March 6, 2016

 Good grief. It is almost one o'clock in the morning and I've gotta be up for work tomorrow. Yuck.

Once again the vast majority of my day was spent avoiding my paper. This morning I went through some of my old textbooks and found several that talked about databases. My searching of databases, looking for the history of databases, returned very few leads, so I decided to go with my textbooks, along with a book on the history of libraries that I have but haven't had a chance to read yet.

And then I went into full avoidance mode and didn't do anything for the rest of the day. I didn't actually start writing my paper until around ten o'clock. Now I've got about 1100 words and I think it is decent. Hopefully anyway. I haven't actually read through it yet. I'm afraid it will read like a bunch of disconnected thoughts strung together. I'll find out tomorrow at work if I have time to read through it. If not, there is tomorrow after dinner, when I will put together my title page and reference list and make any last edits before I submit it. And then I can turn my attention to the next assignment.

For dinner tonight I made taco salad with cauliflower rice, minus the lettuce because I didn't have any. It was a bit of a bitch shredding all of the cauliflower with a grater, taking around thirty minutes to get through the whole head, but I got there. And I think it all turned out pretty well. It tasted good and it is healthier than using white rice. My sister said next time I want to make it I can borrow her food processor, which would make the whole ordeal less of an ordeal.

And now I'm going to go to bed. I'm already dreading the sound of my alarm clock in the morning. Hopefully whatever song is on the radio at the time will not be too jarring.