Monday, October 20, 2014

October 20, 2014

Today I didn't have any extra project to do at work and an unexpected parent came to help during second grade reading groups, making my presence unnecessary, so I did other things. I retyped a ten-page family history about my grandma's mother's parents, which actually didn't take very long. Then I worked on my newspaper. I got it looking pretty good. I added in the three articles that are done (hopefully my partner will send me another one) and I also added in a weather forecast. I still need to come up with some other things to fill things out. If I could write another article that would be great by I kind of want to throw in small incidental things, like community events or something, that are related to the topic of intellectual freedom. We'll see what I can come up with.

And that was pretty much my day at work. I think four classes came into the lab today but nothing eventful happened so I just spent most of my day working on my own stuff. With a brief break to look for science-related books for a really smart second grader who has apparently worked his way through all the relevant books at the public library.

On my way home I stopped at Target to buy things. My shopping list of edibles looked like I was going on a camping trip. Bread, peanut butter, trail mix, fruit snacks, cheese sticks, and orange juice. I need to broaden my diet a bit. I had an interesting talk with the cashier at checkout. She apparently wants other types of cheese in string cheese form. There are other types of cheese in stick form but my only answer for her cheese suggestions was that they must not string well.

Tonight I found several more articles about problem-based learning. As long as they all work out they should put me over the minimum limit for articles needed. Now I need to start reading and writing annotated bibliographies for all of them. That is going to be rough. Especially on top of all the other reading I need to do. Grad school really is all about the reading.


Tomorrow, hopefully I can finish the newspaper. I also need to check on what reading I need to get done before the weekend so I'm not completely lost if the professor references something from the reading. Hopefully it will be a productive day.

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