April 17, 2015

 I slept in this morning, which was awesome, and then I laid there awhile longer coming up with a plan of attack for my presentation. And then I spent pretty much the entire day working on it. I had to almost fully redesign the layout of my PDF, several times, as I came up with what each slide was going to be. I started by trying to make an outline with a brief script for each slide but I gave that up pretty quick because I still hadn't figured out what the actual order of the slides was going to be. So I switched over to Publisher and decided on my slide order as I went, rearranging things as I needed.

I made my final edit for the day sometime after nine o'clock, after so many hours of work today. Ridiculous. But I pretty much finished it, one day ahead of schedule. Tomorrow I want to add some more comic book covers for the background and go through and come up with a basic script. I might also make some changes to the PDF but hopefully not because it is kind of a pain to get everything situated in Prezi. But I've got a week to get it all sorted out. I was happy enough with the final product today that I sent it to a couple people. I also sent it to my partner, mentioning that I hadn't heard from her so I made the presentation. Mildly passive aggressive.

I am slightly interested to see how everything turns out because other than coming up with the initial idea for the topic of our presentation on the weekend it was assigned, she hasn't contributed a single thing. Other than an apology a week or two after missing our first deadline for posting some ideas. I'm probably going to send her the script I come up with, too, just so we're on the same page for the presentation. If I don't get an 'A' on this project, I'll probably throw her under the bus. And if there is a partner evaluation I don't think I'm going to white-wash the situation. I thought my partner last semester was bad when I made the entire newspaper and heavily edited the two poorly written, tiny articles I had her write, and then edited and doubled the length of our presentation. But at least she wrote those two articles and kind of made a presentation. This time around is kind of unbelievable actually. Most of the time the slackers at least fake like they're doing stuff or come up with a bunch of excuses. My partner has been completely MIA. I don't get it.

After calling it a day on the project, I played some GTA5. I completed the first story mode heist, robbing a jewelery store, and I met the third main character, Trevor, the crazy guy. So it was a productive day in terms of schoolwork and video games. I also started watching Doraleous & Associates again. I don't know how it came up but one of the fifth grade teachers mentioned this cartoon the other day that she saw on YouTube years ago called Salad Fingers. I watched the first episode and it is probably the weirdest thing I have ever seen on YouTube, which is saying something. I need to watch some more of it though just to see how much weirder it gets. In return, I sent her a link to the first Doraleous & Associates, because it is a great cartoon. That got me started on watching it again. I wouldn't be surprised if I made it through all the episodes this weekend.

But not tonight, because it is two o'clock in the morning and I am freaking tired.