October 15, 2015

 Last night I put my cutout in my car and this morning I left about ten minutes early so I could get to work before the librarian. And it worked because I beat her by a little less than ten minutes. Last night one of the kindergarten teachers, a fifth grade teacher, resource teacher, and para went to the school and decorated the window of the library and hung a sheet from the roof of the building. The sheet was originally hung up by the kindergarten teacher when the resource teacher turned fifty. They crossed out her name and wrote the librarian's name.

When I got to school I put my cutout in the library and that reminded the custodian that he knew where the cardboard cutout was of the old fourth grade teacher, so he went and got it and we put that one up, too. There was also a cake that one of the office ladies made and black balloons everywhere. When the librarian got there she loved it. Most of the staff were wearing black, including myself. I opted for a black hoodie instead of my usual green one. Awhile after that we all went into the gym and the principal had the whole school sing the librarian happy birthday. After that I went back to the library and gave the librarian the cross stitch I made. I didn't want to do it when everyone was around because I didn't want the attention. The fifth grade teacher ended up coming in, and then the principal, so they saw it, but that was better than everyone being there. The librarian ended up hanging it above the printer.

The rest of the day was pretty boring. When I didn't have classes in the lab, most of my day was spent editing pictures for the end of the year slideshow. I made it through all of the ones I found on the shared drive. I probably won't start asking for baby pictures until we come back from winter break but we'll see. If I can't find any more projects to work on I might see if I can get the pictures early. Or I could just work on schoolwork.

After work I didn't really do much and for dinner I had the second half of my Chipotle burrito. It was really good. Better than the first half. The rest of my night was spent watching YouTube videos, playing Minecraft, and finishing the first season of iZombie. In Minecraft I took a break from making minecart tracks and started digging a branch mine because I was in the mood to just zone out and collect resources. Not think about building. Minecraft is my happy place. Although I have been playing too much this week and I need to shift my focus back to school stuff.

Grades for the metadata crosswalk and the last discussion were posted today and I got 100% on both. Unfortunately that only brought my grade up to a 95.95%. That is 0.05% or 0.15 points away from an 'A'. Frustrating. Not counting the four and a half points I missed for turning in the assignment that I completely forgot about several days late (and I got 100% on the assignment, which I did in one night), I only missed one point in the class. That was on a discussion where I posted three times instead of four or more. Even though the discussions call for you to post once and then respond to two other posts. And my posts were long, even if there were only three. So missing a whole point for that really sucks because that is what screwed me over in the end. It's disappointing knowing that I did all the work for an 'A' but made one mistake and lost it. I don't think the grades are final yet so there is still a small chance that she would give me 0.15 points. A professor last year gave me 0.20 I think when my group grade dropped me down to an 'A-', so there is a precedent, but that was a different professor and this time it was my own fault for losing points. At least I know I earned an 'A', even if the transcript says 'A-'.

Now I'm going to go to bed because it is late and I'm tired. I have the day off from work tomorrow so my goal is to get some schoolwork done. I need to make some serious progress on my research paper and I would like to start finding books for my collection development project. If I could accomplish both of those things it would be awesome. I'll settle for one but I'll shoot for both.