October 10, 2015

 I'll be honest. I didn't spend the entire day working on my Metadata crosswalk. I did work on it off and on throughout the day, though, which is kind of what I expected to happen. And it worked out because I eventually managed to finish the assignment. Minus the reference list, which is probably the easiest part, so there is no real reason why I didn't do that other than I was kind of done for the day. It won't take me too long to do that tomorrow and it'll give me another chance to read over my paper again. I also posted a summary of the assignment to the discussion thread and responded to one of the posts. I'll respond to a few more tomorrow and submit the assignment, officially finishing my metadata class. Thankfully. It has been very interesting but also stressful.

There is an advanced metadata class that starts after this one, which is a two credit hour class. I think the idea is that you would take those two together in one semester, leaving a single three credit hour class to bring it up to a full six credit hours in the semester. That way you would have one class throughout the semester and then the two metadata classes, one after the other, which would mean you only had two classes at any given time, not three. Unfortunately for me, I wanted to take the academic libraries class this semester, which is two credit hours, and that left me needing one more credit hour. Metadata was used to fill that need and I wasn't even aware that it could be paired up with the second metadata class later in the semester. It's probably for the best though because after the stress from class I need a break. At least from metadata. I've still got plenty of work to do in my remaining two classes.

At one point during the day I opened the backdoor to check on the weather because it looked nice out and I wanted to open my window if it wasn't too hot. When I opened the door I was met by a pretty big spider, right at head level. Upon closer inspection I saw that it had a web across the entire doorway. Just the other night I had gone out to see if I could see the meteor shower (which I couldn't because it was cloudy) and I thought I felt a spider web on me. Not a full web, just a little string, but didn't think much of it. My main reason for going out that door is to release spiders I have caught in the basement. That usually happens at night and I usually turn off the light before I open the door because I want to reduce the chance of the bugs that hang out at the light swarming my face. I don't think I'm going to turn off the light anymore, because I'll probably forget to check first to see if there is a giant spider ready to touch my face. Although that also means I'll probably forget to not turn the light off. Basically, a big spider will probably be touching my face in the near future.

While working on my metadata crosswalk tonight Word froze on me. Not too long after I got a message about Word being unable to save a backup or something because my C:\ Drive was out of space. When I checked on that it turned out to be an accurate statement because I was at a big fat zero on my C:\ Drive. I've been dealing with that issue for awhile now because it is a small SSD but this is the first time I completely ran out of room. I ran CC Cleaner and found out that Chrome and Firefox were both taking up a whole bunch of space, Chrome in particular. After I ran the program and deleted all the temp files I gained back more than 8GB of space. That is crazy. I need to close my web browsers more often so they don't build up so much crap.

The experience of losing a few sentences of my paper in the crash was enough to get me to finally buy a new SSD before something worse happens. I've been looking at them for awhile but was putting it off because prices were continuing to drop and I didn't have a sufficient reason to spend the money. But now I do so I will be doing that tomorrow. It will also be a good excuse to finally use the gift card I got for my birthday. I also might pick up a cable so I can hook up my other TV to my computer so I can have four monitors. It would have come in handy during my metadata assignments when I had a million browser tabs and various Word documents and PDFs open.

Anyway, it is now two o'clock in the morning and I need to go to bed so I can wake up tomorrow and do things. Like turn in my metadata crosswalk, reply to some discussion posts, and try and add more to the group clusterfuck weekly assignment that has been causing me so much anxiety over the past week. Hooray.