Another week of school down, and 5 1/2 more to go. Another week of cleaning house, making dinners, driving the kids to school and picking them up, and whatever else pops up to fill my day. I'm actually, for the first time in a long time, running ahead of schedule. I love that feeling when I'm on track or ahead, it gives me that sense of accomplishment. All the discouragment I feel goes right out the door. However, as much as I love being home with all my babies, I do miss working. I went to my old job at Second Harvest Food Bank to visit some of my coworkers and friends. While this was not the highest paying or best job I have ever had, it was by far the one I loved the most. I truly believe that finding a job you love is higher paying than having a job that pays top dollar that you hate. I miss being on the forklift and loading and unloading the 53 footers and doing the inventory for the warehouse. I miss the people I worked with. There were only about 25 employees in the whole warehouse, and to my amazement, with the exception of one employee, the rest of us all got along. WOW!!!! I was completely shocked when I had walked in, not only of the changes, but after going to the receiving area of the warehouse, I was shocked to see the system they were using to inventory. It was mine!!!!! When I was working there I developed my own little system on the most efficient and time saving way, for me anyway, to inventory a 28 pallet load. I had taken it to my supervisor many times, but she didn't really like the system because it required her to learn and use the computer more than she was used to. It turns out, after I quit, she took my sytem to the Director of Operations and he liked it. So much in fact, they ordered three more laptops and put it into full effect. As I read our reading material for the week, plagiarism, I thought about this. In a way, this is really plagiarism. My old supervisor took an idea or thought that was mine, and portrayed it as her own when the time was right. While it made me mad, at the same time I wasn't as mad, because I knew that everyone else there pretty much knew that's how I did it. Besides, I'm not working there anymore, so I don't need the credit. It's just upsetting that when presented to her, she didn't "like" the idea, but then took it to the boss as her idea. I'm pretty sure though, that even the boss knows it was mine. Afterall, I was the only one doing it that way when I was there. I think plariarism plays a role in all our lives even when we don't really think about or realize it. Think about when a "catch phrase" catches on. Everytime one of us uses it withour citing the source it's technically plagiarism, however, not to the same degree as doing research and presenting the information as our own. This is where APA plays an important role. I hate APA, but I have learned that I need to love it, learn to use it, and not be afraid of it. My formatting is not always proper, but I'm learning I'm going to get it, eventually.