November 16, 2015

 Shortly before we left to go to the church for my uncle's funeral, the lady next door had a heart attack and was taken to the hospital. I guess many years ago she had a heart attack and this time she needed triple bypass surgery. I'm not sure if that ended up happening but my dad informed me yesterday that she had passed away. She was only fifty-nine years old and her husband had just arrived home because they were going to come to my uncle's funeral.

My dad also told me that at some point, probably during the funeral, someone stole my cousin's wallet out of her purse. She's sitting in the sanctuary of a church, morning the loss of her father, and someone steals her wallet. And then proceeds to use her credit cards. There are a bunch of assholes in this world. Whoever this person is, they are definitely near the top of the list. And it would be nice if Heaven and Hell were real things, just for the satisfaction of knowing this person had an appropriate eternity waiting for them.

When I got to work this morning the internet wasn't working and it was apparently down throughout the entire district. That was a fairly large annoyance but it is also completely debilitating for the computer lab because without a network connection no one can log into the computers. They turn into giant paperweights. And even if they weren't, practically everything students use on the computers other than Microsoft Office requires an internet connection. Fortunately I only had to cancel one class before the internet was fixed.

I wasn't needed for kindergarten literacy centers, and with the canceled class, I had the majority of the morning to work on my research paper. And I made progress, making it to over a thousand words. I really caught a lucky break.

Along with paper writing, I also fixed a few computer issues this morning. And in the afternoon I had classes and small groups in the lab. It was a fairly typical day, minus the internet outage thing.

Tonight I continued working on my research paper and I have nearly finished it. I'm up to 1300 words and I only have the conclusion and abstract left. I took a break to write this but I plan on finishing the conclusion tonight. Then, maybe at work tomorrow, I can write the abstract. I hate writing abstracts but they aren't as bad as entire research papers. If I am able to write the abstract at work that will increase the chances that I am also able to work on editing and formatting. It would be nice to get that all done tomorrow so I could submit the paper and be done with it. I still need time to catch up on my reading for my other class before our face-to-face meeting this weekend.

Now I'm going to write my conclusion so I can go to bed. It's only 11:30PM right now and it is reasonable to think I could be in bed by midnight but I'll probably drag it out to one o'clock in the morning because I have managed to drag everything out regarding this paper.