February 19, 2016

 Here's to a quick entry because it is way too late and I am way too tired.

This morning there was more testing. It went fairly smoothly minus one kid testing out of the lab not being able to get into the test at first. The principal ended up figuring out that the access code they were trying to use was for the math test and the kid was trying to take the writing test. It would be nice if there was one daily access code for everything but no, we have to have a different code not only for the test subject but also grade level. Good grief.

This afternoon I got a response from my professor saying I could use her as a reference for my scholarship essay, and I got the okay from the principal as well, so I sent my application and essay off to be judged. I got a response from the lady I sent it to, saying she had received it and that they would be reviewing applications in March. I will probably forget all about it by then.

When I didn't have classes in the lab this afternoon I worked on editing sixth grade baby pictures. And there might have been something else in there too but it's not coming to mind. At the end of the day I went up to the new sixth grade teacher's room because this morning before work she said she was having some kind of issue. I went up and found out it had to due with the color on the projector being different than what was showing on the laptop it was connected to. Most noticeably anything red showed up as black. My first thought went back to the ESL projector from a few months ago so I looked at the VGA cord. It looked fine at the computer so I looked where it is plugged into the wall and saw that it was slightly crooked. As soon as I straightened it back out and pushed it back in, tightening the screws, red became red again. Hooray for the simple fixes.

Tonight I feel like I mostly wasted time. I kind of wanted to write my report for the librarian interview because that is due Sunday. I read through my interviewee's responses, looked back at the previous ones I have written to jog my memory, and watched the twenty-four minute video that professor made explaining the assignment. And then I couldn't even start my first sentence. That means that tomorrow will most likely be taken up entirely by writing that report because I'm going to drag it out way longer than I should.

As a compromise with myself I was decided to read some of the material on copyright that was assigned this week. I read about a couple different court cases so that's better than nothing. Tomorrow or Sunday I'll need to finish the rest of the reading and then go through a tutorial so I can take a quiz over it. I foresee that happening Sunday but who knows. Maybe I'll actually wake up with enough time before lunch tomorrow, and enough motivation, to knock out a rough draft of my interview report. Then I could work on the copyright stuff in the afternoon. I'm not holding my breath, though, because I'm freaking tired now and the thought of writing a report isn't great motivation to get out of bed in the morning.

When I wasn't working on school stuff I played a little more of Crashlands, because I'm addicted. I mainly farmed resources so I could build a few new things and played through the next quest in the main storyline.

I also started messing around with Hexels, a drawing program I bought a few days ago. I saw it on Steam and then fell down the rabbit hole of looking at all the different things that have been drawn in it. I was mostly intrigued by being able to draw tiny little rooms that are angled so they look 3D. I think it would be cool to do a series of tiny rooms that show scenes from a library. I also want to see if I can come up with a cool design to maybe use as a background for the sixth grade slide show, or maybe just a new desktop wallpaper. After drawing my first little room I also played around with drawing little cubes in Braille. I have some ideas for that.

Now it is one o'clock in the morning and I need to go to bed so I can hopefully wake up early enough tomorrow to accomplish something before lunch. In reality I see myself waking up late, doing nothing before lunch, procrastinating all afternoon, and finally writing my report after dinner. Saving the copyright stuff for Sunday. Having said that, I would like to avoid it. I want to play with Hexels more and maybe try and get into building in the Unreal Engine again, both of which I will feel guilty about doing if it is only to avoid schoolwork. Anyway, bed time.