Today was rough due to a lack of sleep and an overall feeling of
exhaustion. I was not a fan.
Most of my free time at work was taken up with my selection
assignment. We got a grade for it today and we lost a point because
we didn't include ISBN numbers. We were never told to include the
ISBN numbers so it kind of feels like a bullshit way to lose a point.
So I spent my time today adding in ISBN numbers. I finished my list
and most of another list. I figure it's too late for the grade but
if it would be helpful for my other professor, who will be using our
list to actually buy books, it's worth the effort.
As for actual work, I briefly helped out with kindergarten literacy
centers and had several classes in the lab throughout the day. My
patience was pretty thin today due to my exhaustion but I held out
pretty well. Until first grade because there is a really annoying
kid who causes trouble every single time he's in the lab. The
teacher left after bringing them to the lab so she could go back to
the room and set up for a party. I then spent most of their lab time
telling this kid to stop doing various things, only to have him
almost immediately start up again. The final straw was when he
raised his voice and told people to log off their computers. This
got other kids to shout out for people to log off and then one kid
actually logged off. So I told the kid he was done and told him to
go sit by the door. The kid has his moments, very brief moments,
where he is tolerable, but then he ruins it. Every time.
I joined the Special Library Association today in an effort to learn
more about corporate librarianship and possibly find out more about
being a librarian at a video game studio. It seems like it is one of
the best places to find this information. Or get in contact with
someone who can point me in the right direction. I hope that it
leads to something.
Near the end of the day I went down to the library because the office
called and said the librarian needed help with something. By the
time I got there she had it sorted out but I ended up staying and
helping out with other things and we talked about random stuff. I
also helped move book fair boxes out into the hallway.
Before heading down to the lab one of the fifth grade classes came to
the lab. The teacher was working on a word poster thing for the
librarian. I helped the librarian the other day figure out photo
books that the parents of the senior football players are making for
their kids. The librarian is one of those parents, hence her
participation. The word poster is for the coaches. Originally the
fifth grade teacher made the poster in Word on a regular size sheet
of paper. Then they decided they wanted it bigger so she asked me
how I would do that. I suggested changing the size of the paper in
Word before she started because if she tried to blow up the small one
it wouldn't look very good.
About an hour after getting home the librarian called me and put me
on speakerphone with her and the fifth grade teacher. When they
tried to save the poster as a PDF only part of it showed up and the
rest was just a whole bunch of blank white space. I suggested a few
possible fixes and then asked if she had tried copying and pasting it
into Publisher. When she tried that all the formatting got messed up
and parts of words disappeared. Basically, it didn't work at all. I
tried everything I could think of but we couldn't get it to work.
The fifth grade teacher was running out of time because she's going
somewhere this weekend. By this point I was curious about the
problem so I had her send me all the Word documents, a copy of the
failed PDF just so I knew what it was supposed to look like, and a
list of the different fonts she used for the different words.
After dinner I downloaded all of the fonts and got to work. I ended
up having to copy the text boxes over one at a time and arrange them
how they were in the original. It was tedious. I also had to
arrange the text box layers sending some to the front and back to get
them to fully show words and not get them to shift weird. Text boxes
are annoying in Publisher. After a bunch of tweaking I finally got
it all sorted out and sent copies of the PDF to the librarian and
asked her to text a picture to the fifth grade teacher to make sure
everything looked how she originally created it. The librarian said
everything looked good so we'll see.
With my exhaustion, schoolwork wasn't going to happen tonight so I
played a little Black Ops 3. I started with the campaign and
made it to the train before I called it quits. It reminds me of the
airplane mission in one of the Modern Warfare games. I played
that so many times trying to beat it. And this train mission is
turning into that. It is meant to introduce the melee ability and
close-quarters combat is extremely difficult when one bullet kills
you. And it is hard to jump around and strafe when you're in a tiny
train with seats and median things. Every time I try and move around
I get caught on things and destroyed by a robot. It's going to be
entirely based on luck for me to beat the level. I should have
started the campaign on the easiest difficulty so I could actually
enjoy the story. I would also have a better idea of what to expect
on all of the levels, which would be very helpful.
When I got tired of hearing the same dialogue over and over, and the
death sound over and over, I moved onto multiplayer. I got my ass
handed to me repeatedly. Every single time. It's rough.
First-Person Shooters on the PC are unforgiving. Especially when all
the players and jump all over the place.
Now I'm going to bed. Tomorrow, my research paper is happening.
After I sleep in. Then I'm writing my paper. It's going to happen.
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