February 7, 2016

 I didn't really accomplish much today. I slept in, first until 9:30AM and then 11:00AM because my bed was particularly comfortable this morning. Before lunch, with what little time there was, I managed to read an article for class. We have to use that article this week to evaluate an electronic resource. This sounds easy enough but we have to do it with a partner. And we have to pick that partner ourselves and create a group. It's fairly simple to pick a partner when you're sitting in a class together because you just look around until you make eye contact with someone near you. Online it is a little different. And I think we have an odd number, so there is a chance someone will be left out until they join a group as a third wheel. I feel like I will probably be that third wheel because I'm probably not going to reach out to someone. I figure I'll give it a day or two before seriously starting to consider my options. I might actually start working on the assignment myself and then in the off chance that someone asks me to work with them I can bring something to the table.

This afternoon I made the quinoa enchiladas again. That's really a misnomer though because it reminds me more of chili. It uses enchilada sauce, hence the recipe name, but really it's chili. Speaking of the sauce, I used two cans this time, following the recipe, instead of just one, like I did the first time. It seemed really soupy last time when I was adding in the ingredients so I only used one can. When it was done I decided that two cans was probably better because there really wasn't any liquid left after four hours in the crockpot. This time it again seemed really soupy, especially after adding in the second can of sauce, but it turned out well. I'm still a fan and I would make it again.

Throughout the day I had an off and on headache. That was a literal pain and a pretty good deterrent to schoolwork. That work really only included reading a second article but I couldn't bring myself to stare at small text for the duration of a fifteen-page article. So I didn't. I was really tempted to sew but I felt guilty about not reading the article so I watched YouTube videos instead. When I'm not being productive with schoolwork I feel like I shouldn't be productive with other things either. It's dumb.

Tonight I watched the Super Bowl. Kind of. I was really only interested in the commercials and most of the time it was on mute so I could watch YouTube videos. It is hard to watch football now and see the really hard hits and not see into the not too distant future when those guys are going to be dead due to concussion-related causes. I saw so many tackles where the tackler led with their head or the person being tackled took it in the head. At this point everyone knows the risks and the seemingly inevitable outcome but the players still participate. I think the only real solution, short of virtual reality, is getting rid of the helmets and pads altogether. The only reason players hit so hard and don't give a second thought to their own well being is because they are wearing all of this protective gear. You don't see rugby players hitting with the same amount of force because they're not wearing pads and hard helmets. It seems like a pretty obvious solution but over the years football has been built up in such a way that we expect a certain level of physicality and it would be hard for the general football audience to accept less. The viewing audience wants to see hard hits and most aren't directly affected by the potential outcome so they could not care less that players are causing permanent damage to themselves that could potentially lead to an early death. It all just seems so sad and unnecessary. But I'll get off my soapbox now.

It is now after eleven o'clock but because I slept in I'm not really tired. I'm not sure what I'm going to do but I'll probably be up until midnight before I even attempt to go to bed. Hopefully that will prevent me from laying there wide awake for hours. I did laundry today and I should probably go put my sheets back on my bed so I don't have to worry about it later but that probably won't happen.