I wanted to go to bed about two hours ago but I got caught up in making my two introductory posts for my summer classes and now it is midnight. I can feel it in my eyes. And my headache.
A lot of today was again spent with the slideshow. I lost track of how many times I rendered the video because I kept getting random flickering or black screens or other things. It seemed like the program was only good for one rendering and then I had to shut it down and restart it to try again. I also ended up burning four DVDs, the first three didn't work out and the fourth one has a little audio glitch at the very end in the credits that is annoying. Despite all my work making the DVD menus, I have decided to just show the video of the slideshow, rather than playing the DVD. I was able to render a video in 1080p and it looks like the slideshow is supposed to look, not the crappy standard version that had to be rendered for it to go into a DVD. And if anyone wants a copy, I'll just burn the video onto a DVD and throw in all the individual slides, rather than the lower quality DVD version with all the cool menus.
I had a few classes in the lab today, second grade this morning, sixth grade this afternoon so they could take a survey, and one of the third grade classes several times throughout the day because they were getting in the last Reading Counts tests of the year.
The yearbooks were given out today and a lot of people liked the edited portrait I put in of the custodian. I included his normal one but I also included the one I made earlier in the year that makes him look like Evel Knievel. I had completely forgotten it was in there until people started mentioning it to me.
This afternoon we had the yearly physics assembly, where an older professor and two younger but still older assistants come and demonstrate cool physics things. This includes several things that go boom, like a balloon, a fire cracker, and a liquid nitrogen bomb in a barrel of water. There are some pretty interesting demonstrations and the old professor is really excited about all of it, but he also talks a lot and gets sidetracked. And I've seen it all three times now, so that doesn't help. But I still enjoyed it. Minus the firecracker maybe, which made me jump.
Near the end of the day I went to find the librarian and couldn't find her, but I talked to the library clerk instead. She said I was the best thing to ever happen to the school. That is more than a bit of an exaggeration but I'll take it. I should put her on my resume as a reference.
After school I picked up Chipotle and headed home. Sometime before dinner my mom found my cutout in the walk-in pantry. She was not amused. Now I have it downstairs and it will probably scare the crap out of me the next time I come across it because there is always that split second when you complete forget it is there and assume it is a real person standing there.
My burrito was good but small, so only eating half of it wasn't all that filling. After dinner I showed a few YouTube videos along with the slideshow. Both my mom and sister liked it. They probably felt obligated to like it but I am choosing to believe them.
I read a little bit more in my management textbook tonight but it was making me fall asleep so I switched over to writing my introductory posts for my summer classes. That ended up taking a lot longer than I thought it would. Which is why it is so late and why every blink right now is becoming a fight between gravity and my eye lids. So I'm going to go to bed. I want to wake up a little earlier than normal so I can get to work a little earlier than normal so I can make sure everything is working for the slideshow.
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