Holy balls, it is late and I have a headache and I want to go to bed.
The vast majority of my day was pointless. Again. I just could not
bring myself to do much of anything school-related. I thought about
my projects a lot, so that was kind of productive but not visibly. I
just watched videos online, read articles (unrelated to school), and
ran on the elliptical. So I was healthy at least. Oh, and I changed
the light bulb in the oven, which involved turning a breaker off, so
yeah, work happened.
After dinner, I went back to not doing a lot but I slowly started
working on things. I commented on a discussion post where someone
form another group was asking for suggestions on how to do a
slideshow on their website. I haven't attempted that but I came
across some things in my research so I posted a few links, a couple
with a CSS solution and another with the easier route of embedding a
Flickr slideshow.
That got me thinking about my group's website and I think we need to
have a video or music embedded on the site, which I didn't put in
because it didn't really make sense. But I was still avoiding my
grant proposal so I checked on YouTube, finding nothing, and then
went through the client's Twitter feed and found a short promotional
clip for their summer camp, so I got the embed code for that and put
it on the summer camp page of the website. It took me a bit to
figure out because I wanted it to be centered on the page, and I
ended up having to put it inside a <div> to get that to happen.
But I got it. I did all that with the code saved on my computer so
I had to copy it, log into the school server, and paste it into the
files saved there because those are responsible for what the internet
sees.
I eventually got past all the distractions, or at least most of them,
and got to work on my grant proposal. And the document actually
looks kind of impressive. Very official looking, mostly thanks to
the formatting. I emailed the professor today because in one of his
announcements there was a reference to a sample grant proposal but I
couldn't find it anywhere so I asked if he could send it to me again.
I was either not alone or it never got sent out because he ended up
sending it to everyone. I loosely based my layout on the sample but
mine looks cleaner. It was really helpful seeing examples for the
various sections because the short directions for each one wasn't
always entirely clear. I still need to come up with the Program
Objectives, Program Design, Measurable Results, Assessment Results,
and finalize a title for the project. That sounds like a lot,
because it is, but I finished a lot of other stuff so I don't feel
completely overwhelmed by it. I goal (or maybe I should say 'hope')
is to finish it tomorrow. Then I can focus on the content for the
poster presentation on Wednesday, which will give me time to figure
out if I need to go buy more printer ink or other supplies. I bought
a poster on Amazon today, which should be here on Wednesday. I don't
think I'll actually start putting it together until Thursday but you
never know. I'm still not entirely sure what all I need to put on it
but I'll figure it out.
Tomorrow I also need to start reading the required reading for this
week. And last week. Just in case it is referenced this weekend.
And because I will eventually need to write the second half of my
reflective journal for the semester. I know that I will have no
motivation to work after coming back from class but it would be
really nice if I could write my reflective journal this weekend,
maybe on Sunday. That way I can focus on the final budget assignment
for my management class. I watched the video instructions today and
it definitely sounds more than a bit involved. And I'll only have a
week to work on it.
But now it is after three o'clock in the morning so I am going to go
to bed. I need to get stuff done during the day tomorrow and not
save it all for the middle of the night.
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