August 1, 2015

I set my alarm for eight o'clock this morning so I could get up and let the dogs out. I ended up staying in bed for another forty-five minutes. But it turns out at some point, maybe when I was setting my alarm, I set my clock forward an hour. So even though I slept for an extra forty-five minutes, I actually woke up fifteen minutes early. That was a very tricky concept for my groggy mind to come to terms with as I was standing upstairs and looking at three different clocks that disagreed with what I thought was true.

After the dogs were fed I came back downstairs and didn't really do much. I was still pretty tired so I ended up crawling under my desk and taking a short nap before lunch. I also spent most of my afternoon under my desk, laying there and listening to music, occasionally falling asleep. My motivation could not have been lower today. It was frustrating but I wasn't actually that frustrated because that requires motivation, which I didn't have. It was interesting.

I finally accomplished stuff tonight, long after dinner, when the sun was only a distant memory. I finished the budget part of the budget assignment, cutting $300,000 from the library's budget. When I was done with the personnel side of it I was able to add a little more money back into things I had cut earlier, like books, databases, and software. I then spent the next few hours working on the final report. I answered the first two questions, where we have to say why we cut a position (or created one in question two), what problems it solved, and what problems it may cause. Next I will need to explain how I got the numbers in my budget. Thankfully I have been keeping notes as I go so I actually know why I made specific cuts. I also have one or two more questions beyond that and then a three-page essay tying the assignment into what I have learned in the class this semester. That is going to be a pain.

I forgot to mention that my textbooks for the Fall semester arrived yesterday. All five of them. They are all thick and very dense. It is going to be a long semester.

Tomorrow there is some stuff I want to do for my web design class and I am going to try and prioritize that. Hopefully. There is a chance I could do that and finish the budget assignment but the budget assignment will probably get pushed back to Monday. We'll see.