Today was a good day. I got to
sleep in a little bit. Or rather lay in, because I was up sometime
before eight o'clock but stayed in bed until around 8:30AM, just
enjoying the fact that I didn't have to get up yet.
When I did get out of bed I read
through my collection assessment again, tweaked a few things, and
then set it aside. I had all day and although it would have been
nice to submit it and be done with it, I didn't want to rush things.
After that I played Hearthstone
for the first time. As a kid I
was always interested in the idea of Magic: The Gathering
but I didn't want to buy cards and I didn't want to find friends.
When Hearthstone first
came out I was intrigued but watching it made it seem very confusing
and I was probably busy with other things at the time. For the last
few days I became interested in it again, partially because I was
neck-deep in my collection assessment and wanted to be doing anything
else.
I downloaded it the day before
yesterday I think, and at one point I actually tried to open it even
though I knew I needed to focus on schoolwork. And it is as if the
game knew because it wouldn't run. Well, it ran but it was super
laggy and stuttering and I gave up before the first screen even
loaded. Apparently it is a very CPU intensive game and I had roughly
a million tabs and windows open on my computer for my collection
assessment and it all came together to max out my CPU, while my GPU
wasn't even touched. My CPU is the last thing I need to upgrade in
my PC but it's still doing the job so I'm going to put that upgrade
off for awhile.
Back to the story, though. I took
that as a sign to keep on track with my schoolwork so I waited until
today, when my collection assessment was basically done, to try out
the game. Which ended up being a wise decision because the game is
mildly addictive. It kind of sucks you in and it's laid back enough
that you kind of lose track of time.
After however long I took a break
and decided to rearrange my desk. I started by cleaning it up
because it got a bit messy over the course of the semester with books
and papers and random stuff. Then I moved my right monitor over to
the left of my left monitor, so now I've got my two 24” monitors on
one desk and my two 32” TVs stacked on top of each other to the
right of the monitors. I also moved my old Macintosh computer into a
closet to free up space on my other desk, and moved my laptop over
there. I am really liking the change so far. I'll probably get
tired of it at some point but for now I am enjoying it.
Before dinner I read through the
instructions again for the collection assessment assignment and added
a bit more to my assessment. I did the same after dinner before
finally calling it good and submitting it. On almost every
assignment so far in grad school, right before submitting it, I have
this overwhelming feeling that I am somehow completely missing the
point of the assignment and that I'm going to get an awful grade on
it. So far that has not occurred but I'm hoping this assignment
doesn't turn that feeling into foreshadowing. I didn't check the
math but I've only lost one point so far this semester (which was
dumb because it was over not including the ISBNs in our selection
lists) so I should be able to afford at least a few points off and
still get an 'A'. For now I'm not going to worry about it anymore
because I've submitted it and I'm done.
Before jumping back into Hearthstone
I posted another reply to the discussion post for this week. I
wasn't going to but I wanted to write a quick comment to someone who
had replied to something I had said. As long as no one else writes
something on my posts I'll be done because I've definitely posted
more than I needed to this week.
And I just checked the math because
the thought got stuck in my head. I can lose nine points on my
collection assessment assignment and still get an 'A' in the class.
I certainly hope I don't do that bad. It's possible but that would
be demoralizing.
I spent the rest of my night
watching videos and livestreams and playing Hearthstone.
I want to level up all the regular characters in solo mode to at
least level ten to get a better idea of what each one is like. I
managed to level up two or three today and so far my favorite one is
the Rogue. That's the one I used when I finally jumped into online
play against real people. I got my ass handed to me a couple times
and had several close games. I ended up getting three wins and
decided that was a good place to call it a night.
It is now 11:30PM and I need to go
to bed because I have work in the morning. I think a large portion
of my day will be spent re-downloading programs onto one of the
fourth grade laptop carts because it was recently re-imaged or
whatever and all my hard work was erased. Type to Learn
takes so freaking long to
download. Something to look forward to. At least I'm with school
for the semester. Always a bright side.
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