July 27, 2015

 Today was really productive but I don't have much to write about because it was also really boring. Before lunch I read through my reflective journal, made a few minor changes, and then submitted it. After lunch I read through my grant proposal, made a few minor changes, and then submitted it. Both assignments weren't actually due until next Sunday but I submitted them today, almost a week early. That is very much unlike me. Maybe I'm coming down with something.

Late tonight the other groups in my web design class submitted their website links, including the two groups that my group has to evaluate. So I went ahead and evaluated them. I didn't have anything better to do so I figured I might as well get it over with, even though that isn't due until Thursday. My group started a Google Doc so we could all add in our own evaluation of the site and then one member will combine everything and submit it to the discussion thread. The only thing I should have left for that class is to make any changes the other groups suggest for our site, if they make sense and are easy enough to fix, and I might play a part in the final report, but we'll see.

In my management class, the only thing I have left is the budget assignment, which is worth twenty points, so it is a major player in my overall grade. I finally took a look at it today and it is a little more substantial than the professor was making it out to be. He described it as a short three-page paper. It does include a short three-page paper, but it also involves answering a few questions that will require substantial thought. He are the director of a library and we have to fire at least one person, possibly more, possibly rearrange the organizational structure, and cut 10% of the budget, which equates to $300,000. That is a big chunk of change. I read through all the material today and I'm pretty sure I know who I'm going to fire and who I will promote to fill the position, but that only saves around $50,000. I also think I'm going to make one of the full-time employees a part-time employee, but that still doesn't get me in the ballpark of $300,000. It would be easier if I was more familiar with the actual functioning of a public library's organizational structure. Then I would have a better idea of what positions could but messed with without making the whole thing crumble. I'm going to need to make more people part-time to save on benefits. And I'll probably need to reduce the book budget, which is sad. In the end, it doesn't really matter how I get rid of the $300,000 as long as I have a valid argument and can justify my decisions. I need to do some research and put a lot more thought into it.

One of my classmates mentioned the movie Sky High during her presentation this weekend and that made me really want to watch that movie again. So that's what I did today and it is still good. It definitely holds up. I feel like I heard at one point it was supposed to have a sequel but it didn't do well enough. I could be making that up but it would have been cool if there was a sequel.

I watched another movie after Sky High but for the life of me I cannot remember what it was right now. I feel like I'm really close to remembering it but I've got nothing right now. It's really weird. Or maybe I planned on watching something else but then didn't. But I'm pretty sure I did watch something. Oh well.

Tonight I watched my Mumford & Sons concert DVD when they played at Red Rocks. I need to go to more concerts there. I've only been to one, when I went to Sublime, but that was the coolest concert I've ever been to. My friend's cousin and his girlfriend volunteer and pick up trash there in exchange for free tickets. I would be down for that.

I finished reading the first volume of Suicide Squad tonight and now I want to get the other volumes. I think there are five all together but I need to wait until I start getting a paycheck again before I start buying a bunch of books. I also want to buy new shoes. I've been looking at a lot of new shoes recently. But I don't really need new shoes right now. Or new books. Soon enough I'll be making more adult money and I'll have a little extra spending money. That will be nice.

Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events. That is the other movie I watched. I had seen bits and pieces of it in the theater but never actually saw the whole thing. I read at least a few of the books, maybe more, but I couldn't make it through the series because it began to feel like I was just reading the same book over and over again. The movie was good though. Jim Carrey did a really good job. I could have done with more of him and less of the kids, no offense to them.

I've been bored most of the night and I'm not tired enough to go to bed so I'm going to go back to being bored for awhile. Nothing sounds worth doing. I'll figure something out.