Today was kind of a waste. It started off pretty well. I ran twenty
minutes on the elliptical and I rediscovered a French musician. Many
years ago, maybe when I was in college, she used to post videos of
ukulele covers to YouTube but then her channel and all the videos
disappeared. Her account had apparently been hacked and all her
videos were deleted. Over the years most of them were eventually
re-uploaded by people who had downloaded them but the musician kind
of disappeared and I eventually stopped looking. Well, the other day
I read an article about a French musician, unrelated to the ukulele
girl but the idea of a French musician planted a seed and this
morning I did some searching. I typed “french girl ukulele” into
Google and one of her old videos was the first thing to pop up.
After some more searching I was reminded of her name, and then I
found a playlist that not only included her old videos but some new
ones, which it turns out had been posted by her on her new channel.
She's now an actual musician, not just a girl in her room, and
recording music. The searching capabilities of the internet is
remarkable.
For most of the rest of the day I made attempts to complete my
website evaluation assignment and my discussion post. Other than
picking out the website I wanted to evaluate, I was not very
productive. I put off working on my tables because I wanted to focus
on my homework. But I knew inspiration wasn't going to strike so I
should have worked on the tables so I could have at least made
progress on something today.
Tonight I watched Doraleous' stream where he and his friend were
making another attempt at Oregon Trail. This time they tried
a slightly newer version because the original crashed the last two
times they played. This one ended up crashing before they reached
the Rocky Mountains. It's basically a conspiracy at this point.
Doraleous' character name for the game was Dorarara and someone in
chat made a Dora The Explorer reference, and I was still
avoiding my homework, so I ended up finding pictures of Dora and
Doraleous and using Gimp to put Dora's hair on Doraleous and edited
the Dora The Explorer logo to say Dorarara and put that at the
bottom of the picture. If only I could find the motivation to put
that kind of creativity and effort into the things I should be doing,
like homework.
After the stream I did eventually start on my website evaluation. I
worked until 2:30AM and managed to finish the bulk of the work. I
completed the table that has all the information in it and added in
all of the screencaps into an appendix. I then put links into the
table that link to the relevant screencap in the appendix. I didn't
know it was possible to link to something within a Word document but
I learned about it tonight and figured out how to do it. Tomorrow I
need to write a brief introduction and conclusion about the overall
usability and accessibility of the website.
I also need to write my discussion post about website standards. I
would like to get all of that done by lunch but considering it is
almost three o'clock in the morning right now, I probably won't have
that much time before lunch. Unless I hit my sleeping cycle just
right early in the morning and decide to get up. I'll set my alarm
for eight o'clock but the odds are good I turn it off and go back to
sleep.
I am kind of still in the procrastinating mindset I was in at the end
of last semester and I need get out of it. I can't deal with the
stress of last minute work all summer. Without having to go to work
everyday I have more than enough time to get my schoolwork done way
before it is due. I need to do that.
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