I'm tired. That seems to be my general state of being this week.
This morning I took pictures of the bookcase that no one at school
wants so I can send out an email to the district to see if another
school wants it. I took some without anything on it, with several
books on it, and with sixteen reams of paper (just because).
Throughout the rest of the day I edited the pictures to make them
look better. I also cut out the bookcase and added it to a picture
of a beach and to a picture of a pasture. Because of other things I
didn't get around to actually sending the email so that will have to
happen on Tuesday.
My favorite sub was there today so I got to talk to her for awhile.
When I was clocking out for lunch she was in the office so we ended
up sitting in the chairs in there while she waited on her lunch to
arrive and talked about stuff.
I spent my entire afternoon installing Type to Learn on a
laptop cart. Seventeen laptops altogether. It was kind of awful.
It takes forever to install because it is a huge file (1GB) and it
has to be on the computer or it takes even longer. The fasted
solution ended up being downloading the file to a flash drive,
copying it onto the laptop, installing it, and then deleted the setup
file. Even with five laptops going at a time it took me four hours.
With that and juggling classes coming into the lab at the same time,
I didn't really have time to do anything else. Like sending the
email about the bookcase.
Tonight I had a Frosty for the first time in a long time. I want to
say several years. It was really good.
I didn't work on my metadata crosswalk tonight. I did add a little
to the group discussion thing for my collection development class.
That damn thing. It is a big reason for my lack of motivation this
week, which is impacting my metadata class. The whole assignment is
kind of an unorganized clusterfuck. A poorly designed assignment.
The groups should have been three or four people at most and been
restrained to the case study. There should have also been more
communication within the groups about dividing up the work. Not the
free-for-all it turned into, especially after individuals did most of
the original assignment by themselves before anyone else had a chance
to contribute, leading to the expansion of the assignment. But at
this point I'm beating a dead horse. I just hope I am able to
contribute enough that I don't lose too many points. My frustration
about this assignment and the anxiety it has produced has been
incredibly distracting all week. Hopefully next week we can go back
to a regular discussion, with clearly defined guidelines.
For the past little while now I have been watching a Minecraft
livestream that is in French. I don't even kind of speak French.
I know they aren't talking about the game but other than that I
don't have the slightest idea what the conversations are about. And
the whole time the girl has just been building floor after floor of a
big building. I originally turned it on as background to my work,
figuring I wouldn't be distracted by the talking. Then I ended up
not working.
Tomorrow. Metadata crosswalk. All day. Mostly. It will be done
tomorrow so I will have time to edit it on Sunday before turning it
in. That's the plan. I need to move on with my life and I can do
that as soon as I finish that assignment because it will be the end
of my metadata class. Hopefully the rest of the semester will be a
little less stressful without having to juggle three classes.
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