September 7, 2014

Today was a fairly uneventful day. I spent a lot of it reading one of my textbooks. I learned that there was a librarian in the South in 1957 that had to defend her choice to keep a children's book that involved a white rabbit marrying a black rabbit. It seems ridiculous but in the last year or two I believe there was controversy involving a gay animal couple, so times really haven't changed that much. I also learned that, like sit-ins at lunch counters, there were read-ins at libraries. And, libraries were actually desegregated before schools.

Other than that, I watched a few episodes of Psych and organized my clothes a little bit. For years I have had an overflowing basket on the dryer that I kept my underwear, socks, and undershirts in. Or on because there was so much other crap in the basket. Today I got a trash bag and ended up throwing away the good majority of stuff in the basket, some of which was probably in there for almost a decade. Now I can use the basket for dirty laundry during the week and then fill it up with clean clothes after I do laundry to carry them back down to my room. Now I just need to get some hangers. I've got a closet full of them but at the old house but they are currently holding up shirts which I need to go through to see if I'm keeping them.

Tonight I came over to the old house in time to plug my mom's DVR back in so she could record Big Brother and all the other shows she tapes during the week. I don't know that I mentioned yesterday that we brought the DVR back to the new house and plugged it in so my mom could watch the shows she had recorded on it, seeing as how the cable company hasn't made it to our street yet. At first I couldn't get it to work but it turns out if you select the correct TV source it works fine. In my defense, the HDMI ports on the back of the TV were labeled weird and most were obscured by HDMI cables. The important thing is that it does work so now my mom can keep the DVR plugged into the cable at the old house during the week and then bring it to the new house during the weekend to watch her shows. Less than ideal but until the cable company gets around to installing cable and internet on our street, it will have to do.

I was going to work on my first reflective journal entry based on the textbook chapters I read today but when I got to the old house I was a bit fried from all the reading so I just watched YouTube videos instead. Still have over 275 in my Watch Later list. I'm fighting a losing battle.

If I remember correctly, there are four MAP test tomorrow. Starting things off with a bang. It'll we a long day standing up, watching kids take tests. Can't wait.