September 20, 2015

 It is after midnight on a school night and I am tired, so I'm going to make this quick.

The vast majority of my day was spent working on my group presentation. So much time. I just finished up a first draft of it and sent it off to my partner. I know there are things that I need to tweak regarding the design of it but I'll worry about that after we get the important stuff worked out. Like the timing and the content. I'm worried that it will run long because six minutes is supposed to be the max. Currently I think there is way more than six minutes of content. And that isn't counting the fact that my partner has a leisurely way of talking. This is the same professor that I made a presentation for instead of writing a paper last Spring and I went for ten minutes instead of six. I got 0.3 points off, I think, but to hit six minutes I would have had to leave out information and I think that would have cost me more points. The same situation may hold true for the current presentation, even after we trim it down. I don't know.

I sent the presentation to my partner so he can run through it and let me know what he thinks. Now that the bulk of the work is done I need to shift my focus to my metadata assignment. I was hoping to at least have a little time to work on that today but I didn't. Reading through the discussion thread and seeing some of the issues my classmates have had so far makes me worry it is a lot more involved than I initially thought. Hopefully it clicks pretty quickly for me because time is running out.

I also need to pick a topic for a research paper in my academic libraries class. I think that is due Sunday as well. I haven't even looked at that assignment yet. I also need to do all of the reading for the upcoming week because I didn't get to that this weekend, either. It's going to be a long week. I think my metadata class only goes for another two weeks so maybe after that I'll get a little breather.