July 23, 2015

 I did things today. Hooray for me. I can't really remember my morning but I know I slept in until sometime and then did something until lunch. After lunch I eventually left the house and went to Target to get construction paper. There smallest option was 200 sheets of paper. I needed fourteen pieces. So now I have more construction paper than I will ever need for the rest of my life.

When I got home, I started work on cutting the paper. I trimmed down most of the sheets I printed out last night and then cut the construction paper so it would make a quarter of an inch border around the information sheets. I thought only using one color would look boring and be kind of confusing so I used four. One for the title sheets, one for the demographic stuff, one for the main information about the project, and one for the examples of the worksheets the kids will work on.

There was a lot of cutting so I didn't finish it until after dinner. And then the gluing started. Another thing that took quite awhile. Much later in the even I was finally able to lay everything out on my poster and start to tape it down. That also took awhile, not just because of all the tape but also just trying to get everything aligned so it didn't look like it had been put together by a child. I think it turned out pretty well. As long as you don't stare too closely at some of the construction paper borders because some of them are awful, but I'm trying not to think about it. I also noticed an error on my budget table, where it is supposed to say “Computers & Hardware” it just says “Computer &”. Who the hell knows where the hardware went. I guess that's what happens when you make something well into the middle of the night. Again, I'm trying not to think about it.

I took a little break after I got everything taped down and then I practiced my presentation. It's a work in progress. I feel like I'm talking super fast but the overall time has been between eight and ten minutes, which is good because the time frame is five to fifteen minutes. I'll need to practice again tomorrow. And tomorrow night. And Saturday morning. I forgot all about signing up, as did several other people so I'm not alone, but I got put in the last slot. Which means I'll be presenting right before we leave. Which also means if I go long, I am preventing everyone from leaving. No pressure. My main worry is actually seeing everyone's posters. I'm still not entirely convinced that I did mine right and it would suck if everyone else has something completely different. It would be super awkward to get up there after everyone else who seemed to get the assignment and then me who obviously didn't. But that is a worst-case scenario. An over-thinking scenario. I should be good. At least my poster has some colorful borders.

It is currently after two o'clock so I'm going to go to bed so I can wake up in the morning. I would like to wake up at a decent time just so tomorrow night I will actually be tired at a decent time, which will make it easier for me to get up early on Saturday for class. I'm trying to plan ahead for my future self.