July 22, 2015

 I woke up with my alarm today and managed to read two textbook chapters and two articles before lunch. I wildly successful start to my day. And then I did nothing the rest of the afternoon. School-related anyway. I ran on the elliptical and did my laundry, so that's something.

Before Chipotle I paid a bill and bought about Powerball ticket (which was another loser). On the way to Chipotle I ran into construction and had to go out of my way. Then I ran into more construction and again had to go out of my way. I love summer because all of the college kids leave town but I also hate summer because that is when all the road construction happens. And I think some of the college kids are starting to trickle back into town. Yay.

I went to Jimmy John's first because my mom wanted a sandwich. I then went around the block and was on the street right beside Chipotle. As I pulled up to the stop sign before turning onto the road in front of Chipotle, I apparently went into the crosswalk a little bit. I discovered this when I looked to the left and saw one of the Chipotle employees walk out of the the blind spot created by the door frame of my car. She had to walk a little bit around my car and stared at me. Not in a nasty way, more of a “Really?” kind of way. I've got to say the one thing I don't like about my car is the door frame blind spot because it is surprisingly large and it does often come into play when I'm turning onto streets.

The Chipotle employee was walking to work and by the time I got up to place my order she was in the food line. When I got to her I made sure to say I was sorry about getting so close to her with my car and she seemed good with that. I'm down there every week and she's frequently there and hopefully things won't be awkward. At least awkward beyond the normal levels of me interacting with strangers.

After dinner I showed some videos, which I think went over fairly well. I also had a piece of bread before leaving. My sister made bread and brought it over. She said after all the ingredients go together it has to sit for eighteen hours. Good grief. But it was really good. Like restaurant good. But the majority of the stuff she makes is restaurant good so I shouldn't have been surprised.

I meant to start working on my poster after dinner but that didn't really happen. I ended up looking at stuff on the internet and got distracted. I halfheartedly had my grant stuff open and was kind of working on it but not really. It wasn't until sometime after ten o'clock, maybe eleven o'clock, that I buckled down and got to work. And sometime between two o'clock in the morning a half-past, I was done. It was annoying trying to print because my desktop wouldn't show my printer and the driver wouldn't download. I ended up having to save my file as a PDF, because I made it in Publisher '13 and I don't have that on my laptop. My laptop does have my printer installed so I opened the PDF out of my Dropbox folder and was able to print. Everything except the picture of the school because my printer is out of color ink. Or it is dried up. Either way, black is my only option at the moment so I got rid of the picture. When I laid everything out the poster was looking a little sparse so I went back through some of the worksheets I downloaded yesterday and printed out three examples to show the type of stuff the kids would be working on. And I think it all looks decent. I'll probably change my mind this weekend when I see every else's but for now I'm going with the idea that I did something right.

Tomorrow I am going to go buy some construction paper and a glue stick. The idea is to glue my printed stuff onto the construction paper, giving everything a thin border of color. I did that for my log-in instructions in the computer lab and the border made everything look a million times better than a plain piece of paper. And it is definitely needed for the poster because it is also white. I would like to get that done before lunch, the shopping that is, but it is three o'clock in the morning right now and I already feel like I'll be ignoring my alarm clock, so we'll see how motivated I am in the morning.