June 18, 2014

Today I was back at work. Reading for about seven hours or so. It was an exciting day. I read a couple short stories and switched off between a few of my other books. I finished Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson and that was the only non-fiction I have been taking with me. I might swap back in On Killing which I started reading for the second time but it fell to the wayside when I kept starting other books. Or maybe I can keep on with the seven I am still reading.

Tonight was Chipotle night and it felt like the first time in awhile that I showed YouTube videos. Maybe we only missed last week. I can't really remember. I was so focused on applying to grad school and then getting ready for my interview that the last few weeks seem like a blur. It also doesn't help that during the summer most of my days are identical.

Speaking of grad school, tonight I filled out the waiver form so I won't have to take the introductory technology class. It covered basic stuff like Powerpoint, blogs, wikis, and search engines. The only thing I wasn't that familiar with is the Canvas software that they use for classes but I found some videos on YouTube and it doesn't really seem that confusing. It is only a one credit hour class and I would have taken it learn more about Canvas but I would have had to pay however much for the class and that wouldn't have been worth it. I also trimmed down my statement of objectives and turned it into a 500-word statement of purpose for the new student scholarship. Hopefully I get that because $500 toward my first semester would be pretty nice.

While doing all that stuff I watched World Cup games. I wanted Australia to beat the Netherlands but they didn't. So that sucked. I wanted Chile to beat Spain and they did. I was happy about that for most of the match but then Chile kept falling down and staying down to waste time in the second half and that got old pretty fast. Right now I'm watching Cameroon play Croatia and I don't really care who wins. I've got to wake up earlier tomorrow for the kid movie tomorrow morning so I am going to move to the fast forward option so I can see who wins.