November 28, 2015

 I have been on a bit of a nostalgic music trip the last couple of days on Spotify. The music of my high school and college days is still good and hopefully I will always think that.

This morning I slept in and it was pretty great. It was one of those sleeping-ins where I wasn't really asleep the whole time but just laying there, enjoying not having to get out of bed.

I did things today. I should have done more things but it's too late to worry about that now. I looked through the instructions for the collection assessment assignment and it immediately made me feel overwhelmed. Such a horribly familiar feeling this semester. Just to pile more on that I looked at the reading for the coming week and the discussion post. Three chapters. Thankfully two of them were fairly short, because the third was forty pages. The assessment is due next Sunday, the discussion goes until next Monday, and my website is due next Friday. Good grief.

My dad wanted to have a family dinner tonight but I ended up getting out of it after realizing how much work I have to finish this week. Also, the weather is super crappy with everything covered in ice. I wasn't entirely sure I could make it up the hill out of the cul-de-sac, and then along the winding road leading down a hill, before ever reaching the main road. Last year I went out in crappy weather for some reason and ended up sliding into a curb almost immediately even though I was going just over zero miles per hour, so I didn't want to risk it.

I took the opportunity to read. I finished the big chapter before dinner and the two small chapters after dinner. While also doing laundry, because multitasking. I then eventually got around to writing my initial discussion post for the week. Now I just need to worry about responding to my classmates throughout the week, which won't require too much thought.

I think I've decided on the library for my collection assessment. Mainly because it was the first library I came across that seemed promising. I need to reach that cleared mind state where I stop over thinking and can get stuff out on paper. I am hoping I can find that tomorrow. I could potentially finish the entire assignment tomorrow but I don't think I'll get there, especially knowing that it isn't due for another week. I'm going to at least try to get some ideas, though. I also want to work on my website. I need to pick libraries and librarians. I think I need to write a little blurb talking about academic libraries and librarians in general on each page but the actual content can just be cut and pasted (with appropriate attributions of course). So it should be fairly straightforward once I find the libraries and librarians. The tricky part will be coming up with the layout and coding it all for my website.

Soon I will be going to bed so I can wake up and be productive tomorrow. Positive attitude.