July 9, 2015

 I failed to wake up early. Or at least to stay up after my alarm went off. Despite that, I actually had a productive day, and I don't feel half bad about myself. Being unproductive makes me feel kind of worthless, which in turn saps the little motivation I may have, and the lack of that motivation makes me unproductive, starting the cycle all over again. Thankfully today there was a little ray of sunlight shining through the dark clouds.

I designed a flowchart for my group website, which I kind of think is pointless. It is a site map using visual vocabulary, which is a fancy phrase for flowchart, and it is a representation of how the pages of a website are laid out. I think it is much easier to read a site map in the form of a bulleted list, especially when it is a site as small as the one we're working on, but whatever. The professor took the time to make a video lecture about it so I made one. I also included the bulleted list in our proposal because I think it is more clear. I also wrote up the design summary for our proposal, which means I'm done on that front.

Tonight I worked on the website itself and kind of got the mobile menu icon working. The idea is that the navigation buttons along the top of the page will eventually collapse into a menu icon, so on smaller screens like cellphones the majority of the screen for each page isn't taken up my the navigation buttons, there will just be one small button that can be pressed to open up the menu list. I got everything to collapse into the menu icon, and the menu list pops up when I hover over the button with the mouse cursor, but it is on the other side of the screen and it disappears before I can click on anything. Also, clicking on the button doesn't do anything and the menu list actually pops up whenever I have the mouse at the top of the window, not just where the menu icon is. I messed around with it a lot and made a tiny bit of progress but ended up calling it a night before I got it figured out. I'll try again tomorrow and try and get a fresh perspective on it.

Working on that stuff was pretty much my day. And it felt good. And I know being productive feels good but I just can't make myself do it on a consistent basis. It is incredibly frustrating, as I have stated on multiple occasions over the years, but I can't fix it. This is apparently my life, I would say for better or worse but life can always be worse, so I can't really complain that much. But I will continue to grumble.