January 23, 2016

 Today was filled with thrill and spills... minus the thrills. And the spills. Which is to say, it was a very average day. I spent a lot of my morning and afternoon watching videos and avoiding schoolwork. Despite that avoidance, I was productive. I posted both of my introductions, responded to a couple posts, read a textbook chapter, signed up for a listserv, emailed one of my professors proof that I pre-ordered her book (which she needed for the publisher), and took the syllabus quiz for one of my classes.

The quiz was tricky only because the wording on some of the questions wasn't great and on others I just had to make assumptions. After taking it the first time I missed one question out of twenty, which were worth half a point each so I got a 9.5 out of 10. You could take the quiz as many times as you wanted and only the highest score would count. So I took it again. One of the questions had four choices and you were allowed to pick more than one. The last option was “all of the above”. Originally I thought I should just check that one, but after I missed half a point I thought maybe it was a multiple-select question rather than a multiple-choice question because I needed to pick all of them. That ended up not being the case but it was slightly confusing. On my third try I changed another answer that I thought may have been the culprit but that didn't work either. The fourth time was the charm after I changed the answer to the question about when the first assignment after the quiz was due. I assumed that was the next discussion post (because it is listed as Discussion #1) which is due next Friday. Turns out she was referring to the introduction discussion post. I thought that might be the case when I originally took the quiz but it didn't make much sense because I figured the introductions came first, then the quiz, and then next week's discussion. Apparently not. In the end I got all ten points though, so I'm happy. No sense starting the semester half a point down if you don't have to.

So that productivity was pretty much my day. Tonight I had leftover pizza for dinner and I did laundry. This afternoon my sister brought over the ingredients so I can make the quinoa enchilada recipe. Even though I still have pizza left I think I'm going to make it tomorrow because if I don't I'd have to wait until next weekend. I want to get it over with (in a good way) and see how it comes out.

Tomorrow I need to read four chapters and write a reflective essay that I completely forgot about until earlier today. Or maybe not so much forgot about but was reminded of today. That sounds better. And it isn't due until midnight tomorrow so I've got more than enough time. And I'll probably take the whole day putting it off. But the dream would be to finish it before lunch, which would leave the afternoon to read my textbook. We'll see if I can make that happen. I kind of think the reverse will be true. It would be much easier to wake up and read my textbook in bed, then have lunch, and spend the afternoon writing. But again, we'll see.