The last days of school suck. It's been a while since something bothered me so much, but welcome to this week.

I spent sixty-three hours of my rare spare time working on a project which the judges graded as B-quality. And now that I know that, I still have to take my project to some of my judges and beg them to let me finish. I put so much energy and enthusiasm into that project, only to stare into the nine faces of judges who seemed dead-set on grading as harshly as possible. Nine unenthused faces staring blankly at a project that looks like almost nothing on-screen but took so much work and sweat and tears and logic and time and frustration and tedium to finish with that much quality.

Did they not see the pages and pages of debugging I added in my portfolio? Do they think programming or HTML coding or image manipulation go quickly? For crying out loud, I almost had to do everything pixel by pixel! There were things I did pixel by pixel! I just don't think they have an appreciation of how much better it is becuase of all the work I put in than it was when I had a prototype.

Pray for me. Pray so that if/when I speak to some of these people again, I won't completely lose my temper. Pray that I'll have the perspective that God wants me to have, whatever that may be.

And for now, now that I'm done modifying stuff and done e-mailing people, it is Friday, and I have a date whenever he arrives, followed not too long by a new Heroes, new SG-1, and new Atlantis. Happy weekend to all and to all a good night.