I forgot to talk about throwing ice at a rabbit yesterday. When I
got home I checked the backyard before letting the dogs out to make
sure all the squirrels were gone, and apparently bunnies. I saw the
rabbit sitting near the fence and I decided to try the technique I
had been suggesting to my mom. So I went back in, grabbed some ice,
and headed back outside. I've never thrown ice cubes before, other
than maybe tossing them into a trashcan, and I've got to say, I've
got a real knack for it. Even though the rabbit was pretty far away,
I consistently hit within a foot or three of it. But the rabbit
didn't seem to give a shit. Even when I was within a foot in the
grass or when I banged them off the fence. The rabbit twitched its
ears a little but that was it. Death wish bunny. I finally gave up
and took two steps down the stairs and it ran under the fence. So
much time wasted. At least I proved my technique for scaring away
bunnies is a complete failure.
Today was not a great day for productivity. I got up really early,
which should have been a good sign, but a few hours later I took a
nap under my desk. I woke up with a headache and it went away a
couple hours later, but when it came back I gave up, took some
Ibuprofen, and crawled under my desk. My headache eventually went
away but I never really recovered any motivation.
I worked on my group presentation, making a few notes and setting up
the layout for the presentation. I tried coming up with actual
content but it never came. It was partially (very minimally) due to
not knowing what my partner was covering and not wanting to spend a
lot of time on one thing only to find out that is what my partner had
been spending time on. Really that's just an excuse though. I just
couldn't get it going. I spent a lot of time thinking about it but
it never clicked into gear. Tonight my partner actually sent me a
file with all the stuff he has come up with so far so I am going to
work with that tomorrow and actually start adding stuff to the
presentation and figuring out slides, and fill in anything he either
didn't cover or things I had thought of. I have done a lot of work
on the presentation side for this project but my partner has
definitely done the majority of the research side. I feel bad being
the deadweight so far.
I responded to a discussion post and then started working on my
metadata assignment. We have to pick five digital resources, each
from a different category, and then create metadata records for them
using Dublin Core. I was in the middle of picking out those
resources when I decided to check the discussion thread we're
supposed to be posting to throughout the process. I haven't posted
yet because I hadn't actually looked at the assignment before last
night, but I saw a question that I thought I could respond to so I
did. It ended up requiring a bit of research so I got lost in Dublin
Core stuff for awhile. I think I came up with a decent answer and I
got a glimpse of how much work this assignment is going to require.
It's going to be a fun week.
I also went through and bookmarked the textbook chapters I need to
read and the organized all the articles I need to read but didn't get
around to reading any of it. I wanted my focus to be on the group
project because that directly impacts someone else so it takes
precedence, but for all I accomplished on that I might as well have
been reading.
Tomorrow I need to make decent progress on the group presentation.
Ideally I would get in the zone, stop over thinking, and knock the
whole thing out. Unrealistically but ideally. I also need to finish
picking out my metadata resources and hopefully start a document and
get a template going for each one so I can just drop in the
information once I have it. I would also like to get some reading
done. All of it would be nice but there is a lot of it and with the
group project and the metadata assignment being due next weekend,
that stuff needs to come first. I can skim the reading if I need to
for a discussion post this week. I don't want it to turn into an
excuse to not work on my projects.
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