrean by John Frusciante.  I wrote about this album in my other blog, The Blue Oyster Blog, but I decided to use the opening song title for that posts title, Before the Beginning.  So anyways about Project 3.
We successfully got through our peer review but I didn't get to see the work sheet for it.  I did talk to the group who peer reviewed us and they seemed to like our redesigned website for the most part.  This pleased me at the time because I thought there was nothing else to do other than a post write.  With this weight lifted off my shoulders, Professor MacKnight wrote on the board that we had to make maps for the sites.  Now I had no idea what a map was so I just assumed that meant he needed the old and new website, simple enough.  Unfortunately through further questioning, my group and I discovered that these maps were something entirely different.  We found that we had to map out each link on the new and old websites.  This map had to be visual in PowerPoint using boxes and lines.  I thought this would be easy enough so I volunteered to do the new site.
I put this off until today, the day before the project was due, and I was extremely surprised at how much work this map entailed.  I first had a fun time dealing with my computer attempting to download the example of the map.  After this was completed I looked at it and I figured out what I had to do.  I went to our website and quickly made the map in my notebook.  I took this sketch to power point and then the fun began.  At first I couldn't figure out how to make the boxes.  When I figured this out, I couldn't make a text box.  When I did make a text box it wouldn't let me write in it.  After banging my head on my desk for a few minutes, I figured out how to put he text boxes into the other boxes and labeled them.  I put all of the links in two nice and neat columns and put the external links in the middle.  I then began making arrows from each box to each other and this slow and arduous process turned out to look horrendous.  When I say horrendous I mean HORRENDOUS.  The lines were going every which way, covering the entire screen.  I wasn't even half way done at this point.  As I continued to put line after line down, I had lost count and I'm sure I doubled and tripled up on at least three of the boxes.  When my 2 and a half hour affair ended, there was a short guitar break in between, I uploaded it to Sakai and told my group.  I began my post write and I received the dreaded message  which pretty much told me to go back and do it again in very cordial words.  As I began to pull hair out of my head, my friend Andrew walked in the door.  He pretty much lives at our house so in turn he owes up many favors.  I cashed in one of those favors and my new map was created much neater.  I was very happy about this and gave him a very heterosexual hug.  I uploaded it to Sakai and washed my hands of ever making a website map again.
In other news, however, our site looks awesome.  It has all the aspects it needs and it looks very good.  I expect to receive a spectacular grade on it, as I expect this from anything I touch my hand to that gets graded.