March 11, 2015

 I was up really late last night watching a livestream and it is currently almost 11:30PM. My sleep schedule is a tad screwed up at the moment.

My workday involved more state assessments and photo editing. Testing went well. We still aren't able to reactivate tickets, and it was decided that the speed-demon fourth graders yesterday were going to take their Reading test from yesterday again, so today they started on their Math tests. One of the SPED teachers also came down to the lab while they tested just to make sure they weren't going too fast. It went a lot better and it was a lot less frustrating than yesterday's test.

Near the end of the day when testing was over I went down to the library to look at the library clerks computer because it has been running really slow. She put in a trouble ticket awhile ago but nothing has happened yet. I ran the disk cleanup and defraged the hard drive, even though I think I read somewhere that the defrag thing doesn't really help much in the modern world. I can't remember. But I did it anyway. I think it had already started to run a little faster by the time I did my thing but we'll pretend I did something worthwhile. I also got two homemade cookies from the clerk out of the deal, so that was nice.

After work I went and got Chipotle. There were more people working but the two slow girls were at the end of the line and on the register. The burrito could have been wrapped better but it was a considerable improvement over recent weeks.

I keep yawning and it is interfering with my typing.

The favorite part of my day now is driving in my car because I get to listen to the Harry Potter audiobook. I believe I've made it to chapter seven of the first book. They have just reached Hogwarts and are about to be sorted into houses. It's real temping to just drive laps around town.

Tonight I spent a lot of time trying to download the software we need to use to record our presentations for class, just in case I want to go that route instead of writing the paper. It was more of a distraction from actually doing work than an actual desire to go with the presentation over the paper. The problem was that there wasn't a link anywhere to download the software. I tried three different browsers and two computers and all sorts of other things but nothing worked. Then I emailed the contact at the university and to my surprise he responded really quickly. After a few emails back and forth he was able to do something on his end that made the download button magically appear. Then I no longer had that as an excuse to not do work.

After that I watched a multi-stream of Sark and APL playing Zombie Army Trilogy, picking up where they left off last time. I also texted a bunch with one of my friends and put in a very small amount of effort on one of my assignments. Good grief.