Essay #2 Reflection

1) My process improved a little from essay #1 to essay #2. I still couldn't really find motivation to do it and put my best effort into it. I only finished, or at least did my part because I thought how my partner probably cared about his grade and it wouldn't be fair for me to leave him out there with nothing. I still feel like I could have managed my time better. However with work needing to be done over the weekend, and me working all weekend, it makes it hard for me. But considering how much I've worked this weekend, I'm proud of myself that I even finished my part of the assignment. I was extremely stressed and could of easily said forget it, but I stuck through it.
2) I have no clue how my process meshed with my partners because I don't know what his process was. From the outside it probably looked like we didn't have any communication conflicts, but they were there. We came up with the concept that we would dress up and take pictures of certain events then blog about them with each of us expressing our extreme biases. About a day or two later my partner decided it would be better for us to photoshop our faces onto pictures of our characters, and I agreed, eventhough I still think the first idea is more creative. We expressed our plan and started researching information. Eventhough I was researching for many days, I still couldn't and didn't find any information that was useful to me. On Thursday, four days before the project was due, we took the pictures in class and my partner edited them. After that he pretty much said you're on your own. During the weekend when I had time to work on the project I was confused about what exactly I had to do so I sent my partner a message asking what exactly he wanted of me. He stated that I had to do 3 blogs, one on each event, and he would then comment on them. I felt and still feel that him photoshopping 3 pictures isn't equivalent to me writing 3 blogs, but I still did it. When I sent him the URL of the blog in an email, I saw that he sent me a message saying he didn't know what was going on with me and he made 2 blogs and he wanted me to make 1 and we would have to comment back and forth on them, eventhough he didn't even leave a URL for me to do this on. I felt like what I did was a waste of time, but at least I completed what I said I would do. We should have better planned and communicated. I don't feel like he can use the excuse that I didn't post them until late because we've already discussed that I work on the weekends, and if he wasn't listening when this was discussed, then that's on him. So overall, there really wasn't any communication between the two of us. However, I will take part responsibility for that because communication is a 2-way thing. Now I can't quite give my partner a grade because I haven't seen any work he's done, so I don't quite know how that works out.
3) I don't think our conflict was handled at all. Sure he went to someone else and vented about the whole deal, but I don't feel that is resolving the issue. If we were acting like mature adults, we would sit down together and talk about it, not bring other people into it because it only concerns us. We still have to resolve that whole situation. If I had to give myself a grade, it would be a passing grade because I incorporated the facts with the creative bias towards patriotism, which developed my character. I think I could have put more effort into this project, but I don't think it was that horrible to where it was not passing. On my partners behalf, I think he did a great job on the photoshopping of the pictures. My personal favorite was the Boston Tea Party picture. But on content wise, I would give him a no pass/low pass because I haven't seen any of his ideas, but they seemed like they would be benefitial.