March 7 , 2015

 I want to go to bed. It is so late. And in a hour it will actually be two hours later. I prefer falling back rather than springing forward.

Today in class we talked more about metadata, had a guest lecture from the librarian who came last semester that reminds me of a fairy godmother or the Glenda the Good Witch. We also talked a lot about the personality tests we took at the beginning of the semester and did some activities based on those, breaking into small groups based on our results and answering questions. For the last one, I can't remember what the category was, but we had to plan a group vacation. There is one lady in the class who is loud and blunt and basically kind of an ass. It was a simple, made up task but every time someone brought up an idea she took it entirely literally and said it wouldn't work because she didn't have the time or the money or the whatever else she could think of to be a contrarian. It was annoying and we didn't really get a chance to discuss the more interesting parts of the vacation, like what we would do, because we couldn't get past the loudmouth shooting down every idea. Thank god I didn't get paired up with her for the group project.

I was a little worried about my partner because my initial impression of her was similar to the loud lady but not quite as severe. She just seemed like she could be the blunt, bitchy type to be honest. But we were paired up based on our personality test scores so my initial impressions were either not quite accurate or one of us sucked at taking the test. Regardless, now that I've actually met her, I can say I was completely wrong. She is actually pretty cool and really easy to get along with.

For our group project we have to pick an information object and design a metadata schema for it. I thought about it over lunch but couldn't come up with anything. My partner did the same and she came up with two ideas. The first was alcohol but I said that would be a bit of a struggle for me because I don't drink. Her second idea was superheroes. Turns out she's a bit of a superhero nerd. We narrowed it down to Marvel heroes because people tend to be more familiar with them and our audience is going to be teenagers. We spent a good amount of time talking through everything and then spoke with the professor and got a little more insight. I feel really good about the whole thing. It should be a pretty fun project.

I spoke with my adviser today about setting up a practicum for this summer. She is going to contact the university library and the public library here in town and see if anyone has a spot for me. I mentioned that I interviewed someone from the university library last semester so she may contact him. In order to work in a grade school I would need a teaching degree so for the time being I am still leaning toward working in an academic library. That may change if I get a practicum in one and find out it isn't for me, but there's only one way to find out. My adviser said there have been several instances of people getting jobs directly related to their practicums, which would be nice.

I got out of class at five o'clock, hit up Spangles, and then headed out of town. Listening to the audiobook of the first Harry Potter book. I didn't have to pass anyone on my way home, which made for a nice drive. On the last stretch of highway I had the opportunity to join a line of cars but I ended up just slowing down and matching their speed when I was still pretty far back so it didn't feel like I was actually stuck in a line.

Tonight I decided to take a break from school stuff so I watched videos and clicked around the interent and played a bit of Trove. Trove is kind of like Cube World, which was a fun voxel game filled with cubes like Minecraft but it had a different art style and had smaller blocks so it allowed for more creative designs. Trove has a very similar design style. It is pretty fun to play but I really don't have any clue what I'm doing. I believe it's currently in the beta but hopefully they'll include more of an introduction in the final game, if they ever make it to the final game. I kind of just run around and find dungeons to clear. But it's fun so there's that.

I just sprang forward and lost an hour so I'm going to call it a night. Tomorrow I will need to work on school stuff. And maybe file my state taxes. I need to get that done before I forget about it.