July 26, 2015

 I accomplished nothing this morning because I slept through most of it. I did look through some stuff and thought about things for my reflective journal entries but I didn't actually type anything. The fun kicked in after lunch when I started typing. And re-reading parts of chapters and articles to remind myself what my short notes were for on each entry. I had some distractions but I would say I put in a decent amount of effort. Maybe even more than decent because I managed to finish the last entry shortly after 11:30PM. It would have been nice if it was earlier in the night but I was kind of expecting it to be at least two in the morning, so I beat my expectations. Tomorrow I'll re-read everything and make any edits I need to and maybe even turn it.

After dinner we had a group meeting. Originally I thought it was at five o'clock but then one of my group members sent out a message asking to push it back a half hour to 7:30PM, so apparently the original time was seven o'clock. Good to know. When I joined it was me and the other guy in the group and we ended up talking about Minecraft and video games in general because he saw the Creeper face my sister made me that is sitting on my pile of books. His kids play Minecraft and I learned his oldest kid is nine years old. It was surprising enough to learn he has kids because he looks really young but it was even more surprising to learn his oldest is nine, again because of how young he looks.

Eventually we were joined by another group member. The fourth wasn't able to join because she was out of town and didn't get to her hotel in time. We organized the plan for submitting our group update, how we were going to handle commenting on the other group websites, and getting our final report set up. I didn't think we would really have much to go over but we got a lot accomplished. Go us.

After the meeting I went back to working on my reflective journal entries until I got them finished. And since then I've been watching videos. Thanks to sleeping in I'm not really tired but I'll get there. Hopefully soon.

Tomorrow, along with proofreading my reflective journal entries, I also want to proofread my grant proposal. One of my classmates mentioned that school librarians usually don't get paid during the summer because I didn't have that figured into my budget. I said that my program would be during summer school so the librarian would already be in the library and that she would be volunteering her services. Thinking on my feet. But now I am thinking that I should probably add in a salary and categorize it as in-kind, which I think covers volunteering or donated stuff, like if someone donates their time or a bunch of t-shirts, you figure out how much that stuff would actually cost and include it as an in-kind donation in the budget. I figured out the salary just in case but I'll have a better idea as to whether I should add it in tomorrow when I look through things again. And speaking of budgets, it would be really nice if I could look over the budget assignment tomorrow, just to get the thought process started on that. The professor said it was only a short, three-page paper that had a lot of right answers, but most of our time would probably be spent thinking. So I need to get the think-train started. That's totally a thing.