October 21, 2014

This morning I helped out with kindergarten literacy centers and I was repeatedly mocked by a five year old in one of the classes. He was in a bit of a foul mood this morning. It is really strange hearing an obstinate five year old try to mimic my deep monotone.

Before going down to the kindergarten rooms I briefly helped out in second grade, getting one of the reading groups started. They were using the magnifying worksheets I made and after seeing the photocopied version, and the struggle some of the kids were having trying to decipher the words, I think I made the words too small. So when I had time today I went back and bumped the font up to size four from size three. That seemed quiet a bit better. Hopefully.

I was looking through the stuff the professor posted for the face-to-face meeting this weekend and noticed on the agenda that he didn't have my group on the presentation list. I emailed him, saying I didn't want to be the kid asking for homework, and pointed out that my partner and I weren't on the list. I haven't heard back from him yet. So hopefully that gets fixed. Not that I'm feeling overly confident about our project or the presentation but I can't really afford to miss out on those points.

In terms of the project. I didn't really make any progress on that front today. Mostly. I emailed my partner with a suggestion about the PowerPoint and asked about the status of her second article. She got back to me with the article so that is a plus. I haven't actually looked at it yet but hopefully it is good. Tomorrow I'll mess around with the columns and stuff in the newspaper and get that sorted. That will give me a better sense of what other things I need to add in to fill everything out and make it look good.

I still have a ridiculous amount of reading to do before this weekend. My ethics book of case studies (but I plan on ignoring the case studies and only reading the first several pagers of each chapter before the case studies), a chapter in the other book for the class, all of the librarian interviews my classmates submitted, and probably some other stuff I'm forgetting. For my other class I need to read a chapter out of the book and another chapter from a PDF and watch the video lecture so I can write a discussion post by Sunday. My eyes are going to be sick of seeing words by the end of the week. And I still need to read all the articles I found for that second group project and summarize them for my group members. Yikes. Who would have thought there would be so much reading involved in earning a master's degree in Library Science?

Tonight I read. Then took a break to come write this. And I will shortly be returning to go read more. Probably until at least midnight. It would be nice if I could finish the ethics books tonight but I'm fairly certain that is wishful thinking. I need to learn how to read faster. Reading super slow isn't working out for me.